Category Archives: Administration

The Forum: NDSU President receives police protection

FARGO – Protecting North Dakota State University’s president is now a major role of a position in the campus police department.

NDSU police Capt. Scott Magnuson accompanies President Joseph Chapman to athletic and other events as part of a ramped-up security effort on campus.

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Albany Times-Union: Paterson joins SUNY search talks

Governor meets with university officials on chancellor hunt

ALBANY — Gov. David Paterson met with top SUNY officials on Monday to discuss the chancellor search, a spokeswoman said.

Paterson spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein confirmed that the governor had been briefed by SUNY Chairman Carl Hayden and Trustee H. Carl McCall. But she declined to comment further “since nothing has been finalized.”

Two people with knowledge of the search said there are two finalists for the job: University of Cincinnati President Nancy Zimpher and Buffalo State College President Muriel Howard.

Zimpher, 62, is the apparent frontrunner as the drawn-out search to replace former Chancellor John Ryan enters its final stage, according to one source.

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Inside Higher Ed; ‘I Am Less Patient and Dress Better’

SEATTLE — Stories abound in higher education about professors with short memories about faculty life once they are promoted into the dean’s office or the administration building. Nothing is more galling to many professors than the sense that Dean Jones or Vice Provost Smith really should know better — they were so nice, after all, when they had the (smaller) office next door and shared teaching duties.

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The Chronicle News Blog: Former Chancellor of North Carolina A&T Will Not Be Charged in Misuse of Money

A former chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University, James C. Renick, will not be criminally charged for misusing university money even though an investigation found he had inappropriately spent $380,000 from a vending contract with Pepsi.

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Inside Higher Ed: A President Retires, and Plagiarism Probe Ends

When the president of the University of Texas-Pan American announced her retirement on Tuesday, something else was retired too: an investigation into allegations that her dissertation contained dozens of instances of plagiarism.

In her announcement, Blandina (Bambi) Cárdenas made no direct reference to the plagiarism allegations. “The pressures of the last several months have seriously taxed my health and well-being and impaired my ability to lead the university with the intensity and focus I believe necessary. It is time for me to move on,” she said.

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AP: UTPA president announces retirement amid allegations of plagiarism

McALLEN, Texas — The president of University of Texas Pan American announced Tuesday she will retire at the end of the month, citing “pressures” that taxed her health and distracted her from leading the university.

Blandina “Bambi” Cardenas, 64, will step down after 4 1/2 sometimes turbulent years at the university. Last October, anonymous allegations mailed to the University of Texas System and media outlets around the state suggested Cardenas had plagiarized portions of her dissertation. The senders claimed to be UTPA faculty.

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The New York Times: Dean’s Firing Draws Protest at Duquesne Law School

PITTSBURGH — When students return to Duquesne University Law School next semester, Donald J. Guter will be back, as a tenured professor after three years as dean.

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Haaretz: Rector bars law clinic from acting against other schools

The rector of Tel Aviv University has forbidden its law clinics from representing anyone filing a complaint against any of the country’s seven universities or affiliated institutions. The university senate – the institution’s highest academic authority, whose acting chairman is the rector – will meet today to discuss the issue.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Law dean ouster spurs outrage at Duquesne

Duquesne University’s abrupt ouster yesterday of law Dean Don Guter produced surprise and anger on campus and led one major donor to say he will withdraw support from the school.

Without giving a reason, university leaders informed law faculty yesterday morning that Mr. Guter, dean since 2005, was out. A statement said Ken Gormley, an associate vice president and member of the law faculty, would serve as interim dean and that Mr. Guter, a former Navy judge advocate general, would remain on the faculty.

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The New York Times: New School Faculty Votes No Confidence in Kerrey

Bob Kerrey, the Vietnam veteran and former Nebraska governor and senator known for his acerbic tongue and iconoclastic tendencies, was handed an overwhelming vote of no-confidence on Wednesday afternoon by the senior faculty at the New School, the Greenwich Village university he has run since 2001.

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The Chronicle News Blog: New School Faculty Senate Votes No Confidence in President Bob Kerrey

In a nearly unanimous vote this afternoon, senior faculty members at the New School approved a motion of no confidence in the institution’s president, Bob Kerrey. The university’s trustees, however, apparently were unmoved by that vote. The trustees also gathered today, at a regularly scheduled meeting, and the university released a statement afterward saying they had unanimously expressed confidence in Mr. Kerrey’s leadership.

The faculty vote took place at an emergency closed-door meeting of the Faculty Senate. According to a summary of the results — released by Jim Miller, a professor of political science who is a co-chair of the senate — 74 faculty members voted for the no-confidence resolution against Mr. Kerrey, two voted no, and one abstained. Faculty members also overwhelmingly voted no confidence in the leadership of the institution’s executive vice president, James Murtha.

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The Chronicle News Blog: Former SUNY Chancellor Is Chosen to Lead Kentucky’s Postsecondary Council

Robert L. King, who resigned in 2005 as chancellor of the State University of New York, has been named president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, the state’s coordinating board for higher education.

Mr. King takes over for Richard A. Crofts, who has served as interim president since June, when Brad Cowgill resigned after a little more than eight months on the job. In fact, Mr. Cowgill had been appointed president after eight months as an interim leader, but he stepped down two weeks later amid a dispute over his hiring.

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