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Lofty Salaries in the Ivory Towers – Are College Presidents Overpaid?
June 24, 2014/
Despite continued talk in academia of austerity – resulting in program cuts, loss of tenure-track jobs and increasing reliance on part-time adjuncts – the salaries of university presidents have reached record levels. Recently, at the University of Alberta, 56 Canadian academics applied for the $400,000-a-year job of the departing president in groups of four to highlight the pay disparity.
