The last chair of the disbanded University Senate has left the University of Kentucky after UK agreed to pay her $375,000 and she agreed to not seek university records under the state’s open records law.

DeShana Collett, formerly a tenured professor in physician assistant studies, played a prominent role last year in opposing a change to UK’s internal governance that she and others warned would strip faculty of decision-making power over academic decisions. UK President Eli Capilouto recommended creating a faculty senate to replace the University Senate.

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