Paychecks Stagnate for Presidents of Many Public Universities

by E Wayne Ross on January 19, 2010

The Chronicle: Paychecks Stagnate for Presidents of Many Public Universities

The bad economy is putting the brakes on pay increases for public-university leaders. Base salaries stopped growing last year for more than one-third of the 185 public-university chief executives included in a new Chronicle survey, while 10 percent of those top leaders experienced a decline in total compensation. Many of the cuts came from voluntary reductions in pay and benefits as the economy whittled away at campus budgets.