Associate dean says trustee's relative got special favor

A member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees reportedly pressured the university to give a relative, at the time a student, preferential access to classes on the Urbana campus, a UI associate dean said.

In spring 2003, Mary Macmanus Ramsbottom, an associate dean in the UI's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said she received what she called a "directive" from the provost's office. The provost at the time was Richard Herman, who is now chancellor.

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