The NDSU Development Foundation has been paying Chapman deferred compensation for five years, including $150,000 for this year and last. At the end of the current school year, he will have built up $460,000 in deferred compensation.
Board member Richie Smith, of Wahpeton, dissented in the vote on the pay guidelines, saying he first wanted information from each school about its number of employees, its campus student population and how many academic programs each institution offered.
"These salary ranges need to reflect how many kids (the presidents) are taking care of," Smith said.
The pay guidelines accompany a revamped university system policy on compensation for top executives. Both the salary schedule and the compensation policy could get the board's final endorsement in the next two months, Paulsen said.
The board's tentative approval of the salary ranges Thursday was needed because it gives search committees that are recruiting new presidents for UND, Lake Region State College and Dickinson State University an idea of what salary to offer, Paulsen said.
"Those (salary) numbers are considerably different than the numbers that are in place for the three incumbents," Paulsen said. "I think it was important to give those committees a sense of what our likely direction is going to be."
-Associated Press
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