Kent Syverud

Oct 14, 2024 | chroni.cl | E. Gordon Gee |Kent Syverud |Michael Roth |Greg Barnhisel |Len Gutkin

Why so many emails? That’s the question Silke-Maria Weineck, a professor of German literature at the University of Michigan, asks in her latest essay in our pages. The emails are from Santa Ono, the university’s president. Here’s an excerpt from one: Late last night, a group of Jewish students had gathered for dinner at the Southfield home of a local rabbi when, shortly before 11 p.m., an armed individual entered through an open backdoor, stole a bag, and fled.

Oct 14, 2024 | chronicle.com | E. Gordon Gee |Kent Syverud |Michael Roth |Greg Barnhisel |Len Gutkin

Why so many emails? That’s the question Silke-Maria Weineck, a professor of German literature at the University of Michigan, asks in her latest essay in our pages. The emails are from Santa Ono, the university’s president. Here’s an excerpt from one: Late last night, a group of Jewish students had gathered for dinner at the Southfield home of a local rabbi when, shortly before 11 p.m., an armed individual entered through an open backdoor, stole a bag, and fled.

Oct 4, 2024 | chronicle.com | E. Gordon Gee |Kent Syverud

Two years ago, a Southeastern Conference NIL collective paid $150,000 to keep a defensive end from transferring. To retain him this season, it had to pay $1.5 million — and that’s just for one player. There isn’t a day that goes by when university presidents aren’t forced to make difficult choices about the allocation of finite resources. Until recently, these decisions were hard, but navigable.