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The University of Idaho is paying back its employees for wages that were cut during the pandemic.
An email from President Scott Green to the campus community this week announced the one-time incentive payment for most UI workers. President Green says the UI met its pandemic budget cutting targets without the savings from mandatory furloughs and salary reductions. The email states that the one-time payment is for every board-appointed employee on the UI payroll as of December 26
th 2020 who remained on payroll as of last Saturday. Those workers will receive a lump sum payment equal to the reduction in pay from mandatory furlough or salary reduction. President Green says he will donate his payment back to the institution.
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April 12, 2021 4:37 PM Melissa Luck
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MOSCOW, Idaho The president of the University of Idaho says special interest groups with a “libertarian-based ideology” are putting in jeopardy funding for higher education in the state.
In a letter sent to friends and alumni Monday, President Scott Green said supporters need to make their voices heard as the legislature prepares to debate a new funding bill.
The bill was voted down in the House last week, with Republicans complaining that colleges and universities were indoctrinating students with leftist social justice activism.
The lawmakers criticized higher education for promoting thikngs like critical race theory.
The University of Idaho is working to provide students and employees with the ability to use their preferred first name for use across platforms like BlackboardLearn and VandalWeb.
The changes are intended to prevent instances of deadnaming, experiences with which members of the transgender community are all too familiar. A person is deadnamed when they are called by their âbirth nameâ or âgiven nameâ when they no longer use it.
Interactions on programs like BlackboardLearn can cause difficulties when studentsâ dead names are still used. Students may not feel comfortable with those names as they may not represent them anymore, especially if theyâve already begun their transition.
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