What they fired him for was a firing offense. No question.
From where I sit, they should have let him go for mishandling the COVID pandemic, for playing hardball with the graduate instructors, and, most engagingly, the damage he did to people who suffered sexual abuse at Michigan.
To let him go over any of those three would have required them to admit that the entire university was complicit, including the regents. So, while I'm happy that a university president was held accountable for creating a sexualized and abusive workplace, I mostly see this as a way of avoiding responsibility for other, more widespread problems, which are likely to continue.
Appreciate you expanding on this. This is what I was going for at the end of the post. We need to see more from the school specifically regarding how they handle sexual misconduct before it's going to feel like much has changed other than getting an odious person out of office and saving on the bill.
What they fired him for was a firing offense. No question.
From where I sit, they should have let him go for mishandling the COVID pandemic, for playing hardball with the graduate instructors, and, most engagingly, the damage he did to people who suffered sexual abuse at Michigan.
To let him go over any of those three would have required them to admit that the entire university was complicit, including the regents. So, while I'm happy that a university president was held accountable for creating a sexualized and abusive workplace, I mostly see this as a way of avoiding responsibility for other, more widespread problems, which are likely to continue.
*enragingly
Appreciate you expanding on this. This is what I was going for at the end of the post. We need to see more from the school specifically regarding how they handle sexual misconduct before it's going to feel like much has changed other than getting an odious person out of office and saving on the bill.
Above all else I'm in gobsmacked by the idea of conducting your affair over A UNIVERSITY EMAIL