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If the highest paid employees of the University of Hawaii reveal where its priorities lie, then UH appears to most value the following: football, medicine and cancer research.

The football coach and deans and researchers working in medicine/cancer research are among the highest paid employees of the university, along with the president overseeing the 10-campus system and its 56,912 students statewide.

The University of Hawaii, which had a $1.1 billion for the 2010-11 fiscal year, is the state’s only public university and receives approximately 60 percent of its budget from the state’s general fund.

The names, positions and salaries of 7,510 UH employees were obtained by Civil Beat using the state open records law as part of its effort to make public spending transparent. The list includes employees at UH’s three baccalaureate campuses and seven community colleges as well as its systemwide offices. In the case of those in unions, the university provided salary ranges.

The information was organized by department, not by name or salary. UH does submit an to the Hawaii Legislature each November, but that listing only includes executive and faculty positions and does not include names.

An analysis by Civil Beat revealed:

• Thirty-five of the top 50 positions are at UH’s flagship Manoa campus, which has an annual budget of $750 million and 20,360 students.
• The highest paid employee, more than $630,000 ahead of the No. 2 spot, is the head football coach, Greg McMackin, who earns $1.1 million. It’s the norm that athletic coaches fill the No. 1 position in such lists.
• The top 50 salaries show big investments in medicine and cancer research: six are at UH-Manoa’s medical school; four are at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, a research unit of UH Manoa; and another is at the pharmacy college at UH-Hilo.
• The first 23 positions on the list pay more than the highest-paid state position reported by Civil Beat in its recent analysis of 14,027 state employees, which included all government departments except UH, the Hawaii Department of Education, Hawaii Healths Systems Corp., the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaii State Judiciary and the Legislature. (Those salaries will be coming.)

Here’s the list:

• 1: Greg “Coach Mack” McMackin, head football coach at UH-Manoa, $1.1 million.

It’s common knowledge that Hawaii loves its Warriors football team, evidenced by the public outcry over the departure of former coach June Jones, whose contract expired after the 2007 season. McMackin’s salary makes the Warriors’ former defensive coordinator not only the highest paid UH employee, but the highest paid state employee.

His five-year , which runs through January 2013, also includes eight annual bonuses totaling $160,000 tied to performance goals and ticket sales as well as $38,500 in “related income” from sources other than UH, such as endorsements and TV and radio contracts.

Coaching a team in the Western Athletic Conference seems to be a lucrative post for other coaches as well. Chris Peterson, head football coach of Boise State University, is paid a $1.12 million salary, according to the . The head coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs is paid $963,506. Still, the NCAA says of the “tens of thousands of coaches” in its membership divisions, fewer than 200 coaches earn a million dollars or more a year.

• 2: Jerris Hedges, dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH-Manoa, $469,680.

Hedges was appointed March 2008 to oversee the university’s medical school in Kakaako, the only one in the state. He previously was vice dean for the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine in Portland. He holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Washington and another in medical management from the University of Southern California.

The job entails overseeing 250 full-time and 138 part-time faculty members in 16 departments, and 10 centers and programs. The school, with 250 medical students, says approximately half of the practicing physicians in the state are graduates of the medical doctorate or residency program.

The national average pay for the dean of a medical school is $384,600, according to the .

• 3: M.R.C. Greenwood, UH system president, $427,512.

Greenwood was named president in August 2009 for a three-year term at an annual salary of $475,008. The difference in pay reflects a pay cut imposed on senior executives, which went into effect September 2009 to trim about $2 million from UH’s annual budget.

She succeeded David McClain, whose term ended that year. (McClain is No. 24 on the list with a salary of $250,000 as a professor of economics at UH-Manoa’s Shidler College of Business, where he previously served as dean.)

Greenwood was a professor of nutrition and internal medicine at the University of California’s Davis campus before taking the UH job. She had been chancellor at UC’s Santa Cruz campus for eight years before being named provost of the University of California’s 10-campus system in 2004.

The national average pay for the president of a four-year public university is $410,000, according to the College & University Professional Association for Human Resources.

• 4: Michele Carbone, director of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, $379,056.

Carbone was appointed in September 2009 for a three-year contract to oversee the cancer center, which is a research unit of UH Manoa. He was first named interim director in late 2008 following the abrupt resignation of former director Carl-Wilhelm Vogel after nine years on the job. (Vogel is No. 17 on the list of highest paid employees, with a salary of $283,125 as a researcher at the center.)

The center has an annual operating budget of around $3 million, but its designation as one of 65 National Cancer Institute in the nation helps it attract more than $30 million each year in federal research grants. The center has 34 UH faculty on staff and a total of 280 employees.

Carbone, who joined UH in 2006 as director of of its oncology program, previously had worked as a professor of pathology at Loyola University Medical Center’s Cardinal Bernadin Cancer Center in Chicago. A Native of Rome, Carbone holds a medical degree and a doctorate in human pathology from the Universita di Roma.

He inherited oversight of a long-planned, new research facility, which has been talked about since 2005. The center currently operates out of a five-story building near The Queen’s Medical Center, which it leases for $1 a year. Construction on a $150-million research facility planned near the medical school in Kakaako is slated to be completed in 2013.

