The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (MnSCU) and more than 3,000 faculty members at the system's seven universities have reached a tentative agreement calling for no across-the-board salary increases or annual step increases for the next two years. The agreement comes four months before the current labor contract expires on June 30, 2009.
In a statement, MnSCU Chancellor James McCormick said, “We are hopeful that maintaining salaries at current levels will result in fewer layoffs and fewer severe program cuts than they otherwise would have planned.”
