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EMERITUS PROFESSOR DISTINCTION

There’s no doubt college is becoming less affordable each year.

Still, this University sees many stu-dents and families who are willing to take out loans, pay out of pocket and work extra jobs to pay for an Illinois education.

So where does Salary Guide fit in? The Daily Illini publishes its annual

Salary Guide to allow students, parents and even state taxpayers to see where their money goes.

Are those lackluster professors who receive hefty paychecks truly deserving of their high salaries? What about those loved professors who don’t make half of what the University’s top earners make?

By publishing these salaries, we are holding the University and its employ-ees accountable for the education of more than 40,000 students. Those who are pay-ing to attend this school will be able to see if money is being fairly distributed based on performance.

This year, our print publication is less about listing the salaries of the highest paid employees. Student tuition and Illi-nois taxpayer money is being allocated toward areas you might not have thought about. This includes retired professors who come back because they love teach-ing, but it’s also paying the salaries of for-mer University presidents who resigned amid scandals.

We hope that through Salary Guide, you’ll be able to better understand how your money is being used.

Maggie can be reached at [email protected] and @maggiehuynh.

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employees’ salaries are one of the main components of the University’s budget. The salaries we requested this year add up to nearly $1.8 billion. With the University’s ongoing process of reviewing its spending and making decisions in this budget

crisis, there has never been such an important time for transparency.In publishing this guide, The Daily Illini aims to continue the

transparency the administration has begun.We feel it is the right of Illinois taxpayers and the University’s

tuition-paying students to see how their money is being spent at the on University, including on salaries.

The figures listed in this guide and in our database do not include all compensation, such as overtime, benefits and other pay means. The database does, however, list part-time and full-time employees. It goes without saying that many factors affect how much each employee is paid, including experience, education, specialized training and skill level. Regardless, our philosophy is that more information is better than less information, and that the more access readers have to this information, the better job the University will do in using that money wisely.

To provide readers with the most up-to-date information, we’re presenting “Grey Book” data, which is provided by the University with information on academic, salaried appointments.

This means the data for University of Illinois employees is current as of September 2013, when the Board of Trustees approved the salaries for all University employees. The salaries that we’re publishing are based on the annual appointments that will carry through the forthcoming year, which ensures that our database includes the administrative appointments that didn’t take effect until the beginning of this year. For nonacademic, civil service wages, the University provided us with their average salaries based on hourly wages for 52 40-hour weeks a year.

We occasionally get this question: “My salary is personal. Why is it being published?”

Like many other things published by The Daily Illini, state employees’ salaries are public record. Salary Guide does not include personal information such as addresses, phone numbers or social security numbers.

Anyone can file an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the information we’ve printed here. And for all academic positions, anyone can download the University’s Grey Book as a PDF or view it online at uillinois.edu, but we don’t expect that to be nearly as accessible as the information we’re presenting.

This year, the print edition focuses on the context of top administrator’s pay compared with their peers and provides an in-depth look at the budget for the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics. In addition, it examines how much the University is spending on emeriti professors.

Online, in our full database of employees’ pay from all three campuses, you can see how much more an employee is making than the rest of his or her campus, or how his or her salary compares with the department’s median pay. To access the full list, visit SalaryGuide.DailyIllini.com.

We started publishing Salary Guide in Spring 2010, a time when data journalism began moving into its

“hyperactive toddlerhood.” At that time, Salary Guide was about providing read-ers with a single number: a certain per-son’s salary. But The Daily Illini billed itself as a guide to people’s salaries, not a dictionary. As data journalism matures, we owe it to our entire audience to pro-vide you with visualized, contextualized information that will help you actually understand what each salary means.

We built this year’s Salary Guide with the goal of making it easy for our readers to arm themselves with this information. The question “who earns the most?” is unambiguously answered within the pag-es of this edition. But the question “is this fair?” is more complicated. We hope that our work makes answering that question much easier for you, whether you’re a University employee, tuition-paying stu-dent or parent, or just someone interested in the University of Illinois.

