Salary Freeze for top UVM Administration?
Posted on | April 21, 2010 |
In a year that UVM staff got only a 2% pay increase, we were assured that the top level administrators would have their pay frozen. Maybe not…??
Here is an excerpt from Burlington Free Press writer & blogger Tim Johnson:
UVM’s exec pay: raises and stasis
In the throes of last year’s UVM budget crisis, the UVM administration announced that, as a belt-tightening measure, base salaries would be frozen in Fiscal Year 2010 for executives who made more than $75,000 a year. That guideline applied to President Fogel (base pay: $322,563) and most of his higher-paid colleagues — but apparently not all.
Three exceptions:
General counsel Francine Bazluke got a $20,000 raise, to $209,432.
Athletic director Bob Corran’s salary went up $16,000, to $195,375.
Hockey coach Kevin Sneddon’s pay rose $12,600, to $170,000.
Bazluke received “additional pay for additional responsibilities,” said UVM spokesman Enrique Corredera, while “contractual obligations” account for the raises for Sneddon and Corran.
There were plenty of administrative pay boosts at UVM this academic year, but most of them were associated with promotions or new job titles. Among the notable high-rollers are interim provost Jane Knodell, who’s listed at $251,300, up from her previous salary as special assistant to the provost of $145,058; and vice president for research Domenico Grasso, $251,718, up from $240,182 as dean engineering. Interestingly, Knodell’s salary as interim is about $19,000 more than the provost she replaced, John Hughes.
Hughes, the faculty as a professor of geology, is on administrative leave and is getting about $30,000 less than his provost’s salary. Two other top administrators who have moved on and are listed as on administrative leave — Rocki-Lee DeWitt, who made $223,900 as business dean, and Frances Carr, who made $235,092 as Grasso’s predecessor — are listed as receiving those salaries in 2009-10 while on administrative leave.
English professor Nancy Welch, who made an issue of administrative salaries during last year’s budget debates, counts 44 UVM executives who make more than $150,000 a year. Total spending on salaries for these positions is $216,951 more this year than last, by her reckoning. The annual salary data can be found on UVM’s Web site.
Administrative pay is among the topics to be addressed at a teach-in on UVM’s budget priorities scheduled for 7 p.m. next Monday in the Davis Center. As for full-time faculty, the annual 5 percent contractual raise went to everyone, including the many whose salaries exceed $75,000. More than 30 faculty are in the $150,000-plus club.