All faculty will receive a 1.6% raise.
Additional pay increases will go to faculty hired during the dark days of recession and salary depression. The disparities caused by salary inversion (i.e., hired first, paid less) were central to the contract negotiations.
On Thursday November 13th, the Trustees voted to approve a 3% raise for the Chancellor, other top executives, and the 23 campus presidents.
The Chancellor and six of the presidents had previously been given supplementary salary boosts from university foundation accounts (e.g., for Tim White, $30,000).
Before the vote, questions were raised about the propriety of applying the 3% raise to their total compensation. Trustee Lupe Garcia said:
“I’m not comfortable with using the state funds to apply the 3 percent increase on supplemental income ... I don’t feel that that is the appropriate use of the state funds.”
