Faculty Question Expert’s Earnings

Magaly Rodriguez is a paid "chief inspiration officer" for the University of Idaho; having saved numerous programs and workplace problems at schools around the country. Yet some staff members at the University dispute the influence and worth of her employment.

"The workshops conducted by Rodriguez have helped save programs, school administrators said, but some faculty are criticizing the contract signed during the same budget year the school was forced to cut about $3.8 million."

“She’s helping us reshape our culture,” Baker told the Daily News.

“The point is that her services cannot help with problems such as ours,” Sammarruca wrote in an e-mail. “That decision needed to be discussed openly and thoroughly between the people involved in a (moderated) professional meeting, and at a much lower cost.”

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