March 2, 2007

Faculty at U. of Alaska-Anchorage Faults State System for Chancellor's Departure; U. of New Mexico Gets a New Leader; Judge Rules for U. of Iowa in Firing of Lab Director

By SIERRA MILLMAN and MARISA LPEZ-RIVERA

QUIET EXIT: Chancellor Elaine P. Maimon is leaving the University of Alaska at Anchorage, but she won't say a bad word about the state system. The president of the Faculty Senate, however, will.

When Kerri K. Morris, an associate professor of English, first learned that Ms. Maimon was in the running for the presidency of Governors State University, in Chicago's suburbs, she predicted the worst.

"I thought it was inevitable that she would go given the situation here," says Ms.