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The Rev. Paul L. Locatelli, longtime president of Santa Clara University, has said he will step down next year to take a job with the Society of Jesus in Rome, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been tapped to head the Smithsonian Institution, Andrew Mytelka reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog. See an article in The New York Times for more details.
The University of California at Berkeley has built up a $1.1-billion kitty to keep rivals like Harvard and Yale Universities from raiding its faculty, Paula Wasley reports elsewhere on the News Blog. She notes that Berkeley has already “lost at least 30 faculty members” in the last five years to its higher-paying rivals, “chief among them Harvard.” Full professors at Berkeley made $134,672 on average in 2006, which is 15 percent less than the average salary paid to their peers at competing universities, Wasley writes. See an article on Bloomberg.com for more information.
Youngstown State University and its faculty members have come to a tentative three-year contract agreement, The Vindicator, a newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio, reports.
Larry K. Olsen, associate dean of the College of Health and Social Services at New Mexico State University, quit last week following accusations that he sent e-mail messages containing pornography to one of two faculty members who were recently denied tenure, Robin Wilson reports on the News Blog. John Moraros — who is Hispanic and from Greece — and Yelena Bird — who hails from England and is black — claim they were denied tenure because of their race. James Robinson, head of the health-science department in which the academic couple worked, has also temporarily stepped down pending a university inquiry into the tenure cases and the pornography allegations, Wilson writes. See a report in the Las Cruces Sun-News for more details.