U. of Illinois Will Pay Ex-President’s Former Aide $175,000 to Resign

The University of Illinois will pay its former president’s chief of staff, who resigned in January amid an investigation of anonymous e-mails sent to faculty leaders, $175,000 to leave her faculty position and drop unresolved wage claims, according to the Chicago Tribune. The former aide, Lisa Troyer, stepped down from her role as ex-president Michael J. Hogan’s chief of staff, and accepted a position in the department of psychology on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Ms. Troyer denied sending the controversial e-mails, which appeared to be an attempt to sway the deliberations of a faculty governing body, though experts determined that they were sent from her computer and were not the result of hacking. In a statement, the university said it “has not initiated, and will not initiate, any disciplinary process.”