{"id":1692,"date":"2007-05-08T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/martin-will-likely-get-contract-extension-pay-raise\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T22:48:00","slug":"martin-will-likely-get-contract-extension-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/martin-will-likely-get-contract-extension-pay-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin will likely get contract extension, pay raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RkD_q8C6zVI\/AAAAAAAACQo\/PpPhiH7_Evg\/s1600-h\/Martin,+Michael.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RkD_q8C6zVI\/AAAAAAAACQo\/PpPhiH7_Evg\/s200\/Martin,+Michael.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062327094302395730\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico State University<\/a> Board of Regents are expected to approve a contract extension for President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Martin<\/a> on Friday that comes with a hefty salary increase.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The regents will meet at 8 a.m. Friday in executive session and then are set to meet publicly at 9:30 a.m. to vote on the contract extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This year, Martin was paid about $294,000. Last year, when approving that salary, the regents also gave him a bonus equal to 10 percent of his salary for outstanding work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">They might do it again. Though Martin has critics and has had his share of controversies, many things are going well at NMSU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A number of buildings have been renovated, including the Pan American Center, which allowed the university to successfully host the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western Athletic Conference<\/a> men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball tournaments this year. The university will also host next year\u2019s WAC volleyball tournament, the conference announced this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And just last week, the regents approved a historic union contract with employees that was the result of hard work by Martin and a lot of others. The contract comes with pay raises and increases in university contributions to employee health insurance plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He\u2019s been recruited by other universities, but Martin says he likes what\u2019s happening in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las   Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and wants to stay here. Martin has widespread support among the regents, so the extension and pay raise should be no-brainers. His expected three-year contract extension would run through 2011. Martin first came to NMSU in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The regents are also expected to approve next fiscal year\u2019s budget at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the New Mexico State University Board of Regents are expected to approve a contract extension for President Michael Martin on Friday that comes with a hefty salary increase. The regents will meet at 8 a.m. Friday in executive session and then are set to meet publicly at 9:30 a.m. to vote on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}