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• Trends & Highlights: 2011/12 Executive Compensation Report

  Added 5/7/12 Resource Categories: Contract Renewals, Executive Compensation, Higher Education, Industry News

  This executive summary of Yaffe & Company’s annual Executive Compensation Survey for Independent Colleges and Universities reports data effective October 1, 2011 for the president, provost, and chief financial officer.  All institutions that participated receive a complimentary copy of the report. If you are interested in further analysis, you may also view the webinar discussing these data and trends.

  Last year, more than 40% of the presidents reported no salary increases; this year that percentage was cut almost in half to 23.3%.

   

  

   

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• Presidential Compensation and Contract Provisions

  Added 5/7/12 Resource Categories: Contract Renewals, Executive Compensation, Higher Education, Retirement Planning

  This presentation will take you through the compensation, benefits, and retirement program trends from 2006/07 to 2011/12 while using the data from our annual Executive Compensation Survey.  Contract provisions and benefits will also be discussed using data from a March 2012 survey on Presidential contracts.  This one-hour presentation and discussion was lead by two of Yaffe & Company’s consultants, Lyn Harper and Dr. Saundra Tracy.

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• “Caught in Transit” – by Saundra Tracy & Jeff Abernathy (Inside Higher Ed, 2010)

  Added 1/13/12 Resource Categories: Higher Education, Industry News, Presidential Transitions

  As written in Inside Higher Ed, July 14, 2010.  Click on the link below to read the full article.

  “Where does one learn how to navigate the dynamics of a presidential transition? Every college president has dedicated significant time to how to carry out the functions of a president. Each presidential candidate has spent untold hours determining how best to present oneself as a candidate. But few have planned how to act in this undefined space in which one is in the process of either bringing to an end or beginning a college presidency.

  For the two of us — Saundra Tracy, the 12th president of Alma College, and Jeff Abernathy, the 13th — these were, to put it mildly, strange times.”

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• Preparing for Your Presidential Transition

  Added 12/30/11 Resource Categories: Higher Education, Presidential Transitions, Retirement Planning

  A president’s announcement of retirement signals the beginning of a major change for an institution. How this announcement is made and the steps the retiring president takes in the months that follow have a great deal to do with the smoothness of this transition for both the institution and the retiring president. The following are some points to consider as one prepares for this significant personal and institutional event.

   

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• Preparing for a Presidential Retirement: From the Board’s Perspective

  Added 12/30/11 Resource Categories: Presidential Transitions, Retirement Planning

  The following steps summarize effective Board practices in preparation for a presidential retirement or transition.  In additional, they will assist and prepare the institution and the Board for a successful presidential search process.  They offer the opportunity to appropriately recognize the contributions of a retiring president, and enhance the probability of the new president’s success.

   

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