N.C. State’s New Leader Revokes Added Pay for Provost Who Resigned

by E Wayne Ross on June 19, 2009

AP: Woodward: Former provost salary package ‘invalid’

RALEIGH (AP) — The interim chancellor of N.C. State has eliminated the lucrative resignation package given to the former campus provost, saying in a letter released Tuesday that the deal was “invalid.”

Interim chancellor Jim Woodward said in the letter that former Chancellor James Oblinger did not have the authority to “fundamentally alter” the 2005 employment agreement of former provost Larry Nielsen. Woodward said Oblinger should have sought the approval of the board of trustees.