Salary Increases For Administrators Could Be Tied To Rising Tuition

The past decade for the state’s higher education has seen three trends: cuts to state funding, rising tuition, and growing salaries. State higher education officials say linking salary and benefits costs to rising tuition is not so simple. There are a number of factors that affect rising tuition costs, they said, most notably the state’s minimal contribution to public higher education. New Hampshire is last in the country for state funding of higher education. Still, the state’s university system employs more than 100 people earning more than $150,000 a year, and many of those are administrative positions. Read more at:
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