Providence Journal files / Connie Grosch
ROBERT CAROTHERS
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A generous incentive set the stage for more than three dozen University of Rhode Island professors and administrators to retire this summer with tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay -- including an 82-year-old professor who had been at URI over 50 years.
Five retirees left with more than $100,000. Some are already back to work at URI, in post-retirement jobs paying them up to $40,000.
The best-known recent retiree is former President Robert Carothers, whose three-year contract as a $184,916 "distinguished professor" would have expired June 30. He left at the school year's end with a previously reported $139,712 in severance pay.
But the highest payout was $140,649 for Dayle Joseph, 39-year URI veteran and former College of Nursing dean.