Inside Higher Ed: How to pay a president
Presidential compensation is just about always causing a controversy somewhere.
American University is debating whether lavish spending of university funds by Benjamin Ladner, placed on leave as president by the board, was justified. When a member of Harvard University’s governing board quit this summer, he cited his objection to giving a raise to Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard’s president, in a year when his performance had been less than stellar. These incidents and many others raise the question of how presidents should be evaluated and what sort of perks they should have
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