UNATTRACTIVE EVEN TO SERIAL ADMINISTRATORS. The faculty senate of Chicago State University, an outpost of access-assessment-remediation-retention along the Metra Electric, votes no confidence in their current trustees.

Chicago State University faculty took the unusual step Tuesday of asking Gov. Pat Quinn to remove the university's board of trustees.

The unanimous request from the Faculty Senate, which comes days before trustees plan to announce their decision on the next university leader, also asks Quinn to stop the board from hiring a president.

Chicago State faculty and students have argued they were excluded from the presidential search process and have criticized the two finalists as local political insiders. On Friday, 13 of the 15 members of the campus' search advisory committee resigned in protest.

University Diaries approves.

A plaything of hacks, Chicago State University has apparently been kicked around one too many times for its long-suffering faculty. They’ve only just evicted President Elnora Daniel - a party girl with a penchant for long, university-subsidized Caribbean cruises - and now the school’s hopeless board of trustees wants to unload another hack on them.

Further north, a serial administrator returns to academic consulting, presumably to help generate the next way to keep the faculty tired and distracted.

After months of controversy concerning her leadership, the embattled chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will step down May 31, officials announced Thursday.

Linda Bunnell, who was appointed chancellor in 2004, became the public focus of attention after she failed to report an accident in her state vehicle in February. Community anger over the incident brought to the surface a long-simmering battle among Bunnell, the UW-Stevens Point Foundation and some of the school's major donors.

The student government gave Bunnell a vote of no-confidence in early April, citing the traffic incident, the foundation relationship and Bunnell's travel spending.

The chancellor's farewell statement is predictable.

"We can all be proud of our university's many accomplishments in recent years," Bunnell said in a prepared statement. "UW-Stevens Point is now ready and poised to proceed to the next level."

What would that level be, and what's the plan? There's mission creep, and there's serious repositioning. The statement doesn't specify.