Universities of Wisconsin President Claims He is Being Told to Step Down for No Reason
“Since to date you have not provided any substantive reason or reasons for the Board’s finding of no confidence in my leadership, I am not prepared, as a matter of principle, to submit my resignation”
See if you can spot the part of this article that gives away the whole game.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports:
Universities of Wisconsin president refuses to leave after being told to resign or be fired
The president of the 25-campus Universities of Wisconsin said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday that he’s been told to either resign or be fired, but has been given no reason and won’t step aside from the 165,000-student system.
Jay Rothman, president of the university system since 2022, said in the letter addressed to the head of the Board of Regents dated March 26 that he’s been given no reason why regents want him to leave.
Rothman said he’s been told that his options are to resign or retire, and that if he doesn’t then the board “was prepared to terminate my employment despite all that has been accomplished.”
The Board of Regents held a closed emergency meeting on Wednesday night to discuss personnel matters.
“The Board is responsible for the leadership of the Universities of Wisconsin and is having discussions about its future,” Amy Bogost, board president, said in a statement to AP. “We don’t comment on personnel matters.”
Rothman did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent via email on Thursday.
Rothman’s tenure has been marked by his efforts to increase state funding amid federal cuts, debates over free speech on campus amid pro-Palestinian protests and declining enrollment leading to eight branch campus closures.
“Since to date you have not provided any substantive reason or reasons for the Board’s finding of no confidence in my leadership, I am not prepared, as a matter of principle, to submit my resignation,” Rothman said in the letter addressed to Bogost.
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Easy enough…
“debates over free speech on campus amid pro-Palestinian protests”
Obviously, he isn’t sufficiently anti-Israel.
If the Board of Regents told him they have “no confidence” in his leadership and served him with the proper paperwork; and if his contract says this is the proper procedure; and if Wisconsin law permits the foregoing; DOESN’T MATTER DUDE -> YOU ARE DONE.
Nothing in his contract says he has to resign. If they want to fire him, let them do that. He has no reason to make it easy for them.
How do you know what his contract says?
I think that we may safely presume that his contract doesn’t require him to submit his resignation upon request from the fact that he isn’t resigning.
Good Lord, Mildew, you’re getting moldy on this. Boilerplate HR policies in nearly everything if you are *ASKED* to resign, then you are being FIRED. If they stop cutting him a paycheck, it will be THAT obvious. Sheesh.
He failed to achieve the goal of closing 10 branches?