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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
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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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
Marty Latz, one of my favorite negotiation gurus, recently wrote a fascinating blog about the failure of negotiations to avoid the war in Ukraine. One of Latz’s salient points was that Vladimir Putin, who only understands crude power as leverage in a... Read More
At the height of the Profumo scandal in England in the early 1960’s, the young Mandy Rice-Davies (unfairly portrayed by the tabloid press as a “good time girl,” in fact Rice-Davies was a brilliant woman who later became a notable business entrepreneur)... Read More
1. Q. Won’t the Board be put off that I am using a lawyer? Can they withdraw my offer?
A. There are several answers to these concerns, or rather, several parts of one overall answer which... Read More
Picking up on the list of reasons discussed in last week’s post:
3. So as to Preserve the Good Relationship Between the President and the Board Which Prevails at the Outset of the President’s First Term of Office.
At the beginning... Read More
As executive employment attorneys with a concentration in higher education contracts, we have, over the past decade, represented dozens of college and university presidents in negotiating (or helping them negotiate) their contracts when they are hired.
Many of them were first-time presidents,... Read More
Our executive employment law practice gave us a vantage point from which to view the effects of the pandemic on our nation’s leaders in higher education, the presidents of American colleges and universities.
It was not a pretty picture.
Carefully formulated budgets,... Read More
As executive employment attorneys dealing with compensation issues for university and college presidents, we were aware of the pressures on presidential compensation even before the global pandemic. These pressures come from below and above.
From below, the faculty is critical that the... Read More