CHAPEL HILL -- A University of North Carolina panel has revised a policy that allows school administrators to collect leave pay even if they don't return to teaching positions at the school as planned.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that the panel approved a plan to stop chancellors and presidents of universities from taking paid leave without returning to the school.
The newspaper reported a provost at North Carolina Central University was paid $104,000 for six months' leave and then retired. A provost at Fayetteville State University got $72,500 in leave pay before being fired and one at UNC-Asheville got $59,000 before accepting a position at another school.
Leave pay has cost the universities $8 million in the past five years.
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This is EXACTLY the kind of
This is EXACTLY the kind of abuse in the UNC system that UNC president Bowles mentioned a while back. Guess what, the Chancellors are IGNORING Mr. Bowles & running their own campuses like their own little kingdoms while the peasants who actually do the work on the campuses see no raises, higher insurance costs, furlough time, and thinly veiled threats of layoffs, outsourcing, and other cutbacks. No wonder why morale among the workers at UNC campuses is at an all-time low.