suzytea (anonymous) says...

High salaries haha, compare that to football and basketball coaches, who are more important to the institution

September 18, 2008 at 9:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

goodoleboy (anonymous) says...

censored?!?!?! HAHAHA

Saying that athletics<Education in college hurt someones feelings? Get your priorities straight.

September 19, 2008 at 7:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

madpoet (anonymous) says...

When they are talking about cutting positions due to a shortfall in money, it seems irresposible to give anyone a raise. Especially people already making a 6 digit income. Heaven forbid they could learn to live on what the rest of us poor working smucks do! The ESU president makes 3X what my husband and I do together. And we have a small child to support too. And we get by just fine. No we don't have a fancy house by the country club or new fancy cars but we don't need them either. No one does.

As for the athletics, when I went to ESU in the early '90s there was a huge flap when we were given a breakdown of where our tuition went. As I recall like $50 went to the football team and $3 to the library. I went ballistic. The emphasis on athletics over academics existed even then. What a crock. I didn't choose ESU for its sports teams, I chose it for its biology department.

September 19, 2008 at 9:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

booker5m (anonymous) says...

Yes I can why they need the money they are so underpaid.They are all for making cuts and putting the real workers out jobs. Hope they all sleep well at night

September 19, 2008 at 10:10 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

gazette_reader (anonymous) says...

I believe strongly in keeping salaries competitive and ensuring that people making enough money to live. But I think it's ridiculous that these presidents have been out in the community preaching about how the state will be cutting funding and the universities have to make cuts, let positions sit unfilled, and raise tuition and then accept a pay increase for themselves.

Here is my question: are any other university employees getting any sort of bump in pay? You know, the people who don't have a house and car and gas provided for them, and thus REALLY feel the increase in daily living expenses?

September 19, 2008 at 12:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

goodoleboy (anonymous) says...

The only thing that strikes me as odd about this is that the salary of the president of ESU and other D2 schools is comparable with the likes of D1 schools.

But in all fairness people often see just a number and no clue of what a job entails. Administrators have a lot more on their plate and have had to attain a doctorate degree to get where they are. And to be fair tuition for Emporia State is dirt cheap as it is, and only covers about 25% of the costs of the university.

September 19, 2008 at 12:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

gazette_reader (anonymous) says...

goodoleboy - the D1 and D2 designations don't have to do with the size of the school; it has to do with the size and money spent on the athletic program. If you want to talk about school size, you go with whether a school is a Research 1 or Research 2, or a non-phD degree granting school. This will give you a better sense of the actual school - the number of faculty, research dollars, student population, etc.

For example, the undergraduate enrollment at Notre Dame was only 8,451 in 2007, with just over 3,300 graduate students. UCLA, which is also a D1 athletic program, has 25,928 undergraduates and 11,548 graduate students.

September 19, 2008 at 2:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

goodoleboy (anonymous) says...

When I used the terms D1 or D2 I was merely trying to convey said size, it just surprised me that the salaries of a larger entity such as KU could be comparable with ESU in terms of pay. Appreciate the input though!

September 19, 2008 at 3:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )