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Is Mr. Williams giving up that stately Irving Park home next to the club house? Doesn't he cruise a real nice Bimmer too? I'm pretty sure I saw his name on the top of a college presidents' salary list a year or so ago. I'm not sure where the list was, and I can't find it now, but he does enjoy some nice compensations, like the Irving Park home.

I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin...

Wow! If that's conservative I would hate to see the next steps. Cut salaries, eliminate staff AND eliminate benefits. :/

What about that home in the mountains the college owns? What about that football team that draws about 200 spectators a game? What about all that Warnersville project? I don't get it.

Craven Williams is trying to pin this Greensboro College mess on the current economy, this fellow who pays himself almost as much as the presidents of Wake Forest and Duke. He hasn't brought in a fat nickel to his college in years, and now he's going to make a whole lot of people suffer. He should be run out of town on a rail.

20% is a huge part of a person's salary. assuming a 4% a year pay increase over the past several years (which i've heard would be an overly optimistic assumption), that means Greensboro College's faculty and staff have had their salaries decreased back to their 2004 or earlier levels. wow. other posters are asking some good questions. Greensboro College has bought several properties in recent years, has plans for a sports complex, has a very highly paid president, etc. i agree with joelle, seems unlikely that the economy is the only reason for the college's current money problems. i hope other people than those poor faculty and staff who were laid off are being held accountable for the current problems. i'm guessing that those who got laid off aren't the same ones who got the college into its current mess.

While watching the news this morning I was shocked to hear that the staff at Greensboro College would be taking a 20% pay cut, 8 staff members would be without a job, and the cost of attending GC next year would increase 5%. My son and I have attended GC for the past four years and have received a wonderful education but each year the cost of tuition has increased about a thousand dollars per year. Mr. Williams, I was shocked at the amount of money you receive to run GC. My comment to you is: When my son and I look back on our education at GC, we will remember the professors that brought hard work and life experiences into the classroom. I will remember when my son and I first started GC and were remembered by our first names by staff members in the main building. Will they be in jeopardy of losing their job? Not to be rude, but I will remember you for the huge amount of money you made. I will not remember you as role model or for making me feel like "I belong here." I don't remember hearing you say if you will be taking a 20% pay cut. Will you? With the huge amount of money you make each year, why not make it 30%. You are asking people to take a pay cut who are on the same education level as you are, "Dr." Yes, our economy is a perfect storm, and we all have to pay. If you ask your employees to take a 20% pay cut, your students to pay a 5% increase in tuition, and eight employees to walk away from their job, then do your share and take a 20% paycut. Consider the future of Greensboro College during the perfect storm and take a 30% cut.

Well, Dr. Williams, you've definitely made a name for yourself this time!! You and the Board of Trustees who approved this nonsense should be ashamed of yourselves! I'm sure you will continue to receice your million dollar salary as well as the bonuses you "award" yourself each year! When you look at your bank account, I hope you think of all the families you have "awarded" a very significant and difficult change in lifestlye.

As an alumna of GC and the daughter of an administrator at GC (who will be losing 20% of his salary and contributions to his retirement for recruiting students into the college), I have had the privilege of being a part of the GC family for the past 10 years. I could not have asked for a better place to be or better people to share their knowledge and experience with me. They deserve better than this, and I hope they all find it.

Dr. Williams, you are an absolute embarrassment to Greensboro College!

I'm from Warnersville. What you people just realized the kind of person Craven Williams is? lol

In addition to those eight full time positions that were cut, word is that quite a few part-time positions were cut. I'm sure those part time people needed their positions just as much as the the full time people. Too much money spent in recent years on property that there wasn't money for and then an economic downturn. Not a good combination. Whoever approved those property purchases needs to be held accountable.

That is completely senseless and heartless. There are other places that could have been less severe to the community and its employees. To start, I would like to point out that the article says the staff took a 20% pay cut. It didn't mention the faculty, but judging from the responses here, it sounds like that was actually everyone--faculty and staff. If the staff (generally non-liscensed positions) took a 20% pay cut as well then that could very well have put some of them in working class. So much for a community, sounds pretty top-heavy to me; very unrealistic and detached. I wish the best for those who lost their jobs altogether. What a tragic and unexpected blow.
I bet if high-horse Williams would have taken a 40% pay cut, they would have all kept their jobs. (If none of them made over $85,000/yr.) And that still leaves him over $1 million to wallow in!! Next, I would have suggested taking a look at other senseless spending before taking a "quick fix" and resolving to a 20% pay cut. Your job is to run the college at its top running potential. Not pay yourself the highest potential and ignore analyzing things correctly everytime a financial problem arrives. This sounds like hasty decision making to me, without analyzing everything together and witholding a lot of detials. Since it sounds like this was unexpected all around, I expect that the process was not approached correctly. Why do you even pay yourselves so much to make hasty decisions and get assistants [who took 20% pay cuts] to do your real work??? I just can't believe this. I feel sure that there were other areas that could have been considered and were not.
And last, maybe 5% would have been more appropiate Mr. president??