Assessing the president’s performance is one of the board’s primary responsibilities, and its importance is second only to selecting the president. While there is no one way to conduct an evaluation, the board should always retain control over the evaluation process. This guide shows you how.
ACTA in the NewsPresidential Assessment
When The Detroit News asked us about Michigan State University’s compensation arrangement for President Kevin Guskiewicz, one of us said that, in today’s market, $1.5 miollion is not an exorbitant salary for leading a major university. We stand by that assessment. Our concern is not how much Guskiewicz is paid. It is how the additional […]
ACTA in the NewsPresidential Compensation
Donors paying a university president’s salary raise is nothing out of the ordinary, […]
ACTA in the NewsPresidential Assessment
It is a linguist’s burden to explain the rules that govern language and why humans are uniquely capable of it. As a young doctoral student studying linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s, Joseph E. Aoun had many theories. Over time, former peers said Aoun earned a reputation in the field for […]
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