Salary Bytes

Three of Maryland’s state university presidents have announced that they, along with other state workers, will take furloughs in response to the state budget crunch, the Associated Press reports.
Brandeis University’s Faculty Senate is asking professors to take a pay cut in order to avoid layoffs, The Chronicle’s News Blog reports.
Elsewhere on the News Blog, David Shieh reports that Harvard University’s academic deans have announced salary and hiring freezes in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in response to budget cuts of $105-million to $125-million.
Meanwhile, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times, Carnegie Mellon University is putting a pay freeze into effect, while the University of Pittsburgh
will freeze the salaries of its top administrators, including Chancellor Mark Nordenberg.
Mark Yost, author of a forthcoming book about the economics and culture of college athletics, tackles the controversial issue of high coaching salaries in an article in the Wall Street Journal.
A proposed 2.5-percent pay increase for University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff for 2009-11 got the thumbs up from the system’s governing board last Friday, The Badger Herald reports. The increase — which is about half of the amount that was originally proposed — now goes before the UW Department of Administration, the student newspaper reports.