This is the first of what we hope will be many applications that will help stu-dents, faculty, staff and anyone with an interest in how the University of Illi-nois and the Champaign-Urbana region operates.

So visit SalaryGuide.DailyIllini.com on your mobile phone or your desktop computer. We hope you find the expe-rience thoroughly informative. Happy searching!

Nathaniel can be reached at [email protected] and @nat_lash.

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BY ELEANOR BLACKSTAFF WRITER

To celebrate the excellence of faculty members at the Uni-versity, endowed chairs and professorships are awarded to those who distinguish themselves in their fi elds.

Faculty appointments range from a campus-wide scope to others based in individual colleges, departments or other aca-demic units. These appointments are supported fi nancially by an endowment’s annual spending allowance, which is the result of one or more private gifts.

The type of named appointment is defi ned by the terms of the gift or gifts contributing to it, said Barbara Wilson, execu-tive vice provost for faculty and academic affairs in an email. A named chair is the highest named title at the University and is reserved for appointments supported by a minimum endowment of $2 million. A named professorship is supported by a minimum endowment of $500,000.

“The endowment earns income in the way of interest, and that is what we use to pay for the professorships’ salary sup-plement and research funding,” Wilson said. “We don’t actu-ally touch the endowment itself. Each chair or professorship has its own endowment ... that is earning money.”

Paula Adametz Hays, administrative assistant in the offi ce of the LAS dean, said each appointment is different.

“Some endowed appointments come with agreements where the donors specify the area and/or department,” Hays said in an email. “In those cases, the units determine if they have a current faculty member in the relevant area with the appro-priate stature, or if this would need to be fi lled through an external search.”

For named appointments at the college level that are sup-ported by a gift to the college, Hays said a call is put out to all unit heads when there is a vacant or available funded appointment.

The units can then make nominations, which are reviewed by a college committee comprised of faculty members who already hold a named appointment. The committee then pass-es its advice onto the dean, who then decides how to proceed.

She added that the next step would be to solicit letters from experts at other institutions about the scholarship and accom-plishments of the faculty member in question. Named profes-sorships and chairs are then voted upon by the LAS Execu-tive Committee and then passed along to the Committee on Endowed Appointments.

At this time, Swanlund Chairs make up the largest group of campus-level endowed chairs with 15 appointments. The endowment was provided by the late Maybelle Leland Swan-lund, and its purpose is to attract leading fi gures in the arts and sciences to the University or to recognize outstanding faculty members at the University, according to the Offi ce of the Provost website.

Physics professor Klaus Schulten, a Swanlund Chair, said the named professor positions are given to those seen as par-ticularly strong leaders in their fi eld. Once one becomes a named chair, there are no specifi c rules to be followed, but there are certain expectations.

“When you get the chaired professor position, you have to be a world leader or clearly distinguished leader in your fi eld,” he said. “People hope that you stay a leader in your fi eld and that you continue to be an academic and scientifi c leader as time goes on.”

Schulten added that although he doesn’t have to take any concrete actions as a named chair, he does feel obligated to continue working hard.

“You want to add honor to it, you want to also show gratitude to the people that believe in the institution, who have shown support in it,” Schulten said.

Professor in journalism Leon Dash, also a Swanlund Chair, said he does “feel an internal pressure to do a lot of things.”

While working on a documentary about the University’s Department of Rehabilitation and Education Services, the fi rst of its kind in the nation, Dash traveled to various loca-tions to help try to raise money for the project. As the direc-tor of the Center for Advanced Study, Dash is currently trav-eling to fi ve similar centers at public universities around the nation to help look at the future of the University’s center. Much of the travel expenses for these projects are paid for by his Swanlund endowment.

Gutgsell endowed professors make up the second largest group of campus-level endowed chairs with 14 appointments. These professorships are fi ve-year renewable term appoint-ments, though Professor Robert McChesney, a Gutgsell pro-fessor in communication, said he was not certain what the criteria are for renewal.

