Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was the highest-paid university president during the 2007-08 academic year.
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Jackson, who is an African American, had a salary of $1,051,122 and benefits of $547,125.Dr. Jackson, who has led RPI since 1999, formerly served as chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. at MIT.
Other black university presidents also made the list of top earners. Ruth Simmons at Brown University had total compensation of $818,462. Patrick Swygert, who has since retired as president of Howard University, earned nearly $560,000. Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College, had total compensation of $438,557.
source: JBHE
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