Over at Chicago State University, the board of trustees handed Thomas Calhoun Jr. $600,000 in severance pay as they showed him the door after just nine months at the university’s helm.
Over at Chicago State University, the board of trustees handed Thomas Calhoun Jr. $600,000 in severance pay as they showed him the door after just nine months at the university’s helm.
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September 20th, 2016 at 1:32PM
Let’s not ask what an adjunct teaching the maximum load at the maximum salary could make during the same period, because that would be. . .I dunno. Inappropriate? Infuriating? Irrelevant?
Job insecurity is presumably easier to handle when one has $600,000 (even minus taxes) in the bank. I’m sure he can become a consultant if nothing else.
September 20th, 2016 at 2:46PM
Contingent Cassandra: Chicago State is a humongous scandal in all respects, and if the city had any guts it would be folded into a functioning university.
September 20th, 2016 at 3:00PM
One support administrator at our Podunk Tech recently received a 27% raise. No explanation given in the trustees’ meeting minutes. Staffers have had wages frozen for eight years. Faculty described their last contract as concessionary.
September 20th, 2016 at 8:12PM
I would have run the place further into the ground for only half a million dollars. They got ripped off by this dude.
September 20th, 2016 at 9:40PM
JND: The beauty of it is that it had been run into the ground before he got there. He didn’t have to do anything.
September 21st, 2016 at 12:07PM
The idea of folding it into University of Illinois at Chicago may have been floated, but I’m not sure how UI would feel about that.