School releases 118 pages of intimate emails that reveal how he enticed her with knish!

  • Mark Schlissel, 64, was fired by the University of Michigan on Saturday
  • The regents of the university found that he had breached the terms of his contract as president – a $927,000-a-year role he had held since July 2014
  • Schlissel was being investigated following a report of an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate
  • In July 2021, Schlissel himself introduced rules banning sexual relationships between subordinates and supervisors 
  • In the letter, the board produced emails between Schlissel and his lover which were ‘inconsistent with promoting the dignity and reputation of the university’ 
  • The emails showed the pair plotting via university email to coordinate trips together, with Schlissel saying he was ‘lonely’
  • His wife, Monica Schwebs, is based in San Francisco, where she works as an energy consultant for law firm Morgan Lewis
  • Schlissel in November 2021 says, of a Wayne State basketball match that ‘the only reason I agreed to go was to go with you’
  • He and his lover order takeout food together, discuss trips and recipes, and muse about missing a flight connection in Paris together 

The University of Michigan has fired its $927,000-a-year president for having an affair with a subordinate, a year after implementing wide sexual misconduct rules to stop people in power sleeping with their staff.

Mark Schlissel, 64, was informed in a letter on Saturday that he was being fired from the role he has held since July 2014. The university has also made public 118 pages of emails between him and the woman he had an affair with. She is not named and it’s unclear how their romance came to light.

Among his pick-up lines are: ‘Can I lure you to visit with the promise of a knish?’ and screenshots of take-out pizza receipts which he said were ‘to whet your appetite. And tell you what’s for dinner too.’

Schlissel – a married father of four – and his lover exchanged emails on their work email addresses which were ‘inconsistent with promoting the dignity and reputation of the university’, the regents of the university wrote.

Schlissel himself had, in July 2021, introduced the very rules banning sexual relationships between supervisors and subordinates, which he broke.

The prestigious university is where the youngest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, Sasha, 20, is currently enrolled. Other notable alumni include playwright Arthur Miller, NFL player Tom Brady and Madonna.

Schlissel is pictured with his wife Monica, a lawyer based in San Francisco. The pair have four children

In the emails, sent between September 2, 2019 to December 3, 2021, the pair discuss reading, recipes, travel and ordering takeout together.

Full of double entendres and longing, the emails show Schlissel lamenting that he is ‘lonely’ – his wife, Monica Schwebs, a 65-year-old environmental and energy law attorney, lives near San Francisco.

In September 2019, he sent her a link to a spoof New Yorker article entitled: ‘Sexual fantasies of every New Yorker’.

The article features joke ‘fantasies’, such as: ‘I find a lunch in Midtown that costs less than ten dollars. ‘Yes!’ I cry out. ‘Oh, God, yes!’ The cashier hands me a surprisingly substantial sandwich.’—Liz, works in Midtown.

At one point, in November 2019, Schlissel and his lover discuss trying to coordinate traveling together – but Schlissel warns her that ‘M will likely join me on the return from FLA to DTW (Detroit), but that’s it’.

At another, in September 2019, Schlissel sends her the schedule for his flight to India, and notes: ‘What if we miss our connection and get stuck in Paris…’

She replies: ‘I know a bistro…’

He responds: ‘I’m so there.’

They discuss recipes for a spinach and chermola pie, and knishes, and calzones.

In December 2020 he sends her a receipt for the takeout pizza he will pick up in Ann Arbor – home to the university – and writes: ‘To whet your appetite. And tell you what’s for dinner too.’

The pair exchanged Shakespeare’s sonnets and a New York Times article about relaxation.

In June 2021, Schlissel wrote: ‘Love can come at any time in life, and it’s beautiful and joyous when it does.’

If you want to read all the emails you’ll have to go to the site – I’m not posting them all. Thank you.