UI trustees committee accepts Herman's resignation
CHICAGO – Richard Herman's resignation as chancellor of the University of Illinois was accepted unanimously by the board of trustees' executive committee Friday in a meeting that lasted less than 11 minutes.
Herman turned in his resignation Tuesday after months of revelations about interference with UI admissions by politicians and trustees. Last month, President B. Joseph White resigned.
The UI Board of Trustees' Executive Committee – composed of Chairman Christopher Kennedy and trustees Edward McMillan and Pamela Strobel – accepted the resignation on behalf of the entire board, thanking Herman for moving on. The committee is permitted to act on behalf of the entire board whenever urgent business arises that cannot wait until the next board meeting.
After serving as a special assistant to the president, Herman will become a math education professor at $244,000 a year and will have an office at the College of Education.
The committee also approved Herman's revised employment agreement.
There was little discussion before the vote. McMillan asked UI counsel Thomas Bearrows "as I read the agreement, there is no end date to the agreement" with Herman.
Bearrows said that was right.
Trustee Karen Hasara, who was part of a teleconference that included others who were not on the executive committee, said she "was a little concerned" that Herman remains on campus.
But interim President-designate Stanley Ikenberry "assured me he was not to be in position to be able to influence where he shouldn't be influencing," she said.
Ikenberry, who took part in the meeting, said the chancellor would be out of his office "on Monday or shortly thereafter."
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