Inside Higher Ed: Pecking order
Colleges everywhere are facing tough choices when it comes to paying for employees’ health insurance, and many institutions that once covered all such costs are now making their professors and staff members share in the bills.
The choices being made at San Joaquin Delta College, however, are raising a few eyebrows and a few tempers at the Stockton, Calif., community college. Until this year, the college paid the full cost of health insurance for all full-time employees. Some employees are being forced to share in the costs this year, and college officials have signaled that they expect similar contributions from faculty members when a new contract is ironed out next year. But at the same time, the college’s board has singled out a single group to continue to receive health insurance without having to pay a penny. That group is the board itself.
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