Clark College’s new interim president will make $19,340.58 a month during her short tenure at the Vancouver community college.
The Clark College Board of Trustees on Wednesday unanimously approved a contract with interim President Sandra Fowler-Hill.
Fowler-Hill, a retired Portland Community College president, will take her post July 15 at Clark College.
Her annual salary is $232,086.96, about $12,000 a year more than retiring President Bob Knight’s annual salary. Clark College Trustee Paul Speer said the college will not be paying for Fowler-Hill’s health plan because she’s using her own insurance. Those savings were passed along in the form of a salary bump, he explained.
“For the college, it’s a wash,” he said.
Fowler-Hill retired last year from the Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus, located west of Portland, according to her resume. Before that, she was the executive vice president of instruction and student services at Everett Community College, and also spent 19 years at Olympic College in Bremerton.
Fowler-Hill will not be eligible to replace Knight as the college’s permanent president. According to a Clark College webpage about the search, the interim president will focus on the transition from one president to another without receiving preferential treatment when the time comes to appoint Knight’s successor. The college hopes to have a new, permanent president selected sometime in the spring.
Knight will retire this month after 15 years at Clark College, 13 as its president.
