The Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees is set to discuss a contract extension for President Aysegul Timur on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The agenda before the board lists \u201cTBA\u201d on a page marked \u201cextension of President Timur\u2019s employment agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Timur, the Fort Myers-based university\u2019s fifth president, received a three-year contract in May 2023. The trustees elevated Timur from the position of vice president and vice provost for strategy and program innovation at FGCU in a 7-6 vote.<\/p>\n
The initial contract, which expires in June, featured a $500,000 annual base salary, a $60,000 annual housing allowance and potential bonuses of up to $100,000. The contract also offered a 4 percent annual pay raise.<\/p>\n
Timur, who is originally from Turkey, moved to Naples 28 years ago. She received a doctorate degree from the University of South Florida and previously held administrative roles and taught at Hodges University, a private school in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees is set to discuss a contract extension for President Aysegul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-228084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}