The Million-Dollar President, Soon to Be Commonplace?

A 'Chronicle' survey finds 53-percent increase in presidents with compensation of at least $500,000

The number of chief executives in higher education moving into the highest ranks of compensation accelerated in the past year.

While the salaries do not have the eye-popping quotient of those of corporate CEO's — whose median compensation was just over $6-million among the 350 largest U.S. corporations — the steady upward march of higher-education

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