Soaring Pay, Big Questions

By JULIANNE BASINGER

As the compensation of the top-paid presidents of private universities edges toward $1-million, some faculty members and higher-education scholars have started asking whether such pay is appropriate for academe.

Four private-college presidents earned more than $800,000 in the 2002 fiscal year -- twice as many as in the previous year. For three of them,...

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