A gilded goodbye for many private college leaders

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By Todd Wallack

When Brandeis University president Jehuda Reinharz stepped down three years ago, he moved back into his old faculty office.

But unlike most history professors, Reinharz does not teach any classes, supervise graduate students, or attend departmental meetings. He did not bother posing for the department photo. The chairwoman for Near Eastern and Judaic Studies said she did not even know whether he was officially a member of her department.

Yet Reinharz remains one of the highest paid people on campus.

He received more than $600,000 in salary and benefits in 2011, second only to the new Brandeis president, according to the school’s most recent public tax returns. And that’s on top of the $800,000 Reinharz earned in his new job as president of the Mandel Foundation, a longtime Brandeis benefactor.

“There is puzzlement from faculty about why he gets paid at all” by Brandeis, said Gordon Fellman, a sociology professor at Brandeis. “His term as president ended.”

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1. As a history professor who makes less than 10%...

Of that, with large teaching and research obligations, I say

And therein lies one of the many reasons education is so damned expensive. I'm just lucky I have a job to pay off my massive student loan debt. My friends are often not so lucky.

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2. This is where the increase in college cost are going; to the 1%...it's beyond disgusting to put such

...tribute on people trying to transition themselves in life