[Franny]

At least fans have someone to inexplicably point fingers at when sports teams lose.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.d...WS01/303270027

Calling the move both a “vote of confidence” and an “investment in leadership,” the University of Cincinnati trustees on Tuesday extended President Nancy Zimpher’s contract until 2012.

“We want her to stay,” said trustees chairman Jeff Wyler, crediting Zimpher with raising the academic profile and reputation of UC along with its enrollment and donor support in her nearly four-year tenure there.

The extension came months after trustees tacked a year to Zimpher’s contract, saying they needed a cushion of time to negotiate a longer extension with the university’s 25th president.


Zimpher’s current base salary is $343,350. The contract calls to increase that to $380,164, but Zimpher refused the raise in light of the university’s of financial struggles – UC had to trim $27 million from its budget this year.

“I think that’s the right thing to do,” she said.


Seven of UC’s nine trustees -- Sandra Heimann and Margaret Buchanan, the Enquirer’s president and publisher, were absent – met briefly behind closed doors after their regular meeting Tuesday and re-opened to announce the agreement.

I'm just glad OSU passed on her!