Hogan to be top-paid employee at UIS

SPRINGFIELD — Former University of Illinois President Michael Hogan’s new $285,100 professor’s salary makes him the highest paid employee on the school’s Springfield campus.

The News-Gazette newspaper in Champaign reports that only one other University of Illinois-Springfield employee makes more than $200,000 a year. That is Vice President and Chancellor Susan Koch at $220,000.

Hogan resigned as president under pressure from faculty unhappy over his management style and plans for the university. He became a history professor when his resignation as president took effect at the end of June but is first spending a year on sabbatical.

Among his new colleagues in the UIS history department, only two make more than $100,000.

Hogan will teach two classes a year when he begins teaching in 2013. Most of his colleagues teach six.