Friday, September 24, 2010

No "emeritus" for Ayers

U. of Illinois Trustees Deny Emeritus Status to William Ayers (Chronicle of Higher Education)

In a rare move, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted on Thursday to deny emeritus status to William Ayers, the professor of education controversial for his radical past. According to news accounts, the trustees' decision followed an emotional statement by the board's chairman, Christopher Kennedy, who is a son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy said that as a matter of conscience, he could not endorse "conferring the honorific title of our university to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father." Mr. Ayers is a co-author of the 1974 book Prairie Fire, whose dedicatees include Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Robert Kennedy. A university spokesman, Thomas Hardy, said he could not remember another instance of a retired professor's being denied emeritus status. Mr. Ayers, who taught at the university's Chicago campus, announced his retirement last month.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't Raghu an Emeritus Professor at IVC? And Howard Gensler too?

Anonymous said...

Why would Gensler be Emeritus? He's still working in the district. Don't know about Raghu. He might resist it, thinking that it's only a matter of time before he's back!

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