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Higher ed officials warn of staff losses to pay freeze.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-MAY-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Higher ed officials warn of staff losses to pay freeze.(Higher Education)

Article Excerpt
Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard

SALEM - Professors could be fleeing Oregon's public university campuses in droves or refusing to relocate here in the first place if the Legislature doesn't let the higher education system out from under a statewide pay freeze, officials warned Thursday.

The Legislature and Gov. Ted Kulongoski are working on budgets for 2003-05 that would require state employees to go without increases in pay and benefits. In addition, they have agreed on changes in the pension system that will slash the future growth of retirement benefits.

That, higher education officials said, puts them in a quandary; unlike other areas of state government, universities must compete nationwide with similar institutions for faculty members to teach students and undertake research.

"We know we're going to be the target of cherry picking," University System Chancellor Richard Jarvis told the Education Subcommittee of the Joint...

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