The executive search firm used by the state Board of Regents to help find university presidents is the same one contracted by the University of Arizona to pick a provost. But Joseph Glover says he’s headed back to Florida after an extremely brief tenure in Tucson.
A California-based firm called SP&A Executive Search helped find UA’s new president, who is expected to start later this year. But provost Glover is quitting UA after only a month on the job.
KJZZ News has requested UA’s contract with the firm under Arizona’s open records law.
Experts say the standard fee paid to an executive-search firm is roughly one-third of the salary of the incoming hire.
Based on Glover’s yearly pay reported by the Arizona Daily Star, the contract for help recruiting him to UA is worth about $180,000.
