Monday, January 26, 2009

UNM Educational Administration Salaries an Outrage?

UNM says that $378,100 salary not an outrageous amount to pay for a university administrator. Want to talk about out of touch and not having any grounding in reality. UNM like most universities and colleges around the state have gone the way of corporate administrators with no idea or care for how current conditions are affecting their lower paid employees. Our state has been very lucky over the past few years to have lots of money to spend on education and administrator have grown fat and happy on salaries that this low income state can ill afford during a recession. These same administrators are now ordering reductions in supplies and material used for students. They are telling employees no pay increases, no replacements of employees who leave during a time of raising enrollment and yet they are still demanding increases in their own salaries. Sure wish the governor would set them down and explain reality to these individuals. When families earning less than $25,000 a year are being ask to face no pay raises over a two year period and being told that they may not even have jobs it is very hard to find any goodwill toward administrators among these employees.