The Chronicle News Blog: U. of Hawaii Names Sole Finalist for Presidency
M.R.C. Greenwood, a former provost of the University of California system, is the only finalist in the University of Hawaii’s search for its next president, Hawaii officials said yesterday.
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The Chronicle News Blog: President of Alabama’s Jacksonville State U. Can’t Shake Plagiarism Charges
Back in April, William A. Meehan, president of Jacksonville State University in Alabama, was accused of plagiarism. According to a lawsuit, Mr. Meehan copied large portions of his dissertation verbatim from a dissertation published three years earlier.
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Inside Higher Ed: In Living Color
A picture says a thousand words, but whose words are they?
That’s the question that resurfaced Tuesday, when a compelling graphic popped up on Internet blogs illustrating “what plagiarism looks like.” The graphic shows dozens of instances where a dissertation written by William Meehan, now president of Jacksonville State University, used verbatim passages from another professor’s research. Meehan has denied any wrongdoing, and he’s backed by Jacksonville State officials who say they’ve reviewed the work.
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Kenosha News: UW-P chancellor candidates offer a variety of styles
Five will head to Madison for sit-down interviews May 19
Now that the tribe — or at least the faculty, staff and students of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside — has spoken, the five finalists for the school’s top job have one more challenge before being named sole survivor in the search for a new chancellor.
The UW System is taking extra precautions with the search after last year’s pick of Robert Felner from the University of Louisville crashed before he started.
Felner was a favorite from the search committee leader and was touted as the perfect fit, but resigned after coming under investigation for stealing millions in grant money. He has since been indicted. A “no confidence vote” in Louisville also came to light after his selection. Although some members of the search committee were aware of that, the information wasn’t shared with the UW System president.
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The New York Times: The New School’s Kerrey Is to Step Down in 2011
Bob Kerrey, whose eight years as president of the New School have been marked by rising enrollment and faculty expansion but also by criticism and recent student protests, announced on Thursday that he would step down when his contract expires on July 1, 2011. Mr. Kerrey, 65, revealed his decision Wednesday evening to the university’s board of trustees at their final meeting of the academic year. The board unanimously passed a resolution reaffirming its support for Mr. Kerrey and committing itself to a smooth transition.
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Inside Higher Ed: Bob Kerrey Will Leave New School Presidency — in 2011
Bob Kerrey announced Thursday that he will leave the presidency of the New School in June 2011, when his contract expires. He said in a statement that his intent has long been to leave at that time, but he also acknowledged the controversies at the New School, whose student and faculty groups have become increasingly critical of his management. “To understate the case this has been a challenging semester for the university and my family,” he said. “There have been moments when I reached the limit of my willingness to continue serving as your president. There have been moments when my tendency to fight and to directly engage in confrontation, argument and disputes have been counterproductive.” A Web site maintained by students who have clashed with Kerrey offered its own analysis of Kerrey’s plans and record, ending its commentary by saying “onward in struggle.”
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San Francisco Chronicle: Raid seeks to prove City College misused funds
A copy of a search warrant served on the college shows that investigators are scrutinizing the actions of former Chancellor Philip Day, who left the college last year to work for an education lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Colorado State U. Board Picks One of Its Own as Sole Finalist for Chancellor’s Post
The Board of Governors of Colorado State University has chosen its own vice chairman, Joe Blake, as the sole finalist for the new position of chancellor of the university system, the board announced today.
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The Chronicle: President of Struggling Medical University Abruptly Resigns
Susan A. Kelly, who had led Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science for three years, had encountered angry resistance when she announced budget cuts in February.
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The Chronicle News Blog: U. of California Taps Leaders for Davis and San Francisco Campuses
The University of California system announced today that two women with hefty scientific credentials would take over as chancellors of the system’s Davis and San Francisco campuses. The two face final approval by the system’s Board of Regents, according to a news release.
The choice for chancellor of the Davis campus is Linda P.B. Katehi, 55, who is provost of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ms. Katehi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, was dean of engineering at Purdue University before her stint in Illinois, which began in 2006. As provost she is the chief budgetary and academic officer.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann was picked to lead the San Francisco campus, which has a heavy health-sciences focus. Dr. Desmond-Hellmann, 51, is a physician who has worked on cancer research for most of her career. She spent 14 years at Genentech Inc., the pioneering biotechnology company, most recently as president of product development.
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Chicago Tribune: Chicago State University president: Next President Wayne Watson booed by students, faculty
Retiring City Colleges chief and the other finalist have been criticized as local political insiders
As students and faculty booed, Chicago State University trustees Wednesday picked Wayne Watson, the retiring City Colleges of Chicago chancellor, as the university’s next president.
