CT Senate GOP Statement on CSCU Chancellor

For Immediate Release

Sen. Henri Martin, Sen. Rob Sampson and Sen. Stephen Harding today issued the following statement regarding the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education announcing that it will not seek to extend Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) Chancellor Terrence Cheng’s contract beyond its current end date of June 30, 2026, and that starting July 1, 2025, Chancellor Cheng will transition into a new role as a $442,187 a year “Strategic Advisor to the Board”.

“So, he still will have a $442,187 a year state-taxpayer funded job, just with a different job title?

Do we have that correct?  Unbelievable.

Chancellor Cheng should have resigned long ago.  Republicans demanded that he do so.  Gov. Lamont should have demanded that resignation.

Instead, Gov. Lamont shrugged.

Instead, Gov. Lamont said he is not very concerned ‘about the stuff you read in the paper’ regarding Chancellor Cheng’s state credit card abuse, the $60 succulent steak dinners that we paid for, the chauffeured travel and getting $21,139 to relocate to Connecticut despite never making the move from New York.

Instead, Gov. Lamont has kept Chancellor Cheng on the state payroll making nearly half a million dollars.

In doing so, Gov. Lamont continues to minimize the culture of ethical lapses, scandals and mismanagement in his administration as mere ‘small ball’. ”