Illinois Faculty Leaders Push for President's Firing

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<p>From the tribune article…</p>

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He began centralizing some functions such as information technology and human resources, and faculty at the flagship Urbana-Champaign campus became concerned that talk of “branding” the university system as a whole would lead to a loss of distinction and autonomy at the individual campuses.</p>

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The emails tried to influence faculty debate on one of Hogan’s key initiatives: changing the university’s student enrollment strategies to provide more centralizing of admissions and financial aid processing among the three campuses

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<p>OK, so Champaign didn’t want its prestige diluted by the Chicago and Springfield campuses, apparently. Usually, there is some kind of backlash to such elitism…</p>