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Regents award UA prez $50K bonus. He immediately donates it back to school.
On a day when the University of Alaska Board of Regents considered tuition increases for students and pondered how best to deal with state budget cuts, it voted unanimously to approve a $50,000 bonus for the university’s president.
The vote came Thursday as the state university’s leaders held the first of a two-day meeting at the University of Alaska Southeast.
In recent years, the university has seen its budget slashed by the Alaska Legislature.
After regents awarded him the bonus, UA President Jim Johnsen pledged to donate the money back to various programs at the University of Alaska.
Read more: http://juneauempire.com/news/state/2017-09-14/regents-award-ua-prez-50k-bonus-he-immediately-donates-it-back-school