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Posted On: Aug 23, 2012
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UPDATE: UT System regents approve incentive pay plan

A proposal granting bonuses to University of Texas System presidents if graduation rates improve will go before the regents on Thursday.
Derek Key

UPDATE 9:31 p.m.: The UT System Board of Regents voted to begin implementing the pay-for-performance initiative for its 15 campuses. The initiative calls for university leaders to be eligible to earn an additional 10 percent on top of their base salaries if they meet certain goals. Officials now have 60 days to figure out the details.

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University of Texas President William Powers has made it clear through various e-mails, blog posts and speeches that his big goal is to improve four-year graduation rates. Luckily for him, it looks like he may have the money to get the job done.

The Associated Press reports that a proposal to grant bonuses to University of Texas System presidents if graduation rates improve will go before the board of regents today.

The finance committee of the UT System’s Board of Trustees already approved the idea Wednesday to adopt the incentive-pay system for the heads of the system’s nine universities and six health centers, as well as 11 system administrators.

According to Kevin Kiley from Inside Higher Ed, the proposal states that the system’s chancellor will meet with each individual administrator eligible for the incentive plan. He will then work with that administrator to develop three or four areas on which to evaluate that official's performance. The chancellor would then send those goals to the board for approval.

Kiley also wrote:

An example plan included in the proposal measured performance on four areas: cost savings from shared-services initiatives, growth in sponsored research programs from the prior year, philanthropic funding as a percentage of institutional expenditures, and four-year graduation rates (all issues that have generated headlines at the University of Texas at Austin in the past year).

Kiley notes that the UT System is one of the largest and most prominent public university systems in the country, which means that deciding to move toward an incentive pay system could potentially drive others to adopt similar approaches.

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