What they fired him for was a firing offense. No question.
From where I sit, they should have let him go for mishandling the COVID pandemic, for playing hardball with the graduate instructors, and, most engagingly, the damage he did to people who suffered sexual abuse at Michigan.
To let him go over any of those three would have required them to admit that the entire university was complicit, including the regents. So, while I'm happy that a university president was held accountable for creating a sexualized and abusive workplace, I mostly see this as a way of avoiding responsibility for other, more widespread problems, which are likely to continue.
What they fired him for was a firing offense. No question.
From where I sit, they should have let him go for mishandling the COVID pandemic, for playing hardball with the graduate instructors, and, most engagingly, the damage he did to people who suffered sexual abuse at Michigan.
To let him go over any of those three would have required them to admit that the entire university was complicit, including the regents. So, while I'm happy that a university president was held accountable for creating a sexualized and abusive workplace, I mostly see this as a way of avoiding responsibility for other, more widespread problems, which are likely to continue.
Above all else I'm in gobsmacked by the idea of conducting your affair over A UNIVERSITY EMAIL