University of Michigan President Fired from his million dollar job For 'Inappropriate Relationship'

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University President Fired For 'Inappropriate Relationship'
Mark Schlissel has been removed as president of the University of Michigan



The president of the University of Michigan has been fired by the school's board of regents following an investigation into an alleged “inappropriate relationship with a university employee. Per the Detroit Free Press, Dr. Mark Schlissel was removed by a unanimous vote announced Saturday evening following a Dec. 8 anonymous complaint and subsequent investigation. "We learned that Dr. Schlissel, over a period of years, used his University email account to communicate with that subordinate in a manner inconsistent with the dignity and reputation of the University," the announcement read.

Per the AP, a letter from the board dated Saturday included excerpts of emails exchanged between Schlissel and the employee. The employee wrote in a July 1, 2021, exchange that her “heart hurts,” according to the board, which said Schlissel responded: “I know. mine too.” He continued: ”This is my fault” and that he was “in pain too.”

The university made select communications that led to the decision publicly available, with the name of the employee redacted. They include a message from Schlissel about a New Yorker article titled "Sexual Fantasies of Everyday New Yorkers." Per the AP, Schlissel had a base salary of $927,000 a year and had announced plans to step down in June 2023, a year before his contract was to expire. Prior to his time in Michigan, Schlissel had been provost at Brown University.

https://www.newser.com/story/315716/university-president-fired-for-inappropriate-relationship.html

https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-education-relationships-michigan-c2c5993c4012f60d0035818eab054d28

[viva la]

1. "So how was your day, President Mark?"

"Oh, not great. I got fired from my job, lost $1m a year, probably screwed up my marriage, ruined my career prospects, and revealed my maudlin private love drivel to everyone."

My day really wasn't so bad in contrast.

[Demovictory9]

10. asked as he arrives home with his stuff in a box

[ProfessorGAC]

2. He May Be An Academic...

...but a genius, he isn't.
Monumentally bad judgment.

[Demovictory9]

22. it gets better...he created the no tolerance rules then violated them

In July 2021, Schlissel himself introduced rules banning sexual relationships between subordinates and supervisors

In the letter, the board produced emails between Schlissel and his lover which were 'inconsistent with promoting the dignity and reputation of the university'
The emails showed the pair plotting via university email to coordinate trips together, with Schlissel saying he was 'lonely'



Schlissel in November 2021 says, of a Wayne State basketball match that 'the only reason I agreed to go was to go with you'

He and his lover order takeout food together, discuss trips and recipes, and muse about missing a flight connection in Paris together



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10408971/Married-Michigan-Uni-president-64-fired-927-000-year-job-affair-subordinate.html

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. He shoulda taken a remedial course: Burner Phones 101. nt

[Demovictory9]

7. yeah... emails through university system!! yikes

[XanaDUer2]

4. Getting fired sucks,

But at that salary, he should be rich, unless he's a spendthrift or gambler

[Demovictory9]

5. at his age, with big jobs in academia, he's got a nice pension coming. he wont starve

[XanaDUer2]

6. Exactly

I was working, clearing 39k a year, with a Masters

[NJCher]

8. perhaps he didn't

have the best sex life at home. Sex is a very powerful motive, I don't need to tell any of you here.

But it boils down to this:

used his University email account

OK, so you go to Yahoo, open a free account, and email away to your heart's content on the taxpayer's dime. That one simple mistake cost him near a million dollars, not to mention his reputation.

In our university teachers' union, we are scrupulous about never communicating one thing, not a single thing, about contracts, negotiations, or anything regarding union business on the school's email service. We do that because we know the administration can snoop on us at any time. What an advantage they would have if they knew what we were thinking about contract negotiations.

[CTyankee]

9. Well, now he can marry his sweetie and enjoy his wonderful new life!

Now go away.

[Demovictory9]

11. and heal her hurting heart

[brush]

12. A lot of academic smarts but apparently none whatsoever...

of how cyberspace works. I mean most people have known for close to three decades now since office computer use and email became ubiquitous that nothing ever gets deleted as it's stored on some server/cloud somewhere. Hell, you can't really delete files on your own hard drive. Seems one would've learned that by osmosis almost in just from casual conversation.

Why did this guy not know this, and also not know how you can get free email accounts from many sources completely independent of your employers' systems?

[Disaffected]

13. "Hell, you can't really delete files on your own hard drive..."

Huh?

[Demovictory9]

14. my employer's IT group controlled the deletion process on computers.

employee couldn't delete from hard drive

[Disaffected]

15. OK but I guess then

the HD wasn't really your "own".

Anyway, how did they suppress anyone from using File Explorer or some other file delete or wipe program?

Maybe that applied not to the user's PC but to the company's servers?

[Demovictory9]

16. you could delete but not defrag

[Disaffected]

17. Guess I'm not following you.

Even so, what stops you from running a or the Win defrag program? Or, a file wipe program for that matter?

[Demovictory9]

19. IT blocked many functions. employees didn't have complete control of a computer like you have at

home. Even the laptop you took home... some functions blocked. employees don't have "Admin rights" at login

to even load a program, you take it to an IT person, who logs in under their credentials and loads the program.

[Disaffected]

20. OK, thanks.

Way back in the day when I had a PC at work, none of that restrictive stuff existed.

[llmart]

21. Almost a million a year...

and people wonder why tuition is so high. The salary isn't the only thing he received for his services either.