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Bonuses and Benefits
James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde explore the recent upward trend in both the number and cost of perks and bonuses for presidents of public universities.
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Coming Home as President
Well into her career as a university leader, Suzanne Shipley describes the experience of accepting a job in the town where she grew up.
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The CEO-ization of the President’s Contract
Employment agreements for presidents are becoming increasingly complex and bear little resemblance to the typical appointment letters for faculty leaders or other senior administrators, write James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde.
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How to Pad Your CV
Hershey H. Friedman and Frimette Kass-Shraibman provide a tongue-in-cheek primer to help dishonest senior administrators advance in their careers.
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Breaking the Code
Presidential spouse Mort Maimon takes a CIA-like approach to try to uncover the campus issues his wife is coping with.
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Are Your Employee Awards Fair and Equitable?
It is easy to relegate complaints about employee reward systems to ego or jealousy, writes Michael Bugeja, but such grievances might have merit if those systems are defective.
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Dealing With Dysfunctional Academic Departments
C. K. Gunsalus, Richard P. Wheeler and Ruth Watkins recommend five linked steps to help academic leaders improve struggling units.
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Caught Between Constituencies
How can you as a senior administrator best handle situations in which you're caught between important constituencies with very conflicting demands? Barbara McFadden Allen, Robin Kaler and Ruth Watkins explore a hypothetical situation along those lines.
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