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University of Illinois Chancellor Resigns
Produced by City Room and the Associated Press on Tuesday, October 20, 2009

UIUC Chancellor Richard Herman (AP/File)

University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman has resigned following months of pressure over the admissions scandal at the school's Urbana-Champaign campus. The university says Herman will leave his post Monday.

Herman's name appears often in thousands of university e-mails detailing preferential treatment the school gave some well-connected student applicants.

The Faculty Senate voted last month to call for Herman and university President B. Joseph White to step down. White will leave his post in December.

In his resignation letter to U of I Trustees Chair Chris Kennedy, Herman indicated a desire to remain on campus. He'll serve as a special assistant to Interim President-Designate Stanley Ikenberry through June 30th of next year, and then step into role of math professor.

Ikenberry says while the U of I is dealing with stressful change, there's a lot to celebrate about Herman's achievements. He says the two will work together to ensure a seamless transition in leadership

Ikenberry says it's unlikely a search for a new Chancellor will start until a new president is completed, and that an interim chancellor will not be named. Trustees hope to name a new president by next fall.

Herman's resignation means he'll forgo a $300,000 retention payment that he would have received at the end of his contract June 30th.

Herman is a mathematician and will become a faculty member. He came to the university as provost in 1998 and became chancellor in 2005.

Brian Wallen, Champaign IL // Tuesday, October 20, 2009 @ 2:14 PM

With the investigation of these admissions irregularities bringing so much pressure on University officers to resign, I am frustrated that no similar pressure on or even identification of the politicians who originally brought the "influence" on the University to admit unqualified students. If the public is evoking a fall-on-your-sword mentality, does this suggest that these University officers are gentlemen and the politicians are scoundrels?

snuh, uptown // Tuesday, October 20, 2009 @ 2:24 PM

super, now he can give well-connected math students better grades than the ones who worked harder for it.