ACTA's Must-Reads
« Look what we found! | Main | Replace the trustees -- not the governance system »
Trustees you can trust?
The plot continues to thicken in the University of Illinois "clout scandal," in which several students with subpar academic records were admitted to the university and the law school because of connections to influential people, including former governor Rod Blagojevich and influence-peddler Antoin "Tony" Rezko. The unfolding drama has put the trustees of the University of Illinois certainly front and center, with evidence that they were considerably involved.
Today The Chicago Tribune reports that trustee Lawrence Eppley has announced his resignation from the Board and implored his fellow trustees to step down as well. As he wrote in the letter, "the public's confidence in the University must be restored, and one way to begin to restore that confidence is to make a clean start." Eppley rightly recognizes that trustees, as their name implies, are bearers of the public trust--and when they lose that trust, it is appropriate to step down for the good of the university.
Posted by Sandra E. Czelusniak on July 29, 2009 at July 29, 2009 05:49 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.goactablog.org/blog/mt-tb.cgi/659