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When the Purdue University Board of Trustees announced their new president earlier this month, they left out some key information: How and why they chose that person.
As colleges face more external pressures, board politics become more complicated, and leadership contracts get more corporatized, presidents on the outs are increasingly getting paid large sums to leave — including the leader of Colorado State University’s main campus, who is earning over $1.5 million to resign two years early.
Collegiate sports can be big money makers for colleges and states. In 2021, the NCAA earned $1.15 billion in revenue, the majority of which it distributes back to its member colleges.
Bethune-Cookman University’s interim President Hiram Powell has served in various roles with the university over 42 years.
Piedmont University provost Daniel Silber resigned abruptly on Tuesday in protest of proposed budget cuts and faculty layoffs, which the Board of Trustees was set to vote on this week.
Even before the pandemic shocked the nation’s higher education landscape, colleges were troubled. Nearly three in four colleges saw their financial health weaken in fiscal 2020, which ended in June the year the pandemic shut down college campuses.
Public higher education in Florida has come under fire in a variety of ways in recent years. The state Legislature has restricted the teaching of certain controversial topics, administered political litmus tests to faculty and subjected professors to additional posttenure scrutiny.
The Grand Rapids Community College Board of Trustees met June 1, to discuss and deliberate the process for selecting a replacement for outgoing President Bill Pink.