SALARY TRANSPARENCY IN ILLINOIS' COMMUNITY COLLEGES---- PLUS UPDATED LINKS!
For the Good of Illinois | Category: Education Editorial | Published: 8/3/2008
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Post the salary information of administrator, faculty, and staff online!adam_andrzejewski.jpg

By: Adam Andrzejewski
August 3, 2008


UPDATE ON THIS STORY

Read our letter to the College of DuPage Board of Trustees:
http://www.forthegoodofillinois.org/News/2008/8/4/ADAM-ANDRZEJEWSKIS-LETTER-TO-THE-COLLEGE-OF-DUPAGE-BOARD-OF-TRUSTEES/

Click Here to listen to the presentation at the July 22, 2008 COD Board of Trustees: 

“The College of DuPage, a community college in Illinois, …   now also posts a monthly treasurer's report including the total amount of cash on hand, and all receipts and disbursements in addition to investment and debt information. Checks written in June ranged from a $1.1 million bond payment to $21,574 for advertising in three local newspapers, all of which are named. That's transparency!”  National Examiner, June 22, 2008 http://www.examiner.com/a-1454026~Support_grows_for_putting_public_spending_online.html

Showcased by the National Examiner and others, the College of DuPage has become a national leader in financial transparency.  By proactively posting administrator, faculty, and staff salaries, the College of DuPage can once again spearhead much needed transparency within Illinois community colleges.  Of a total operating budget of $146 million, COD spends $106 million on administrator, faculty, and staff salaries and benefits.

We issue the clarion call… the College of DuPage should post their salary information online! 
All other community colleges in Illinois should follow suit.

Three Reasons for Community College Salary Transparency

1. Community colleges have a responsibility to be fully transparent with their hard working students.
Community colleges were not chartered as schools of elite society, rather they given the task of providing quality education to an economically sensitive and sometimes struggling contingent.  The students of community colleges are committed.  While attending school, students play many roles:  single parent, work two jobs, being retrained for a new career, etc.  Nearly all are sacrificing for education. Not only does the student body have an acute need for a valuable degree, but also for transparency in the price of that education.  Because the student’s financial sacrifice is so substantial, community colleges have additional obligation to be transparent with spending- including administrator, faculty, and staff pay.  At the College of DuPage for example, student tuition and fees account for $58 million of the $146 million operating budget.

2. Simple fairness requires that the community college be as transparent as the private property taxpayer.
The local property taxpayer-  who funds half of the community college budget-  is already transparent.  Found in most libraries, the Illinois public records database is an online records bank containing such information as private property owners’ name, address, date of sale, square footage, number of bathrooms, bedrooms, and lot size of any property. Unbeknownst to most people, the database even details personal information such as the purchase price, down payment and initial mortgage amount. 

3. The salary information of our community colleges is already the public’s right to know under the Freedom of Information Act. 
Therefore, this proposal does not change the law, only the path to information access.  Currently, an online repository of Illinois community college salary information does not exist.  In the k-12 public schools, since 1999, the Illinois people have had access to teacher and administrator salaries through the heroic efforts of www.ChampionNews.net .  When government functions properly, there should be no need for a private sector, non-profit organization to use the Freedom of Information Act to gather and post the financial information of a public entity. 

Good governance should begin in local government.  Taking proactive action, our local community colleges should make an individual commitment to financial transparency and take action on their own behalf. 

As nationwide leader in education transparency, the College of DuPage is just the institution to lead the way!

For The Good Of Illinois.

 

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I support your call for the data to be public. Community colleges form the backbone of our state and the transparency can sure help them improve their efficiency and operations.


On 7/24/2009 Wendy G said:

The College of Dupage worked with For the Good of Illinois and is making its spending transparent in 2008 by opening their check register to the public in an online searchable format. The college has an annual budget of nearly $140 million. Currently, the college is the largest school to put its check register online. The school lists all vendor expenses, including the check number, vendor name, amount and a brief description of each expense. Trustee David Carlin and the College Of DuPage and Michael E. McKinnon, COD Board Chairman worked together to post the check register online. Since his election as trustee in April- 2007, David Carlin has advocated openness in the governance of the community college. Carlin proposed and implemented posting audio taped board meetings, minutes of board meetings and monthly board packets online. David Carlin said, "In the internet age, taxpayers shouldn't have to file Freedom of Information Act requests to get information that should be made readily available to them online." online payday loan canada


On 5/23/2009 Tina Grier said:

If you guys want this country to continue to go downhill, then continue to attack teachers and their salaries, turn college teaching into a bunch of road-scholars (driving from school to school to make a penny) and allow other nations to go forward. Wait, this country is already going downhill, "adjunct" (benefit-less) teachers are the rule an dnot the exception, etc etc. Shame on those who attack teacher salaries but allow administrators to get life insurance for their whole family, health care, and 6-digit sit-on-your ass all day salaries...and their secretaries....are they rated on RATE MY PROFESSOR dot com?


On 3/27/2009 Red Fred said:

The Friends for Education aka COD teachers are mounting a massive effort to oust Board of Trustee members that agreed to post COD's checkbook and teacher salaries on-line. They've recruited democrats and dupes. There's plenty of $150,000+ a year teachers there who don't want taxpayers to know the teacher salaries are why costs are going up.


On 2/28/2009 Heaven Z said:

Somewhat, this have a good point. It is the right of the public to be aware about this matter. It wouldn’t only give us an idea but most importantly, it would be a good thing for the students to awake on this issue. Conversely, the University of Connecticut men's basketball coach, Jim Calhoun was recently asked by a reporter what he thought about his salary, as the state's highest paid employee, during a $2 billion budget shortfall. Calhoun was questioned about whether he was going to reduce his own salary, but the reporter was quickly shot down. His response was that his salary of over $1 million annually was justified because his basketball team seems to be able to turn a profit. Fair enough, right? Not like Wall Street; they have their salary clipped from now on if they need payday loans because they can't run their companies.


On 11/18/2008 Adam Andrzejewski said:

Board of Trustees: http://www.cod.edu/adminstr/board.htm Click here to go to the board of trustees page. To the right there will be a link to the current month's board packet, and it includes the check register. ON FORTHEGOODOFILLINOIS.org homepage, there is a list of 37 districts in Illinois practicing/adopting posting of check registry financial information.


On 11/18/2008 Jim Rainwaters said:

I was just looking at your website. Interesting info. Where would I find the financial data they are now providing and same question for the teacher salaries. Thank you. Jim Rainwaters


On 9/4/2008 Adam Andrzejewski said:

Please send me a copy of that clause and his contract for review... Without the details it is impossible to draw a parallel or contrast. Please email to adam@forthegoodofillinois.org. Just by general overview, confidentiality is the opposite of transparency.


On 9/4/2008 DuPage Taxpayer said:

It is interesting the recently-ousted president of College of DuPage, Sunil Chand, had a confidentiality clause included in his most recent contract (awarded upon his reassignment). How is this an example of transparency?


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