Universities are now soft targets for different kinds of threats and pressures. Media trials and social network campaigns can do tremendous damage to universities. The very threat of such a trial or campaign can cause administrators to think and act like any corporation threatened with bad publicity--to succumb to threats and demands and to work through lawyers and payoffs. 

The best way to defeat threat campaigns is to have procedures in place that anticipate the issues that are likely to arise, the ones that can be the basis of threats, and to follow those procedures. As far as possible, the processes should be open and public. There is no reason the University cannot follow such a course when planning the future of the OBF. If a personnel matter IS involved, there are limits to what can be made public, but the procedures can still be explained, and the people or committee involved can also be identified. 

Openness is a protection. Secrecy undermines trust.