“I assume it is to maintain a stellar and productive research record,” he said in an email, adding that the purpose of the endowment is to “provide resources to faculty so they might be equipped to do their work more effectively.”

McChesney shared Schulten’s sentiments about the honor that comes with the endowed appointments.

“It is an immense honor to have an endowed chair, and I suspect my peers feel the same way I do: with these privileg-es come great responsibilities to the university, the scholarly community and the general public,” he said.

For donors, the endowment is more about giving than receiv-ing attention. In 2010, alumnus James Avery established the James Avery Endowed Chair in the College of Fine and Applied Arts with a $1.5 million gift

“I got a wonderful education there at the architecture department as an industrial designer,” Avery said. “My pro-fessor, Jim Shipley, was great and I appreciated his impact on my life and so I set up that chair.”

In addition to honoring his former teacher, Avery set up the chair to help those in the fi eld with any fi nancial needs. He has no input on who is appointed and said “whoever they wish to help is great.”

“The purpose of the chair is to help others, (who) need some fi nancial help to get along,” Avery said.

Avery said he believes in returning as much as he can to those who have helped him and he hopes future graduates do the same.

Such endowments make it clear to members of the Univer-sity that this is a valuable institution.

“I’m a proud faculty member and I’m also proud of people loving the University and believing in it and supporting it,” Schulten said.

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$2 MILLION $500,000

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Below are the salaries for the 12 presidents of the Big Ten schools and the year their terms began

*These numbers indicate base salary pay. These individuals may receive further compensation and bonuses that are not included.

illinois

$462,375robert easter

Term began: 2012

Presidents$520,000

lou anna simonTerm began: 2005

$603,357mary sue coleman

Term began: 2002*Numbers current as of Aug. 2012

$555,745michael mcrobbie

Term began: 2007

$513,003sally mason

Term began: 2007

$515,000rodney erickson

Term began: 2011

$418,749kevin reilly

Term began: 2004

$630,508joseph alutto

Term began: 2013*Interim president

$610,000eric kalerTerm began: 2011

not available

morton schapiroTerm began: 2009

$431,276james b. milliken

Term began: 2004

$420,000mitchell daniels

Term began: 2013

michigan state

michigan indiana iowa penn state

wisconsinohio state

minnesota

northwesternnebraskapurdue

In May 2009, the Chicago Tribune broke a story about the Urbana campus of the University giving preferential treatment to applicants placed on the “Category I” list. The list was populated with people recommended by lawmakers, University trustees and other public figures who were able to influence University officials to apply more lenient standards in admission. Because of this scandal, both the University president, B. Joseph White, and the chancellor of the Urbana campus, Richard Herman, resigned; however, both stayed on campus in faculty positions and are still on the University payroll today.

Resigned officials still teaching on campus

FoRmeR title University PresidentRole B. Joseph White oversaw all three campuses of the University during the Category I scandal. After months of building pressure, White resigned to help the University move onto a new chapter, though he was not implicated as a responsible party in internal investigations.title President Emeritus and James F. Towey Professor of Business and LeadershipSalaRy $289,755/$292,255ClaSSeS taught BADM 199 (Undergraduate Open Seminar/Business as a Force in American Society), BADM 590 (Seminar in Business Administration/US Corporate Governance), LAW 792 (Current Legal Problems/US Corporate Governance)

FoRmeR title Chancellor (Urbana campus)Role Richard Herman was chancellor of the Urbana campus during the University’s clout scandal. The Chicago Tribune’s FOIA requests show email correspondence that proved Herman was involved in influencing the preferential treatment. Herman resigned shortly after but took over a faculty post in Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership.title Professor of Educational Policy, Organization and LeadershipSalaRy $200,000ClaSSeS taught EOL 595 (Independent study), EOL 590 (Advanced seminar)

