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U. of Alaska System Picks Another Retired General as President

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The Chronicle: U. of Alaska System Picks Another Retired General as President

Patrick K. Gamble, a retired four-star general with the U.S. Air Force, is the University of Alaska system’s new president. He succeeds Mark R. Hamilton, a retired two-star general with the U.S. Army who has led the system since 1998. Mr. Gamble is currently chief executive officer of the Alaska Railroad Corporation. Although he does not hold a Ph.D., he previously served as second in command of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

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York University suspends student running anti-Semitic website

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National Post: York University suspends student running anti-Semitic website

TORONTO — A Toronto man has been suspended from York University after the National Post reported he was under police investigation over his controversial Internet postings.

Salman Hossain has been ordered to appear before a disciplinary panel and, in the meantime, he is not permitted to attend classes at the north Toronto university campus.

The Ontario Provincial Police said last week its hate crimes and extremism unit was investigating online writings by Mr. Hossain that make derogatory comments about Jews and call for a genocide against them.

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Malone U. President Steps Down Amid Plagiarism Accusations Malone U.Gary W. Streit announced his retirement as president, effective immediately.Enlarge Photo By Jill Laster The president of Malone University, a small liberal-arts institution in Canton, Ohio, announced his resignation on Monday after concerns surfaced that he had used unattributed materials in some of his speeches. The president, Gary W. Streit, is retiring immediately. Wilbert J. Friesen, the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been appointed to serve as interim president.

Posted on February 22, 2010 by | Comments Off on Malone U. President Steps Down Amid Plagiarism Accusations Malone U.Gary W. Streit announced his retirement as president, effective immediately.Enlarge Photo By Jill Laster The president of Malone University, a small liberal-arts institution in Canton, Ohio, announced his resignation on Monday after concerns surfaced that he had used unattributed materials in some of his speeches. The president, Gary W. Streit, is retiring immediately. Wilbert J. Friesen, the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been appointed to serve as interim president.

The Chronicle: Malone U. President Steps Down Amid Plagiarism Accusations

The president of Malone University, a small liberal-arts institution in Canton, Ohio, announced his resignation on Monday after concerns surfaced that he had used unattributed materials in some of his speeches.

The president, Gary W. Streit, is retiring immediately. Wilbert J. Friesen, the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been appointed to serve as interim president.

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Scandal plagued administrators at N.C. State U rejoin faculty

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News & Observer: Oblinger, Nielsen back as professors

Former Chancellor Jim Oblinger and former Provost Larry Nielsen are professors now for N.C. State University, though Oblinger has left the Raleigh campus and moved west.

The pair resigned last year over their roles in the university’s hiring of former state first lady Mary Easley.

Each received a six-month leave to prepare for rejoining the faculty after being away from their areas of scientific expertise for years.

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In Education Minister’s ‘Bolt Out of the Blue,’ National U. of Ireland Faces Extinction

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The Chronicle: In Education Minister’s ‘Bolt Out of the Blue,’ National U. of Ireland Faces Extinction

The National University of Ireland, a century-old federal institution that comprises some of the country’s leading universities and colleges, including University College Dublin, is facing dissolution. Ireland’s education minister, Batt O’Keeffe, announced the move on Wednesday, saying that the umbrella institution had outlived its usefulness and that “the need to have a separate body undertaking what is now a limited set of functions” no longer exists.

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Paychecks Stagnate for Presidents of Many Public Universities

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The Chronicle: Paychecks Stagnate for Presidents of Many Public Universities

The bad economy is putting the brakes on pay increases for public-university leaders. Base salaries stopped growing last year for more than one-third of the 185 public-university chief executives included in a new Chronicle survey, while 10 percent of those top leaders experienced a decline in total compensation. Many of the cuts came from voluntary reductions in pay and benefits as the economy whittled away at campus budgets.

