These are tough times at the University of Idaho. They’ve had to slash their annual operating budget by $3.8 million. They’re cutting classes, raising student fees, and probably ordering fewer paper clips.
But there was one line item in the budget that was so invaluable, so indispensable, that the U of I administration decided it could neither be cut nor eliminated: The Chief Inspiration Officer.
Magaly Rodriguez is apparently so damn inspirational that the university is paying her $12,500 a month to be…well…inspirational. And it’s not even a full-time job. Rodriguez only spends two weeks per month in lovely Moscow, Idaho. Better yet for her, her contract dictates that she spend anywhere from just zero to 10 days there.
Some faculty are upset that the university is wasting money on inspiration at the same time its being forced to slash other expenses. But University Provost says Rodriguez has been worth every damn penny and likened going to her sessions to “being sedated.” Rodriguez says she is reshaping their culture by building “global peacemaking communities” (she claims to have coined the term “peacemaking”).
$12,500 per month for a part time job. Don’t know about you, but we’re feeling inspired to switch careers.
Source: KHQ.com via Fark, and TMCnet.com
