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April 14, 2008
Southern Illinois U. Taps Trustee as Interim Chancellor of Carbondale Campus
Southern Illinois University has had its share of turbulence at the top, most recently with the ouster of Fernando M. Treviño, chancellor of the institution’s flagship campus in Carbondale. Now the university has made the rare move of turning to a trustee to fill in as interim chancellor.
Samuel Goldman, a former professor and administrator at Carbondale, was appointed to the post on Friday after resigning from the university’s Board of Trustees.
With arbitration proceedings pending, Mr. Treviño has been assigned to a tenured faculty position. He was placed on administrative leave last month for “failing to perform basic job requirements outlined in his employment contract,” according to university officials. —Paul Fain
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Can things get any more ‘curiouser’ at that institution??
— Raymond Lewis Apr 14, 04:10 PM #
Appointing a trustee as president is a huge conflict of interest. This sounds like a political dispute where the board won and ousted the president. Where is the faculty in all this?
— Armando Apr 14, 04:21 PM #
I believe the Chronicle story is in error. Goldman was not a trustee according to the SIU website.
— fvn Apr 14, 04:27 PM #
The error is probably in the preposition. He resigned “to” the Board of Trustees rather than “from” the Board of Trustees.
— maxsdadeo Apr 14, 05:36 PM #
He’s listed as a member of the Board of Trustees in August’07 (Internet Archive)
— RF Apr 14, 05:42 PM #
The level of corruption at SIU-C is the worst I’ve ever seen at any institution. The state government needs to step in and clean house. Currently, the university administration, at all levels, is rotten to the core. The most blanatly corrupt part of SIU-C is CoLA, the College of Liberal Arts. It has been run into the ground by ineffective and dishonest deans.
— southern illinoisan Apr 25, 10:19 AM #