Category Archives: Administration

The Los Angeles Times: UC Irvine chancellor says he ‘bungled’ Chemerinsky firing

Embattled UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake acknowledged that he had “bungled” last week in firing Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the university’s new law school and said he regretted the way he handled the matter.

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The Chronicle News Blog: In Abrupt Reversal, Erwin Chemerinsky to Become Law Dean at UC-Irvine

The University of California at Irvine is hiring Erwin Chemerinsky as its law dean after all. In a news conference that is still going on, the university’s chancellor, Michael V. Drake, is announcing that Mr. Chemerinsky, a professor at Duke University, will become the law school’s inaugural dean, less than a week after Dr. Drake drew an avalanche of criticism for at first offering Mr. Chemerinsky the job, then withdrawing the offer because he was “too politically controversial” — which many critics viewed as code words for “too liberal.”

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Inside Higher Ed: Law School Deanship Rescinded; Politics Blamed

If Erwin Chemerinsky were ever nominated for a place on the Supreme Court, it’s safe to say that he would not be one of those blank slate candidates about whom reporters and would-be critics have to go digging to ascertain his views.
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“I’ve been a liberal law professor for 28 years,” Chemerinsky told the Los Angeles Times Wednesday. “I write lots of op-eds and articles, I argue high-profile cases.”

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Chicago Tribune: More heat for SIU leader

Southern Illinois University trustees rallied Monday around embattled university President Glenn Poshard, even as he faced a new allegation of plagiarism.

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Dayton Daily News: Wilberforce faculty gives president no-confidence vote

The Wilberforce University faculty in March voted no confidence in the leadership of its president, the Rev. Floyd Flake, faculty representatives said this week.

The no-confidence vote came from the Wilberforce University Faculty Association, a collective bargaining unit, Richard Deering, an associate professor and the faculty’s chief negotiator, said Thursday.

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The Oregonian: College dean quits after inquiry

Peter Cookson, dean of Lewis & Clark College’s graduate school of education, resigned from the school Wednesday after settling a sexual harassment complaint filed by his former assistant.

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The faculty of Antioch College has this week voted no confidence in Toni Murdock, chancellor of the university, following her dismissal of the college’s president and reorganization of the college’s fund raising operations — changes that the faculty said should have involved consultation with the faculty and did not. “The chancellor’s precipitous actions have damaged the college to such an extent that her continuation works against the survival of the institution,” said a statement from a faculty spokeswoman. “College faculty and staff are highly committed to providing a stable and supportive academic environment to students as they seek to complete degrees at an institution that faces an uncertain future…. These precipitous actions on the part of Chancellor Murdock further weaken the college and severely disrupt the educational mission of this institution.” A spokeswoman for the university said via e-mail late Wednesday that she was only just learning of the vote and could not comment. Generally, Murdock has defended her actions as necessary to deal with financial crises.

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The Chronicle: Southern Illinois President Faces Allegations He Plagiarized His Dissertation

The president of Southern Illinois University, Glenn Poshard, is being forced to defend his 1984 dissertation against accusations that it contains numerous examples of plagiarism and improper citation.

The student newspaper at the university’s Carbondale campus, the Daily Egyptian, did a detailed examination of his dissertation and presented its findings to Mr. Poshard this week. He told the newspaper that he was very busy when the dissertation was completed. “This is not an excuse, and I would never offer it up as an excuse, but at that point in my life, I had a family,” he was quoted as saying. “I worked two jobs. I was running for the Illinois State Senate. I was trying to get my dissertation finished.”

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The Chronicle: Southern U. President Settles Whistle-Blower Suit Over Alleged Misconduct by Board Chairman

The Southern University system’s president, Ralph Slaughter, has agreed to drop a whistle-blower lawsuit against the system’s Board of Supervisors as part of a settlement, announced on Wednesday, that could include a $200,000 annual supplement to his salary for two years.

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Inside Higher Ed: Search for Consensus in California

The contentious debate surrounding the regulation of for-profit colleges continues churning in California, where Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration put forward a five-year legislative proposal Friday to counter a Democratic leader’s stopgap solution. With only three weeks remaining in the legislative session, the parties in the discussion — the institutions, consumer advocates and their respective political backers — are as diametrically opposed as ever. And time to regulate the 400,000-student sector – essentially left unregulated when an earlier law expired this summer – is quickly running out.

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