“The University of Phoenix on
Tuesday announced that it had selected the top
finance officer at the University of Michigan as its new president. Timothy P.
Slottow, Michigan’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, will
assume the presidency of the largest private university in North America in
mid-June.”
“At Michigan, Mr. Slottow has
been overseeing a controversial proposal from Accenture, a
consulting company, that called for moving hundreds of staff jobs out of
academic departments and into a centralized office that would handle the same
work, with fewer people. That "shared services" proposal, and a lack
of consultation about it, drew such strong opposition from faculty
members—including from a former Michigan president—that university leaders in
December announced a "pause" in putting the program into effect.”
“Calls to Mr. Slottow seeking
comment on his new position were referred to Michigan’s public-relations
office, which said he was "not able to take calls" on the topic.”
“At Michigan, where he began
in 1998 as an associate vice president for finance and became CFO in 2003, Mr.
Slottow oversaw an operating budget of $6.3-billion. Before that he worked in
finance and planning positions at Amtrak and the City of Seattle, and as a
manager at Accenture. Unlike some of Phoenix’s recent presidents, he does not
have a Ph.D., but he does have an M.B.A., from the University of
Washington—and, according to a profile in The Michigan Daily, a black belt
in tae kwon do.”
“The president is Phoenix’s top academic official. The
university has a Board of Trustees, but executives at its parent company, the
Apollo Education Group, have final say over university matters.”
Read the whole thing here: http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Phoenix-Chooses/145663/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Always good to pay attention to what some of the larger
players in this industry are doing.
Dr Flavius A
B Akerele III
The ETeam
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