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$530,501phyllis wise

Position: Chancellor and vice president

Term began: 2011

Seconds-in-command

$300,000june youatt

Position: Executive vice president for academic affairs and provost

Term began: 2013

$450,000martha pollack


Term began: 2013

$387,600lauren robel

Position: Executive vice president and provost

Term began: 2012

$399,750barry butler

Position: Executive vice president and provost

Term began: 2011

not available

nicholas jonesPosition: Executive vice president

and provostTerm began: 2013

$495,000rebecca blank

Position: Chancellor Term began: 2013

$461,040joseph steinmetzPosition: Executive vice president

and provostTerm began: 2013

$412,427karen hanson

Position: Senior vice president and provost

Term began: 2012

not available

daniel linzerPosition: ProvostTerm began: 2007

$349,579harvey perlman

Position: ChancellorTerm began: 2001

$287,840tim sands


Term began: 2010

michigan indiana iowa penn state

wisconsinohio state

minnesota

northwesternnebraskapurdue

illinois michigan state

In March 2012, the embattled presidency of Michael Hogan, White’s replacement, finally came to an end. Before deciding to resign, Hogan had endured a faculty uprising and a scandal from his office involving his chief of staff impersonating faculty leaders in order to influence discussion.

Ex-University president entangled in scandal

Below are the salaries for the 12 seconds-in-command for all of the Big Ten schools and the year their terms began.

*These numbers indicate base salary pay. These individuals may receive further compensation and bonuses that are not included.

MIcHael HoganFormEr titlE University presidentHogan was the next non-interim president of the University following White’s resignation. later in his tenure at the University, Hogan’s chief-of-staff lisa Troyer allegedly pretended to be a faculty leader and influenced discussion in Hogan’s favor. Troyer resigned amid the scandal. Faculty members later wrote and signed a letter of “no confidence” in Hogan to present to the Board of Trustees. Hogan resigned before the letter could be presented.titlE Distinguished Professor (UIS)Salary $290,802/$298,799ClaSSES taUght HIS 440(Hiroshima)/HIS 503(Researching and Writing History)

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Emeritus faculty still work on campusAlthough faculty designated as emeriti are retired, some still work in their old departments and make up a small percentage of the total faculty.

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4 295of

17 2,993ENGINEERING

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BUSINESS

3 423of

EDUCATION

6 413of

FAA

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MEDIA

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By MiranDa hollowayStaff writer

John Lynn was only 14 years old when he first visited the University of Illinois at Urba-na-Champaign. At the time, he attended what was then Glenbrook High School and com-peted in science competitions.

Lynn won at the regional level and attend-ed the state competition at the University. The school made such an impression that he returned for his undergraduate degree.

This wasn’t the end of the story for Lynn, however, as he returned as a history profes-sor in 1978. He taught at the University until 2009, when he retired and earned an emeri-tus designation.

The title of emeritus is given to qualified retirees to show the University’s gratitude for the work that a faculty member did in their position after their retirement, campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said in an email.

Being an emeritus faculty member is a dis-tinction rather than a paid position, requiring zero time commitments, Kaler said.

Faculty gain emeritus status after retire-ment, and approval for the distinction goes through multiple channels.

According to the Office of the Provost’s pol-icy for awarding emeritus status, the process begins with a recommendation by the depart-ment, and must be approved by the school, college and Provost Ilesanmi Adesida. The Board of Trustees must then approve the recommendation, which is submitted to the board by President Robert Easter.

“The criteria is we have to see that this professor would be a good member of the community and a good citizen,” said Mar-tin Wong, an associate dean in the College of Engineering.

Once the title is given, it is kept for life. These professors are eligible to receive ben-efits, including participation in graduation ceremonies and the same access to Univer-sity Library as tenured faculty.

“When I finally got my business card that says ‘professor emeritus’ from the depart-ment I said ‘ah, it’s my forever card,’” Lynn said.

Emeriti faculty, like other retirees, have multiple options after retirement. Some retire completely, others work at different schools or jobs, and some choose to stay working at the University in some capacity.

“After you retire, you might teach a bit and then just want to enjoy life,” Wong said.

