How is it that these college presidents get paid so much? I’ve heard some talk that excessive administrative expenses in recent years have helped drive college tuition costs higher and higher.
In addition to the college president and his/her pay, there is an entire office of support staff and deans and assistant deans who need to be paid too.
depending on whether you count adjuncts and grad students who teach, administrators and support staff may outnumber professors. If you go to the want ads in the Chronicle of Higher Education, administrative openings definitely outnumber teaching openings.