2021 - 2022 School Year
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:59 pm
Fling out the Purple and the Gold, We're Marching On.
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It wasn't enough that when Dr. Thomas chose to resign, we gave him 2 years full salary. Now, with another job in Ohio, he can't fullfill his commitement for the 2nd part of the platinum parachute of teaching 1 class each semester for $300k/yr, so wants us to pay $900k more on top of the $540k we already paid him, claiming personal injury and loss of earnings. What does virtually the same board who gave him his first parachute do? You guessed it, gave him yet another parachute.wiu712 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:58 pm New Deal Negotiated Between WIU and Former President Jack Thomas.
From Tri-States Public Radio, WIUM-FM:
https://www.tspr.org/post/new-deal-nego ... ent-thomas
Inquiring minds would want to know EXACTLY what alleged personal injury was put on the table during the negotiations. Or at least I hope they would. I hope they did not cave on just the threat of legal action. Who knows, he may have hurt his back packing up his stuff before he left Macomb. LOLTere North wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:26 amIt wasn't enough that when Dr. Thomas chose to resign, we gave him 2 years full salary. Now, with another job in Ohio, he can't fullfill his commitement for the 2nd part of the platinum parachute of teaching 1 class each semester for $300k/yr, so wants us to pay $900k more on top of the $540k we already paid him, claiming personal injury and loss of earnings. What does virtually the same board who gave him his first parachute do? You guessed it, gave him yet another parachute.wiu712 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:58 pm New Deal Negotiated Between WIU and Former President Jack Thomas.
From Tri-States Public Radio, WIUM-FM:
https://www.tspr.org/post/new-deal-nego ... ent-thomas
As a tenured professor, he would be eligible for a max 1-yr salary if released. But he chose to resign. Let's say the 1-yr at $270k was OK since 1-yr transitional sabbaticals are typical anyway.
The Board should have simply not accepted his resignation and not renewed his year-to-year contract. Then we'd be out a $270k salary and he'd be gone. Instead, we were out $570k and he came back for more. Yet again the University lawyer and the board showed zero backbone in the face of threats of a discrimination lawsuit. Now, he has cost us $1.44M that could have be spent much more wisely. The Board, on a 5-1 vote approach this Dr. Thomas and his Alabama Personal Injury Law firm offer. Polly Radosh was the lone vote in opposition. Mark Twomey was a no show. The student Trustee understandably abstained as they just came on board July 1.
I think they (whoever's decision it was) wanted to push things to get him to back out of the rest of the contract, so they assigned him an in-person course that they knew would fill up (English 280 is always full) rather than one that wouldn't have any/many students and they could just cancel.sealhall74 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:59 am Did I hear it right? He was offered an Intro to English course? If so, therein lies the problem. We could have done a whole lot better than that to avoid this issue coming to board vote.