Presidential News Bytes

• B. Joseph White, president of the University of Illinois system, resigned yesterday in the wake of an admissions scandal in which well-connected applicants were admitted over more qualified ones, The Chronicle reports. He’ll step down on December 31. Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune reports that a former U. of Illinois president, Stanley Ikenberry, could replace him as interim president.

• Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, has turned down a raise, the Associated Press reports.
 
• The president of Florida Keys Community College, Jill Landesberg-Boyle, opted to go on leave until her three-year contract runs out next June rather than face the possibility of being ousted by the college’s governing board, The Miami Herald reports. Landesberg-Boyle, who upped student enrollment and brought millions of dollars to the college during her two-year tenure, has been accused by employees of creating a “toxic work environment,” the newspaper writes.

• Professors at four of the five Alamo Colleges have voted no confidence in Bruce H. Leslie, the district’s chancellor, the San Antonio Express-News reports. The vote, which comes on the heels of three years of friction between Leslie and faculty members, marks the first time in the district’s 64-year history that a chancellor has received a vote of no confidence, the newspaper notes.

• The Associated Press reports that the Kansas Board of Regents has put a one-year pay freeze into effect for three university presidents — Donald L. Beggs, president of Wichita State University; Edward H. Hammond, president of Fort Hays State University; and Michael Lane, president of Emporia State University.
 
• Although Iowa’s public-university presidents won’t be getting raises this year either, they could be eligible for bonuses ranging from $25,000 to $80,000, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reports.