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September 1, 1994

Board OKs 2.4% raise for chancellor, 2.7% for other officers

Board OKs 2.4% raise for chancellor, 2.7% for other officers

Chancellor J. Dennis O'Connor was given a 2.4 percent ($5,225) salary increase by the Board of Trustees compensation committee Aug. 8, raising his annual pay to $221,500.

The committee also approved 2.7 percent raises for six senior officers, the same percentage increase as the average raises for faculty and staff this year. The increases are retroactive to July 1.

In addition to giving O'Connor a raise, the committee approved two new special benefits for him: * A $3,360 allowance to purchase a $1 million term life insurance policy.

* A one-year sabbatical in the biology department, where he has tenure, should the board fire O'Connor at any time up to 10 years of service after his original hiring date of Aug. 1, 1991.

According to the resolution approved by the committee, O'Connor's compensation for the sabbatical year and the following year as a full-time professor "would be consistent with the treatment of deans and provosts compensation when they return to professional status, and would be decided by the compensation committee." Senior officers who got raises include Thomas P. Detre, senior vice chancellor, Health Sciences and director of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (who has worked at Pitt for 21 years), to $411,596; Jeffrey A. Romoff, senior vice chancellor, Health Administration and president of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (21 years), to $328,435; Ben Joseph Tuchi, senior vice chancellor, Business and Finance and University treasurer (two years), to $161,586; Lawrence Weber, vice chancellor, Institutional Advancement (two years), to $157,901; Lewis M. Popper, general counsel (nine years), to $128,082, and Robert E. Dunkelman, secretary of the Corporation (36 years), to $115,794.

James V. Maher, senior vice chancellor and provost, was recently hired at $162,000. Maher previously chaired the Department of Physics and Astronomy and has worked at Pitt for 24 years.

Maher's predecessor as provost, Interim Provost Mark Nordenberg, was paid $155,200. Nordenberg, who has been at Pitt for 16 years, has returned to the law school as a professor.

William V. Harmon resigned Aug. 31 as vice chancellor, Student Affairs. His salary had been $99,607. On Aug. 2, O'Connor announced that he was expanding Pitt's Office of Public Affairs by combining it with Student Affairs, effective Sept. 1. Leon L. Haley, who has served as Pitt's executive director of Public Affairs since March, now has the title of vice chancellor for Student and Public Affairs. His salary has not been announced.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 27 Issue 1

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