University of Illinois trustees Friday afternoon approved an agreement for an official at the center of an admissions scandal to resign. The deal is not going over well with some unions on the university’s Chicago campus.

Richard Herman is leaving the Urbana-Champaign chancellor’s office next week. He’s losing a scheduled $300,000 bonus. But Herman is keeping his $395,000 salary through next June. Then he’ll earn more than $244,000 a year as a faculty member.

The university cut a similar deal with President B. Joseph White, who’s stepping down January 1.

The arrangements frustrate some Chicago unions in tough negotiations with the university.

MOSS: We all want to further the goal of serving the underserved.

Math teacher Charles Moss is chief steward of the Graduate Employees Organization, whose three-year contract expired in August.

MOSS: These golden parachutes do not allow us to do that.

KENNEDY: I’m not sure that that’s an accurate characterization.

Christopher Kennedy, chair of the university’s Board of Trustees, points out that Herman and White have agreed to help with a transition to new leadership.

KENNEDY: They have tremendous institutional knowledge. They have tremendous relationships. They have great support among our major donors.

And those donors provide billions of dollars.