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The University of Illinois clout scandal resulted from a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune that reported that some applicants to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) "received special consideration" for acceptance between 2005 and 2009, despite having sub-par qualifications. The series began on May 29, 2009.
The Steven Salaita hiring controversy was a 2010s controversy about an American professor who was un-hired [fn 1] by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign following a campaign by pro-Israel students, faculty and donors who contended that his tweets protesting Israel's bombardment of Gaza were antisemitic. [1]
Steven Salaita (born () September 15, 1975) is an American scholar, author and public speaker. He became the center of a controversy when the University of Illinois did not hire him as a professor of American Indian Studies [2] [3] [4] following objections to a series of tweets critical of Israel's bombardment of Gaza in 2014. [5]
Last week, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate possible “systemic violations” by the cops, citing racial disparity in complaint dismissal rates. “Trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken, especially in communities of color in the City of Chicago,” she wrote.
University of Illinois scandal can refer to: University of Illinois clout scandal; University of Illinois slush fund scandal This page was last edited on 9 ...
Even as an NCAA investigation into it remains open, the sign-stealing scandal that followed the Wolverines throughout their run to a national championship last season is largely behind the program ...
Victims of major public corruption cases in Pennsylvania and Illinois are angry that President Joe Biden granted ... 2011 in what was infamously called the “kids-for-cash” scandal, where he ...
By 2002, the diocese, which covers 28 counties in southern Illinois, had removed 15 priests and one deacon from ministry. ... Belleville’s scandal prompted the diocese to create a review board ...