{"id":7003,"date":"2009-08-07T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7003"},"modified":"2009-08-07T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T18:04:42","slug":"report-calls-on-all-u-of-illinois-trustees-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/08\/report-calls-on-all-u-of-illinois-trustees-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Calls on All U. of Illinois Trustees to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/08\/07\/illinois\"> Damning Report on Illinois Scandal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the Chicago Tribune revealed in May that the University of Illinois had used a &#8220;clout&#8221; admissions system &#8212; in which trustees and senior administrators pressured admissions officers on behalf of politically connected applicants &#8212; the university insisted that its admissions system was fundamentally fair and running well.<\/p>\n<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Report-Calls-on-All-U-of\/47969\/?sid=at&#038;utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">Report Calls on All U. of Illinois Trustees to Resign<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After spending nearly two months investigating an admissions scandal laced with political favoritism at the University of Illinois, a state-appointed panel issued its final report on Thursday, calling for the resignation of all members of the Board of Trustees, an overhaul of the admissions process, and new ethics policies for the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Damning Report on Illinois Scandal When the Chicago Tribune revealed in May that the University of Illinois had used a &#8220;clout&#8221; admissions system &#8212; in which trustees and senior administrators pressured admissions officers on behalf of politically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/08\/report-calls-on-all-u-of-illinois-trustees-to-resign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4864],"tags":[2656,2204,2719,4295],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scandals","tag-admissions","tag-scandal","tag-trustees","tag-u-of-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7004,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}