The Hartford Courant just reported that President Hogan has resigned from UConn to take a position as president of the University of Illinois.
An article in the University of Illinois student paper, Daily Illini, discusses the amount of time that Hogan has spent at UConn:
Corey Schmitt, one of the student trustees at the University of Connecticut, said Hogan’s relatively short stint as president was one of the reasons he was surprised when he found out Hogan was leaving the university.
“No one really knew, it came as a big shock to all of us,” he said, referring to members of the university’s board of trustees. “He’s been here for two and a half years, so that’s one of the main reasons we were kind of caught off-guard,”
Comments from Facebook and Twitter comically reference the president’s $4000 carpet, which was at the center much controversy this year, and cardboard cut outs of Hogan.
“What will we ever do with the $3000 worth of Hogan cardboard cut outs?” reads one of many tweets under the hashtag #UConn.
To my readers, what do you think of Hogan’s departure? How would you rate his performance over his years as president? Who do you think might be the next university president?
