Inside Higher Ed: Dean Out at Toledo
Nearly three months after the president and provost of the University of Toledo considered throwing an unpopular dean “under the bus,” Yueh-Ting Lee has resigned as head of the College of Arts and Sciences, the university announced. Lee, who just wrapped up his first year as dean, will “laterally transition” into a newly created administrative position within the Department of Human Resources, according to an e-mail Provost Rosemary Haggett sent to the faculty. Lee had been criticized for his management style, and faculty voted no-confidence in him in April. After the faculty vote, Haggett and Lloyd Jacobs, president of Toledo, had a frank e-mail exchange about the dean’s future. In this exchange, which was made public through a student-issued records request, Jacobs notes that “For several days I thought the best thing to do was to throw [Lee] under the bus and get on with our agenda.” Both Jacobs and Haggett, however, worried that removing Lee would reward the “bad behavior” exhibited by faculty who voted no confidence in Lee. Matt Lockwood, director of public relations, said Tuesday that “it was the dean’s free decision to resign.”
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