Past president of the AAUP and continuing activist Cary Nelson contributes to the current “Room for Debate” feature in The New York Times, “Lofty Salaries in the Ivory Towers.” He writes:

When a college or university president has an annual salary 50 times what some faculty and staff earn, the institution delivers a powerful message about its values. It creates an educational laboratory that resonates with contempt for the notion that the campus is a community and a workplace in which fairness and concern for all rules.

Read his contribution and the entire discussion!