Catherine Riordan has been named the new provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Western Washington University.
Catherine Riordan (courtesy WWU)
Riordan, who is the vice provost for academic affairs at Central Michigan University, will start her new position in August.
She replaces Dennis Murphy, who is retiring from his provost position this summer after 12 years.
Riordan, who was selected from a national search, has been at CMU since 2001 and was the director of Management Systems at the Unviersity of Missouri-Rolla from 1991 to 2000. Riordan has a doctorate in Social Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany and taught Psychology for 21 years.
Why is she getting a starting salary of $200,000 a year plus free health care and parking and Dennis Murphy started at less than half of that?
This is just $50k less than WWU President Morse was making a few months back! Obscene gold plated salaries and benefit plans. WWU go figure, elite figure head positions like this should be abolished in these times of 11.4 million people out of work. They should be slowing State government expenses not growing it! The Board of Trustees that approved this and HR must be out of their frickin minds!
CMU did not pay her even half that much, it doesnt take a PHD in psychology to figure out that all the midwestern rats are jumping ship to higher paid West Coast schools…. including Dr. Shepard. This comes at the cost of student paid tuition raises. I.e. 14% in the next year is basically stealing from parents and students!
Vikings a true welfare State for the rich right here in Bellingham!
In these tough economic times the Board of Trustees have to be crazy to hire this women at $200,000 a year plus free medical benefits and retirement and moving!
With the tuition inflations increases of 14% I do not see how you can justify paying Provosts and Presidents on the back of the students paying tuition. It is unethical!
Could WWU have promoted internally or within the community?
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