The University of Illinois Board of Trustees approved Thursday an $875,000 settlement agreement with Professor Steven Salaita that will end his lawsuits against the university—but will not provide him with a job. Salaita sued after former chancellor Phyllis Wise retracted the offer of a tenured position two weeks before he was to start teaching last year.
Salaita attorney Anand Swaminathan, of Chicago firm Loevy & Loevy, said the size of the settlement “is an implicit admission of the strength of Professor Salaita’s constitutional and contractual claims.” Salaita was also represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights.
