Part two of the series about the University of Illinois College of Business and its rescinding of some Executive MBA scholarships is here.
Mark Spartz of the DI writes about funding issues within the Illinois Veteran's Grant program, something that fired Associate Dean Robert van der Hooning told me was well known to other top College of Business officials before he was given the go-ahead to recruit War on Terror veterans to the Urbana campus' downtown Chicago Executive MBA program.
A couple of excerpts:
Documents obtained by The Daily Illini include a picture of a dry erase board van der Hooning said was taken after a May meeting between top administrators, including current Interim Director Dave Ikenberry. Scribbled on the board are calculations used to figure how more civilians in the program could bring more money, as opposed to students supported by the IVG.
"Dave Ikenberry came up to Chicago and was helping me work on how to rescind people," van der Hooning said.
Ikenberry denies this.
Here is some good news:
The EMBA program has since doubled in size since last year, from 32 to 65 students. Due to attrition, the current class is 58. Also, last year only 8.6 percent of students received IVG benefits. This year, 60 percent of the class receives these benefits, or 39 students.
However, the man who came up with the idea to recruit these vets to the university, Robert van der Hooning, was fired ten months ago.
There are a couple of items within Spartz' article that bear further investigating. Let's see what I come up with.
Related post:
Daily Illini on the Univ. of Illinois MBA "jarheads" story
Thanks for the link: Freedom Folks
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