For the emeriti faculty who stay with the University, there is not large financial gain, as retirees are subject to earnings limitation by the State University Retirement System. Additionally, little of the University’s over-all budget is spent on emeriti faculty, as each individual college spends less than 1 percent of its budget paying emeriti professors.

Retirees who stay working can opt for more open schedules, giving them the freedom to explore other opportunities. Those who

choose to focus on research, such as Johna-than Danzting, an emeritus professor who worked in mechanical engineering, depend on outside funding for their research, just like other researchers.

Danzting now spends about four months doing computational work with a colleague at École Polytechnique Fèdèrale De Lausanne, a Swiss university.

After retiring, Danzting is focusing on research, which is the aspect of his job that he enjoyed the most.

“It keeps me active doing the things I real-ly liked to do, and I get to interact with my colleagues, and it was the fun part of the job that I had less and less time to do while I was a professor,” Danzting said.

Retired professors who stay tend to work part time, allowing them to focus on aspects other than teaching, such as writing, researching or enjoying time off.

Lynn, who retired for another part-time position with Northwestern University, enjoys his new schedule. After having a prob-lem with his agreement with Northwestern, Lynn returned to the University. He said he likes having the opportunity to both write and teach.

“I have a lot of gratitude toward the depart-ment for bringing me back,” Lynn said. “I love to teach, and I love the experience of being around students. ... I hope to stay in the saddle as long as they give me a horse to ride.”

His schedule allows him to teach two undergraduate courses during the fall semes-ter and work on two books, both of which are under contract, during the spring and sum-mer semesters.

Joseph Finnerty, an emeritus professor in finance, teaches one section of his Financial Markets course in the fall semester.

Finnerty created the course in 1989 but did not have a chance to teach it until the early 2000s. The course is a requirement for finance and accounting majors. As many as 400 students can be enrolled, Finnerty said, but he said he likes to keep the class sizes smaller — around 40 students.

“That’s why I get involved in teaching this particular course,” Finnerty said. “I have an ownership. This is something that I did, and I’m proud of it.”

When he is not teaching, Finnerty and his wife enjoy traveling and skiing, and they take advantage of his summers and springs off to go on trips.

Being in the campus environment is also enough to keep retirees like Finnerty close to the University.

“I’ve always been on a college campus and am intrigued by what happens to college cam-puses, especially in the fall,” Finnerty said. “And just the vitality and what it means to be here at a vibrant university campus. It’s just a phenomenal experience.”

Both Lynn and Finnerty enjoy staying involved at the University and in their fields.

“I like being part of the University com-munity,” Lynn said. “I have been part of this university in one sense or another since I was 14 years old.”

Miranda can be reached at [email protected].

Retired faculty working part-time on research, writing


Greatest DIFFereNCe IN DeaN aND teNUreD FaCULtY saLarY BY COLLeGedean paymedian faculty pay differencedean & cOlleGe

$112,206 $386,118MEDICINE*URETZ OLIPHANT

AHS (APPLIEd HEALTH SCIENCES) $83,691 $287,000TANYA GALLAGHER

$175,677 $326,651LAWBRUCE SMITH

$123,847 $320,500ENgINEErINgANdREAS CANGELLARIS

FAA $81,922 $262,013(FINE & APPLIEd ARTS)

EdWARd FESER

BUSINESS $197,360 $370,249(COLLEGE OF BUSINESS)

LARRY dEBROCK

LEr* $127,249 $204,582(SCHOOL OF LABOR & EMPLOYEE RELATIONS)

FRITZ dRASGOW

$104,918 $271,566EDUCATIONMARY KALANTZIS

SOCIAL WOrK $87,847 $247,141(SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK)

WYNNE KORR

$253,400MEDIA $95,500(COLLEGE OF MEdIA)

JAN SLATER

LAS* $95,328 $225,000(LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES)

BRIAN ROSS

VET MED $134,415 $236,059(VETERINARY MEdICINE)

HERBERT WHITELEY

gSLIS* $88,600 $184,436(LIBRARY &INFORMATION SCIENCE)

RENEAR ALLEN

ACES $96, 912 $302,735(AGRICULTURAL, CONSUMER & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES)

ROBERT HAUSER

$77,333

$95,836

$101,644

$129,672

$150,974

$157,900

$159,294

$166,648

$172,889

$180,091

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$203,309

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and Saturday nights, a small blue ban-ner hangs outside of the Illinois Ice Arena advertising Illini hockey home games.

