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UIUC Probes Administrators' Use Of Personal Email To Discuss Salaita, Kilgore, Med School

L. Brian Stauffer
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University of Illinois News Bureau

The University of Illinois today released a batch of emails exchanged between Chancellor Phyllis Wise, Provost Ilesamni Adesida, spokesperson Robin Kaler, and others, discussing how to handle the university's job offer to Steven Salaita. The Board of Trustees voted not to approve Salaita, due to his Twitter postings about the Israeli conflict in Gaza. 

UIUC conducted an ethics probe into whether the emails, previously unreleased, were subject Freedom of Information Act requests in light of the fact that some were written on personal email accounts. As a result of the probe, the university decided to release these emails publicly.

The emails are available HERE.

Wise announced her resignation yesterday. 

A portion of the press release announcing the ethics probe

After a long career in newspapers (Dallas Observer, The Dallas Morning News, Anchorage Daily News, Illinois Times), Dusty returned to school to get a master's degree in multimedia journalism. She began work as Education Desk reporter at NPR Illinois in September 2014.