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...HKS spokeswoman Melodie Jackson said that while faculty and staff hiring has been roughly flat at HKS over the past five years, compensation and benefits still make up 59 percent of the School's operating budget. Prior to last week's layoffs, 498 staff worked at HKS, she said...
...According to a recent University human resources report, 19 staff members out of 59 eligible employees accepted buyout packages at HKS. University spokesman Kevin Galvin has said in the past that the average participant in the University's buyout program had an annual salary of $67,000 and that the reductions were split half-and-half between hourly employees and administrative and professional staff...
...HKS had increased its number of faculty positions in the late 1990s and early 2000s by almost 40 percent, and new programs such as the Center for Public Leadership and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy were launched largely through deficit spending. These initiatives had been paid for during economic booms by the growing endowment, but when the national economy slumped early in the decade, the expenditures coalesced into a deficit and forced HKS officials to take steps to eliminate the budget gap. Overhead costs, for everything from electricity bills to equipment, were furthermore magnified by the School...
...slashing its full-time faculty by 11 percent over two years, hiking tuition, stepping up fundraising efforts, and slicing administrative budgets by 5 to 15 percent, HKS managed to dramatically eliminate its deficit in a short amount of time. By 2004, the School had achieved a $1.1 million surplus, and in 2005, it recorded a $3.6 million surplus...
Sebelius is a Democrat who was twice elected governor of Kansas, a heavily Republican state. She helped draft a national bill of patients rights, and was described by HKS Dean David T. Elwood as “a pro-business democrat...