The Compensation of African-American College Presidents

In the 2005-06 academic year, William R. Brody, president of Johns Hopkins University, earned a salary of nearly $1.5 million. With benefits, he had total compensation of more than $1.9 million.

University presidents at state-operated educational institutions also did quite well. John T. Casteen, president of the University of Virginia, had a salary of $468,000 and total compensation of more than $750,000. (The head football coach at the University of Virginia had total compensation of nearly $1.8 million.)

According to a recent report in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the mean compensation of presidents of large research universities in 2005-06 was more than $528,000. For small liberal arts colleges, the mean compensation was $276,000.

Here is a list of African Americans who are college presidents and the total compensation they received in the 2005-06 academic year:

Shirley Ann Jackson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
$1,208,148
Dorothy C. Yancy
Johnson C. Smith University
$695,869
Ruth J. Simmons
Brown University
$689,007
H. Patrick Swygert
Howard University
$552,196
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County
$417,500
Walter D. Broadnax
Clark Atlanta University
$401,931
Gwendolyn W. Stephenson
Hillsborough Community College
$365,577
William R. Harvey
Hampton University
$312,453
Beverly D. Tatum
Spelman College
$304,343
Hazel R. O’Leary
Fisk University
$257,108
Lloyd V. Hackley*
North Carolina A&T State University
$238,500
William L. Pollard*
University of the District of Columbia
$235,657
Norman C. Francis
Xavier University
$225,377
Johnnetta B Cole*
Bennett College for Women
$203,996
Beverly W. Hogan
Tougaloo College
$150,000
Oscar L. Prater*
Talladega College
$147,000
Charles E. Young
Allen University
$109,500

*No longer serving as president of college or university.

 

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