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In accordance with our last blog, the following is Part 2 of the subject:
Terminal Degrees Other Than a Ph.D.
Another significant trend, notable in the past few years, is that, increasingly, college and university presidents do not absolutely need to have... Read More
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Roderick MacNeal, Jr., upon his appointment as Head of The Chestnut Hill School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
https://www.tchs.org/about-us/head-of-school-announcement
We were privileged to represent Dr. MacNeal in his contract negotiations.
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Jay M. Bernhardt, on his recent appointment as President of Emerson College.
https://emerson.edu/presidential-search
We were privileged to represent Dr. Bernhardt in his contract negotiations.
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Sean Decatur, currently President of Kenyon College, on his recent appointment as new President and CEO of American Museum of Natural History.
https://www.amnh.org/about/press-center/sean-m-decatur-new-president-amnh
We were privileged to represent Dr. Decatur in his contract negotiations.
As executive employment attorneys representing college and university presidents, deans, provosts and other senior administrators in higher education, as well as the heads of independent secondary schools, we have noticed certain significant changes in the hiring landscape from even five years ago.
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Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Strom C. Thacker, on his recent appointment as the seventh President of Pitzer College.
We were privileged to represent Dr. Thacker in his contract negotiations.
It is not only attorneys who are involved with potential or actual litigation who should be concerned with preserving the attorney-client privilege between them and their clients.
Executive employment attorneys who represent college and university presidents and heads of school in contractual... Read More
A recent academic scandal involved the dismissal of the president of a major public university who for several years had been having a sexual relationship with a subordinate employee. The relationship was fully documented in hundreds of email messages.
What perhaps was... Read More
Corporate CEOs generally do not receive housing as part of their compensation packages unless they are required to work internationally, presumably for a limited period of time.
It is different in the academic world, as executive employment lawyers who practice in the... Read More
In Part 1 of this topic, I described the importance which we, as executive employment attorneys working in higher education, place on tenure and “Retreat Rights” as an essential term and condition of the contract of a college or university president.
Accordingly,... Read More