For the 16th time in 136 years and only the second time in the past 27 years, Clemson University’s Board of Trustees selected the next president of Clemson University. Following a national search, Kevin Guskiewicz was named on Wednesday as the unanimous selection as Clemson University’s next president.
A neuroscientist and higher education leader, Guskiewicz previously served as president at Michigan State University and chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Details regarding a start date are being finalized.
Here’s another article with some more details. Seems some drama at MSU.
Less than two weeks after Michigan State University offered President Kevin Guskiewicz a $1 million raise, doubling his compensation to $2 million a year, to fend off headhunters, he is leaving to take the top job at Clemson University.
When MSU trustees proposed the raise, they said that Guskiewicz was being aggressively recruited by other institutions and noted his frustrations with the board. While trustees did not specify the nature of those frustrations, Michigan State’s board has been mired in drama in recent years, accused of retaliating against faculty members and micromanaging prior presidents.
Now, after just two years, Guskiewicz is heading to Clemson. In making the jump he will take a pay cut, reportedly earning an annual base salary of $1.2 million on a five-year deal. (Additional incentives, such as deferred compensation and bonuses, will push that number higher.) Guskiewicz will take the helm of a major research university for the third time, following stops at MSU and four years as the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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