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SUNY-Binghamton President Will Retire After Year of Controversy

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The Chronicle: SUNY-Binghamton President Will Retire After Year of Controversy

Lois B. DeFleur announced today that she would step down as president of Binghamton University in July, after 20 years in office. Ms. DeFleur cited personal reasons for her retirement, including her coming marriage and her mother’s fragile health. But in the last year, Ms. DeFleur’s presidency and Binghamton have been plagued with controversy. A female fund raiser sued the university last summer, alleging that senior officials in the athletics department had tried to use her as a sexual “plaything” to help solicit contributions from donors. Last fall the university terminated an adjunct who complained she had been pressured to pass basketball players who skipped classes. The university later reinstated her. But at the same time the university dismissed six basketball players, including one who had been arrested for selling crack cocaine, and it reassigned its athletics director. Nancy L. Zimpher, the State University of New York system’s chancellor, also announced that an outside auditor would examine the basketball program.

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U of North Carolina cuts strings on golden parachutes for top administrators

Posted on January 11, 2010 by | Comments Off on U of North Carolina cuts strings on golden parachutes for top administrators

Charlotte Observer: UNC system clamps down on leave pay

Chancellors had been taking long leaves at full salary, and then retiring or taking new jobs.

CHAPEL HILL The UNC Board of Governors has revised a policy that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on UNC administrators who were supposed to return to teaching but instead retired, took other jobs or were eased out of their jobs.

Campus chancellors – and the UNC system president – will now get a six-month leave after stepping down at a salary comparable to what other faculty members in their academic departments earn. Previously, the “retreat rights” policy allowed a year of leave at the full administrative salary.

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National AAUP Joins Criticism of Provost on Nike Board

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Inside Higher Ed: National AAUP Joins Criticism of Provost on Nike Board

The national American Association of University Professors is today joining criticism by its University of Washington branch of the decision of Provost Phyllis Wise to join the board of Nike — a decision that has become increasingly controversial. Wise has said that she will help encourage responsible corporate governance, but faculty critics have said that her role is problematic, given that the university has contracts with the company and many on the campus want more scrutiny of Nike’s labor practice. The national AAUP statement says: “We agree that recusing herself from board discussion of Nike’s contractual relations with the university does not provide a sufficient firewall between the provost and the ethical and political implications of Nike’s international financial and labor practices. And we agree that a chilling effect on faculty research into Nike’s practices is entirely possible if the university’s chief academic officer is identified with Nike’s board.”

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University of Cincinnati music dean under fire from faculty

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Cincinnati Enquirer: University of Cincinnati music dean under fire from faculty

Douglas Knehans, dean of the University of Cincinnati’s acclaimed College-Conservatory of Music, is under fire from the college’s professors to the point that he could be replaced.

The committee representing more than 100 CCM professors has written to Provost Tony Perzigian, UC’s top academic officer, telling him that relations with Knehans “have reached an irreparable end.”

“No dean can function without the trust and respect of his faculty, and Douglas Knehans has neither,” said the Nov. 24 letter, obtained by The Enquirer under an Ohio Open Records Law request.

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Montgomery College president ran up $65,000 in expenses

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Washington Post: Montgomery College president ran up $65,000 in expenses

Brian K. Johnson, accused by faculty leaders of excessive spending while president of Montgomery College, reported about $65,000 in airfare, lodgings, meals and other work-related expenses in the two full fiscal years he was on the job, according to financial documents released by the school under public records laws.

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IUP president hit with overwhelming no-confidence vote

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: IUP president hit with overwhelming no-confidence vote

INDIANA, Pa. — Faculty at Pennsylvania’s largest state-owned university returned an overwhelming vote of no confidence in the leadership of Indiana University of Pennsyvlania president Tony Atwater.

Results of three days of balloting by the campus chapter of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties was announced by a union vice-president during this afternoon’s Indiana Council of Trustees meeting.

A total of 777 individuals, from full-time tenured faculty to part-time adjunct instructors, were eligible to vote. Of that, 672 did.

