Los Angeles Times: President of Oral Roberts steps down
The president of Oral Roberts University, who is accused of misspending university funds to support a lavish lifestyle, resigned from his position, officials said Friday.
Richard Roberts’ resignation is effective immediately, Board of Regents Chairman George Pearsons said in an e-mailed statement.
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Houston Chronicle: TSU’s accreditation at risk from rebuke
Texas Southern University is only one step away from losing its accreditation after the latest and most serious blow to a campus already in crisis.
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, during a meeting of its 77-member Commission on Colleges this week, placed Texas’ largest historically black university on probation for the first time because of its poor financial picture.
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The Orange County Register: Santa Ana board washes away college president’s private shower
Irate college trustees have washed away a construction project at Santa Ana College to build a private shower for the college’s president in her personal office restroom.
“It was a bad judgment call,” Phil Yarbrough, president of the Rancho Santiago Community College District, which operates the college, said about the shower addition after the board meeting this week. “We found out about it and stopped it.”
Private showers are a common amenity for corporate CEOs but seldom found in colleges.
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Sacramento Bee: MJC faculty take issue with leader
After 18 months as Modesto Junior College president, Richard Rose faces a leadership struggle.
MJC’s Academic Senate overwhelmingly voted Tuesday that they have no confidence in Rose’s leadership. The vote comes after more than a year of strife between instructors and administrators, particularly Rose.
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The Boston Globe: Patrick to oust UMass chair
Governor Deval Patrick has rounded up enough votes on the University of Massachusetts board of trustees to muscle aside Stephen P. Tocco and probably replace him with Robert J. Manning, an investment executive who is the board’s vice chairman, UMass officials say.
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Faced with his probable removal as chairman, Tocco, who had initially rejected Patrick’s request that he step down before his current term expires next summer, is meeting today with the governor’s senior staff. He has been trying to persuade the governor to give him several more months as chairman.
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Los Angeles Times: Occidental president decides to step down
After only 17 months in the post, Susan Westerberg Prager announced her resignation Monday as president of Occidental College amid reports at the Eagle Rock campus that she had clashed with the school’s board of trustees over not being an aggressive-enough leader.
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Inside Higher Ed: Are Museums Academic Units?
You’d never see an English department chair reporting to the vice president for advancement instead of to deans and provosts. University of Oregon professors want to know why that principle doesn’t apply to the art museum.
This summer, Oregon’s president took the uncommon if not unheard-of step of deciding that the director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, who has historically reported to the provost, would report to the advancement office instead — prompting faculty opposition that took the form of a University Senate resolution Wednesday. More broadly, the shift in structure underscores a question that’s been raised as a number of college leaders have raided their art museums to raise funds in recent years: To what degree is a college art museum considered central to an academic mission, and to what extent is it seen primarily as a financial asset?
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The Chronicle News Blog: U. of Oxford’s Top Official to Step Down in 2009
John Hood, the chief executive of the University of Oxford whose tenure has been marked by divisive battles over reforming how the ancient institution is governed, announced today that he would not remain at the university beyond the end of his five-year term, in September 2009.
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The New York Time: President of Columbia Is Criticized
Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, was confronted yesterday by discontented professors who gathered more than 100 faculty signatures for a document criticizing his leadership.
Their “statement of concern,” read to him at a faculty meeting, outlined a grab bag of charges, some relating to governance of the university and some concerning Middle East issues that have repeatedly troubled the campus, in particular his challenging introductory remarks when the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visited this fall.
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Sacramento Bee: UC weighs raises of 33% for all 10 chancellors
University of California regents are weighing a proposal to increase their top executives’ pay by an average of 33 percent over the next four years, beginning with salary hikes this year of between 13 and 17 percent.
The plan, which will be discussed in a closed committee meeting today, is drawing fire from critics who question the propriety of such increases in a tight budget year for the state.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: College presidents cash in on competition for talent
Think the highest paid college president in Pennsylvania wears a Nittany Lions cap, squeezes into a Panthers sweat shirt or enjoys a personal parking spot at the state’s only Ivy League school?
