Utah Misrepresented University President's Pay, Regents Concede

Call it a compensation cover-up: A spokesman for the Utah State Board of Regents has acknowledged that the state publicly misrepresented the pay of the University of Utah's president by underreporting and hiding the sources of his compensation.

The regents' spokesman, David Buhler, responding to Chronicle surveys of public-university presidents' compensation and to local media requests, had reported in recent years that Utah's president, J. Bernard Machen, earned a state salary of

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