It’s a vast contrast from the 36-by-96-foot videoboard at Memorial Stadi-um hanging over campus as a constant reminder of football games happening on Saturday morning, but it’s the best the club hockey team can do on a tight budget.

Although the Univer-sity paid head football coach Tim Beckman $1.6 million last year, the Illini hockey coach-ing staff never sees a cent of the school’s money. Instead, Illi-ni hockey head coach Nick Fabbrini and assistant coach Blake Sorensen’s paychecks come directly from annual dues paid by the players on the team.

“It’s definitely differ-ent being a club sport,” senior winger and team treasurer John Scully said. “They’re giving up their time. Fabbrini (lives in Champaign) to coach us and that’s his No. 1 priority.”

To acquire health insurance, Fabbrini took a job as a safe-ty aid for the Unit 4 Champaign Public School District. Sorensen also works as the head coach for the Latin School of Chicago’s varsity hockey team, while working another job as a sales consul-tant for a hockey equipment supplier in Chicago.

Sorenson lives in Chicago but gives up the last half of his week to travel to Champaign for practices and games, staying in an extra bedroom at Fab-brini’s house from each Wednesday through the weekend.

“For him to come down a couple days a week and dedicate his weekends to coaching us is huge,” Scully said of Sorenson.

Fabbrini said the team’s financial relationship with the University is get-ting better as the years go on, especial-

ly after receiving a deduction in rent costs for the club’s home games this past offseason.

But sophomore John Olen said the financial side of playing hockey at the University can become stressful, espe-cially when making sure each player’s individual dues — which increased from this year, according to Olen — are paid at the beginning of each semes-ter. And despite the University’s reduc-tion, the team still has to pay thousands

of dollars per week in order to practice and play games on its own home ice.

The week prior to its weekend series against Lindenwood, the club paid $450 to rent just five and a half hours of ice time for practice. During the weekend series, the team spent an additional $2,773 to rent out the arena for the games against the Lions. In addition to hiring employees, the team has to hire police officers to monitor the crowds.

But after seeing fans come to games every weekend, assistant captain Mike Evans said the players believe

the work they did to promote the team earlier in the season is worth it.

On homecoming weekend, the Illini drew more than 600 fans and generated $4,914 in ticket sales alone.

Fabbrini has no doubt the Illini hock-ey club would be a successful Division I program, drawing crowds as well as it currently does without University support. The head coach said the pro-gram would immediately become rel-evant and a top destination for hockey players across the Midwest.

“I get emails from 200 kids a year looking to come play hockey,” Fabbrini said, just days after receiving a couple emails from players in Ontario, Canada, who were hoping to come play at Illi-nois. “We’re pretty much limited to in-state kids, but there’s a lot of interest in our program across North America.”

Without scholarships to offer, the hockey team misses out on many recruits that can’t afford the price of out-of-state tuition.

“It’s a lot to ask,” Fabbrini said.The Illini hockey club has won the

ACHA National Championship twice in the past nine years (2005, 2008), includ-ing the only undefeated season (38-0) in league history in 2007-08. During the team’s championship run in 2004-05, only five of the team’s 29 players were from outside Illinois, while just two of 28 players on the Illini’s 2007-08 roster were out-of-state recruits.

“It’s a credit to our guys and the club as a whole over the past couple of years that we’ve been able to succeed with-out some of the administrative support from the University that other schools in our league and our conference get,” said Fabbrini, who was a player on both national championship teams. “If we were able to offer scholarships and things, we would be a pretty good hock-ey team every year.”

