But it’s time for UC to lead the way toward a new model of doing business by stopping this practice of justifying raises through compensation studies. Those studies, an industry unto themselves, have been a disheartening factor nationwide in the academic arms race that has prompted tuition hikes to outstrip most other sectors. The question shouldn’t be what other schools pay, providing a theoretical model of competition, but a true study of what it takes to hire and retain great people in the real world of the ivory tower.

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by Karin Klein, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: December 2nd, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.