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Weird Donor Strings Attached to UA Gift

Ruth McCambridge
May 30, 2014
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May 29, 2014; Arizona Daily Star

Why bother to apply for a job managing a university department when you can just buy influence, right down to personnel decisions?

An anonymous donor has offered the athletics program at the University of Arizona $17.68 million worth of stock, but it would be designated for retention bonuses for athletic director Greg Byrne, basketball coach Sean Miller, and football coach Rich Rodriguez.

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The proposal will be voted on next week, along with contract extensions for the three. Under the donor’s scheme, Byrne would receive 20 percent of the stock, worth about $3.5 million, while Miller and Rodriguez would get 35 percent each ($6.19 million) but only if they stay at UA at least four years. They would also not be allowed to leave voluntarily before eight years had passed. If any of the three leave voluntarily before eight years, their shares are to be given to the athletic director, who must consult with the donor as to its use, but they would still collect if UA fired them without cause before the eight years were up. Ten percent of the stock would go to the university with distributions controlled by the UA president.

There are already cash incentives in place to retain Miller and Rodriguez.

—Ruth McCambridge

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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