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July 11, 2007, 12:49 PM ET
U. Missouri-Columbia to Raise Salaries; Faculty buyouts at Missouri State
The University of Missouri at Columbia plans to take $7-million from its operations to pay higher salaries to faculty and staff members, according to an article in The Columbia Tribune.
Brady Deaton, chancellor of MU, told the Tribune reporter Sara Agnew earlier this week that the university has been losing talented faculty and staff members to other universities because its salaries aren’t competitive enough. He said he hopes this plan will bring faculty salaries, which rank next to last on the list of public universities in the Association of American Universities, more in line with those at other comparable universities:
“This step is to ensure that we hire top-quality faculty,” Deaton said this morning. “We don’t want them shunning Missouri.”
Meanwhile, Missouri State University has spent nearly $700,000 buying out nine departing employees in the past five years, the Kansas City Star reports:
Nearly half of that was to cut ties with an associate professor who was a sex offender and with a women’s basketball coach. The $173,000 payment to biomedical science teacher Michael Hendrix and a $257,000 payment to coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson were approved within three weeks this spring. Administrators defend using buyouts, which generally are offered to only a couple of the more than 60 faculty who leave each year.
Categories: Faculty-hiring, Salary-and-benefits
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