Inflated college administrator salaries are hurting students

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Inflated college administrator salaries are hurting students
By Tom Rogan | December 5, 2016 | Comments

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VCU President Michael Rao needs all the income he can get if he's going to censor all that free speech on his college campus. (Photo via Richmond Times Dispatch)

VCU President Michael Rao needs all the income he can get if he’s going to censor all that free speech on his college campus. (Photo via Richmond Times Dispatch)

Attending an American college is invariably expensive.

Tuition fees might be high, but after buying course books, accommodation, and food, etc. other costs quickly rack up. And we know about the structural problems at many colleges. Notably, anti-free speech morons and political biases.

Yet, as the Richmond Times reported yesterday, those charged with making things better – senior administrators – are actually making matters worse. Take the President of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Michael Rao. According to the Times, “Rao, in his seventh year as VCU President, received a total compensation package worth $900,940.” But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Other Virginia college administrators also make good money. In the same period, Christopher Newport University President, Paul Trible, made $844,245. University of Virginia President, Teresa Sullivan, made $733,800. Virginia Tech President Timothy Sands made $717,500. George Mason President Angel Cabrera made $644,881.

Read more at http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/12/05/inflated-college-administrator-salaries-hurting-students/#jy3KDfXGgVFLWPLj.99

[Gefn]

I made 1,200 as an adjunct professor in the late 80s. (Per class)

That was standard back then, and I was grateful to get it. 

[endicom]

One thing from VCU that might be interesting: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/author.html

And the older list: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l.old/author.html#start

[MajorClay]

 

[massadvj]

It is really a shame what we are doing to the Millennials.  They are being saddled with huge debt to pay for colleges that are administration-heavy, and have basically been turned into retirement communities for the young.  The Obama administration has been aggressive in going after the "for profit" colleges, but by comparison the non-profit, exclusive private liberal arts colleges are screwing kids right and left, and doing so with impunity.  Some kids are taking on debt into the six figures to be able to attend schools like Sarah Lawrence or Oberlin, and they end up with degrees in useless disciplines insofar as ever being able to repay the debt.

[Frank Cannon]

I made 1,200 as an adjunct professor in the late 80s. (Per class)

That was standard back then, and I was grateful to get it.

Hey @Freya maybe if you were not a junk professor you would have made more money.

[Rivergirl]

It's not the salaries, it's the content of their curriculum.