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Board of Regents urges funding to restore missed pay increases for university staff and faculty; cites recruitment impacts
Summary
Kansas Board of Regents staff told the committee that state university faculty and staff lag market comparators and that fully restoring the 5% raises withheld in recent years would require substantial general‑use funding; Regents presented campus examples of lost faculty and technical staff to illustrate program and research consequences.
Blake Flanders, President and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, told the committee the Board’s office and the six state universities asked legislators to consider restoring a 5% pay adjustment that other state employees received in the two most recent pay actions but that Regents system staff and many university employees did not fully receive.
Why it matters: Regents said competition for faculty and technical staff is intensifying and recruiting/retaining faculty has downstream budget and program effects: when a faculty member…
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