
Academic leaders at the University of Maryland at College Park expressed strong support on Thursday for President Wallace D. Loh and chastised the university system’s Board of Regents for demanding his ouster.
In a letter shared on Twitter, the provost, Mary Ann Rankin, and all of the university’s academic deans shared their “dismay and deep concern for the events and the process” that led to Loh’s forced retirement. Loh said on Tuesday that he would step down in June 2019.
That announcement followed months of speculation about how the regents would hold people accountable for the university’s troubled football program. In June, a 19-year-old offensive lineman, Jordan McNair, died after suffering heat stroke during a team practice. Reports later surfaced of an abusive program with a toxic culture, and an investigative report commissioned by the regents described a program with little oversight, where players feared to speak out.
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