Posts published on March 8, 2013

Texas Administration pay Linked to College Completion

PERFORMANCE PAY COMES TO CAMPUS
If they want a raise, leaders across the University of Texas System are going to have to perform for it. Under a plan approved by the Board of Regents last week, salary increases for presidents, chancellors and other executives at the system level and at individual campuses and university hospitals will be contingent on meeting several short-term and long-term targets. Sample targets included in the proposal included improving the 4-year graduation rate and increasing donations. Approval of the plan comes one year after the system approved Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s “Framework for Advancing Excellence,” which seeks to improve productivity and accountability across the system through nine broad policy goals. The article is from Pew Center on the States