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University President Takes $90K Pay Cut to Boost Wages of Low-Income Employees

August 7, 2014 /

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His time may be short, but Kentucky State University interim president Raymond Burse is making his term memorable. Recently, Burse and the school’s Board of Regents approved a measure to move $90,000 of his salary to inflate the wages of the university’s minimum wage workforce – a move that will increase hourly wages to $10.25 per hour.

​Burse, the University’s former president from 1982 to 1989, recently came back to KSU as a temporary replacement for now-retired president Mary Evans Sias. Between his stints as KSU president, Burse spent 17 years with General Electric before retiring in 2012.

Andrew Ward

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(Many thanks to Burt Caldwell for sharing this.)

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