July 23, 2008
Administrative Hirings and Firings
- Trustees of Alabama State University, given an opportunity to settle their differences with the university’s departing president, and to settle a total of four lawsuits, opted instead to keep fighting, according to a report in The Chronicle’s News Blog.
- The former president of Alabama A&M University is suing its trustees for allegedly conspiring against him, a report in The Chronicle’s News Blog says. Trustees had fired Robert R. Jennings after investigating perks received by his former executive assistant.
- Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean who was hired, fired, and then rehired at the University of California at Irvine, is bringing top faculty talent to its fledgling law school, according to a report in The Chronicle’s News Blog.
- Southwestern Illinois College has hired a new president: Georgia C. Costello, the wife of U.S. Rep. Jerry F. Costello, an 11-term Democrat whose district includes the community college’s three campuses, The Chronicle’s News Blog reports.
- The president of the University of Central Arkansas has vowed to repay a $300,000 bonus he received from the institution’s trustees after questions arose about its legality, The Chronicle’s News Blog reports.
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Different strokes for different folks. In the end we all answer to one God!
— Kim Jul 24, 10:21 AM #
Higher er education is corrupt to the core. University of Wisconsin System a Chancellor after one day on the job. He was not guilty of anything but they whacked him.
— malcolx Jul 24, 12:02 PM #