Guy Bailey's dirty deeds began as soon as he became president in 2014 and led to the school being put on probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Now, it seems that he gets lot of help covering up his dirty deeds and political biases towards the Edinburg campus from everyone from the UT System to the Texas Tribune.
Before the merger, both UTB and UTPA complied with the Texas Tribune’s open records request for all employee salaries that they published on their website. Since the merger, UTRGV has failed to submit their employee salary info to the Tribune. There are several individuals who have been waiting for the data so they can see the changes in employees’ salaries from when they were employees at the legacy institutions vs. the new UT Rio Grande Valley.
We know several employees from UTB at all levels who had to take significant pay cuts to keep a position at UTRGV. Yet, at the same time, the top administrators gave themselves HEFTY raises. I have to wonder if Guy Bailey doesn’t want to keep all of this out of the public’s hands so Brownsville employees won’t be able to see the disparities in pay between (1) top administration and everyone else; and (2) the lower salaries that were assigned to UT Brownsville employees versus Pan Am employees.
I think many are particularly interested in individuals like Janna Arney (deputy President) who has seen a salary increase of at least $150,000 (though others speculate it might be as much as a $300,000 - $400,000 increase) since Bailey gave her the job.
There is not even an academic program at UTRGV for which Arney is eligible to be a tenured faculty member—she used to be faculty of a TSC associate’s degree program—not a UTB bachelor’s or higher program which makes her rapid rise to the top at UTRGV interesting to many (they say she resembles Bailey's deceased wife).
Then, she demoted the AVP she had hired shortly after UTRGV was formed to make room for a big administrative position for her husband, Doug Arney in Business Affairs. Speculation on the camus is that between the two of them they now make over half a million dollars.
Why won’t UTRGV release this data?
Why won't the Tribune make them comply with the open records request? What are they trying to hide?
We've heard of UTPA people who got $50,000-70,000 raises, but also UTB administrators who took from $10,000 to $30,000 pay cuts with the merger in order to keep a job.
We all know that Guy Bailey got the biggest bonus of all presidents in the UT System the same year he got the institution on probation with the SACS accreditor. This was troublesome. So, is UT System complicit in helping him hide the "win" experienced by Pan Am employees versus the "loss" experienced by Brownsville employees (except the Arneys)?
(Ed.'s Note: We are filing an Open Records Request to check into this. We will will not the them hide what they did to the Brownsville folks. We will ask for the salaries from the legacy institutions from 2014-2015 as well as the current 2017-2018 year and let's see how much changed in just 3 short years.)
I think many are particularly interested in individuals like Janna Arney (deputy President) who has seen a salary increase of at least $150,000 (though others speculate it might be as much as a $300,000 - $400,000 increase) since Bailey gave her the job.
There is not even an academic program at UTRGV for which Arney is eligible to be a tenured faculty member—she used to be faculty of a TSC associate’s degree program—not a UTB bachelor’s or higher program which makes her rapid rise to the top at UTRGV interesting to many (they say she resembles Bailey's deceased wife).
Then, she demoted the AVP she had hired shortly after UTRGV was formed to make room for a big administrative position for her husband, Doug Arney in Business Affairs. Speculation on the camus is that between the two of them they now make over half a million dollars.
Why won’t UTRGV release this data?
Why won't the Tribune make them comply with the open records request? What are they trying to hide?
We've heard of UTPA people who got $50,000-70,000 raises, but also UTB administrators who took from $10,000 to $30,000 pay cuts with the merger in order to keep a job.
We all know that Guy Bailey got the biggest bonus of all presidents in the UT System the same year he got the institution on probation with the SACS accreditor. This was troublesome. So, is UT System complicit in helping him hide the "win" experienced by Pan Am employees versus the "loss" experienced by Brownsville employees (except the Arneys)?
(Ed.'s Note: We are filing an Open Records Request to check into this. We will will not the them hide what they did to the Brownsville folks. We will ask for the salaries from the legacy institutions from 2014-2015 as well as the current 2017-2018 year and let's see how much changed in just 3 short years.)