The cost of executive apples and oranges
You have to hand it to UVM’s presidential search budgeteers – their projection last spring of how much it would cost to find a new CEO was pretty good. Their forecast? $318,113. The amount spent to...
View ArticleGolden parachutes for Golden Gophers?
Close readers of the Chronicle, which ran a package on presidential pay yesterday, might have noticed this toward the bottom of one of the sidebars (titled “Presidential Pay Is Still a Potent Political...
View ArticleThe tab for two UVM searches
In the interest of clearing the decks of old news before the arrival of Tom Sullivan on July 16, we can report that the total cost to UVM of the presidential search was $355,278.27. That’s a bit higher...
View ArticleUVM president’s faculty salary tops department
When Tom Sullivan begins work as UVM’s president Monday, he’ll have a secondary appointment as a tenured professor of political science — a position he may assume, under his contract, when he leaves...
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UVM’s new dean by the numbers
Tom Sullivan wasn’t the only UVM leader who started work this week. Monday was also scheduled to be the first day on the job for Antonio Cepeda-Benito, the new dean of the College of Arts and...
View ArticleThe Englesby tab: $1.3 million and counting
No doubt about it: UVM’s presidential mansion, Englesby House, is a piece of work. The cost of the rehab is up to more than $1.3 million, the work schedule has been extended, and the Sullivans aren’t...
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Presidential digs: The Big E’s
The Monday meeting of the UVM trustees’ Executive Committee featured, as usual, a few remarks from the president. Tom Sullivan said he’d ordered a review of the campus emergency reporting system’s...
View ArticleUVM, VLS: alone, together?
Vermont Law School sees itself as the environmental law school. The University of Vermont sees itself as the environmental research university. They’re both trying to capitalize on something called...
View ArticleUVM’s provost guessing game
The provost search at UVM has taken a curious turn. President Sullivan invited applications for an interim provost to replace Jane Knodell, and four finalists emerged, all posted on his website. Then...
View ArticleYet another Gates backstory: the non-interview
The University of Vermont has been quite nice to Henry Louis Gates Jr. It gave him an honorary degree in 2007, and he hastened to remind his audience of that on Tuesday, when he spoke in Ira Allen...
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