University of Michigan He has fired his $927,000-a-year president after he revealed in his email that he had an affair with a female subordinate.
Mark Schlissel, 64, was informed in a letter on Saturday that he had been removed from his position since July 2014.
Schleisel – a married father of four children – and her boyfriend, who has not been identified, exchanged emails at her work email address that were “incompatible with promoting the dignity and prestige of the university”. regent of wroteIt is not clear how the matter came to the notice of the college masters.
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Mark Schlissel, who was appointed president of the University of Michigan in July 2014, was fired Saturday after evidence surfaced of his affair with a female subordinate.
Schlissel is pictured with his wife, Monica, a lawyer based in San Francisco. the couple has four children
Schlissel works from the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus
In E-mail, sent from September 2, 2019 to December 3, 2021, the couple discusses reading, recipes, traveling and ordering takeout together.
The university said it had ‘damaged the dignity and reputation of the University of Michigan’
Filled with double entrants and longings, the email shows Schlissel lamenting that he is ‘alone’ – his wife, Monica Schwebs, a 65-year-old environmental and energy law attorney, lives near San Francisco.
At one point, in November 2019, Schlissel and her boyfriend discuss trying to coordinate a trip together – but Schlissel warns her that ‘they will join me when they return from the FLA to DTW (Detroit),’ but this The thing is’.
In second place, in September 2019, Schleisel sends him the schedule of his flight to India, and notes: ‘What if we miss our connection and get stuck in Paris…’
She replies: ‘I know a bistro…’
He replies: ‘I am there.’
Schlissel as seen accepting an award with his wife (second left) and Jesse Jackson (second right) in January 2018
They discuss recipes for spinach and chermola pie, and chives, and calzones.
In December 2020 he sends her a receipt for takeout pizza which he will take to the university home – Ann Arbor – and writes: ‘To whet your appetite. And tell me what’s in the dinner too.’
The pair exchanged Shakespeare’s sonnets and a New York Times article about relaxation.
In June 2021, Schlissel wrote: ‘Love can come at any time in life, and it is beautiful and joyous when it comes.’
In an email exchange on July 1, 2021, which was quoted by the board, the employee said her ‘heart hurts,’ and Schleisel replied: ‘I know. Mine too.’
The email ended with him: ‘I still wish I was strong enough to find a way.’
The board wrote that Schleisel knew that his relationship with an employee was taboo.
Given your knowledge and involvement in addressing incidents of harassment by University of Michigan personnel, and your stated commitment to working to ‘free’ the University community of sexual harassment and other inappropriate conduct, as summarized above Your conduct is particularly serious.
‘There is no doubt that you were fully aware that any improper conduct or communication between you and a subordinate would cause substantial damage to the dignity and reputation of the University of Michigan.’