Good morning.
Good Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 57. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset is 7:23 for 12 hours 50 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 97.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1948, President Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing aid for 16 countries.
The Associated Press broke the story that Universities of Wisconsin leaders are looking to oust system president who refuses to quit:
The president of the University of Wisconsin system said in letters obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday that he has been told to either resign or be fired, but has been given no reason and won’t step aside.
Jay Rothman, president of the multicampus 165,000-student university system since 2022, said in a letter addressed to the head of the Board of Regents dated March 26 that he has been given no reason why regents want him to leave.
Rothman said he has been told that his options are to resign or retire, and that if he doesn’t then the board “was prepared to terminate my employment despite all that has been accomplished.”
[…]In the letter addressed to Bogost, Rothman said he had not been “provided any substantive reason or reasons for the Board’s finding of no confidence in my leadership.”
Because of that, Rothman said, “I am not prepared, as a matter of principle, to submit my resignation.”
Rothman also refused to resign in a second letter sent to two other regents on Wednesday after he said they urged him to step down during a Tuesday meeting. Rothman said the regents told him if he didn’t resign, the board was prepared to meet this weekend to fire him.
Rothman said those regents also could not give a reason for them wanting him to resign or be fired.
See Scott Bauer, Exclusive: Universities of Wisconsin leaders looking to oust system president who refuses to quit, Associated Press, April 2, 2026.
A public action over a public official — including over his or her tenure — must be publicly and thoroughly explained. The Regents do not serve in a private capacity and so may not act in a private capacity on behalf of the Wisconsin state university system.
These are public actions all the way through. There may be sufficient reasons for Rothman’s removal; they must be publicly explained and adequately justified.
Failure to do so is disqualifying for those serving on the Board of Regents.
Artemis II crew broadcast from space: