COLLEGE HEADS' PAY RESET.Byline: Robert Monroe Staff Writer Community college presidents in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. could make as much as $132,000 a year starting this summer under a new pay system that boosts the maximum salary by 21 percent, officials said Wednesday. The new pay scale is an attempt by the Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. to match the salaries of presidents at comparable colleges in California and standardize disparate salary levels among its nine campus leaders. The formula also ties pay to performance with an unprecedented clarity. ``They have to be found to exceed expectations,'' Chancellor Marshall Drummond Dr. Marshall (Mark) Drummond was the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges system from January 2004 through July of 2007. He left the system office to return to the Los Angeles Community College District as its chancellor, a post he previously held for six and a half said during a break in a board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. meeting at Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. . ``You don't move up just because you survive.'' The scale replaces a loose compensation system in which salaries officially topped out at $109,000. Underscoring the uncompetitive salaries in the district, the district broke that cap when it hired Darroch ``Rocky'' Young last summer at an annual salary of $117,000, only slightly more than his salary as a vice president at Santa Monica College Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is 32,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The college also has one of the largest international student populations of any community college in the US, with approximately . And incoming Mission College President Adriana Barrera reportedly made $130,000 at her previous job at at El Paso Community College History El Paso County Community College District was established in June 1969 when citizens of El Paso County voted to form a junior college district and elected a board of seven trustees to administer the College. , although she will make $121,264 here. Drummond said the new salary range, which the district board of trustees voted for in February, will place it in the middle of range of presidential salaries earned statewide. Drummond might present detailed recommendations for the salary changes to the board next month, Mercer said. Criteria for placement on the 15-step salary schedule and for raises include the number of years a president has been in the district and performance measures such as student enrollment, budget-balancing success and rates of student transfers to universities. ``That's what this process is all about,'' said trustee Georgia Mercer. ``Are you doing a good job or are you doing a great job?'' Valley College President Tyree Wieder, whose salary stands to match that of Young after five years at her post, said the increase addresses the reality that other districts pay more. ``I think it shows good faith on the part of the board members in terms of recognizing the disparity,'' she said. |
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