UMich's president was just FIRED (board caught him having an affair with UMich employee)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He should have never been hired in the first place. He was only given the gig because everyone in Ann Arbor is painfully insecure with Ivy envy.

I can assure you there is no insecurity in Ann Arbor. Smugness, yes. Insecurity, not so much.

This now former president has a handful of Ivy League credentials, he thought and acted like everyone at this Ann Arbor STATE SCHOOL was beneath him, as if they were just dimwitted flyover state mouth-breathers obsessed with football. Everyone knows UofM students and alumni have a debilitating inferiority complex; the "arrogance" is overcompensation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He should have never been hired in the first place. He was only given the gig because everyone in Ann Arbor is painfully insecure with Ivy envy.

I can assure you there is no insecurity in Ann Arbor. Smugness, yes. Insecurity, not so much.

This now former president has a handful of Ivy League credentials, he thought and acted like everyone at this Ann Arbor STATE SCHOOL was beneath him, as if they were just dimwitted flyover state mouth-breathers obsessed with football. Everyone knows UofM students and alumni have a debilitating inferiority complex; the "arrogance" is overcompensation.

According to your logic then, this guy must have been very insecure about his Ivy League credentials and was over compensating by acting as if Michigan people were beneath him. Sad.

[Anonymous]

seriously, didn’t they have personal email they could have used? Lazy, sloppy, asking to be caught.

Guesses on who provided the anonymous tip? Was it the woman who was just sick of the 64 yr old puppy? Or someone else?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He should have never been hired in the first place. He was only given the gig because everyone in Ann Arbor is painfully insecure with Ivy envy.

I can assure you there is no insecurity in Ann Arbor. Smugness, yes. Insecurity, not so much.

This now former president has a handful of Ivy League credentials, he thought and acted like everyone at this Ann Arbor STATE SCHOOL was beneath him, as if they were just dimwitted flyover state mouth-breathers obsessed with football. Everyone knows UofM students and alumni have a debilitating inferiority complex; the "arrogance" is overcompensation.

According to your logic then, this guy must have been very insecure about his Ivy League credentials and was over compensating by acting as if Michigan people were beneath him. Sad.

I don't think "logic" means what you think it means. Mr. Schlissel has bonafide elite credentials -- Princeton (AB), Hopkins (MD-PhD) -- the UofM students and alumni he dealt with were the ones with an inferiority complex. The board of regents who hired him wanted an Ivy guy because they're so desperate to "belong". They are in this mess because they ignored all the red flags to "steal" some weirdo hack from the Ivy League.

[Anonymous]

He was fired so quickly because this was one of many sex scandals during his tenure. Those sex scandals led to new policies, policies which explicitly forbid this relationship. But now it all makes sense knowing what a pig he was, he was looking the other way for his fellow pigs. Clearly he thought creeping on underlings was a perk of being at the top of the ivory tower.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So my kid should apply to U.Mich or not?

This doesn’t say anything about the university or educational experience. This was just one dumb guy, nothing to do with university overall—no problems with culture, finances, internal control, etc. Great school.

In the corporate world, these types of terminations happen as well. Relationships with subordinates are prohibited, or at a minimum, show incredibly bad judgment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He should have never been hired in the first place. He was only given the gig because everyone in Ann Arbor is painfully insecure with Ivy envy.

I can assure you there is no insecurity in Ann Arbor. Smugness, yes. Insecurity, not so much.

This now former president has a handful of Ivy League credentials, he thought and acted like everyone at this Ann Arbor STATE SCHOOL was beneath him, as if they were just dimwitted flyover state mouth-breathers obsessed with football. Everyone knows UofM students and alumni have a debilitating inferiority complex; the "arrogance" is overcompensation.

According to your logic then, this guy must have been very insecure about his Ivy League credentials and was over compensating by acting as if Michigan people were beneath him. Sad.

Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, UVA. These five schools have been lead by Michigan presidents or Provosts over the past 25 years. Perhaps they had Michigan envy?
I don't think "logic" means what you think it means. Mr. Schlissel has bonafide elite credentials -- Princeton (AB), Hopkins (MD-PhD) -- the UofM students and alumni he dealt with were the ones with an inferiority complex. The board of regents who hired him wanted an Ivy guy because they're so desperate to "belong". They are in this mess because they ignored all the red flags to "steal" some weirdo hack from the Ivy League.

