Chancellor Jim Rogers says the Nevada System of Higher Education can’t cut a damn thing in its budget. Really? Get a load of this story in the Las Vegas Sun yesterday. It won’t come as any surprise to readers of this newsletter, but it does further expose the outrageous salaries we’re paying “public” employees at UNLV, UNR and the state’s community colleges…
At a Board of Regents meeting in late November, men and women in suits, looking solemn, took the microphone one by one to present a bevy of unsavory options for slashing college budgets: layoffs, learning center closures, a reduction in the number of classes offered.
Staff members’ livelihoods were in danger.
Students’ academic success was at risk.
But the institution presidents giving the disheartening speeches were safe.
Each permanent campus leader has a four-year contract outlining base pay ranging from $181,220 yearly for Paul Killpatrick at Great Basin College to $406,946 yearly for David Ashley at UNLV and Milton Glick at UNR. That, plus car and housing allowances worth thousands more apiece.
Together, 50 employees of the Nevada System of Higher Education - the vice chancellors of the system and the presidents, vice presidents and provosts of seven state colleges and the Desert Research Institute - are slated to haul in more than $10 million this year.
Though most of the money they receive is public, part of some employees’ pay comes from private sources. Ashley’s and Glick’s annual compensations ($432,946 each), for example, include $170,000 from their schools’ foundations…
Along with chiefs come legions of vice presidents and vice chancellors whose yearly earnings range from the low six figures to more than $400,000. Most vice presidents earn more than $150,000. Together, eight at UNLV draw more than $1.6 million.
Other administrators also make a hefty sum.
UNLV’s business and dental deans each makes more than $250,000. The law school dean’s pay is $325,000. The men’s basketball coach gets about $1 million. (None of his compensation comes from the state.) The average full professor at UNLV or UNR earned about $110,000 in 2006-07, according to a salary survey by the American Association of University Professors. Assistant professors made close to $65,000.
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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