In previous posts, I have detailed Gordon Gee’s extraordinary compensation as President Emeritus of Ohio State, as well as the fact that the only two public university administrators whose compensation exceeded his in 2012 were Graham B. Spanier of Penn State and Jay Gogue of Auburn, both of whom have also retired—Spanier under considerably more fire for his role in covering up Jerry Sandusky’s serial child abuse than Gee received for his derogatory comments about other universities whose football teams have been ranked ahead of the Buckeyes. Notably, Spanier’s base salary for his final year as the President of Penn State constituted only 12.1% of his total compensation for that year, and Gogue’s for his final year at Auburn, only 19% of his total compensation.
Nonetheless, it seems that Gee’s hanging on in a reduced and overpaid role is becoming more the model than Spanier’s and Gogue’s very large but…
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