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December 28, 2007, 01:26 PM ET
Kentucky System President's Salary Rankles Some
Some faculty and staff members at the Kentucky Community and Technical College system are angry about the system president’s salary — the highest of any community-college-system president in the country, the Herald-Leader reports:
Faculty and staff of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System knew [Michael B.] McCall made a good salary for the difficult job of creating an entirely new system of community and technical schools — a move that came out of the higher-education reform act of 1997.
But faculty members such as Jake Gibbs were shocked to find that McCall’s package of salary and benefits totaled $610,000. That number, which is from a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education, does not compare favorably to the pay of KCTCS faculty and staff members, who not only are the lowest paid in Kentucky, but rank well below national averages for community colleges. ...
“The main issue is that the president of the system is so far above market value and we are so far below, and the Board of Regents appears not to be particularly concerned about that,” said Gibbs, a history professor at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, in Lexington.
KCTCS pay scales have risen, according to the Council on Postsecondary Education. The average faculty salary has gone from $36,709 to $47,866 this year.
But it still lags well behind the national average of $54,895, according to the American Association of University Professors.
Categories: Salary-and-benefits
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