Fabbrini said the Illini hockey club is grateful for everything it currently has and won’t use the team’s financial obsta-cles as an excuse for its performance. But to Fabbrini, who is midway through his sixth year with the club as both a player and coach, it’s hard to imagine the harm that would come from a mini-mal donation from the very school the club team represents.

“It would be huge for our club to get some kind of money from the University,” Fabbrini said. “$5,000 or $10,000 from the school would be a huge deal when it comes to our budget, and I don’t know if that money would matter much in the grand scheme of things to the University.”

Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @Neumannthehuman.

On thin ice: Hockey team short on funds

By Sean neUMannSTAFF WRITER

“It would be huge for our club to get some

kind of money from the University. $5,000 or

$10,000 from the school would be a huge deal when it comes to our

budget, and I don’t know if that money would

matter much in the grand scheme of things to the

University.” nick faBBrini

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Lack of money hinders recruiting, adds financial strain for coaches and players


Below are the salaries for the 19 varsity team coaches, plus cheerleading. All the numbers reflect this year’s Grey Book salaries.

Football

$1,700,000tim beckman

2nd season

$155,000dan hartleb

8th season

Illinois coaches

$1,600,000John Groce

2nd season

$375,000matt bollant

2nd season

$148,750kevin hambly

5th season

$157,250mike small

13th season

$113,025James heFFernan

5th season

$110,590terri sullivan

14th season

$125,000Janet rayField

11th season

$100,541brad dancer

9th season

$88,365michelle dasso

8th season

$105,000ron Garner

1st season

$82,200Justin sprinG

5th season

$83,500mike turk

3rd season

$87,835kim landrus

3nd season

$78,989sue novitsky

5th season

$72,665renee slone

8th season

$56,515Jake stewart

2nd season

$50,000scott Jones

1st season

$21,557stephanie record

19th season

men’s basketball women’s basketball volleyball men’s GolF

wrestlinG soFtballsoccerbaseball

men’s tennis women’s tennis

women’s track and Field

men’s Gymnasticsmen’s track and Fieldwomen’s Gymnastics

swimminG and divinG women’s GolF men’s cross country women’s cross country cheerleadinG


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COACHES NEED TIME TO PROVE THEIR wORTHBy Sean haMMOnDSenior WriTer

It’s no secret Tim Beckman and John Groce make a lot of money. For the fourth straight year, the head coaches for the University’s football and basketball teams top The Daily Illini’s Salary Guide.

They make more money than anybody else at the University, including their boss, Director of Athletics Mike Thomas, and the chancellor, Phyllis Wise. Togeth-er they make $3.3 million a year (Beckman edges out Groce, making $1.7 million compared with Groce’s $1.6 million salary).

Beckman has been at Illinois for just over a season and a half, and has a 5-15 record to show for it. One might look at his salary and wonder why he is paid so much to coach a team that has performed so poorly.

To argue that Beckman or Groce shouldn’t be making so much mon-ey is irrelevant, according to one expert in sports policy.

Laurence Chalip, head of the Department of Recreation, Sports and Tourism, said to argue whether Division I college coaches should be paid as much as they are paid is an incorrect argument.

When a university like Illinois decides it wants to have a Divi-sion I athletics program, it has

to expect to pay a high price for coaches, primarily in football and men’s basketball.

“To have coaches at the level that we need to have in order to be com-petitive in these sports — and we choose to be competitive in these sports because we think they are of value to us — when we make that decision, we go into a market for coaches,” Chalip said. “The market for coaches says this is what these guys cost. End of story.”

The market for Division I foot-ball and basketball coaches is high. Beckman’s salary is not even close to that of the highest paid D-I col-lege football coach (that would be the $5.54 million that Alabama’s Nick Saban hauls in).

To argue against such high coaching salaries would be to argue against D-I college athletics, Chalip said. Other schools have made that argument.

