UMass Review Finds Nothing Unusual in Pay for System’s Former President

January 11, 2012, 11:16 pm

The compensation that Jack M. Wilson will receive after stepping down as president of the University of Massachusetts system last June is consistent with practices at similar large public universities, the system’s Board of Trustees announced on Wednesday. Mr. Wilson is receiving his presidential salary of $425,000 for a year while on a sabbatical and will be paid $261,000 a year on his return to the faculty, in July. The board’s compensation committee reviewed those arrangements after questions were raised. The committee was advised by Raymond D. Cotton, a lawyer in Washington who specializes in presidential contracts and compensation. His study found that UMass’s arrangements with Mr. Wilson were “well within the established norms we see in higher education,” the board said.

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archman

The “everyone else is doing it so it must be ok” argument is indeed a powerful one.
wilkenslibrary

In this time of budgetary crisis in higher education, Mr. Wilson is letting an opportunity to be a leader pass him by. Just because accepting that kind of compensation is “well within the established norms we see in higher education,” doesn’t mean that now isn’t the time to review those norms and perhaps move in a different direction.

Betsy Smith/Adjunct Professor of ESL/Cape Cod Community College
manoflamancha

The faculty should go after corrupt lobbists like Mr.Cotton first and then demand the firing of the Board. Administrator salaries, like the coaches, are obscene and wasteful, and misdirects precious resourses.

“It is not unusual” is not a proper reponse, especially when the system is tainted with corruption.
spinnaker

It helped to keep slavery going.