The Department of Labor is considering a rule to raise wage minimums for overtime-exempt workers, causing friction between higher education associations and rank-and-file employees.
Compensation
Compensation
Mar 18, 2022
The Department of Labor is considering a rule to raise wage minimums for overtime-exempt workers, causing friction between higher education associations and rank-and-file employees.
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June 10, 2021
Colleges and universities are increasing wages for their lowest-paid employees.
May 24, 2021
For the most part, institutions are resuming the faculty and staff retirement benefits they cut or stopped during the pandemic. Fights over the future of those benefits are being waged on some campuses.
April 26, 2021
Report shows lowest salary increase for administrators since 2010. But the proportion of women and minority administrators did not decrease -- a welcome surprise after fears they would be the first to be let go during the pandemic.
April 6, 2021
However the Supreme Court rules, compensation of college athletes is inevitable -- and will force universities to give a truthful accounting of their athletics financials, writes Nicholas S. Zeppos.
July 29, 2019
Perhaps it is time for college and university governing boards to consider whether current and future students should have to pay for failed presidencies, argue James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde.
January 29, 2019
Study finds no relationship between pay for public university presidents and money brought in from state appropriations or fund-raising.
January 28, 2019
University of the Cumberlands does not have to pay its former president compensation totaling $400,000 per year in a case that called into question contracts and promises.
January 14, 2019
Lawsuit over whether retired president is owed hundreds of thousands of dollars per year plus perks -- including an apartment -- sheds light on the issue of executive compensation.
June 11, 2018
A lucrative form of patronage appears to be emerging at Michigan State in the wake of the Nassar scandal, write James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde.