Bullies in the Academic Workplace, and Other Reading

Check out Historiann’s post about bullies in the academic workplace, which was prompted by a recent column in The New York Times.
“Want to be a successful college president? Go out and earn a few million dollars first,” Paul Fain writes in the March 28 issue of The Chronicle. He explains why a growing number of college chiefs have corporate backgrounds. Read more.
Meanwhile Dean Dad describes the presidential search at Monroe Community College, in Rochester, N.Y., in which two Republican leaders in law and business were added to the list of finalists over the objections of members of the search committee, faculty members, and students, as an example of how not to conduct a search. See an item on the Face Value blog for more details.
Talk at this past weekend’s joint higher-education conference of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers centered on what unions can do to promote diversity and equal pay for adjuncts, Audrey Williams June reports on The Chronicle’s Web site.
According to a recent Associated Press article, faculty members at the University of Oregon want to know why some former Oregon administrators are still receiving high salaries and benefits as part-time consultants to the university.
Harvard University has named Jane Mendillo, the former chief investment officer of Wellesley College, as its new endowment manager, Philanthropy Today reports.
A recent Wall Street Journal column notes that a growing number of women are filing pregnancy-discrimination complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
It’s official. Mark Yudof will become president of the University of California system later this summer, the News Blog reports.