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Senate Finance Committee to Investigate American University & President Ladner

Paul Caron

Senate_3 American_universityI promised that my last post on the sordid tale of Benjamin Ladner, forced out as President of American University after he came under fire for his lavish spending habits and for failing to pay income tax on a variety of perks, would be my last (see prior posts here, here, here, here, and here).  But there is more to report:  The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday began investigating the matter, and today’s Chronicle of Higher Education provides more details.

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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