The New College of Florida Board of Trustees on Thursday approved 5 percent pay increases for faculty members and other employees.
The raises, which will cost $1.2 million, will take effect July 10.
Raises for faculty members and administrative employees making over $100,000 a year will be capped at $5,000.
“This marks the largest increase for New College … faculty and staff ever,” Erika Worthy, the Sarasota school’s chief human resources officer, said during a meeting of the trustees.
The increases will also include a bump to a $15 minimum wage.
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The raises come amid an initiative by Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican state leaders to remake the small liberal arts school.
This year, the governor appointed several conservative allies to the trustee’s board.
Six of the new members were appointed in January as DeSantis installed conservatives on the board. That group included Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, and Matthew Spalding, a professor at Hillsdale College, a Michigan-based school that is prominent among conservatives.
Spalding also is dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus.
In addition to the six members appointed by DeSantis, the state university system’s Board of Governors in January appointed Ryan Anderson, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Ethics & Public Policy Center, to the New College board.
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