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Linda Jallings: Salary question lost in Michael Morgan uproar

In all the frenzied reporting of Michael Morgan?s UW-Madison appointment, I don?t recall questions about the salary itself. How many employees in the UW System are paid in six figures? How many are paid more than our governor? When we demanded our UW System be “run like a business,” was this the unintended consequence ? the corporatization of education and escalating competition for higher administrative compensation? Has the business of education become more important than education?