Compensation for private college presidents has continued to drift upward, while the number crossing the $1 million barrier – a signal of prestige, and a magnet for criticism – held steady at 36, according to a new survey.
Donald Farish, president of Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., always wanted higher education to become a major issue in a national election. He didn't mean unaffordable tuition rates. "Be careful with what you wish for," he said.
For the second straight year, the chief executives of 36 private U.S. colleges or universities earned more than $1 million in 2010, according to an annual study by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Last year, leading lights in for-profit and nonprofit higher education convened in Washington for a conference on private-sector innovation in the industry. The national conversation about dysfunction and disruption in higher education was just heating up, and panelists from start-ups, banking, government, and education waxed enthusiastic about the ways that a traditional college education could be torn down and rebuilt—and about how lots of money could be made along the way.
China's National People's Congress approved a new law in December 2002 that promotes Chinese private education development, including at the higher education level. It gives private institutions privileges and favorable policies enjoyed by their public counterparts, including tax and other financial benefits.
Universities and colleges are busy enrolling new students but for many non-public higher education institutions, this time of year has become a scramble for money.
Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan announced not to force private universities and colleges to change names after opposition lawmakers threatened to freeze a huge portion of the ministry's budget. The ministry had sent a letter to all universities and colleges with the words "China," "Chinese" or "Chunghwa" (Chinese) in their names and asked them to change their names to underscore Taiwan's identity and avoid confusion with mainland China following Taiwan's executive cabinet plan of changing the names of all of the nation's overseas missions and state-owned enterprises before the Dec. 11 legislative elections, which raised sharp criticisms from legislators of the opposition party.
P. Martin. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2002), volume 2393 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 77-91. Springer, (2002)
N. Fuchs. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2005), volume 3596 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 51-51. Springer, (2005)