Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly nominated three to serve on Kansas Board of Regents, which has jurisdiction over universities, community and technical colleges.
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Wichita State president Rick Muma will make the same salary as his predecessor, according to a document obtained through a records request.
He will make $450,000 a year the same salary as former president Jay Golden, who resigned abruptly last fall.
That makes Muma the third-highest paid college president in Kansas. University of Kansas Chancellor Doug Girod makes about $650,000 a year; Kansas State President Richard Myers’ annual salary is just over $600,000.
Muma will live in the president’s home at 17th and Hillside on WSU’s campus. Other benefits include a vehicle provided by the WSU Foundation, with gas paid for by the university.
After faculty and staff protested a new KBOR policy outside of Allen Fieldhouse Tuesday, Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer responded with a statement. She informed the community that the University will ask
The University of Kansas campus is pictured Friday, Feb. 6, 2015.
The Kansas Board of Regents is moving forward with a recommendation to study possibilities for a debt forgiveness program that aims to keep graduates of Kansas universities and colleges from leaving the state.
The board discussed the recommendation as part of its meeting Thursday, where Blake Flanders, president and chief executive officer of the board, said the plan is to gather data on the financing of such a program and to develop a list of possible pilot careers. Flanders said such programs are more complex than they may seem, because there must be systems in place to determine whether graduates are meeting requirements.