One week ago, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced the surprise resignation of Soumitra Dutta, dean of the SC Johnson College of Business. In the seven days since, the University has refused to explain the circumstances of Dutta’s departure. The announcement blindsided not only Dutta’s interim successor, L. Joseph Thomas, but faculty and administrators in and out of the business college, including the dean of the hotel school. Professors and students alike have become amateur Poirots and Marples, speculating over coffee as to the reasons why the dean left so abruptly. Allowing this to go any further is unfair to the faculty, to the staff, to the students and to Dutta himself.

Source: Daily Sun February 06, 2018 07:18 UTC