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Surviving and thriving as an interim administrator.
Navigating higher education becomes complicated due to interim appointments. It seems pretty simple: You agree to do it for a period of time, and then something happens ... but what?
Uncertainty rules when you become an interim, a role which women are more likely than men to accept.
"There are no interim experiences that are alike," according to John Saddlemire, VP for student affairs at the University of Connecticut. "An interim experience can run the gamut from professionally rewarding to personally debilitating."
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Saddlemire and Paula Olivero, interim assistant VP at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, shared their experiences and observations at the annual National Association for Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) conference in Tampa in May. The room was full of mostly women hoping to pick up pointers on the interim experience.
The speakers listed key questions to be answered by both the prospective interims and those hiring them, before the negotiation and acceptance of an offer:
* What does the role really entail for the interim, including issues of responsibilities and terms?
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