The Herald: Anger at university principals’£142,000 pay raise
University principals in Scotland have been awarded salary increases of more than twice the rate of inflation despite the tight financial climate facing the sector.
A survey by The Herald reveals that in 2006-07 university principals received an average salary of £162,000, a rise of 5.2% on the previous year. The increase represents an additional £142,000 taken out of the sector’s annual budget
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San Francisco Chronicle: UC regents, facing budget cuts, raise chief of staff’s salary 26%
The UC Board of Regents got a gloomy list of options on Thursday to cover a projected $417 million gap in state funding next year, but they smiled brightly on their top administrative aide by awarding her a 26 percent pay increase of $61,000.
The raise boosted the annual salary of Secretary/Chief of Staff Diane Griffiths to $295,000 and came less than a year after she was hired.
Minutes later, the board received a dire budget report that included possible student fee increases of up to 10 percent, freezing faculty salaries and turning away as many as 5,000 eligible students this fall.
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Times Picayune: O’Keefe ends 3-year stint as head of LSU
Louisiana State University Chancellor Sean O’Keefe announced his resignation Wednesday, ending his three-year tenure with the suggestion that he no longer had the support of LSU System President John Lombardi and key members of the system’s governing board.
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The Chronicle News Blog: American Council on Education Names Molly Broad as President
Molly Corbett Broad, who orchestrated sweeping changes to the tradition-bound University of North Carolina system during her recent nine-year tenure there, was named president of the American Council on Education on Tuesday.
Ms. Broad, who will succeed David Ward on May 1, will be the first woman to lead the nation’s top higher-education group since it was founded in 1918.
An economist by training, Ms. Broad is known as a modernizer who isn’t afraid to challenge conventional wisdom and ruffle some feathers. While serving as the University of North Carolina system president from 1997 to 2006, she touched the third rails of higher-education—affirmative action and tuition pricing—and came out on top.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Sean O’Keefe Steps Down as Louisiana State U. Chancellor
Sean O’Keefe, chancellor of Louisiana State University’s flagship campus in Baton Rouge, announced today he would resign, effective February 1, after three years on the job.
Mr. O’Keefe, a former administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was rumored to have clashed with some members of the university system’s Board of Supervisors and with the system’s president, John V. Lombardi, who took office in September. William L. Jenkins, Mr. Lombardi’s predecessor, will serve as interim chancellor until a permanent hire is made.
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Houston Chronicle: TSU regents pick Rudley as new president
Texas Southern University all but ended a 19-month search for a new president Friday, turning to a familiar face and known problem solver to rehabilitate the proud but chronically troubled school.
Regents voted 9-0 to name John Rudley, the University of Houston’s interim president, as the sole finalist for the top job at Texas’ largest historically black university. State law requires the governing board to wait 21 days before finalizing the appointment.
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Tulsa World: ORU reinstates one professor
The lawsuit by two other plaintiffs remains active. Also, two evangelists resign from ORU’s board.
One of the three former Oral Roberts University professors who sued the university for wrongful termination last fall has been reinstated in a settlement reached late Thursday.
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AP: Southern Union State president placed on leave, firing likely
Southern Union State Community College President Susan Salatto was placed on leave Thursday after an investigation cited numerous problems at the Wadley school, including apparent bid law violations, nepotism and “extraordinarily poor management.”
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette: WVU e-mails on degree opened
West Virginia University President Mike Garrison’s chief of staff directed the university’s initial investigation into whether West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin’s daughter earned an M.B.A degree at the university, according to e-mails obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
E-mails requested under the Freedom of Information Act show that Craig Walker ordered an Oct. 15 meeting where top administrators discussed whether Heather Bresch earned the master’s of business administration degree; was involved in revising her transcript; and directed that the university’s statements on the matter be cleared by Ms. Bresch, whom he referred to in e-mails by her first name.
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The Houston Chronicle: Got the job, now need a Ph.D.
San Jacinto College’s new chancellor must earn a doctorate before starting post
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The Chronicle: Colleges Get Out of E-Mail Business
Frantic troubleshooting by an overworked staff versus someone else fixing problems smoothly. A sliver of server space per person versus a five-gigabyte chunk. Half a million dollars versus free.
That’s what colleges are faced with as they decide whether to continue running their own e-mail services or outsource them to a professional service like Go
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The Chronicle: West Virginia U. Roiled Over Alleged Transcript Rewrite for Governor’s Daughter
Michael S. Garrison was controversial at West Virginia University even before his arrival in September as president. Now he is linked to a developing scandal that raises questions about the ties between the university and the state’s power brokers in politics and business.
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Inside Higher Ed: Counterpoint to Presidential Careerism
At a time when the pay of leading college presidents soars over $1 million a year and many a campus leader prefers the title “CEO,” it sounds almost quaint to hear several dozen top administrators wrestle with such a fundamentally personal — and yet outward-looking — question as: “How might the thoughtful coupling of a president’s personal sense of calling with the mission of the institution she or he serves enhance presidential leadership?”
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The Knoxville News: UT chief, faculty panel meet to discuss search for new chancellor
Committee offers input on selection of new chancellor
That’s the message University of Tennessee faculty sent Friday in a meeting with UT President John Petersen regarding the selection of the next chancellor of the Knoxville campus.
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Lexington Herald-Leader: KCTCS chief’s pay takes bite of morale
Michael McCall, the head of Kentucky’s community college system, recently made headlines around the country when a national survey found that he was the highest paid president of a community college system in the country.
Faculty and staff of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System knew McCall made a good salary for the difficult job of creating an entirely new system of community and technical schools — a move that came out of the higher education reform act of 1997.
But faculty members such as Jake Gibbs were shocked to find that McCall’s package of salary and benefits totaled $610,000. That number, which is from a survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education, does not compare favorably to the pay of KCTCS faculty and staff members, who not only are the lowest paid in Kentucky, but rank well below national averages for community colleges. Current state funding problems mean that bigger raises are probably out of the question for the immediate future.
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Worcester Telegraph & Gazette News: Assumption faculty rap president
Assumption College faculty members, by a vote of 45-33 this week, charged President Francesco Cesareo and his cabinet with violating policy when they refused to host a gay activist veteran as a Veterans Day speaker, but the faculty also voted not to pursue the issue.
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Insider Higher Ed: Short Shrift to MLK Day?
In the 1970s and early 1980s, supporters rallied to create a federal holiday memorializing Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership in the civil rights movement and his union activism. For many students today, those efforts have translated to King-themed activities and a respite from coursework one day a year.
As usual, Ohio State University has no intention of holding classes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day next year, when it will fall on Monday, January 21. But unique scheduling difficulties recently forced administrators to diverge from the typical calendar guidelines, which would have placed the winter quarter’s commencement ceremony on Easter Sunday and the summer quarter’s on Labor Day weekend. The resulting adjustment would have left students with more Fridays than Mondays, so a plan finalized partially with input from a group of faculty decided on a solution: holding classes that might have been held on the King holiday on the first Friday of the winter quarter instead.
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The Guardian: Universities fear massive cash loss
Universities will lose tens of millions of pounds in funding when tough new immigration laws are introduced next year, according to the man who represents the UK’s vice-chancellors.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer: Myers University president jailed; to be fired Friday
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul has jailed Myers University President Richard Scaldini for one day for violating a judicial gag order.
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The Boston Globe: Cambridge College chief put on leave
Cambridge College trustees placed the school’s president, Mahesh Sharma, on a six-week paid leave yesterday after concluding that he tried to use school funds for his nephew’s college tuition and appointed a college vice president whose company had a contract with the school worth at least $170,000.
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