[Anonymous]

Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, UVA. These five schools have been lead by Michigan presidents or Provosts over the past 25 years. Perhaps they had Michigan envy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He should have never been hired in the first place. He was only given the gig because everyone in Ann Arbor is painfully insecure with Ivy envy.

I can assure you there is no insecurity in Ann Arbor. Smugness, yes. Insecurity, not so much.

This now former president has a handful of Ivy League credentials, he thought and acted like everyone at this Ann Arbor STATE SCHOOL was beneath him, as if they were just dimwitted flyover state mouth-breathers obsessed with football. Everyone knows UofM students and alumni have a debilitating inferiority complex; the "arrogance" is overcompensation.

According to your logic then, this guy must have been very insecure about his Ivy League credentials and was over compensating by acting as if Michigan people were beneath him. Sad.

I don't think "logic" means what you think it means. Mr. Schlissel has bonafide elite credentials -- Princeton (AB), Hopkins (MD-PhD) -- the UofM students and alumni he dealt with were the ones with an inferiority complex. The board of regents who hired him wanted an Ivy guy because they're so desperate to "belong". They are in this mess because they ignored all the red flags to "steal" some weirdo hack from the Ivy League.

That’s ridiculous. As a pp explained, Ivy League universities regularly hire their presidents from UofM. Currently three of them, in fact. And two of those three were hired from the Provost position at Michigan. So are the Ivy League schools desperate to “steal” senior administrators from Michigan?

The reality is that the facts don’t support your silly narrative.

[Anonymous]

Contrary to the troll who bashes Michigan every chance he/she gets, the university is one of the top schools in the entire world. Very few universities have the academic strength in depth and breadth as does the U-M. It is a plum job in academia.

[Anonymous]

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Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, UVA. These five schools have been lead by Michigan presidents or Provosts over the past 25 years. Perhaps they had Michigan envy?

Oops, forgot to mention Cornell!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, UVA. These five schools have been lead by Michigan presidents or Provosts over the past 25 years. Perhaps they had Michigan envy?

Oops, forgot to mention Cornell!

Twice, in fact! And then there’s a third if you go back a bit further, who is considered the greatest and most important Cornell president in the modern post-War era.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He should have never been hired in the first place. He was only given the gig because everyone in Ann Arbor is painfully insecure with Ivy envy.

I can assure you there is no insecurity in Ann Arbor. Smugness, yes. Insecurity, not so much.

This now former president has a handful of Ivy League credentials, he thought and acted like everyone at this Ann Arbor STATE SCHOOL was beneath him, as if they were just dimwitted flyover state mouth-breathers obsessed with football. Everyone knows UofM students and alumni have a debilitating inferiority complex; the "arrogance" is overcompensation.

According to your logic then, this guy must have been very insecure about his Ivy League credentials and was over compensating by acting as if Michigan people were beneath him. Sad.

I don't think "logic" means what you think it means. Mr. Schlissel has bonafide elite credentials -- Princeton (AB), Hopkins (MD-PhD) -- the UofM students and alumni he dealt with were the ones with an inferiority complex. The board of regents who hired him wanted an Ivy guy because they're so desperate to "belong". They are in this mess because they ignored all the red flags to "steal" some weirdo hack from the Ivy League.

Your comment sounds like those of the Meghan Markle critics, the way you confidently project feelings and motivations onto others that you can't possibly know. It's fascinating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Contrary to the troll who bashes Michigan every chance he/she gets, the university is one of the top schools in the entire world. Very few universities have the academic strength in depth and breadth as does the U-M. It is a plum job in academia.

If the gig was so plum why are the multi-millionaire president's emails indicating he was clearly bored out on his mind, miserable, and lonely in Ann Arbor's depressing grey and cold flyover country — and eating garbage low-quality pizza college kids eat when they're blackout drunk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, UVA. These five schools have been lead by Michigan presidents or Provosts over the past 25 years. Perhaps they had Michigan envy?

Oops, forgot to mention Cornell!

Twice, in fact! And then there’s a third if you go back a bit further, who is considered the greatest and most important Cornell president in the modern post-War era.

Imagine being so painfully insecure you google this nonsense during work hours. Bless your heart for proving my point.