University Won’t Make Terms of Early Retirement Public

The University of Missouri says it will not make public the deals it is cutting with faculty and staff members who took an early retirement offer only to be re-hired in their old jobs with most of their old salary. But it has become known that three high-ranking officials on the St. Louis Campus who retired are being kept around for another three years. They’ll get their full pensions and about three-quarters of their old salaries for two years and 30 percent in the third year. A University spokesman says the chancellor in St. Louis decided she had to keep them around until she found adequate replacements.