BUZZThis is a nice gesture from a university president who clearly recognizes that a personal example can go a long way toward building trust and respect. He’s the anti-Gee, really.
Interim Kentucky State University President Ronald Burse, the school’s president from 1982 to 1989 and former GE executive, discussed giving back more than $90,000 of his $350,000 salary ahead of his contract’s approval by the board of regents last month, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported:
“My whole thing is I don’t need to work,” Burse said. “This is not a hobby, but in terms of the people who do the hard work and heavy lifting, they are at the lower pay scale.” …
Burse asked how many university employees earn less than $10.25 an hour, an amount some say is a living wage. The current minimum wage is $7.25.
Burse has been tasked with doing a “culture survey” of students, faculty and staff in the year he’ll be on the job:
“A lot of people shy away from culture surveys because they don’t want to know what the people are thinking,” he said. “But I need to know am I going in the right direction, and I need to determine where I am going from here.”
Read the whole article here.
h/t Huffington Post
Like The College Fix on Facebook / Follow us on Twitter