The Southern Illinoisan recently issued the following announcement.
Long-simmering tensions within the Southern Illinois University system came to the surface this week after an opinion column took aim at the system president’s handling of a recent state funding reallocation proposal.
The opinion piece by SIU Carbondale faculty member Kathleen Chwalisz, which ran in The Southern Illinoisan on Thursday, accused SIU President Randy Dunn of purposefully keeping the Carbondale chancellor in the dark about a plan to transfer $5.1 million in state appropriations funding from SIUC to SIUE.
Three state legislators have called for Dunn’s ouster. At a news conference on Friday, Dunn said he has no plans to resign.
Chwalisz wrote that she acquired budget-related documents through the Freedom of Information Act proving that Dunn manufactured a justification for the proposal, which narrowly failed to pass the Board of Trustees at its April 12 meeting.
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