The flava:The College of Idaho announced former Treasure Valley YMCA CEO Jim Everett and former TitleOne president Doug Brigham as its new presidents Saturday. It is the first time in school history the office will be occupied by co-presidents.
The article:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article201987664.html
I'll be impressed if and only if they split the normal president salary between them.
ReplyDeleteExactly what I was going to say.
DeleteThat would surprise me. What does not (sadly) surprise me is that neither appears to have any higher ed experience to speak of (besides earning a degree or two each some years back). But running a university can't be that hard, can it?
DeleteHere? That would soon mean four Provosts, twenty-four VPs, etc.
ReplyDeleteExponential growth cannot be sustained indefinitely. As Derek de Solla Price observed, "In the real world, things do not grow and grow until they reach infinity." But then, what's the real world got to do with university administration?
DeleteI agree of course with FFF. Here, we have a built-in system of checks and balances: for every VP or Assistant, Associate, Assistant Associate, etc we create, we reduce the number of tenure-tracks by two or three. So salaries--or what our president recently described as our "biggest expense"--remains the same now.
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ReplyDeleteI always remember Cal's because it's a day or two before mine.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he's younger & better looking, though.