SI: Kill gets raise; professors complain about 'academic mobbing' [View All]

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CARBONDALE - Several Southern Illinois University Carbondale faculty and staff members publicly blasted campus administrators on a number of issues during the board of trustees meeting Thursday.

Board members met in the SIUC Student Center and heard allegations against Chancellor Walter Wendler and several other top administrative officials on the Carbondale campus, related to breaches in shared governance, boosting the salary of the head football coach, and coordinating or abetting bullying of certain faculty.

Trustees approved a 14 percent pay increase to football coach Jerry Kill, raising his annual salary from $144,216 to $165,000. This is the second pay increase Kill has received in as many years from the administration.

Officials have described the action as a pre-emptive measure to keep Kill, who was named NCAA Division I-AA coach of the year for 2004, at SIUC. After the meeting, Wendler said Kill was entertaining offers from other universities but would not elaborate on the details.