THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, February 14, 1996 TAG: 9602140380
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MARIE JOYCE, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 38 lines
Edward E. Brickell, president of Eastern Virginia Medical School, will stay at his post through 1999.
Board members of the Norfolk school voted unanimously Tuesday evening to extend Brickell's contract through 1999. His previous contract ended July 1997.
The decision - made after a short executive session - guarantees that Brickell will see through a major fund-raising campaign under way. The school has raised $22 million in slightly more than two years. The goal is $40 million more over the next three years.
The contract extension also will give the school continuity during a critical time, said Andrew S. Fine, rector of the board of visitors.
Medical schools are feeling the squeeze from big changes in health care: research funding is increasingly competitive; government programs like Medicare and Medicaid are scaling back; insurance companies are cutting payments to doctors and hospitals.
Since Brickell took over in 1988, EVMS officials said, the school's reputation has grown, student scores on a national test have improved, and money for the endowment and for research has doubled.
Brickell, 69, is paid about $252,000 a year. Before joining EVMS, he served for 21 years as superintendent of Virginia Beach public schools. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the College of William and Mary and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He returned to William and Mary to earn a doctorate in education and certification in school administration. by CNB