{"id":7257,"date":"2009-09-24T09:49:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2009-09-24T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T17:49:28","slug":"u-of-illinois-president-resigns-in-wake-of-admissions-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/09\/u-of-illinois-president-resigns-in-wake-of-admissions-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"U. of Illinois President Resigns in Wake of Admissions Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/U-of-Illinois-President\/48587\/?sid=at&#038;utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">U. of Illinois President Resigns in Wake of Admissions Scandal<\/a><br \/>\nReport Calls on All U. of Illinois Trustees to Resign <\/p>\n<p>In his resignation letter, B. Joseph White wrote: &#8220;The notion that I would submit to pressure &#8212; or apply pressure &#8212; for admissions or anything else in order to please the high and mighty is dead wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The admissions scandal at the University of Illinois claimed its highest-ranking victim on Wednesday, when B. Joseph White, president of the three-campus system, announced he was resigning, effective December 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: U. of Illinois President Resigns in Wake of Admissions Scandal Report Calls on All U. of Illinois Trustees to Resign In his resignation letter, B. Joseph White wrote: &#8220;The notion that I would submit to pressure &#8212; or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/09\/u-of-illinois-president-resigns-in-wake-of-admissions-scandal\/\">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":[287],"tags":[2656,2532,2204,4295,2674],"class_list":["post-7257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-admissions","tag-resignations","tag-scandal","tag-u-of-illinois","tag-university-presidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257","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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}