<p>Check that link. Apparently it's due to "ongoing tensions on campus" and "recent events." Anyone have any information?</p>
<p>The president has posted an open letter at <a href="http://blog.case.edu/casepoint/%5B/url%5D">http://blog.case.edu/casepoint/</a> regarding this step for him.</p>
<p>I'm kinda confused and wondering what events and tensions, and will these events and tensions have an impact on my education if I attend Case?</p>
<p>Wow I wonder how it will change in next years, as if I attend Case I'll have to deal with what's up next :P</p>
<p>i think it was something about some heat he had with the heads of the school of arts and sciences---or maybe i'm confusing that with harvard---anyways, i knew something was going on</p>
<p>The president and A&S faculty were not seeing eye-to-eye - although the situtation is not nearly as disruptive as the Summers nonsense at Harvard, IMO. The Board supported President Hundert after the no-confidence vote, and it is possible that he could have retained his position. However, the resignation was in Case' best interest, and likely for Ed Hundert's as well. The fact that he is staying on until September is good: that will allow a reasonable search period and an orderly transition to the new administration. </p>
<p>I don't think this well effect students all that much - except your future professors will likely be less stressed with this cloud passed.</p>
<p>In local media coverage, some of the concern centered on the lack of successful fundraising by the president. </p>
<p>It's interesting to know that the A&S faculty comprises (again, according to NEOhio media) 9% of all faculty.</p>
<p>Does anyone here recall the "white paper" on undergrad education at Case that came out a few years ago? It highlighted many things about Case that undergrads were unhappy about.</p>
<p>All universities are going through change, but it seems like Case is on a rockier road that most universities at this time.</p>
<p>not so. the president took a gamble and improved a lot of things ...all universities run into issues when they try to make change.</p>
<p>"In local media coverage, some of the concern centered on the lack of successful fundraising by the president. "
The talent they brought in from Columbia for development had a style that did not play well in the midwest. He's gone. That part is being worked on. </p>
<p>I spoke with a friend on the medical faculty - is is her feeling that Hundert would not have faired well on a medical school confidence vote, either. Anyway, it is time to change and move on, and the faculty I know are pretty positive.</p>
<p>Basically Hundert did a lot of moves that were really unpopular, and to top it all off ran us into a deficit. When you're the president of the university your job is to get money, so people will get mad at you when you fail at that and start firing faculty to cut costs.
This really means nothing for the students themselves, for the record, because the quality of education from the professors is still the same.</p>
<p>Here is some interesting commentary:</p>
<p>I always thought it is interesting that families of current students who are receiving very nice merit awards have not been asked for contributions.</p>