WSU professors: Cut administrators’ salaries - Katie Gillespie, the Columbian

More than 700 people have signed a petition calling for cuts to top Washington State University administrators’ salaries in light of pending budget cuts. University President Kirk Schulz announced cuts in October in an effort to reduce the university system’s $30 million annual deficit by $10 million every year until the deficit is eliminated. But Associate Professor Desiree Hellegers and Clinical Assistant Professor Elizabeth Siler, who launched the petition Nov. 20, believe those reductions should come from what they described as bloated administrative salaries, not from instructors or academic programs. “What we are aware of is a long-standing pattern of the lowest paid workers at the university being most impacted by these cuts,” said Hellegers, who teaches English at WSU Vancouver. https://www.columbian.com/news/2017/nov/30/wsu-professors-cut-administrators-salaries/