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University of Alabama employees paid high salaries through secretive Systems Office
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:22 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:22 am
Something’s fricky
Edit - should be noted that Clay Ryan doesn’t even work for UAB. He works for UA but is being paid $750k from UAB’s budget.
Article is really long, but it’s an interesting read.
I spoke to a professor at UAB not too long ago who said all new open positions are in a hiring freeze. The department has to justify the filling of the position with a tenure-track employee. The push is for more adjuncts or lecturers (low paid employees). Yet the UA system is funneling money through secretive means to employees who aren’t actually doing their jobs?
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Three weeks after Lagniappe published a story questioning why political newspaper columnist Steve Flowers was being paid $96,000 a year by the University of Alabama System Office, he has resigned.
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The resignation marks the end of a peculiar arrangement with the Chancellor Finis St. John’s office in which it became apparent Flowers was being handsomely paid for radio and television appearances he wasn’t making and leading the secretive formation of a political history center the System Office has called “potential.”
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Critics inside the university system, as well as former employees, speaking on condition of anonymity, have said the Flowers situation is not just a one-off issue, but is indicative of larger problems with the System Office management as a whole that has bled into the universities it manages. Some suggested there was an attempt to “hide” Flowers in the payroll system by not listing him in the directory or giving him an office, a phone number, access to the System Office building or any of the things that would be standard for a full-time employee.
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Other things are unclear about the way System Office employees are listed in payroll. Specifically, the System has refused to explain why Ryan, Cole and three other employees who appear in their directory are not listed as having their salaries paid from the System Office budget.
The System has also not answered questions about the intermingling of budgets between their office and individual universities and whether that is permissible under System accounting practices.
Ryan’s salary, which is among the highest in the entire university system, is clearly being paid through the UAB Hospital System, which is a non-profit and does not have an open search tool like UA, UAH and UAB. His salary for 2016 – 2018 was listed on the UAB Hospital System 990 forms. He was reported among a list of the hospital system’s officers as receiving $714,275 in base pay for 2018, along with other compensation amounting to $35,987, for a total of $750,262. He was the highest paid vice president in the hospital system and the highest paid among those appearing on the System Office directory. In 2017, the hospital system reported his salary and other compensation as $670,578, meaning he received an increase of almost $80,000 — 12 percent — between his second and third year. In Ryan’s first full year, 2016, the hospital system paid him a total of $661,857, according to that 990.
Edit - should be noted that Clay Ryan doesn’t even work for UAB. He works for UA but is being paid $750k from UAB’s budget.
Article is really long, but it’s an interesting read.
I spoke to a professor at UAB not too long ago who said all new open positions are in a hiring freeze. The department has to justify the filling of the position with a tenure-track employee. The push is for more adjuncts or lecturers (low paid employees). Yet the UA system is funneling money through secretive means to employees who aren’t actually doing their jobs?
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 8:25 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:24 am to StringedInstruments
Paying >$10k / year in tuition, I demand a refund of some of that.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:24 am to StringedInstruments
and that’s just on the administrative side….
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:26 am to StringedInstruments
corruption in government?
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:26 am to StringedInstruments
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Steve Flowers was being paid $96,000 a year by the University of Alabama System Office
What position does he play?
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:27 am to StringedInstruments
Tinfoil hat time.
That money was actually funneled to UA football players.
The code has been cracked.
That money was actually funneled to UA football players.
The code has been cracked.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:29 am to StringedInstruments
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University of Alabama, secretive Systems Office
So this is how Little Nickie gets the palms greased, the Dodges bought, Barbers paid, and recruits families jobs/homes.....
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:30 am to StringedInstruments
If wearing a TTown suit & driving a Dodge Charger..they'd have never been detected!
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:31 am to StringedInstruments
Ahhh so this explains the Chargers.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:33 am to biohzrd
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So this is how Little Nickie gets the palms greased, the Dodges bought, Barbers paid, and recruits families jobs/homes.....
That would be the Bryant Bank...
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:35 am to StringedInstruments
Gus Malzahn's last contract with auburn makes that $700,000 dude look like a volunteer at the local library.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:37 am to StringedInstruments
shite like this is why I avoid giving a dime of my money to my alma mater.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:38 am to StringedInstruments
Needs to be on the SEC Rant.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:45 am to StringedInstruments
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He was the highest paid vice president in the hospital system and the highest paid among those appearing on the System Office directory. In 2017, the hospital system reported his salary and other compensation as $670,578,
Well crap, LSU's grift isn't even original.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:49 am to The Spleen
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shite like this is why I avoid giving a dime of my money to my alma mater.
Same.
I did some work for a professor at Auburn when I was in grad school. Smart lady. Very accomplished. $225k/year! Had a paid leave of absence each year to “continue her research” in Europe for a few months.
Academia might on the whole be the most corrupt concept in America considering they claim to hold the moral high ground of socialist idealism yet constantly leech money from others “beneath them.”
Posted on 5/14/21 at 8:56 am to StringedInstruments
Keep investigating. Maybe you will find the secret account that pays the football players.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:03 am to kengel2
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Needs to be on the SEC Rant.
Done.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:05 am to Zephyrius
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LSU's grift isn't even original.
Or did Little Nicky start it here, but LSU doesn't have the kind of cash that Bama does, and they have plenty.
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