nurse ratched lives!

Ratchet it up whose?! See the story in today's Blade (online version--probably not in print until tomorrow's edition) at

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090825/NEWS04/908250363

Does Jacobs include himself in the proposed required furlough--as BGSU's president is including herself in BGSU's furlough program? Or is his market value really so much higher than hers? Are other administrators included? Or just the faculty and staff? The administrators should not forget that without faculty and staff--who along with the students are the real heart and soul of the University--they have no job!

Along these lines, let me repost some information; some of this information on administrative salaries was posted on the Blog on 5/22/2009 and—to the best of my knowledge—is as yet uncontested by anyone who could / would / should do so; these salaries will go nowhere but up, I suppose (I did the math for the per diems):

2009 Administrative Salaries (no benefits or bonuses included)

Person..............Annual salary...Approx. per diem; salary / 365.25;
...............................cents .5 + rounded up to next cent
Jacobs..................392,700.00..........1075.15
Gold....................362,457.00............992.35
Haggett................236,385.00............647.19
Burns...................212,395.00............581.51
Scarborough...........307,825.80...........842.78
TOTALS..............1,511,762.80..........4138.98

Compare what these 5 people together make in one day to what you or I do (gross) in a typical 2-week pay period! Including people who earn these salaries in any furlough would certainly whittle away the deficit more quickly.

Also, look again at the post “Back to the future …” (10/30/2008), which gives us the agreement between UT and the TLA, including the price, as found at

https://www.toledoblade.com/assets/pdf/TO53184819.PDF

Note especially the sixth paragraph:

“For this special set of roundtables and the benchmarking study we ask that The University of Toledo compensate The Learning Alliance an estimated $75,900 to cover the professional service fees for [5 members of the TLA]. In addition, the University will agree to pay all travel and hotel expenses related to the TLA staff’s trips to campus for meetings, the interview process and the roundtable sessions. The University will also make arrangements for and cover all costs of the on-campus roundtable sessions (meals, space rental fees, etc.)”

and in the seventh, detailing of reimbursement for each member; the two lowest-paid receive $1500 per day—again, compare this two what you gross per day!!! (And we don’t get room, board, etc., in addition.)

How many potential furloughs could this amount of money prevent?