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The Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education announced that it will not seek to extend Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) Chancellor Terrence Cheng’s contract beyond its current end date of June 30, 2026, and that starting July 1, 2025, Chancellor Cheng will transition into a new role as a $442,187 a year “Strategic Advisor to the Board”.
This comes after multiple investigations raised serious concerns about Cheng's lavish spending habits, questionable expenditures (e.g., a $21k expense to move to CT even though he still lived in NY, $60 steaks, $490 chauffeured rides) and lack of transparency.
“Given the well-deserved controversy over Terrence Cheng’s flagrant — if not infamous — spending abuses, and the systemwide revolt by staff against his leadership, his departure as chancellor is long overdue. Public trust has been shattered, and a change was needed so the system can begin to rebuild. Unfortunately, students, parents, and taxpayers won’t be able to move on so easily, as Mr. Cheng will remain on the payroll as a ‘strategic advisor’ for the final year of his contract. Going forward, the Board of Regents must ensure that contracts for this position prioritize the interests of the state — and that far stronger oversight is finally put in place," said State Reps Vincent Candelora and Seth Bronko.
“So, he still will have a $442,187 a year state-taxpayer funded job, just with a different job title? Do we have that correct? said State Senators Henri Martin, Rob Sampson and Stephen Harding in a statement. "Unbelievable."
"Chancellor Cheng should have resigned long ago. Republicans demanded that he do so. Gov. Lamont should have demanded that resignation. Instead, Gov. Lamont shrugged. Instead, Gov. Lamont said he is not very concerned ‘about the stuff you read in the paper’ regarding Chancellor Cheng’s state credit card abuse, the $60 succulent steak dinners that we paid for, the chauffeured travel and getting $21,139 to relocate to Connecticut despite never making the move from New York. Instead, Gov. Lamont has kept Chancellor Cheng on the state payroll making nearly half a million dollars," the Senators statement continued.
"In doing so, Gov. Lamont continues to minimize the culture of ethical lapses, scandals and mismanagement in his administration as mere ‘small ball’,” said the Senators.
By the way, it was during Cheng's tenure as Chancellor that the CSCU system first opened the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in September 2021.
The DEI page has since been removed from the university's main website, but the impact of DEI can still be felt in the classroom, and on individual campuses... like Southern Connecticut State, which still promotes a DEI Strategic Plan for 2021-2025, that specifically mentions social justice banners, like the BLM one below.
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