College staff jeopardizing private donations to reward themselves?

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<p>Might not this idea of taking donated funds and using it to hike a state college’s president’s salary 25%, to $400K (at the same time they’re hiking tuition and making cuts elsewhere and crying that the sky is falling), with half of it coming from donations by private citizens and companies possibly not sit well with the people they appeal to for the donations? If their donation appeals stated that part of the use of the money they’d like you to donate would be used to be able to pay their preseident of the college $400K instead of $300K would you still donate?</p>

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<p>I personally wouldn’t have a problem with it.</p>

<p>Colleges need to pay for all kinds of things to operate. When I donate to my alma mater I don’t stipulate how they should use the money. University Presidents earn big salaries. It’s an important position, if they are good at directing the school then that will ultimately lead greater interest in the college from full paying applicants and private doners.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t be too happy if I thought that the President of my alma mater wasn’t very good and he or she was making a big salary. But if they are doing a good job then I would consider it money well spent.</p>

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This is a brand new college president for SDSU so there’s no track record of accomplishments at that particular Uni yet.</p>

<p>At what point, 25%, 50%, 100%, or $400K, $450K, $600K, $1M would you consider it no longer ‘money well spent’?</p>

<p>The other factor is the 25% increase in salary. That’s a very large jump, especially in times of cutbacks and tuition hikes.</p>

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<p>I’m speaking in generalities. To command that kind of salary a President needs to have a proven track record from being a President at other Universities. At this point in time $400K is close to the top of what a University President would earn.</p>

<p>If this President is good at his job then he’ll generate revenue in excess of his salary from private donations and that would be one of the expectations from the board of trustees. To earn this kind of salary the President needs to be a rainmaker himself.</p>