UNL Faculty Overwhelmingly Pass Historic ‘No Confidence’ Vote Against Chancellor

LINCOLN — Faculty leaders at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday expressing “no confidence” in Chancellor Rodney Bennett and urging his bosses to reconsider his employment.

It is the first “no confidence” vote to pass against a UNL chancellor in the university’s nearly 157-year history.

The UNL Faculty Senate voted 60-14 to pass the advisory resolution from Elizabeth Lewis, a professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education. It calls on the University of Nebraska Board of Regents and NU President Jeffrey Gold to immediately review Bennett’s “continued fitness to serve” and urges them to consider firing him or negotiating his departure.

Lewis told her colleagues that her resolution came as public education is “under attack”