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[cranefly]

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Canadian-Universitys-Board/8072

This really bothers me that they made comments about her personal appearance... I mean, it's like Hilary Clinton all over agaain. When are we going to hold men to the same standards, or leave appearance out of it?

[tuxedo_cat]

I'm more perturbed by the fact that the Chronicle doesn't know how to spell the word "exuberant."

If the board dismissed someone who was clearly a rainmaker during financial times like these, they all deserve to be kidnapped, tied down to a beauty parlor chair, and have their own hair streaked with fuschia so that the local community knows precisely who the idiots are.

At least she gets to laugh all the way to the bank:

However, because she was fired, Scherf will receive a nine-month severance package totaling $168,000 and is taking a one-year paid sabbatical, to be used as a transition period during which she can prepare for her new role in the faculty of arts.

Essentially, the pink slip means Scherf receives a year off with a $263,000 salary — $38,000 more than she would have earned as president during that time.

There's also this:

Under Scherf’s direction, TRU was awarded a law school, restructured its departments without layoffs and received tens of millions of dollars in provincial and federal grants.

http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/59274982.html

[ursula]

There's something funny going on at that university.  Right now they have ads out to replace what looks like their entire senior admin team (several deans, and the VP-Academic).  Plus they're looking for a dean for their brand new law school.

[prof_tournesol]

She wasn't a rainmaker - the funding increase reported in the CHE wasn't for the university, it was funds raised during the school's United Way campaign.

As more and more leaks out on this story, I'm just glad she wasn't my president: accepted inappropriate gifts, drove away key administrators, offended donors, and started dating one of her employees - all in her first year.

http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20090918/KAMLOOPS0304/309189969/0/KAMLOOPS0201/on-the-run-8212-board-protects-tru-with-scherf-firing

[history_grrrl]

I know nothing about the situation, but the article in the Kamloops paper (actually it reads like a column, not a news story) contains an awful lot of speculation and should be read with a grain of salt.