Carbone’s salary appears to be on par with similar posts on the mainland. For example, the executive director of the Cancer Research Institute in New York earns $396,194, according to its most recent filing with .

• 5: Aviam Soifer, dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law at UH-Manoa, $374,928.

Soifer was appointed dean of the law school in 2003. He oversees 300 students and 34 full-time faculty.

The Massachusetts native earned his law degree from Yale University and was previously dean of the law school at Boston College and a law professor at Boston University.

By comparison, the dean of the law school at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, which has 470 students, earns $325,000. The national average pay for a law school dean is $266,895, according to the College & University Professional Association for Human Resources.

Here is the complete list of names and positions for the top 50 highest paid positions at UH.

1. Greg McMackin, head football coach at UH-Manoa, $1.1 million.

2. Jerris Hedges, dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH-Manoa, $469,680.

3. M.R.C. Greenwood, UH system president, $427,512.

4. Michele Carbone, director of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, part of UH-Manoa, $379,056.

5. Aviam Soifer, dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law at UH-Manoa, $374,928.

6. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, director of the Institute for Astronomy at UH-Manoa, $351,696.

7. V. Vance Roley, dean of the Shidler College of Business at UH-Manoa, $349,488.

8. Virginia Hinshaw, chancellor of the UH-Manoa campus, $337,632.

9. John Pezzuto, dean of the College of Pharmacy at UH-Hilo, $317,664.

10. Peter Crouch, dean of the College of Engineering at UH-Manoa, $300,792.

11. Gary Ostrander, system vice chancellor for research and graduate education $295,320.

12. Lawrence Burgess, professor at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $285,792.

13. Laurence Kolonel, researcher and professor at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, $285,141.

14. Donald Straney, chancellor of the UH-Hilo campus, $285,072.

15. Linda Johnsrud, system vice president for academic planning and policy, $284,808.

16. Ralph Shohet, professor of medicine and director of cardiovascular research at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $284,004.

17. Carl-Wilhelm Vogel, researcher at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, $283,125.

18. Loic Le Marchand, researcher at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, clinical professor of public health, $271,176.

19. Reed Dasenbrock, vice chancellor for academic affairs at UH-Manoa, $265,056.

20. Marla Berry, professor and chair of the cell and molecular biology program at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $260,784.

21. Howard Todo, system vice president for budget and finance, chief financial officer, $260,208.

22. Benjamin Berg, associate professor of medicine at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $259,740.

23. Richard Yanagihara, professor in the pediatrics department at UH-Manoa’s medical school $252,264.

24. David McClain, economics professor at the Shidler College of Business at UH-Manoa, $250,000. (Former UH system president from 2006 to 2009.)

25. Brian Taylor, dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology at UH-Manoa, $244,608.

26. Steven Stanley, researcher and professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology at UH-Manoa, $243,072.

27. Mary Boland, dean and professor at the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene at UH-Manoa, $242,040.

28. Rose Tseng, professor at UH Hilo, $240,000. (Former chancellor of UH-Hilo campus from 1998 to June 2010.)

29. Linda Chang, professor of medicine at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $239,784.

30. David Lassner, system chief information officer and vice president for information technology, $236,760.

31. Andrew Hashimoto, researcher and professor in the molecular biosciences and bioengineering department at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $231,792.

32. Beatriz Rodriguez, professor and researcher in the geriatric medicine and public health sciences department at UH Manoa’s medical school, $231,481.

33. Francisco Hernandez, vice chancellor for students at UH-Manoa, $229,800.

34. Neal Palafox, professor of medicine in the community health department at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $224,772.

35. John Morton, system vice president for community colleges, $223,536.

36. James Donovan III, director of athletics at UH-Manoa, $223,200.

37. James Gaines, system vice president for research and professor of physics and astronomy at UH-Manoa, $222,720.

38. Patricia Blanchette, professor of medicine in the geriatric medicine department at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $221,237.

39. Darolyn Lendio, system vice president for legal affairs and university general counsel, $218,784.

40. Marjorie Mau, professor of medicine in the department of Native Hawaiian Health at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $218,760.

41. Alan Teramura, interim dean of the College of Natural Science at UH-Manoa, $214,440.

42. Magdy Iskander, professor and chair of the Hawaii Center for Advanced Communications at UH-Manoa, $214,344.

43. David Karl, professor of oceanography at UH-Manoa, $214,284.

44. Elizabeth Tam, professor of medicine in the biomedical science department at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $213,756.

45. Cecilia Shikuma, professor of medicine at UH-Manoa’s medical school, $212,544.

46. Tung Bui, professor of information technology management at UH-Manoa, $211,397.

47. Sylvia Yuen, interim dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at UH-Manoa, $210,528.

48. Brian Minaai, system associate vice president for capital improvements, $210,384.

49. Peter Englert, professor at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at UH-Manoa, $210,377. (Former chancellor of UH-Manoa campus from 2002 to 2005.)

50. Rockne Freitas, system vice president for student affairs and university/community relations, $209,256. (Former chancellor of Hawaii Community College in Hilo on the Big Island from 2004 to June 2010.)