Presidential Departures in New Hampshire and Texas

Dartmouth College’s president, James Wright, has said that he will retire in June 2009, Martin Van Der Werf reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog. (See an article in The Boston Globe for more details.)
Meanwhile, elsewhere on The Chronicle’s Web site, Katherine Mangan reports that Texas Tech University’s president, Jon S. Whitmore, announced on Friday that he would step down within a year.
Illinois State University is awarding midyear pay raises — ranging from 0.5 percent to 8.5 percent — to 434 full and associate professors as part of President C. Alvin Bowman Jr.‘s salary-enhancement program, according to the Pantagraph, a daily newspaper in Bloomington, Ill.
Via David Robinson at FACE Talk comes word of a recent agreement between the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association and the administration that makes part-time faculty members at the college eligible for up to 52 weeks of maternity leave with pay for the work they would have had during the term of their leave.
It looks like another strike is brewing in Canada. According to an article in the Guelph Mercury, a daily newspaper in Ontario, graduate and teaching assistants at the University of Windsor may hit the picket lines if a deal isn’t reached with the university by February 17. Their union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, has scheduled a strike vote for 6 p.m. today.