Many Colleges Spend Big to Keep Former Campus Officials on Payrolls

Paul Fain and Emma L. Carew

Private-college presidents often have company at the top of the pay scale, including law-school deans, coaches, and medical-center staff. But another group of employees may also join them among the highest-paid on campus: former officials.

A Chronicle analysis found that 85 of the 419 private colleges included in this year's review of federal tax forms were paying at least one former official or key employee more than $200,000 in compensation in 2007-8.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 17, 2010 2:01 AM
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