When Jennifer Boysen started as a student at Lisle, Illinois-based Northern Seminary, she loved it so much that she volunteered to raise money for the university’s Center for Women in Leadership.
The university hired her to be the chief development officer. But then last week, after Boysen spent months trying to blow the whistle on former president William Shiell’s bullying behavior toward women, the university fired her.
Boysen’s surprise firing is the latest in the growing unrest at Northern Seminary, which led to Shiell’s pressured resignation in March. Northern’s popular Provost Lynn Cohick also reportedly resigned but has not issued any public statement explaining why.
Despite 17 former and current employees—some of them top female leaders—complaining of Shiell’s alleged bullying of women, Northern Seminary’s board praised Shiell’s leadership on his way out. Shortly afterwards, Northern Seminary Trustee Fay Quanstrom resigned, alleging that male board members mistreat female board members.
Then, one-third of the student body sent a letter to trustees, expressing “no confidence” in their leadership and calling for the board to apologize for its treatment of whistleblowers or to resign. They called out Board Chair Wyatt Hoch by name.
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