The choice came after weeks of controversy at the South Side school, with the faculty urging Gov. Pat Quinn to stop the board from picking one of the two finalists, and students holding several protests about those they described on T-shirts as “lousy candidates.”
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Miami Herald: Trustees vote to fire college president Bob Richburg
The trustees of Northwest Florida State College just voted to fire president Bob Richburg, the man who hired Rep. Ray Sansom and was indicted along with him earlier this month. The vote was 4 to 3.
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Columbus Dispatch: Presidential search records destroyed at Hocking College
NELSONVILLE, Ohio — The president of Hocking College’s faculty union was astonished when she received public records she requested from her employer.
It’s what she didn’t receive — faculty and staff evaluations of the finalist who is the union’s apparent choice as the college’s new president — that led her to denounce the selection process as a “fiasco.”
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AP: UW-Stevens Point chancellor resigns amid turmoil surrounding traffic accident
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Bunnell announced her resignation today amid criticism from students and donors and questions about how she handled a traffic accident.
Bunnell, who has been chancellor since 2004, said she was stepping down effective May 31. The announcement was an abrupt turnaround from last week, when she said she planned to lead the central Wisconsin school known for its environmental programs another five years.
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AP: Ala. college president accused of plagiarism
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The president of Jacksonville State University, whose use of a ghostwriter for newspaper columns caused a stir two years ago, now has been accused of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Alabama.
The claim surfaced in a lawsuit filed against William Meehan which alleges that he submitted a dissertation that was copied in part from another professor’s work around the time Meehan became JSU president in 1999.
An Associated Press review found similarities between the two papers, and an expert hired by the JSU professor suing Meehan over another issue concluded his dissertation was plagiarism.
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AP: Mystery donor keeps giving to woman-run colleges
The mystery college donor has struck again — this time at Binghamton University in New York, whose financial aid office phone started ringing off the hook as word of an anonymous $6 million contribution spread across campus.
Binghamton is the latest of at least a dozen universities to receive donations totaling more than $60 million in recent weeks. The gifts have arrived with the same, highly unusual stipulation: not only must the donor must remain anonymous, but not even the college can know who it is or try to find out.
The recipient colleges seem to have almost nothing in common except this: so far, all are led by women.
Press & Sun-Bulletin: BU gets $6M mystery donation
Money to go toward scholarships, tuition aid
It appears the mystery donor has struck again.
This time, Binghamton University is the lucky school.
BU has received an anonymous $6 million donation, the largest individual gift in school history. The money, and the circumstances surrounding it, seem to follow a most unusual script.
“To have this come out of the blue, it really takes your breath away,” said BU President Lois DeFleur.
The gift came with two strings attached: BU had to promise it will not attempt to uncover the identity of the donor; and most of the money must be used for scholarships and student aid.
That follows the pattern of a mysterious benefactor, who in recent weeks has given more than $48.5 million to at least nine universities across the United States, including $8 million to Purdue University and $7 million to the University of Iowa.
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Inside Higher Ed: Fla. Community College President Indicted
When allegations first surfaced last year about possible conflicts of interest involving state funds earmarked for Northwest Florida State College and its award of a job to a prominent state legislator who arranged for the money, the college’s president, Bob Richburg, angrily distinguished the situation from recent scandals in Alabama’s community college system that had led to resignations and even criminal charges.
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Inside Higher Ed: A Presidential Critic, Fired
After a career of 27 years teaching business at Stillman College, and despite holding a tenured position, Ekow O. Hayford was fired last year, in violation of his academic freedom, according to a report being issued today by the American Association of University Professors. The report found that Hayford was fired without due process after he publicly criticized the president of the college, a historically black institution in Alabama.
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Press Association: Students hold university president
Students protesting proposed reforms have stormed the offices of a university in the French city of Rennes and are holding its president.
Officials said dozens of people stormed the office of the president of Rennes 2 University on Monday afternoon.
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Chicago Tribune: Chicago State University: Faculty, students criticize 2 finalists for president as political insiders
Disappointed staff, students call them political insiders
When Chicago State University President Elnora Daniel stepped down last year, faculty and students hoped a new president would bring a fresh start to the troubled university.
Instead many on the South Side campus are criticizing the two finalists as political insiders: Wayne Watson, chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago, and Carol Adams, secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services. Some students plan to wear black in protest when the finalists visit the campus for meetings this month.
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