By STEVE BEGNOCHE | Managing Editor | sbegnoche@ludingtondailynews.com
VICTORY TWP. — Scott Ward was given a $1,000 a week raise for the duration of his time in the Acting President role at West Shore Community College Monday by a board of trustees appreciative of the added work the vice president of academic services is doing. At the end of the meeting Ward committed to giving back to the community and the college up to $4,000 of the raise through donations.
The board Monday also approved hiring a firm, ACCT, at a cost of $60,000, to conduct a search for a new president.
WSCC board chairman Jim Jensen, in recommending the temporary pay hike, said Ward has done “a tremendous amount of extra work, and has done a wonderful job for us and has not got a penny for it.”
The board’s executive committee had reviewed the raise and recommended it, Jensen said. The pay hike will be in place as long as Ward is in the acting president role and will be given retroactive to Aug. 18. Ward was named acting president of WSCC in September in the wake of former President Charles Dillon’s arrest on drunken driving charges.
In introducing the raise proposal, Jensen said he hopes an interim president will be in place by the first of the year, but he said he wasn’t ready to propose any actions in that regards.
“We are continuing to explore options,” he said.
The goal is to have a new president in place sometime between July 2015 and September 2015.
Ward took the opportunity, while receiving a pay raise, to announce he will make donations back to the college and the community.
See more to the story in Tuesday's print and eEditions of the Ludington Daily News.
By STEVE BEGNOCHE | Managing Editor | sbegnoche@ludingtondailynews.com
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