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Shapiro to receive $254,000 salary during year off
Provost Gary Shapiro sits in a September 2010 meeting in his office at Warriner Hall. (File Photo by Leah Sefton)
Provost Gary Shapiro will earn his normal salary of more than $254,000 while taking a year off before returning to Central Michigan University to teach.
Shapiro announced on Sept. 11 he would resign as provost after this academic year and taking a year off as a transitional period, returning to CMU in fall 2014 as a professor. Shapiro’s last day as provost will be July 31, 2013, according Steve Smith, director of public relations.
According to the Senior Officer Handbook, Shapiro’s “salary during the transition leave shall be at the level existing on the last day of regular employment as a Senior Officer,” Smith wrote in an email.
Smith said no search committee or person to chair a committee has yet been appointed to look for Shapiro’s replacement. A national search for a replacement is expected to begin this fall.
Shapiro isn’t the only senior officer to resign and come back as a teacher, either.
Sue Ann Martin, former dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts, is now a fixed-term faculty member in the communication and dramatic arts department. Martin came to CMU in 1997 as CCFA dean and served before resigning in December 2008. She took a semester off before returning to teaching.
Former Dean of Students Bruce Roscoe served for 16 years before stepping down in April 2011. He returned to CMU in June 2011, about two months later, as a professor of human environmental studies department.
Shapiro, Roscoe and Martin could not be reached for comment.
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I wish I could work a job for 3 years and then get a full year paid vacation.
These administrators have no shame …. no shame at all
This is absurd. No professor or for that matter administrator should make more money than the governor of Michigan. How is this windfall possible, especially at a time when rising tuition has resulted in an enrollment decline? I am also concerned over the the Provost’s qualifications to become a professor. While he has the academic qualifications, he has been an administrator for so long that he is a bit stale.
This is absurd. No professor or for that matter administrator should make more money than the governor of Michigan. How is this windfall possible, especially at a time when rising tuition has resulted in an enrollment decline? I am also concerned over the the Provost’s qualifications to become a professor. While he has the academic qualifications, he has been an administrator for so long that he is a bit stale.
Yes, we should all make $1/year. That makes a lot of sense.
Snyder took the $1 deal for the first year, but he now receives the full salary, which is about $160K: http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Michigan_state_government_salary#cite_note-6
CMU requires faculty who take sabbatical leave to return following their leave for a full year, or to repay the salary they received for their leave. Does Dr. Shapiro have a similar requirement, or will he be allowed to take his extravagant provost’s salary for his “transitional leave” for a year, and then decide at the end of that year not to transition back to the classroom after all and just retire, without having to pay CMU back for that year’s salary?
How is this news? This is standard practice at every University in the country.. Pretty dishonest to bring this up and not bring it into context.
Folks, that’s apparently the agreement the university made years ago. Like it or not, that’s the deal. The provost is entitled to whatever the deal calls for.
Senior said that’s standard practice and yep, I can starting naming universities like the University of Illinois.
However, it doesn’t have to be going forward. CM LIFE, the unions, Student Government should demand to see the new contract for the next Provost before he or she signs it to make sure what items are in the contract and allow people to voice their concern at the Board meeting.
You can’t correct the past.
You can correct the future.
In fact, you could put together the contract now. Let all applicants know this is the deal. Do you still want to apply? There will be no changes and be firm about it.
That’s transparency. Everyone will know what the deal is before they starting the search process. Once the person is hired, everyone knows what the deal is. That should be commonplace for all executive positions for any public K-12 or higher education unit.
What a farce! In my opinion, this bum should be given a handshake, a certificate recognizing his service, and nothing more! So he still wants to “teach?” Make him apply and if he passes the interview test before his peers and students, bring him in as an assistant professor and work his way up, like the rest of us!
Not even an entire handshake, just the finger.