Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Takes Heat
Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is taking heat for the cushy compensation package she received even as her school laid off 98 employees, the Albany Times Union reports. Jackson, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a possible replacement for Hillary Clinton in the Senate, was given a $1.3 million compensation package in 2006-07, as well as access to the presidential residence and a 36-acre Adirondack home that the school bought for $450,000. She also makes around $1.3 million for work on outside corporate boards, such as IBM, Marathon Oil, FedEx, Medtronic, NYSE Euronext, and PSEG, according to the Times Union.
At least one professor has suggested Jackson take a pay cut, pointing to other presidents who have done so already.
The layoffs are of particular concern since they tend to be rare (universities generally lean on hiring freezes and travel cuts first), and Rensselaer's layoffs have mostly been doled out to lower-wage workers.
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President Shirley Ann Jackson
Is Shirley Ann Jackson even immensely qualified to become the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute? Since Shirley Ann Jackson is African-American and female, I'm certain that she was appointed by New York liberals to create a politely correct environment, which I think is okay.
Through her overtly monetary ambitions, she has shown that she is a disgrace to herself and her race. I'm certain that some other liberals will not further try to create politely correct environments by hiring people like her, who is probably not even particularly qualified for the position.
To Shirley Ann Jackson: At least keep the money in the good'ol USA. Do not send the money you received from the American tax payers and the hard working RPI students and their parents to do some Oprah Winfry style philanthropy in some other continent.
hire packages and perks for college presidents in usa
All college presidents in all of the usa are overpaid idiots who are usually friendly with board of trustee members who aren,t much smarter than the students that are taught at the colleges they attend.Let,s face the fact that over the years ,salaries have been raised to astonomical proportions for these kind of positions unjustly so, for what they do on the job and what the true value of the position should be.Be assured that trustees most probably are overpaid for what they do also.These are the reasons that our children are haveing such a hard time to go to college because of the high cost and loan payoffs.College profs are not absolved from this.they to are overpaid because off perks and benefits also afforded them. Most colleges pay enough to their employees that they should be paying their benefit packages out of pocket from their own wages.They all think they,re little gods.
Blame the dang board
You are witnessing yet another board of directors that ill-serves the students, faculty, parents and society. The "board" model is broken.
When, in order to serve on a board, you must put up a cash bond forfeitable unless certain objectives are met, you will see some decent governance.
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