Higher-ed execs earn their keep

At least some of the grumbling attendant to the departure of Mark Emmert as president of the University of Washington is the result of a salary – just over $900,000 a year – that critics see as approaching the bloated level of corporate chief executive officers.

Not to rationalize the quite comfortable salaries paid to either corporate CEOs or university presidents, but at least when talking about higher-ed institutions of the size of the UW, there’s a reason for the perceived correlation – college prexies are running entities that are as financially large, complex and contentious as big corporations.

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