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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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Linda P.B. Katehi, the incoming chancellor of the University of California at Davis, has insisted she knew nothing of the admission of politically connected applicants at Illinois.
Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
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August 13, 2007
U. of California's President, Robert Dynes, to Resign After Tumultuous 5 Years
Robert C. Dynes, president of the University of California since 2003, announced today that he would step down in June 2008. During a busy stint as president, Mr. Dynes, a renowned physicist, has faced budget cuts, a compensation scandal, high turnover among campus chancellors, and struggles over maintaining student diversity in the 10-campus system.
In February 2006 Mr. Dynes answered testy questions from state lawmakers at a high-profile hearing over the university’s compensation practices. Some called for his resignation, expressing outrage over the $334-million in questionable pay and perks an audit had discovered, but he weathered the storm. He was later praised for having improved transparency through changes in university administrative offices and an overhaul of pay policies.
Mr. Dynes, 64, will resign at the end of a “nearly five-year mark he had initially set for himself,” according to a university statement, and will “focus on his personal life, including a new marriage and his continued research into superconductivity.” —Paul Fain
Posted on Monday August 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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