The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 2, 2012
By Jack Stripling
Christina Hull Paxson, an economist and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, will be Brown University's next president, officials announced on Friday.
Ms. Paxson, 52, will succeed Ruth J. Simmons, who made history in 2001 as the first black president of an Ivy League institution.
Full Story: http://chronicle.com/article/Brown-U-Taps-Princeton-Dean/131064/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
University of Virginia picks its first female president
Washington Post
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Leaders of the University of Virginia on Monday elected Teresa A. Sullivan, provost at the University of Michigan, to succeed John T. Casteen III as president of Virginia's higher education flagship.
Sullivan, 60, starts work Aug. 1 in a post regarded as one of the most visible in public higher education. She will receive an annual compensation package of $680,000 and will be the first female president of U-Va., the school founded in 1825 as an "academical village" by Thomas Jefferson.
Like many in the top echelons of academe, Sullivan is regarded as both a scholar and an accomplished administrator. She has served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Michigan, one of the nation's most prestigious public universities, since 2006.
Sullivan, 60, starts work Aug. 1 in a post regarded as one of the most visible in public higher education. She will receive an annual compensation package of $680,000 and will be the first female president of U-Va., the school founded in 1825 as an "academical village" by Thomas Jefferson.
Like many in the top echelons of academe, Sullivan is regarded as both a scholar and an accomplished administrator. She has served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Michigan, one of the nation's most prestigious public universities, since 2006.
Friday, October 23, 2009
ASU job-seeker files discrimination suit
montgomeryadvertiser.com
October 22, 2009
By Jill Nolin
Gayle H. Gear, a potential candidate for president of Alabama State University before the university stopped the process and named interim president William H. Harris to the position, has filed a federal court suit against ASU, alleging racial and sexual discrimination.
The lawsuit, naming ASU and its board of trustees as defendants, asks the court to restore Harris to the position of interim and to continue the search until the search committee can properly select a president.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, claims that Gear, who is white, "is a racial minority as defined by ASU."
It also claims that the university created a presidential search committee as a pretext and that the committee violated both the university's Affirmative Action Plan and internal employment policies when it never advertised for the position before appointing the new president.
After the Montgomery Advertiser faxed a copy of the lawsuit to ASU spokesman Kenneth Mullinax on Wednesday afternoon, he declined to comment. A phone call made to ASU Board Chairman Elton Dean was not returned Wednesday evening.
The suit says that Gear had sent written correspondence and her resume to Harris, who was then interim president, on June 19, 2009. The search was ultimately halted, and Harris was named president of the historically black college.
"To date, Dr. Gear has received no response to her request to be considered as a candidate for the position of president," the lawsuit states.
Full Story: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20091022/NEWS01/910220319/ASU+job-seeker+files+discrimination+suit
October 22, 2009
By Jill Nolin
Gayle H. Gear, a potential candidate for president of Alabama State University before the university stopped the process and named interim president William H. Harris to the position, has filed a federal court suit against ASU, alleging racial and sexual discrimination.
The lawsuit, naming ASU and its board of trustees as defendants, asks the court to restore Harris to the position of interim and to continue the search until the search committee can properly select a president.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, claims that Gear, who is white, "is a racial minority as defined by ASU."
It also claims that the university created a presidential search committee as a pretext and that the committee violated both the university's Affirmative Action Plan and internal employment policies when it never advertised for the position before appointing the new president.
After the Montgomery Advertiser faxed a copy of the lawsuit to ASU spokesman Kenneth Mullinax on Wednesday afternoon, he declined to comment. A phone call made to ASU Board Chairman Elton Dean was not returned Wednesday evening.
The suit says that Gear had sent written correspondence and her resume to Harris, who was then interim president, on June 19, 2009. The search was ultimately halted, and Harris was named president of the historically black college.
"To date, Dr. Gear has received no response to her request to be considered as a candidate for the position of president," the lawsuit states.
Full Story: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20091022/NEWS01/910220319/ASU+job-seeker+files+discrimination+suit
Monday, October 19, 2009
Gallaudet University names new president
The Washington Post
By Daniel de ViseMonday, October 19, 2009
Gallaudet University trustees appointed T. Alan Hurwitz, leader of a respected rival institute, as president of the nation's premier college for the deaf and hard of hearing Sunday, with none of the tumult surrounding the last presidential search.
Hurwitz, 67, will come to Gallaudet after a 39-year career at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, where he rose from instructor to president of one of eight colleges within the Rochester Institute of Technology. His 5 1/2 -year term starts in January.
Three years ago, student protests brought Gallaudet to a standstill over the selection of Jane K. Fernandes, the school's provost, as successor to popular president I. King Jordan. Students occupied the administration building and barricaded the gates of the school, prompting more than 100 arrests. Trustees rescinded the appointment and installed Robert Davila, who is credited with restoring peace and rebuilding Gallaudet.
After Davila leaves in December, Hurwitz will inherit a college with a freshman class of 300, about 70 more than last year's class, and with a rising rate of student retention. Roughly 90 percent of last year's freshmen returned this semester, the school's highest "persistence" rate in years.
"I see this as the institution of first choice for all students," Hurwitz said. His goals include raising Gallaudet enrollment to 3,000 from the current 1,870.
Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101801302.html
By Daniel de ViseMonday, October 19, 2009
Gallaudet University trustees appointed T. Alan Hurwitz, leader of a respected rival institute, as president of the nation's premier college for the deaf and hard of hearing Sunday, with none of the tumult surrounding the last presidential search.
Hurwitz, 67, will come to Gallaudet after a 39-year career at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, where he rose from instructor to president of one of eight colleges within the Rochester Institute of Technology. His 5 1/2 -year term starts in January.
Three years ago, student protests brought Gallaudet to a standstill over the selection of Jane K. Fernandes, the school's provost, as successor to popular president I. King Jordan. Students occupied the administration building and barricaded the gates of the school, prompting more than 100 arrests. Trustees rescinded the appointment and installed Robert Davila, who is credited with restoring peace and rebuilding Gallaudet.
After Davila leaves in December, Hurwitz will inherit a college with a freshman class of 300, about 70 more than last year's class, and with a rising rate of student retention. Roughly 90 percent of last year's freshmen returned this semester, the school's highest "persistence" rate in years.
"I see this as the institution of first choice for all students," Hurwitz said. His goals include raising Gallaudet enrollment to 3,000 from the current 1,870.
Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101801302.html
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