Maharishi University of Management - Administration and Faculty

Administration and Faculty

The Board of Trustees consists of 37 members and is chaired by Jeffrey Abramson, a partner in The Tower Companies. Other members include Ramani Ayer, chairman of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Bevan Morris, Chairman Emeritus of MUM, John Hagelin, "Honorary Chairman", physicist and MUM faculty member, and Ed Malloy, mayor of Fairfield, Iowa. Former trustees include retired Major General and author Franklin M. Davis, Jr, Theodore Dreier, an engineer and educator who was one of the founders of Black Mountain College, and Alfred L. Jenkins, a career diplomat who served as chairman of MIU but left after three years. Bevan Morris is president of the university.

The university faculty includes "renowned PhDs from various universities" including "world renowned physicist John Hagelin. Author Jennifer Gidley says that the faculty who come to MUM from other institutions (including herself) notice that the educational environment is "significantly better for teaching and working". For example the alertness level of the students is higher, the heart value is more lively, stress levels much lower, which creates a “mutually supportive environment” with no sign of the politicization and "cutthroat nature" prevalent at some other institutions. Notable past and present faculty at MUM include David Orme-Johnson, Ashley Deans, and Elaine Ingham.

In 2007 the university had 52 faculty members and average salaries for full-time faculty ranged from $6,678 for some Instructors and Assistant Professors to $19,595 for full Professors. In 2011, MUM was one of more than 1,000 corporations which requested a waiver to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's requirement to offer maximum payouts of $750,000 per employee.