[STONEWALLS]

...this looks bad to parents struggling to get their kid thru college...but it's not as bad as it sounds...the president of Ohio State for instance....what's that, 80,000 students?...any CEO with 80,000 employees would make big bucks too....university presidents are basically high level managers of very large entities.....a million a year is cheap to get a manager used to working at that level.

[Nova442]

A more apt description would be the number of faculty. Students can be employees, see TAs, but are more akin to customers.

[bray]

Your tax $$ at work. Sorry, this is way too much for a state employee since you can get people to do it for far less.

If it is a private school, fine but public schools should not be paying those types of salaries. Cut the faculty pay too and make it affordable.

Pray for America

[PATRIOT1876]

The quality of education seems to be in inverse proportion to the size of the college president’s pay.

Big money to teach liberal garbage?!?!

[A Strict Constructionist]

The real cost of education is the bloated administrations created to support government regulation. Like all administrations they take the government requirements and expand on them logarithmically.

[BigBobber]

...university presidents are basically high level managers of very large entities.....a million a year is cheap to get a manager used to working at that level.

Please compare with the salary of state governors who have many, many more employees.

The jig is about up on the college tuition/state and federal funding scam. The higher education financial "bubble" is about to burst.

[napscoordinator]

30 Presidents? The most should be five.....Harvard, Cornell, Yale, GWU, and maybe Stanford. Only the best of the best universities should have their Presidents paid that amount.