ABOVE: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has fired former tenured biology professor, Fei Wang, after an investigation revealed he had falsified data on grant applications, The News-Gazette, reports. At a meeting on Friday (December 14), the university’s board of trustees made the final decision, effective immediately, to fire Wang.
“We can only appropriately safeguard that legacy by requiring that our faculty meet, if not exceed, a standard of excellence, integrity and professionalism. Unfortunately, Wang has not,” the board wrote in a report, according to Inside Higher Ed.
It’s rare for a tenured professor to be fired. This has only happened two other times in the last 50 years at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to The News-Gazette.
Investigations of Wang began in 2014, after a colleague emailed the head of Wang’s department, Jie Chen, to report that Wang had falsified data ...
