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Issue 20

Independent Collegian Takes Aim at Administrative Bonuses

 
by Donald K. Wedding
 

 

tower spring 2010The UT-AAUP article published in our newsletter of  August 25, 2009 (see issue)  reported administrator longevity bonuses of $581,807.  However, the actual longevity bonuses have totaled over $1.5 million.   

An excerpt from today's issue of the Independent Collegian follows...
 

Bonuses backfire

The recent decisions of two top University of Toledo administrators to leave UT, first of Main Campus Provost Rosemary Haggett and then Mark Chastang, vice president and executive director of the University of Toledo Medical Center, raise serious doubts about longevity bonuses being given to UT administrators, ostensibly to promote better performance and entice them to pursue a long career with UT. One can only wonder how useful these longevity bonuses are with two upper-level administrators who have received bonuses departing in the same year...   Read Full Article...  

 

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5/17/2010
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