UNDATED (MetroSource-WSAU) Two UW chancellors involved in separate scandals are not being given raises.
The UW-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow was denied a performance raise after being reprimanded for inviting a porn star to speak to students during free speech week a month ago. He said that the speaking fee came out of his office’s discretionary funds. He’s since paid the money back. His office accounts are now under audit.
The UW Board of Regents also denied a raise to another chancellor, Beverly Kopper at UW-Whitewater, whose husband was removed from an honorary, unpaid position and banned from her UW campus after an investigation concluded he had sexually harassed female employees. That investigation is ongoing.
10 of the system’s 13 chancellors were approved for raises, the largest going to UW-Madison’s Rebecca Blank. Her $72,000 raise brings her salary to $582,000. UW-Stevens Point chancellor Bernie Patterson was also approved for a raise despite an $8-million budget shortfall on his campus. The raises were funding in part by eliminating the chancellor position for the UW Extension system.
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