Michael Hogan, the president of the University of Illinois, is trying to build support for a more centralized approach to enrollment management in the university system. But e-mail messages between Hogan and his campus leaders -- obtained by The News-Gazette -- suggest that he has been pushing them to control faculty leaders who are dubious of the centralization, and that he has questioned whether chancellors have done enough to back him. An e-mail to Phyllis Wise, the new chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, called the faculty there "oppositional," and called on her to deal with a "defiant" Faculty Senate. Hogan also wrote that he was "not happy" with her "lack of leadership on enrollment management."
An e-mail from Wise disputed his analysis. "In fact, I have discussed enrollment management on the Urbana-Champaign campus in a nuanced manner to balance faculty (and my) concerns about the need to be able to manage campus level enrollment issues effectively vis-a-vis your and the Board of Trustees' concerns about diversity, articulation, and the effective use of financial aid. Thus, I would argue that I have exerted the kind of leadership that encourages an open discussion of the options before us," she wrote. "In my concept of leadership, it is extraordinarily important to pay attention both to the people who report to me, as well as those to whom I report."
