If not for Chris Kennedy and the other U. of Ill. at Chicago trustees who did not abstain from yesterday’s vote, unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers would have gotten the emeritus status he petitioned for:

Retired faculty ask for emeritus status, and it’s then signed off on by several levels of university administration before heading to trustees, [UIC spokesman Tom] Hardy said.  [Italics added]

In other words, with all his faults, they love him still at UIC.

As for faults, consider this from Kennedy after the vote:

Kennedy told the Chicago Sun-Times he and the board have not seen any signs of remorse from Ayers in the nearly 40 years since the dedication.

“There’s no evidence in any of his interviews or conversations that he regrets any of those actions . . .”

Egomaniacal professor.  No merit in him.  Deserves neither honor nor honorific.  Rather, he’s to be shunned.  But that won’t happen in the groves of academe.