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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Presidents of Colleges Give Back Some Pay, NY Times

By Tamar Lewin
November 22, 2008

In the week since The Chronicle of Higher Education published its annual survey of university presidents’ pay — a week in which the nation’s economic troubles worsened — several of the highest-paid presidents said that they would give back part of their pay or forgo their raises.

Pat Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, said he had never heard of such a wave of givebacks.

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