This Week’s Presidential Roundup

The Cambridge College Board of Trustees put President Mahesh C. Sharma on paid leave last week after learning that he tried to use school funds to pay for his nephew’s college tuition and hired a college vice president whose company had a contract with the school worth at least $170,000, Paul Fain reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog. For more information see an article in The Boston Globe.
Sierra Nevada College’s governing board has named Robert C. Maxson as the institution’s new president, Dan Carnevale writes on the News Blog.
Meanwhile Goldie Blumenstyk reports that Richard Scaldini, president of Myers University, a nonprofit business college in Cleveland, was jailed for 24 hours last Thursday after violating a judicial gag order. An article in The Plain Dealer has more details.
Chancellor Richard Pattenaude of the University of Maine system has named the four finalists for president of the University of Southern Maine, The Boston Globe reports. Read more.
Robert A. Skotheim, former president of Whitman College and retired president of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, will become president of Occidental College, effective January 1, 2008. See a college press release for more information.
The University of Missouri system is expected to name ex-Sprint CEO Gary Forsee as its new president on Thursday, The Kansas City Star reports.