Miami faculty, hit with pay cuts, fuming over $80 million Cristobal deal

By Jesse Lieberman and Jay Weaver, Miami Herald: As University of Miami students and alumni celebrate the hiring of a new football coach who has been touted as the program’s savior, not everyone is doing cartwheels on the Coral Gables campus.

Many UM professors and other faculty — forced to teach in person and accept compensation cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic — are fuming and say staff morale has plunged. Some members of the UM Faculty Senate view Mario Cristobal’s $80 million contract as only the latest sign of the administration’s disrespect for the academic staff at the private university.

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UM faculty, hit with pay cuts, fuming over $80 million deal for star football coach Cristobal

University of Miami faculty question the school’s lavish spending on a new football coach and buildings on the Coral Gables campus while they’ve had to sacrifice financially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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