BRBR: "LSU to give some faculty and staff pay raises to retain, attract top talent"

LSU which has been besieged with faculty losses starting with the Ivor van Heerden firing fiasco and continuing with the budget cuts which have caused hundreds of researchers and other high profile staff to leave is now trying to stop the bleeding by offering pay raises to those employees who the department fears are most likely to bolt for somewhere else.

"LSU will be giving merit pay raises to some faculty and staff this fall in an effort to prevent a “revolving door” at the state’s flagship university.

The pay raises are not being applied across the board. Instead, LSU is giving each of its departments a 3% “merit pay raise pool,” and the department heads will in turn decide how to dole out the pay raises."

LSU is desparately trying to stop the bleeding