That sounds odd, doesn’t it? Chancelloring (and for that
matter, Provosting) doesn’t really work as a verb and I’d say it’s a darn sight
harder to figure out exactly which verbs go with the somewhat vague description
as ‘leadership positions.’ What is all of this ‘leadership’ at UNCG costing the
university?
Let’s take a look.
Position
|
Salary
|
Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs – Cheryl Callahan
|
$188,181
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Human Resources – Edna Chun
|
$141,625
|
Vice Chancellor, Information Technology – James Clotfelter
|
$208,421
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Safety & Risk Management –
Rollin Donelson
|
$115,833
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Technology – Robert
Dunn
|
$162,280
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Technology – Donna
Heath
|
$162,280
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, University Relations[1]
|
$121,440
|
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Foundation Finance – Jill
Hillyer
|
$93,459
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Research &
Economic Development – Jerry McGuire
|
$166,290
|
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs – Vicki McNeil
|
$136,620
|
Provost & Vice Chancellor – Dana Dunn
|
$300,000
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Facilities – Jorge Quintal
|
$149,350
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Finance – Steven Rhew
|
$163,893
|
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs – Jim Settle
|
$136,620
|
Vice Chancellor, Business Affairs – Reade Taylor
|
$228,215
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Technology – Gloria
Thornton
|
$162,280
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Business Affairs – Laura Young
|
$128,092
|
Vice Chancellor, Advancement – Jan Zink
|
$273,000
|
Chancellor, Linda Brady
|
$318,780
|
Vice Chancellor & Chief of Staff – Bonita Brown
|
$151,800
|
Associate Vice Chancellor, Auxiliary Services – Michael
Byers
|
$127,285
|
Associate Vice Provost – Andrea Whitley
|
$87,085
|
Associate Vice Provost, Academic Technology Systems –
Harold Bodenhamer
|
$80,960
|
Vice Provost – Alan Boyette
|
$221,486
|
Associate Vice Provost – Elizabeth Meeks
|
$78,936
|
Assistant Vice Provost – Leigh Olsen
|
$59,000
|
Associate Provost, International Programs – Penelope Pynes
|
$136,620
|
Total
|
$4,137,471
|
So, first thoughts:
Clearly whatever ‘chancellors’ do is worth more than
whatever ‘provosts’ do, as there is a significant drop in the salaries awarded
(with the exception of the top position…but that has Vice-Chancellor in the
title, so it’s still consistent.)
Part of the difference between a Chancellor and a Provost is
that the Provost deals with the academic side of the university. Obviously,
that is something not nearly as important as whatever that other side of the
university is…after all, it’s only: the reason the university exists.
And yet, the highest paid among those on this list are the
people who get raises. Provost Dunn is earning $20,000 a year more than her
predecessor, Dave Perrin. Why wasn’t $280,000 enough for a provost? Shouldn’t
that $20,000 have been split into raises among the assistants in the office?
Meanwhile, the assistants to highest paid of these positions
earn less than $50,000 a year.
Karen Anderson, Administrative Support Assistant with 11
years of service to UNCG is earning $36,824 a year.
Doris Deal, Administrative Support Associate, after serving
at UNCG for 14 years is earing $38,171.
Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs Cheryl Callahan has received $48k in raises over
the last four years. This means that the amount of her raises alone have been
greater than the entire salary of an employee such as Sheryl Williamson, an
administrative Support Specialist in Career Services, a department that is
under the umbrella of Student Affairs. Meanwhile, Williamson, despite 12 years
of dedicated service to UNCG, has received less than a $1,000 raise.
Why do we seem to believe that the management of things is
always deserving of better pay than the actual doing of those things?
We all live in the same week, with the same number of hours.
How is it possible that in an institution whose goal is education, that we can
determine that the value of the work done by one in any particular hour is
worth 10 times more than the time of the other. Either the things that someone
does are worth doing or they aren’t, if they aren’t let’s stop doing them and
if they are, then lets start treating them that way.
This kind of gross salary differentiation creates a class
system that clearly communicates the value of the human beings who people the
university community. Those at the top have internalized their financial
compensation as synonymous with their worth as human beings and proceed to
treat those who make less as less valuable. The bullying that has become
endemic at UNCG of the ‘lower’ class by the ‘upper’ class is no more than the
manifestation of the belief that these financial divisions are actually
reflections of the contributions that people make.
Paul Mason, Jan Zink, Kim Record, Bryan Terry (and others)
treat those ‘below’ them in a manner consistent with the inflation of their
egos by the overestimation of their value. It’s time that they learned their
place as fellow human beings – not superior creatures - and that they walked a
mile in the shoes of others.
That would be doing something bigger altogether.
[1] This is the salary for Helen Hebert, who occupied the
position before Paul Mason, Mason’s salary information has not been published
yet.
I really don't know how these people sleep at night.
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