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Joanne Creighton, president of Mount Holyoke College, announced this week that she will step down at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year, after nearly 15 years in the top job, the Associated Press reports.
In a show of solidarity with university employees, Gary Forsee, president of the University of Missouri system, has said no thanks to a $100,000 performance award for 2008 and 2009, opting to leave that money in the system’s general operating fund, The Kansas City Star reports. He has also refused a raise on his $400,000-a-year salary.
In an effort to save money and minimize potential layoffs, Utah State University is offering an extra financial incentive — between $12,000 and $35,000 — to employees who volunteer before March 20 to retire early, the Associated Press reports.
Meanwhile, some 250 University of Iowa employees have volunteered to take furloughs in order to help the university reduce expenditures, the AP reports.
Stanford University will eliminate some athletics-department jobs after all. Twenty-one positions will be axed, but all 35 of its varsity teams and coaches will remain intact, according to the AP.
The dean of Kent State University’s Stark campus resigned last week, after she was seen vandalizing a sign at a nearby college, The Chronicle’s News Blog reports.
It looks like Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Charles Manning, who had planned to retire on June 30, will be sticking around for a while. At a meeting yesterday, a board committee called off its search for his successor, citing economic uncertainty and the potential restructuring of the state’s higher-education system, according to a News Blog report.
Miami University’s president has announced that 73 workers will be cut at its Oxford and Middletown campuses, the Business Courier of Cincinnati reports.