Face The State managing editor Brad Jones talks with Newstalk 1310 KFKA's Amy Oliver about Sen. Brandon Shaffer statement he and his Democrat Senate colleagues believe a conservative professor "doesn't belong at CU." Also, a discussion of state legislative races to watch this fall.
COLORADO'S FRONTPAGE
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Follow this topic by RSSCU Denver chancellor could bank $718,115 in 2009
A Face the State Staff Report
March 5, 2009According to documents obtained by Face the State, University of Colorado Denver Chancellor M. Roy Wilson is the highest paid CU chancellor, earning a base salary of $468,115, incentive payments of up to $175,000 annually and an additional $75,000 per year in supplemental pay. All told, Wilson has the potential to earn up to $718,115 per year - almost twice the university's other two chancellors - and making him the second highest paid university employee, second only to a resident doctor in the school of medicine.
Segment 5 - CU System salaries
With the likely departure and replacement of CU-Boulder chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson, FTS explores the salaries of administrators and professors in the CU system. As institutions of higher education tighten the belt amidst a state budget shortfall, is the state's flagship university getting the biggest possible bang for its payroll buck?
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Amid economic woes, thousands at CU still rake in six figures
A Face the State Staff Report
February 12, 2009As news spreads that the University of Colorado at Boulder's Chancellor, Bud Peterson, will leave his $363,478 a year post to serve as president of Georgia Tech, he does so as just one of more than 2,000 CU employees to earn over $100,000.
Benson may be first CU President to appoint Boulder chancellor
A Face the State Staff Report
February 10, 2009The University of Colorado announced Monday that CU Boulder Chancellor "Bud" Peterson is Georgia Tech University's sole finalist to serve as its next president. Should Peterson move on, this will be the first time in CU history that CU's president will appoint the next chancellor without approval from the Board of Regents.
CU's Benson Wrong on Tenure
FTS Opinion
December 16, 2008In Monday's Rocky Mountain News, University of Colorado President Bruce Benson defends tenure at his institution as a seven-year process that includes "great expectations for faculty members who want to keep it." We wish we could believe him.
A sad era for the CU journalism school
FTS Opinion
May 19, 2008Free Speech at the University of Colorado’s journalism school has died a sad death, suffering from a lack of outrage over the recent decision by campus leaders to impose politically correct and intellectually bankrupt censorship on student reporters there.
Sen. Shaffer: Conservative prof. "doesn't belong at CU"
A Face the State Staff Report
May 19, 2008State Sen. Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, is less than thrilled about the University of Colorado’s plan to raise $9 million for an endowed chair of conservative thought and policy.
5/19: Intellectual diversity at CU
The University of Colorado is considering an endowed chair for conservative thought, and as you’d imagine the proposal hasn’t been received very well.
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