North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education tentatively gave the green light last week to new salary guidelines that would significantly up the pay of the university system’s presidents, the Associated Press reports. The board will give final approval to the proposal later this year.
Under the new guidelines, which are designed to make presidential salaries in the state more competitive, the leaders of North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota would receive between $290,000 and $325,000 annually (they now get state salaries of $211,686 each, the article says, plus deferred compensation from their universities’ respective foundations), the AP writer, Dale Wetzel, reports. The 11-campus system’s other presidents would also be in line for sizable raises, he adds.
Wetzel notes that the revised guidelines seek to limit how much university foundations can supplement presidents’ pay. In addition, the guidelines would “phase out each president’s annual $11,000 vehicle allowance in favor of paying the same mileage rate that state employees get for business use of their personal vehicles” and gradually do away with housing allowances for the presidents of North Dakota’s two-year colleges, though incumbent presidents would keep those perks, he writes.
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