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RPI Prez No. 8 in Corporate Board Pay

Bloomberg: Sarbanes-Oxley Lifts Some Directors’ Pay Higher Than $1 Million

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — The Great Recession hasn’t stopped pay increases for company boards. According to compensation consultants Pearl Meyer & Partners, the typical director of a large corporation made $216,000 last year, up from $129,667 in 2003…

Shirley Ann Jackson 2008 board pay: $1,346,648 (Public Service Enterprise Group, $213,110; NYSE Euronext, $225,016; Medtronic, $193,275; FedEx, $210,548; IBM, $229,699; Marathon Oil, $275,000) Jackson’s day job is pretty lucrative, too. As president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, she was paid $1.6 million in 2008. She was unavailable for comment.

AUUP investigates Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

AAUP: Investigation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The AAUP general secretary has authorized an investigation into key issues of shared governance at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The investigation, which will be carried out by a committee of AAUP members with no previous involvement in the situation, will focus on issues of concern surrounding the ongoing suspension of Rensselaer’s faculty senate. (12/18)