Lexington Herald-Leader: KCTCS chief’s pay takes bite of morale
Michael McCall, the head of Kentucky’s community college system, recently made headlines around the country when a national survey found that he was the highest paid president of a community college system in the country.
Faculty and staff of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System knew McCall made a good salary for the difficult job of creating an entirely new system of community and technical schools — a move that came out of the higher education reform act of 1997.
But faculty members such as Jake Gibbs were shocked to find that McCall’s package of salary and benefits totaled $610,000. That number, which is from a survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education, does not compare favorably to the pay of KCTCS faculty and staff members, who not only are the lowest paid in Kentucky, but rank well below national averages for community colleges. Current state funding problems mean that bigger raises are probably out of the question for the immediate future.
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