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The Philadelphia Inquirer: College presidents work in halls of higher earning
Anyone thinking about a career change might want to consider university president, as salaries are rising rapidly at public and private institutions, according to a survey released today.
The region’s earning champ was James P. Gallagher, who stepped down from 3,200-student Philadelphia University in August with $2.6 million, the second-highest wage at a private university in the nation in 2005-06, the most recent year available.
That whopper of a payoff included $2.2 million in deferred compensation that accrued over five years, said Elizabeth Gemmill, chairman of the board of trustees.
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The New York Times: Increased Compensation Puts More College Presidents in the Million-Dollar Club
Soaring compensation of university presidents, once limited to a few wealthy institutions, is becoming increasingly common, with the number of million-dollar pay packages at private institutions nearly doubling last year, and compensation at many public universities not far behind.
Presidents at 12 private universities received more than $1 million in the 2005-6 school year, the most recent period for which data on private institutions is available, up from seven a year earlier, according to an annual survey of presidential pay to be released today by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The number of private college presidents earning more than $500,000 reached 81, up from 70 a year earlier and just three a decade ago.
The survey also found that the number of public university presidents making $700,000 or more rose to eight in 2006-7, the reporting period for public institutions. Only two public university presidents made $700,000 in the previous period. The survey did not include E. Gordon Gee, who took over at Ohio State University earlier this year and whose $1 million pay package, before bonuses, is probably the highest of any public institution.
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Inside Higher Ed: A Campaign of Many Grievances
The petition lists no grievances. It hasn’t been posted publicly. Almost half the school’s tenured faculty signed it, and it has one demand: the removal of the dean.
But if a sizable contingent backed the campaign, they seemingly did so for their own reasons. Beyond the united front of a single document lay festering resentments, damaged egos and genuine fear — enough fear that not even tenured professors were willing to speak for attribution. At Washington University in St. Louis, the effort to unseat Dean Mary Sansalone may have stalled, but it revealed discontent within the School of Engineering that some attributed to a lack of faculty input during strategic planning processes, others called sexism and supporters characterized as knee-jerk resistance to necessary change.
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AP: Roberts Receives ‘No Confidence’ Vote
Embattled Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts, facing accusations he misspent university funds to support a lavish lifestyle, has received a vote of “no confidence” by the tenured faculty at the evangelical university.
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The Chronicle News Blog: President Resigns After Only 4 Months on the Job
Jill L. Sherman, president of Cedar Crest College since July, resigned suddenly on Wednesday for “personal reasons,” according to a news release issued by the Pennsylvania college.
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The Chronicle: Presidential Pay Is Increasing Fastest At the Largest Institutions
At the top echelon of higher education, boards have to pay to play when hiring a president.
The Chronicle’s latest survey of executive compensation shows what might be described as the minimum pay now required at the top institutions.
At public research universities, the minimum compensation among the big players is roughly $450,000. In the 2006-7 fiscal year, 56 of the 182 public institutions in the survey paid their president at least that amount. Almost all of the largest and best-known research institutions topped it, but there were exceptions, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the University of California system.
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Los Angeles Times: UC Irvine gave Bren a say in dean selection
UC Irvine gave Orange County billionaire Donald Bren the right to be consulted in the selection of a dean for its new law school in return for his $20-million donation, according to documents released to The Times on Thursday.
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Inside Higher Ed: he California state auditor on Tuesday released a report calling for the California State University to tighten control over executive compensation. The system lacks effective monitoring procedures and a clearly justified methodology for determining some salaries, adding that some employees had received “questionable compensation.” The system issued a statement noting that the audit did not identify violations of policy. However, the system also pledged to try to carry out the recommendations of the audit.
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The Chronicle: Antioch College to Remain Open Under Deal Between Trustees and Alumni
Antioch College won’t be shuttered next summer after all, and the college’s alumni board is confident that it can raise the tens of millions of dollars needed to halt the suspension of operations that the trustees had deemed unavoidable only five months ago.
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