“Of those who voted, more than 84 percent voted that they no longer have confidence in President Atwater’s leadership,” said Francisco Alarcon, a math professor and vice-president of the union’s campus chapter. The union later released numbers on the vote: 568 expressed no confidence; 64 expressed confidence, and 40 abstained from voting on the resolution.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09352/1021995-100.stm#ixzz0aYbGEjJM

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CC prez takes on second job

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Providence Journal: CCRI president will also head higher education in R.I.

PROVIDENCE — Ray Di Pasquale, president of Community College of Rhode Island, will take on the extra job of acting commissioner of education as the result of a unique plan to keep him from leaving the state altogether.

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Controversial Radford University provost to step down

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Roanoke Times: Radford University provost to step down

Radford University Provost Wil Stanton will resign, effective Dec. 31, according to an e-mail from Stanton to the RU community.

Stanton said he will remain at the university as a full-time professor in the college of business.

In a letter to the university community, Stanton said he regrets the decision to leave the provost’s position.

Over the past two months, Stanton has been embroiled in controversy.

On Oct. 22, the university’s faculty senate took a “no confidence” vote against Stanton and asked President Penelope Kyle to replace him.

Some faculty have accused Stanton, the school’s chief academic officer, of refusing to take a stand in favor of the faculty during a series of controversial administrative decisions, including an expedited review program last spring that eliminated programs.

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U. of Washington Provost Is Named to Nike Board

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The Olympian: U. of Washington Provost Is Named to Nike Board

SEATTLE – The provost at the University of Washington has taken on a second job as a director on the corporate board at Nike.

Phyllis Wise is Washington’s No. 2 administrator and makes $535,000 in salary and deferred compensation. Wise said she has not asked Nike about compensation for being on the board, but last year the company paid its 10 directors between $132,000 and $217,000 each in cash and stock according to Nike’s annual report.

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No-Confidence Vote at Cal State Stems Partly From Chronicle Essay

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The Chronicle: No-Confidence Vote at Cal State Stems Partly From Chronicle Essay

There are plenty of reasons for anxiety and perhaps even unrest at California State University-Stanislaus. The campus is coping this year with a $13.5-million budget cut, which has led to furloughs, reduced enrollment, and the elimination of a winter term. But when faculty critics explain why they voted no confidence last week in the university’s president, Hamid Shirvani, Exhibit A is a commentary he wrote for The Chronicle.

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California: President of Cuesta College resigns

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The Tribune (San Luis Obispo): President of Cuesta College resigns

Saying he is not an effective leader at Cuesta, Pelham takes job directing a college in Abu Dhabi

Cuesta College President David Pelham has resigned, telling board members and college staff in an e-mail Monday evening that he is “not the best person to lead Cuesta College.”
He told Cuesta College Board of Trustees President Pat Mullen of his decision Sunday night.
Pelham will leave at the end of December. His tenure, which began March 3, 2008, will be the shortest of any of the five presidents in the college’s 45-year history.

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University of Central Missouri president’s ouster raises questions

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Missourian: University of Central Missouri president’s ouster raises questions

WARRENSBURG — By most measures, Aaron Podolefsky’s nearly five-year tenure as president of the University of Central Missouri has been a success.

Enrollment is up, and so is the school’s graduation rate. Podolefsky steered the school through a name change and successfully lobbied for more state and federal money.

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New York: Broome Community College faculty votes “no confidence” in trustees

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Press & Sun-Bulletin: BCC faculty votes “no confidence” in trustees

The faculty at Broome Community College has cast a vote of no confidence in the college’s board of trustees, the president of the faculty association said. The votes, which were counted today, were overwhelming in support of the no confidence resolution, said Greta Wingate, president of the association.

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North Dakota State U. President Resigns Amid Uproar Over New House

Posted on October 15, 2009 by | Comments Off on North Dakota State U. President Resigns Amid Uproar Over New House

The Chronicle: North Dakota State U. President Resigns Amid Uproar Over New House

North Dakota State University’s longtime president, Joseph A. Chapman, resigned on Wednesday amid mounting criticism over his expensive new presidential residence. State officials have called for an audit of the home-construction project, whose cost overruns have swelled the price tag to more than $2-million, compared with a target of $900,000

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