The University of Chicago, a founding member of the Big Ten and one of the conference’s more successful football programs in its early years, de-emphasized var-sity athletics in 1939 and dropped its football program (until 1969; the Maroons now compete in Division-III).

Other universities are success-ful without D-I athletics (MIT and

Caltech, for example). Illinois, like all D-I schools, has chosen to put an emphasis on varsity athletics for a multitude of reasons. And there are certain costs that come with that.

“The coaching salary issue is frankly a nonissue,” Chalip said. “Once we decide to be a D-I col-lege athletics institution, we’re in the marketplace, and we’re going to get what we pay for.”

But is Illinois getting what it’s paying for?

Like any business venture, it takes time to see returns an invest-ment. Chalip thinks athletics pro-grams are often too quick to decide a certain coach isn’t the right fit.

The majority of businesses don’t make a profit the first year, Chalip says, and expectations on coaches should be no different.

“You can’t make a judgment in a year or two accurately,” Chalip said. “If you keep changing your coach, you’re guaranteed to fail for the same reason that if you keep starting up a new business, you’re going to keep failing.”

Beckman is signed through the 2017 football season. From Chalip’s business perspective, he needs to be given more than two seasons before Illinois gives up on him. Groce is signed through the 2017-18 basketball season but undoubt-

edly has more job security, based on performance.

Both coaching positions require a hefty sum and will continue to do so as long as Illinois competes at the D-I level, which for the foreseeable future isn’t going to change.

“You can’t make an argu-

ment that we argue for free mar-kets and against coach salaries,” Chalip said. “It’s an inconsistent argument.”

Sean can be reached at [email protected] and @sean_hammond.

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illinois head coach Tim Beckman reacts to a holding call during the homecoming game against Michigan State at Memorial Stadium on oct. 27. The illini are on a 19-game Big Ten losing streak.


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How Profitable are atHletic Programs?

The following information was compiled using the 2012 NCAA report, which Illinois filed and released in January.

These numbers reflect the 2011-12 season. Like past years, and not surprisingly, football and men’s basketball

programs were the only two to generate a profit.

GRAPHIC IllusTRATIoN by eunie kim THe DAIly IllINI

football men’s basketball

-3,000,000 3,000,000 6,000,000 9,000,000 12,000,000 15,000,0000

FOOTBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

$14,103,880

$8,892,368

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL-$1,880,297

VOLLEYBALL-$499,502

MEN’S GOLF-$302,474

WRESTLING-$484,306

SOFTBALL-$504,064

SOCCER-$355,985

BASEBALL-$498,580

MEN’S TENNIS-$316,150

WOMEN’S TENNIS-$251,447

WOMEN’S TRACK/CROSS COUNTRY-$441,418

MEN’S GYMNASTICS-$336,734

MEN’S TRACK/CROSS COUNTRY-$373,682

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS-$365,196

SWIMMING AND DIVING-$377,100

WOMEN’S GOLF-$209,186

In the Big Ten, Michigan was the most profitable football program in the 2011-12

season, earning more than $61 million — $56 million more than bottom-feeder Purdue.

In the Big Ten, the most profitable basketball program in 2011-12 was surprisingly

Minnestota, just ahead of powerhouses Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State.

MICHIGAN

$61,568,910PENN STATE

$47,829,801NEBrASkA

$36,413,489MICHIGAN STATE

$29,689,999OHIO STATE

$29,506,049IOWA

$29,353,153WISCONSIN

$24,185,150MINNESOTA

$16,779,121ILLINOIS

$14,103,880INdIANA

$8,938,945PurduE

$5,336,277

MINNESOTA

$11,090,635OHIO STATE

$10,971,378WISCONSIN

$10,305,486MICHIGAN STATE

$9,505,409ILLINOIS

$8,892,368INdIANA

$8,887,937PENN STATE

$5,988,946MICHIGAN

$3,946,846PurduE

$3,209,786IOWA

$2,488,116NEBrASkA

$2,341,750

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