UW Gazette, April 3, 1996
     
     Newspaper readers learned Saturday that UW's
president, with an annual salary of $179,770, is making less
than his counterparts at such universities at McMaster,
Queen's, Toronto, Western - and, at the head of the pack,
Wilfrid Laurier.
     WLU president Dr. Lorna Marsden made $215,556 in 1995,
leading all university presidents in the province, according
to figures that the institutions made public Friday to
comply with a new provincial law.
     The law requires disclosure of all salaries in excess
of $100,000, by March 31 of the following year.
     At UW, that included 54 people - the president, both
vice-presidents, the eight faculty deans, three of the
associate provosts, the university librarian, the director
of computing services, and 37 faculty members.
     Highest salaries on the list, in order:
     ù Dr. James Downey, president, $179,770
     ù Dr. Alan George, computer science professor and
former provost, $151,117
     ù Dr. Doug Letson, president of St. Jerome's College,
$143,353
     ù Dr. Jim Kalbfleisch, vice-president (academic) and
provost, $142,678
     ù Dr. James Melvin, chair of the economics department,
$139,601
     ù Dr. Phelim Boyle, professor of accountancy, $133,176
     ù Dr. John Waterhouse, professor of accountancy,
$127,484
     ù Dr. William Scott, professor of accountancy, $122,311
     ù Dr. Robin Banks, associate provost (academic
affairs), $121,831
     ù Dr. Roger Downer, vice-president (university
relations), $115,273
     The full list of UW salaries over $100,000 is
available through UWinfo ("Documents") or on paper at the
reserve desks of the Dana Porter and Davis Centre libraries.
     In addition to the 1995 salaries, the law requires the
employer to list the value of certain benefits. For most of
the people on the UW list that figure was between $900 and
$1,000. The major exception was Downey, whose "benefits"
were listed at $10,530 (including an allowance to recognize
the use of his house for university events).
     A brief news release about the salary disclosure
quotes Peter Sims, the Kitchener lawyer who is chair of UW's
board of governors: "The University of Waterloo is a well-
run university with a first-class reputation that brings
credit, academic acclaim and economic growth to our
community. The salaries of the president, senior
administrators and professors are competitive with those in
similar positions in Canadian post-secondary education.É
     "If you want to attract and keep first-class, capable
people then you have to remunerate them accordingly."
     According to the Council of Ontario Universities, 1.9
per cent of UW's full-time faculty and staff were on the
list of people covered by the Public Sector Salary
Disclosure Act.
     That was ahead of figures at such universities as
Guelph (1.2 per cent) and Carleton (1.0 per cent), but
behind Toronto (5.1 per cent), Windsor (4.2 per cent) and
Western (3.7 per cent). In general, institutions with
medical schools showed higher percentages, although the list
was headed by the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education, there 26 out of 360 employees were on the over-
$100,000 list.
     The University of Toronto list was headed by Dr.
Arnold Aberman, the dean of medicine, at $277,755, followed
by a former UW vice-president, Dr. Jon Dellandrea, who is
now Toronto's "vice-president and chief development officer"
and who pulled down $250,660 last year. President Rob
Prichard was at $199,151.
     At Laurier there were 28 names on the list, with
Marsden's salary the highest and that of Andrew Berczi, vice-
president (finance and administration), second at $150,450.
     The University of Guelph listed the same number of
people as WLU, 28, with president Dr. Mordechai Rozanski in
first place at $177,516.
     The University of Western Ontario had 126 people on
its list, including president Dr. Paul Davenport at
$200,490.