Campus 12/3
This Week in The Campus:
- Kristof and WuDunn to give commencement address
- LIS introduces print quotas: 500 pages per semester. The Campus editorial advocates for “moderation” and for students to “remain calm,” as if there will be riots in the streets. I would offer my own advice to LIS: tell students how much they’ve printed this semester so they have an expectation for next semester. Information is what will quell any outrage. Do you know how much you have printed? The information (a little janky) is at go/papercut (email login). Here’s MiddBlog’s take on printing back in March of last year.
- Class of 2010 Senior Gift: Providing financial aid to incoming students, the endowed fund will have a preference for international students. Students care about financial aid — Vassar’s class of 2010 is doing the same. The 2009 gift was the Proctor Woodstove Lounge.
- Liebowitz yearly pay exceeds $500,000: He’s in the middle of the pack for college presidents, so relax. And he has a pay freeze. No need for crazy headlines here.
- ED1 fills 45% of Class of 2014: This is now the trend. Admit half of the class early so that the admissions office can “shape” the class. But do they at least still make applicants attach a photo? I’m worried incoming freshmen look younger and younger each year.
- Nepali student returns home, illuminates rural village: Profliling Dristy Shrestha ’11.5, this piece is increasingly what Middlebury is made of.
- Bearplane takes off: Download the album here.
- Finally, on H1N1, freshmen seminars, and ross vs. proctor:
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The article on President Leibowitz’ compensation seems to be still in draft form.
Is there a source for the data? I spent 15 minutes on the Chronicle of Higher Education website and found the data. Is that the source the author used? Maybe the hard copy version had the source, but I didn’t see it in the on-line version.
According to the Chronicle, President Leibowitz’ salary (FY2007 — the same year as the data reported in The Campus) is $330,000. That salary is much lower than the presidents of just about all, if not all, the others on your chart. Why not complete the picture and provide that information?
One doesn’t know from the Chronicle data how much of his benefits go toward deferred compensation, and therefore are not his until he leaves (providing he meets performance expectations set by the trustees). His salary, which we do know about, appears to be at bottom of the group of schools you list in your table.
In previous articles, we read the president took a salary cut (a 10% cut), not just a freeze. Where in this article, which is supposedly about Leibowitz’ compensation, do we find that information? Just an oversight? Certainly seems germane to the subject of the article. And the criticism by the student about a lack of visibility on campus: why didn’t the reporter get more than one view, or at least ask the president how he spends his time, how often he attends events, has lunches with students, and the like? It seems like this story is still in draft form, and/or had some axe to grind.
As a Middlebury parent, I am very interested in this issue, but I would have liked more and better information–more context. Seeing a $330,000 salary for the president, when some faculty members are earning more than $180,000 and some staff more than $250,000, is hardly alarming, especially if the president is doing a fine job. Is the Campus suggesting he is not?
let’s not forget the tale of an epic wiffle ball season told in this week’s edition:
http://middleburycampus.com/2009/12/03/bullies-steal-wiffle-ball-world-series/
MiddParent: Some of the other NESCAC president salaries are similarly inflated. Michael Roth of Wesleyan similarly makes something in the $300,000′s, but is inflated because of deferred compensation from his previous job (he has only been at Wes for two years)