Behind the scenes, the story is quite different. His contract was up for renewal, one source familiar with the decision-making process that led up to today s news told me. It wasn t renewed.
That s a turn of events that some people might reasonably describe as getting canned. Fired. Shown the door.
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Per that contract, Bresciani gets a year of notice (it s good to be a higher education bureaucrat). The board added about six months to that (he ll be paid almost $560,000 in salary over those 18 months) and included some nonsense about his serving as a tenured professor at NDSU after that year is over.
State Board of Higher Education signs off on UND dorm proposal, addresses presidents contracts
The proposal would see dormitory-style buildings organized in a cluster around Wilkerson Hall, with extensive improvements made to some of those buildings, while some residential structures east of the English Coulee would be torn down. 6:20 pm, Jun. 29, 2021 ×
The State Board of Higher Education gave tentative approval to a UND proposal to consolidate dormitory rooms on the campus.
The proposal would see dormitory-style buildings organized in a cluster around Wilkerson Hall, with extensive improvements made to some of those buildings, while some residential structures east of the English Coulee would be torn down. New construction projects could happen west of the coulee, including new student apartments that would be managed by a private company. The SBHE OK’d the project at its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 29, but the proposal needs further budgetary ap
Behind the scenes, the story is quite different. His contract was up for renewal, one source familiar with the decision-making process that led up to today s news told me. It wasn t renewed.
That s a turn of events that some people might reasonably describe as getting canned. Fired. Shown the door.
Per that contract, Bresciani gets a year of notice (it s good to be a higher education bureaucrat). The board added about six months to that (he ll be paid almost $560,000 in salary over those 18 months) and included some nonsense about his serving as a tenured professor at NDSU after that year is over.
(Fargo, ND) He s been the head of NDSU for well over a decade, and it s all coming to an end by 2022.
The North Dakota University System voting Tuesday afternoon to not renew President Dean Bresciani s contract beyond it s expiration date next year. On behalf of the state board I d like to just offer extreme gratitude for the 12 years of service from President Bresciani, said NDUS Chair Nick Hacker. He s provided in my mind some really phenomenal leadership.
Hacker went on to credit Bresciani s fundraising efforts, as well as student engagement and other factors all rising during his tenure.
Details on Bresciani s planned exit remain fuzzy, as some reports have claimed the President decided to step down, while others show that he had not met standards of the NDUS Board set a few years back during a performance review, resulting in a sense of needing to move on from his leadership.
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