Frohnmayer’s 2009-2010 Teaching Schedule:

From what we can tell, this is UO President Emeritus Dave Frohnmayer’s entire 2009-2010 teaching load – two 10 week long, 25 student classes, co-taught with Barbara West, for Winter quarter only. For this he will be paid $245,000, and we pay another $25,000 or so for Ms West. (And still more for a secretary. And a GTF. And $186,000 for “supplies and expenses.)

Now, you naive new assistant professors might be asking where does an underfunded school like UO get $270,000 to pay 2 people to teach 50 students for 10 weeks? (Dave was on sabbatical for half the year, at full pay. Normal load for the rest of the year would therefore be 2 to 2.5 courses – not 1). I’m no economist, but here’s the math: The average student pays $1,000 or so a course. 50 students gets you $50,000 – so UO still has a $220,000 nut to make payday for these two.

No worries, we will assign you to teach a 250 student lecture course, filling up, say, 180 PLC. That’s $250,000 for UO. Take out $30,000 for prorated pay for you and your 3 GTFs, and you’ve just brought in enough to pay off our President Emeritus for this year. But wait – what about his benefits? No problem – you’ve still got a few more classes to teach.

And Dave is so grateful for your contribution – maybe he’ll even use you as an example of how “Advanced Leadership” works. Oh wait, here’s another idea – let’s cut pay for the university staff! Then we’ll have enough to redecorate Dave’s 2 new offices too: From the SEIU email:

Tier 1: Monthly base rate – $2,450 & below: Monthly Pay Reduction 2.051%
Tier 2 Monthly base rate – $2,451 to $3,105: Monthly Pay Reduction 3.077%
Tier 3 Monthly base rate $3,106 to $5,733: Monthly Pay Reduction 3.590%
Tier 4 Monthly base rate – $5,734 and above: Monthly Pay Reduction 4.103%

See? There’s really nothing to this leadership stuff – you just take whatever the fuck you can get away with.

Update: When he was selling this furlough program to the faculty and the staff, Frohnmayer said he would participate himself. He did – for about 3 months, and only with the part of his salary paid by the state, which was less than 50%. As soon as people stopped watching, he went back to taking his full salary.