Robert Breuder’s controversial tenure as president of the College of DuPage came to end Tuesday night when the school’s board of trustees approved a resolution to fire him roughly five months before he was scheduled to step down.
Trustees at the state’s largest community college voted 4-1 to fire Breuder, president since January 2009, in the wake of internal investigations that, according to the resolution, found evidence of “misconduct and mismanagement” that Breuder “participated in, oversaw or failed to prevent.”
Breuder didn’t attend Tuesday night’s meeting.
“We promised to end fraud, waste and abuse at the College of DuPage,” board Chairwoman Kathy Hamilton said after the vote. “By ending this chapter, this board has kept its promise.”
The resolution says Breuder, who had been on paid administrative leave since late April, “violated specific policies established by the college, violated board of trustee and legal directives, breached his duties and engaged in conduct damaging to the reputation of the college and the reputation of the office of the college president.”
