1. Sally Clausen was born on July 4,1945 and is an American administrator who is executive director of the Ingram Center for Public Trusteeship and Governance, an affiliate of the American Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
Sally Clausen died in 1999 while living in Baton Rouge.
In 1967,1971, and 1980, Sally Clausen received bachelor's, master's, and doctorate in education, respectively, from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
From 1984 to 1988, Sally Clausen was the assistant Commissioner of Administration during the third term of Governor Edwin Edwards.
Sally Clausen returned to Southeastern Louisiana University in the summer of 1995, where she was the president until July 2001, when she was elevated to president of the University of Louisiana System.
At Southeastern, Sally Clausen listed her accomplishments as president as having obtained $80 million in capital improvements, a 23 percent increase in faculty salaries, a 51 percent increase in state appropriations, a large increase in private funding, and a 68 percent boost in African-American enrollment.
In 2009, Sally Clausen retired as the sixth commissioner of higher education, a year after she had assumed the position in July 2008, at an annual salary of $425,000.
Sally Clausen did not inform the regents that she was retiring.
Sally Clausen received a lump-sum payment in mid-August 2009 for three hundred hours of unused vacation time and two hundred hours of remaining sick leave.
When news of this situation leaked, Sally Clausen said that she had considered retiring to help care for a special-needs grandchild in Houston.
Amid controversy over her action, Sally Clausen said that she would reduce her salary in 2010 to $199,000 as a gesture to show solidarity with employees placed under wage restraints and a proposed 30 percent cut in state higher education spending announced by the administration of Governor Bobby Jindal.
In 1998, Sally Clausen was inducted into the Louisiana Center for Women and Government Hall of Fame.
In 2007, Sally Clausen was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.