Quite the raise
By Barbara Soderlin
The Providence Business News reports that Jack Warner, our new South Dakota Board of Regents director, will be significantly boosting his salary in his move west. It seems like he will hold essentially the same job here, just with more schools and staff to oversee. Is the raise merited?
From the PBN:
State education officials long have lamented what they view as a lack of government support for Rhode Island’s college system. Those complaints have increased as the state’s fiscal woes have grown worse and appropriations have declined further.
Last year, some legislators talked of abolishing the Board of Governors for Higher Education to save money, a proposal Warner challenged in an interview with PBN last year.
Maurano said Warner’s annual salary in Rhode Island was about $135,000. In South Dakota, he will earn $323,000.