High executive compensation and lack of shared governance raises concerns
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on executive pay, pandemic austerity and concerns about shared governance at the University.
- The News-Letter reported that President Ronald J. Daniels received more than $3.1 million in reportable compensation and about $1.2 million in other compensation for the 2020 fiscal year; the University said the Board of Trustees reviews compensation annually using outside market analyses.
- The paper reported that pandemic austerity measures, including retirement contribution suspensions, furloughs and salary cuts, lasted until April 2021 despite a $75 million budget surplus.
- The article adds that graduate student Michael Wilkinson said University support for students was limited and that students had to fight for COVID relief funds.
- The reporter writes that Professor François Furstenberg questioned the lack of external oversight, while the article says full-time students, faculty and staff cannot serve on the Board of Trustees.
- According to the article, the University said the Board regularly meets with the Student Government Association and community members.
- The News-Letter also reported that faculty had objected to centralized decision-making, including a 2020 change that created a Tenure Advisory Committee made up of presidential nominees rather than elected members.