<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">What could someone possibly do with $300,000 a year? Does he have a pet T- Rex he has to feed? Especially when all your housing and medical needs are paid for? How greedy people can become, eh?<br><br>I honestly don't think anyone on the planet is worth a $300,000 salary a year in Idaho. I know there are plenty of people in Idaho that can do a fantastic job as President of UI for far less than $250,000 a year. <br><br>Anyone so easily manipulated by the almighty $$$ probably isn't going to stay for long anyway because Idaho cannot compete with states where the cost of living is so much higher and the salaries are so much higher. <br><br>Moscow is a beautiful place to live. A family man could not ask for a nicer place to live if he is making $250,000+ a year. You would have to make $600,000 a year in New York to live as you do in Idaho on $200,000. <br><br>Best
Regards,<br><br>Donovan<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 3/14/09, Kenneth Marcy <i><kmmos1@verizon.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@verizon.net><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Finalist turns down Idaho president job over pay<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 11:29 PM<br><br><pre>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/13/state/n151428D91.DTL<br><br><br>Finalist turns down Idaho president job over pay<br><br>By JESSIE L. BONNER, Associated Press Writer<br><br>Friday, March 13, 2009<br><br>(03-13) 15:14 PDT Boise, Idaho (AP) --<br><br>Kansas State Provost Duane Nellis said Friday he turned down an offer to <br>become the next University of Idaho president after Idaho's Board of <br>Education rejected his salary request.<br><br>In an interview with The Associated Press, Nellis said he had sought less
<br>money at Idaho than what he and his wife, a Kansas State employee, make <br>together at that school, where they earn a combined base salary of $370,354 a <br>year.<br><br>"I was not being unreasonable, in my opinion," <span>Nellis</span> said.<br><br>Nellis is paid a yearly base salary of $272,116 as provost and his wife, <br>Ruthie, makes a $98,238 base salary working in institutional advancement, <br>said Kansas State spokeswoman Beth Bohn.<br><br>While none of the five finalists announced in January have been publicly <br>offered the top job at Idaho's oldest public university, Nellis said board <br>leaders extended an offer to him by telephone on Wednesday.<br><br>"I told them, given what they were offering me, I was turning them<br>down," <br>Nellis said.<br><br>Board spokesman Mark Browning declined to discuss the salary negotiations with <br>Nellis. He said an official offer to the next university president has to be <br>made as the result of
a vote in an open meeting.<br><br>Nationwide, median pay and benefits for presidents of public research <br>universities rose 7.6 percent during the 2007-2008 school year to $427,400, <br>according to an annual survey that The Chronicle of Higher Education released <br>in November.<br><br>Former Idaho President Tim White was paid $291,912 in his fourth and final <br>year, a salary "substantially below" the average for a research<br>institution <br>of its size and reputation, said Paul Fain, a senior reporter at The <br>Chronicle who researches compensation of university presidents.<br><br>"That's near the bottom," Fain said. "You're going to<br>have a hard time getting <br>who you want if you're in that range."<br><br>For example, the new president of West Virginia University will be paid a base <br>salary of $450,000, Fain said.<br><br>"It's a competitive market and these are difficult people to<br>find," Fain <br>said. "They have to have clout with
faculty members, they have to be able<br>to <br>talk the talk of business and politics, be media savvy and work with major <br>sports programs. They have to wear a lot of hats and wear them well. They are <br>a rare type of person."<br><br>White left the Moscow campus last year for a job at the University of <br>California-Riverside. The UC Board of Regents approved a compensation package <br>that will pay him an annual base salary of $325,000.<br><br>The next Idaho president will most likely be offered a base salary similar to <br>what White was being paid when he left, Browning said.<br><br>Nellis was one of five finalists selected by a university search committee. <br>The committee recommended two finalists, Nellis and Montana State University <br>Provost David Dooley, visit the northern Idaho school for interviews.<br><br>During a visit last month, Nellis assured the Moscow campus he would stick <br>around if the Board of Education picked
him.<br><br>The university has gone through five leaders, both temporary and permanent <br>presidents, in the past six years.<br><br>Ham Shirvani, president of California State University Stanislaus, pulled his <br>name from the search in mid-February after his school's governing board and<br><br>members of the community urged him to stay in California.<br><br>Now just three finalists remain including Dooley, Don Burnett, dean of the <br>University of Idaho Law School and Larry Penley, former president of Colorado <br>State University.<br><br>Dooley earns a base salary of $169,950. Burnett earns a yearly base salary of <br>$207,938, according to the University of Idaho. Penley earned a base pay of <br>$389,000 before resigning last year, according to The Chronicle's <br>compensation survey.<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse
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