PRESIDENTIAL PROFILE
Average Pay, Ambitious LeaderBy SARA LIPKAPresidents' pay is, in a word, disparate. Some rake it in. Others scrape by. Then there's Arthur F. Kirk Jr., president of Saint Leo University, near Tampa, Fla. His $269,755 annual compensation falls near the median for private-college presidents. "Shucks," he wrote in a recent e-mail message, "I never considered myself average." The self-described... Copyright © 2007 by The Chronicle of Higher Education Subscribe | About The Chronicle | Contact us | Terms of use | Privacy policy | Help |