Planned-for merit raises for Texas A&M faculty and staff won’t be funded through a tuition hike, but administrators reaffirmed their commitment last week and in other recent statements to scrounge together money to provide them. A&M President R. Bowen Loftin earlier this year said that merit raises — which haven’t been given out since fall 2009, worrying administrators concerned about employee morale — have typically been linked to increases in tuition. After this month’s Board of Regents meeting, in which the panel held tuition flat, Loftin reiterated his support for providing them, pointing to a memo that was sent late last month to the campus.
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