[Vision2020] UI Task Force Members Paid!!?

[hayfields at moscow.com]

Quoting Ron Force's response to 2020-
Each Task Force member gets a $7,500 honorarium.  If taken directly (as
> pay), it's subject to all the standard deductions, just like pay.  It can be
> put into a discretionary operating fund to support professional work (like
> travel to conferences, etc.); or, it can be used to buy released time from
> the department. Academic year employees also get one month of summer salary.
> 
So if each task force member (and by my count there are 23) gets a 
7500 "honorarium" my calculator makes that $172,500.00 
And each professor gets one month of summer salary as well (or is it instead)?

I have no idea how to calculate summer salary. It would be different for each 
professor based on base salary. It looks to me like 17 members are professors, 
and I have no idea how many of them are on 9 month(academic appointments) So 
do the professors on a 12 month appointent get more or less than the 7500?

Anyway it sounds like we have just invested $200,000 for a Vision Task Force.
Add that to the cost of the Pappas report...

Why was it necessary to pay them at all? Would they not have been on the 
committee?  Couldn't the President just have appointed them and the 
departments would work around it- recognizing the signal honor of having a 
staff member on the committee?  Lots of UI committes are that way. Maybe that 
should have been a criteria for applying- that your dept could spare you.  I 
know there are lots of Emeriti professors who would probably have been willing 
to serve for free, and think of the institutional knowledge! I am just very 
curious about how this all works because I am comparing it with the Moscow 
School Board- no extra dollars as far as I know, but a ton of work. More I 
would venture to say than the Task Force.
Perhaps given the fact that that amount would pay the salaries of quite a few 
custodians, secretaries or even a couple of professors our vision is still not 
quite where it needs to be. 

Heather Jordan
UI Alum
2001

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