When Peter Likins was inaugurated in 1997, he took an $80,000 pay cut from his job as Lehigh Universityâs president to take over UAâs top job.
Since then, the Arizona Board of Regents has raised Likinsâ salary twice to its current $320,000 a year. Meanwhile, Likins has piloted the institution through sweatshop scandals, a continual loss of top faculty and, most recently, a series of budget cuts that have forced the university to return tens of millions of dollars to the state.
Last week UA staff and students found out that Likins ÷ one of UAâs highest-paid employees ÷ would get a $148,394 raise.
They were shocked.
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