As a side note to the recent ranking of public-university presidents, Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg topped the most recent Chronicle of Higher Education ranking of the highest-paid presidents among Minnesota private colleges. (Warning: A subscription may be required.) Not listed in the snapshot above are Pamela Jolicoeur of Concordia College – Moorhead ($185,763), Sister Read more →
It’s the annual Chronicle of Higher Education survey, and University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler is ranked 10th among 57 presidents of the state flagships. Overall, he’s 33rd, and the Pioneer Press has him ranked 6th among current and future Big Ten presidents. A large percentage of his overall compensation — 90.1 percent — is Read more →
I asked Minnesota House higher-education committee Chairman Gene Pelowski (DFL-Winona) this week — as I did his Senate counterpart and another Senate higher-ed lawmaker — what he thought of the recent decision by Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system trustees to eliminate executive bonuses. He hardly sounded impressed: “That will not stop us from Read more →
When I asked Sen. Jeremy Miller (R-Winona) earlier this week for his thoughts MnSCU trustees’ recent elimination of performance-based executive bonuses, I was surprised he called it a “positive move” — because he’s actually in favor of performance pay. Soon afterward, I asked Chairwoman Terri Bonoff (DFL-Minnetonka) for her thoughts. I got a similar reaction: Read more →
Recently, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system trustees voted to eliminate performance-based pay — which some call “bonuses” — for the chancellor, vice chancellors and campus presidents. MnSCU Chancellor Steven Rosenstone had apparently testified before the House higher-education committee earlier this session that MnSCU was going to do that, and both the House and Read more →
Top executives at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system will no longer get the performance-based “bonuses” that have caused so much controversy in the past few years. Trustee Phil Krinkie confirmed that the board this week eliminated the performance-based payments as part of a compensation proposal for administrators. The elimination affects the chancellor, Read more →
Some senators were apparently so concerned over the recent multimillion-dollar contract buyout of fired University of Minnesota basketball coach Tubby Smith that yesterday they named an amendment after him. The “Tubby Smith” proposal for the U would prohibit state appropriations from going toward the buyouts at the U’s athletic department. The Senate adopted it, even Read more →
Yesterday was practically Gene Pelowski Day. First the House higher-education committee chairman appeared on MPR’s Daily Circuit. Forty minutes later, he held a press conference unveiling the latest version of the House higher-education bill. Then he held his committee’s hearing. I was there at all of them, and here are a few highlights. He’s always Read more →
After the House higher-education committee rolled out its new amendment targeting administrative pay, MnSCU CFO Laura King told the committee she was “very comfortable” with the new reporting requirements. (She even said MnSCU found them “quite agreeable.”) She also said MnSCU was OK with the proposed restrictions on bonuses. But she had this to say Read more →
Here’s a little snippet from this morning’s Daily Circuit chat with House higher-ed Chairman Chairman Gene Pelowski (DFL-Winona), who is pushing public colleges and universities to more fully report how they spend money on administration. As you can tell by reading the first few pages of the bill, he has included a provision in the Read more →
Alex Friedrich