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Faculty and staff support the president. But his relationship with several trustees has deteriorated following a failed recall of the board chair.

The Faculty Senate voted to add more professors to a consultative committee of faculty members who could join the presidential search committee.

If universities can sack tenured faculty without due process, it will set a dangerous precedent -- one that could ultimately be a death sentence for the profession, argues Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt.

DENVER — University of Colorado chief financial officer Todd Saliman, a CU graduate, was unanimously chosen Tuesday by the CU Board of Regents to serve as interim president, as the board searches for a replacement for outgoing president Mark Kennedy.  Kennedy, a former Republican congressman who will be paid $1.3 million to step away, is leaving his post on July 1 after a tumultuous two years on the job.  Kennedy took the reins of the system that manages the CU campuses in Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs, and the CU-Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, in the summer of 2019 after thre...

University President Morton Schapiro discussed Mike Polisky’s promotion and resignation as athletic director and his hopes for future leadership in a Wednesday Faculty Assembly meeting. Schapiro spoke in the second half of the meeting, after a panel discussion on Northwestern’s fall reopening plans. Faculty Senate President Therese McGuire moderated the conversation, asking Schapiro questions submitted ahead of time by faculty. McGuire said many questions submitted pertained to Polisky, who was named a defendant in a federal lawsuit concerning sexual harassment in NU’s cheerleading prog...