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UD’s Blogpal Roy Poses…

… at Health Care Renewal says most of what needs to be said about the latest university overcompensation story, this one at the University of Maryland.

Here’s the Baltimore Sun account, which includes a statement from Governor Martin O’Malley:

This is an outrageous case of excessive executive compensation in a public institution. This sort of ‘golden parachute’ has no place in the public sector.

Lucky Temple University now gets this retiree, who says he “completed the Program for Health Systems Management at Harvard University,” but I can’t find that program.

Sometimes he renders it lower case: program for health systems management.

I’m looking all over the School of Public Health at Harvard, but I can’t find it. Has it changed its name? What sort of degree was conferred? This is the closest thing I can find.

Margaret Soltan, May 23, 2010 3:33PM
Posted in: just plain gross

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7 Responses to “UD’s Blogpal Roy Poses…”

  1. david foster Says:
    May 23rd, 2010 at 3:43PM

    Again, the time to decide on terms of termination payments is *at the time the employment contract is signed*, not when the termination occurs. There may be limited discretion in the amount of the payment, but it shouldn’t be totally open to whatever someone feels like at the time.

    Also, several of these stories suggest that there is a lot of confusion in many institutions re who has actual authority to approve what payments in what situations. Maybe Gov O’Malley could address this situation rather than just expressing outrage.

  2. Crimson05er Says:
    May 23rd, 2010 at 4:08PM

    Could be one of those certificate or short term credit programs offered through the K-School or B-School. You may be giving him too much credit by assuming it’s based in the Public Health curriculum.

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:
    May 23rd, 2010 at 4:35PM

    I thought about that, Crimson05er. I suppose I should check out those web pages. But the name of the program doesn’t show up on Google in any Harvard connection…

  4. Nancy Fruge Says:
    May 23rd, 2010 at 6:36PM

    UD, I found Programs for Health System Management (PHSM) under Retired HBS programs, here:

    http://www.exed.hbs.edu/alumni.html

  5. Margaret Soltan Says:
    May 23rd, 2010 at 6:46PM

    Thanks, Nancy! No wonder it was so hard to find…

  6. Roy M. Poses MD Says:
    May 24th, 2010 at 12:02PM

    Thanks for the link.

    I wonder how Mr Notebaert is doing at Temple?

  7. Nancy Fruge Says:
    May 24th, 2010 at 9:21PM

    Mr. NoteBaert has not endeared himself to Temple nurses. See

    http://tinyurl.com/3ygl27m

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