Posted on 05/29/2019 1:09:43 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
Watchdogs are slamming the University of Massachusetts system’s thousands of six-figure salaries as excessive — as UMass seeks more money from the state under threat of layoffs and a tuition hike.
“You have a university that is laden by overpaid bureaucrats,” said David Tuerck of the Beacon Hill Institute.
The UMass system had one employee — Chancellor and Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences Michael Collins — make over a million dollars in 2018, at $1,069,752 total pay with $742,777 as base salary. Another administrator made over $900,000, and three more pulled in total pay over $600,000, including UMass President Marty Meehan, who took in $659,168 on a $571,856 base salary.
A total of 10 UMass employees last year made more than half a million dollars, 22 over $400,000, 70 over $300,000, 432 over $200,000 and 3,665 employees over $100,000, according to the Herald payroll database, which is based on public records.
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Scan all the UMass payrolls in the Herald’s database
State Rep. Tackey Chan, a Quincy Democrat, introduced an ultimately unsuccessful budget amendment earlier this year that would have cut the income of the high-paid high-ups at UMass.
“You’ve got to have some accountability,” Chan, who chairs the House consumer protection committee, told the Herald.
A UMass spokesman didn’t respond to questions about the system’s high salaries on Tuesday.
Budget proposals from Gov. Charlie Baker and both houses of the Legislature include $558 million slated for the university system. The proposed Senate budget however currently includes a provision that would bar the university system from raising tuition. Upcoming conferences between the two legislative houses will seek to work out the difference between the two budgets, so the tuition freeze remains uncertain.
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This is one of the main reasons why it costs so much to send your kids to college. Even state colleges in places like Mass.
This is all part of the college education scam.
And students have to go into long term debt to pay for these filthy gonefs.
UMass has a particularly nasty situation: State law forbade tuition hikes without authorization. So they made tuition about $2K, and fees about $15K, through a massive “curriculum fee.” Just looking for those numbers, however, it seems they’ve been allowed to call the curriculum fee a tuition.
When I was at UMASS/Amherst, in the late 80s/early 90s, the big thing was how eager the system was to give financial aid to foreigners and not give it to kids from Massachusetts, who couldn’t afford tuition. All in the name of diversity. The ones I met hated the US and were rather vocal about it, but they loved going to school in the US and not having to pay for it.
One of these foreign ingrates gets a free education. Some carpenter wants to send his kid to school and have them be the first college graduate in the family and they get shut out.
Give them the raise - on condition their defined benefit retirement immediately and irrevocably has change to defined contribution.
"As chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dr. Collins provides critical direction and leadership to the campus's continuing efforts to distinguish itself as a premier academic health sciences center of national and international distinction. Dr. Collins directs the campus's institutional advancement, fundraising and external outreach efforts, focusing on expanding and enhancing relationships with the University of Massachusetts and its Board of Trustees; the UMass Memorial Health Care system; the communities served by the medical school; state and federal governmental entities; foundations, corporations and the philanthropic community; and international partners. In addition, he provides strategic management to a burgeoning UMass Medical School enterprise, which generates more than $900 million in annual revenues and includes: the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Graduate School of Nursing; more than 1,100 graduate-level students and a workforce of 6,800; a number of complex and diversified business units such as Commonwealth Medicine and MassBiologics of UMass Medical School; and a thriving $250 million research portfolio."
https://www.umassmed.edu/chancellor/chancellor-collins/about/
The massive bubble of printed money, government spending and HUGE debt feeding the education-industrial complex will pop soon.
It won’t be pretty, but hopefully it will kill a lot of parasites.
Even in Nebraska, we have many public college employees in the six-figures, plenty in the $150,000 and up range. IIRC, UNL hired a “diversity dean” or along that line, last year, who is getting over a quarter of a million in salary.
I think the median full-time household income is about $60,000 in this state.
What about the education-political?
I am actually in NH. I heard about this story on one of the Boston radio stations driving to work. I actually live in NH. At UNH the highest paid employee is either the Chancellor of the University OR the UNH hockey coach.
To give everyone an idea of just how *breathtakingly* corrupt Massachusetts state government is be aware that a man named Billy Bulger,kid brother of Whitey Bulger (late of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List) and once the most powerful person in the state,is currently collecting a $250,000 a year pension...courtesy of Massachusetts taxpayers...after having "Taken The 5th" about a dozen times while testifying before a House Committee (in DC) a few years back.
What I absolutely love(LAUGH AT YOUR PAIN MA TAXPAYER) is when Billy sued the state of MA and won to increase his retirement pension pay/year. I seem to remember it was about another $35K every year for life.
Billy was the President of this same UMass scam. Love that dirty water!
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