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Utah Board of Regents rolls back salary increases after governor’s reaction

(Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News) -- The governor spoke on raising salaries of Utah's higher-ed presidents, and Monday morning the Utah Board of Regents showed they listened. In a special teleconference meeting, the regents unanimously voted to roll back its earlier decision to give raises to Utah's eight college and university presidents. The move comes a week after Utah Gov. Gary Herbert...

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KSL Sunday Edition– Oct. 2: Education Nation

This week on Sunday Edition we discussed the Education Nation summit with a Utah educator who attended. Also, we took a closer look at how Utah's business community has joined forces with state leaders to create a new education initiative. See how Prosperity 2020 aims to help kids in Utah get an education that will lead to jobs after...

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The Pay Game: Academic recruitment not cheap

(Salt Lake Tribune, Op/Ed) -- Michael Young, former president of the University of Utah, earned $394,000 in salary and other compensation before accepting a much-better-paying job at the University of Washington. In fact, Young’s new employer sweetened his previous compensation by 58 percent. But when the Board of Regents announced it planned to raise the U. president’s salary by a...

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National science medalist from University of Utah credits freedom and opportunity in U.S. for his success

(Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News) -- Peter Stang, the latest University of Utah scientist to receive the prestigious National Medal of Science, remembers the urgency of his parents to leave his native Hungary two days after his 15th birthday as Soviet tanks began rolling in to occupy the east European country in 1956. "It brought the old Soviet system: oppression and...

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