Inside Higher Ed: Mea Culpa, Twice Over
Amid calls for his resignation by several California lawmakers and enraged members of the public, Robert C. Dynes, president of the University of California system, told the state’s Board of Regents Wednesday that he had failed to adequately report to them compensation of top university officials and promised “a sea change” in the way his office operates.
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The Chronicle: Lynn U. Keeps Presidency in Family, With Son to Take Donald Ross’s Place
Lynn University’s president, whose $5.04-million compensation package in the 2003-4 fiscal year earned him the top spot last fall in the The Chronicle’s annual survey of executive compensation, will be replaced by someone the Florida institution knows well: the departing president’s son.
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The Washington Post: The School Year Concludes, But the Controversy Does Not
The school year ended at Gallaudet University with fingers waving in the air, proud parents stomping on bleachers to celebrate graduation — and then an announcement from the board of trustees e-mailed to the campus community last night that the woman whose selection sparked 11 days of protest will resign as provost in order to ease her transition into the presidency
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National Union of Public and General Employees: Algonquin faculty members renew bid to oust college president
OPSEU Local cites ‘quality of education’ and ‘appalling lack of leadership’ by Robert Gillett
Ottawa (14 May 2006) – Faculty members represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/NUPGE) at Algonquin College are continuing a campaign to oust college president Robert Gillett.
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State Hornet Online: CSU trustee takes heat from students, faculty
California State University Trustee William Hauck, who has led the charge to raise student fees and institute executive pay increases, according to the California Faculty Association, was the target of a May 3 rally in downtown Sacramento.
More than 200 student, faculty and staff protesters from CSUs, most with picket signs and some wearing graduation hats and gowns, chanted on the doorstep of the California Business Roundtable, located on 15th and K streets, voicing concerns about Hauck’s conflicting roles as president of the Business Roundtable and a CSU trustee.
The Business Roundtable co-founded and has helped fund the Campaign for College Opportunity, which promotes raising student fees.
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San Francisco Chronicle: CSU faculty furor over Munitz’s rehiring deal; Ex-chancellor given one class, earns more than full professors
An association of California State University faculty members on Tuesday asked the state attorney general to investigate the recent rehiring of a former CSU chancellor to a teaching position at a high salary — eight years after he quit the university for another job.
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The Washington Post: Gallaudet board chief steps down
Celia May Baldwin, the interim head of the Gallaudet University board of trustees, has resigned from the board because of the stress of an emotional presidential search process that has sparked angry protests and “numerous aggressive threats” to her in recent weeks, according to a memo sent to the board secretary.
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The Chronicle: Boston U. Paid $6.1-Million, Mostly in Deferred Compensation, to Its Former President in 2005
Boston University paid John R. Silber, its long-serving president and chancellor, who retired in 2003, about $6.1-million last year, mostly in deferred compensation, the university announced on Tuesday.
Mr. Silber, who remains the university’s president emeritus and lives in a university-owned residence, said in a written statement that approximately $3.3-million of the lump sum was earned as a deferred percentage of his annual salary, which averaged $96,000 per year over his 34-year tenure. Through investment, deferred compensation grew by $1.3-million, he said. The rest of the payment, about $1.5-million, was for housing, leave benefits, and insurance payments.
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Gallaudet U. Faculty Votes No Confidence in President-Elect
Faculty members of Gallaudet University approved on Monday night a motion of no confidence in Jane K. Fernandes, the embattled president-designate of the world’s only university devoted to educating deaf students.
Opponents say Ms. Fernandes, who is now the provost of the 1,900-student institution and is scheduled to become president in January, is not a strong enough advocate for deaf people at a time when their identity as a community is challenged. Many deaf people feel that advances in medical technology, which are restoring hearing to a degree unimaginable earlier, threaten the culture and hard-won dignity of the deaf.
Ms. Fernandes’s opponents have also criticized her leadership style and the selection process that led to her appointment.
Protests began minutes after the Board of Trustees announced its choice of Ms. Fernandes on May 1, and continued on Monday, with students still blocking the main entrance to the campus, in Washington. Some protesters were camping out in dozens of tents by the entrance, under banners proclaiming “Not without us.”
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Delores Cross, the former president of Morris Brown College, on Monday pleaded guilty to embezzling federal funds when she led the financially troubled historically black college in Atlanta, the Associated Press reported. Cross could face jail time under a plea agreement under which many other charges were dropped. Her lawyers told the AP that she admitted to having made some mistakes in failing to prevent problems, and that she wanted to help the college recover. Lawyers for Cross said they would push for minimal or no jail time because of an unspecified medical condition that Cross has.
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Inside Higher Ed: Division at RPI
It would be hard to beat Shirley Ann Jackson’s résumé: First black woman to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a physicist who led impressive research teams at Rutgers University and AT&T Bell Laboratories, chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and — since 1999 — president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
When national commissions or universities want an expert on science and especially on diversifying the research work force (a topic on many minds since a certain university president managed to offend women nationwide with his thoughts on the topic), Jackson is the person to call. She publishes papers and captivates conferences.
Back in Troy, however, it turns out a lot of people are less than impressed. The faculty held a no confidence vote this week and while Jackson in some sense won the vote, the margin was quite narrow: 155 to 149 in her favor.
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Times Union: RPI faculty, students fight separate battles
Today, the school’s Faculty Senate will hold a vote of no-confidence in President Shirley Ann Jackson.
And the Student Senate, worked up over the school’s non-negotiable decision to cut alcohol consumption at fraternities and sororities, has scheduled its own referendum on the way administrators handed down that decision.
Both students and faculty share a common grievance: They don’t get to influence important issues.
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