Money Talks

Shared governance is too abstract and bureaucratic sounding to fire up some faculty members.

But everyone's eyes open wide at dollar signs, especially when there are so many in President McDavis' new salary:

$380,000 is fair market price for a president who's never been properly evaluated and lost the confidence of faculty, students, and staff long ago.

So says the Board of Trustees, who gave McDavis a 29% raise to go along with his new five-year contract.

The insult isn't just in the size of the raise, which at $85,000 is more than most people who teach and work at OU make.

The insult is in the blatant disregard Trustees have once again shown toward the university in whose interests they should be working. This is nothing new but the level of outrage we see around campus and increasingly across the state is unprecedented.

Money talks and no one is missing the message. Check out recent coverage by the Columbus Dispatch, the Athens News, the Post, and WOUB.