The Real Millionaire’s Club: College Presidents

If you’re still looking for the one-percenters, you might try checking out college campuses rather than corporate boardrooms: As tallied by the Chronicle of Higher Education, 36 college presidents were paid more than one million dollars in 2012.

Meet the big men and women on campus:

• Shirley Ann Jackson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute—$7,143,312
• John L. Lahey, Quinnipiac University—$3,759,076
• Lee C. Bolinger, Columbia—$3,389,917
• Amy Gutmann, Penn—$2,473,952
• Charles R. Middleton, Roosevelt University—$1,762,956
• Susan Hockfield, MIT—$1,679,097
• David W. Leebron, Rice—$1,522,502
• John E. Sexton, NYU—$1.404,484
• Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Rockefeller University—$1,381,341
• Richard C. Levin, Yale—$1,375,365
• Robert J. Zimmer, University of Chicago—$1,369,856
• Nido Qubein, High Point University—$1,355,777
• Steadman Upham, University of Tulsa—$1,355,061
• L. Max Nikias, University of Southern California—$1,316,524
• John J. DeGioia, Georgetown—$1,292,786
• Steven Knapp, George Washington University—$1,263,034
• Donna E. Shalala, University of Miami—$1,225,689
• David E. Van Zandt, New School for Social Research–$1,172,515
• Joseph E. Aoun, Northeastern University—$1,170,851
• Robert A. Brown, Boston University—$1,164,078
• Robert Weisbuch, Drew University—$1,155,382
• Nicholas S. Zeppos, Vanderbilt—$1,154,488
• Victor J. Boschini, Jr., Texas Christian University—$1,150,966
• Morton O. Schapiro, Northwestern—$1,123,913
• James F. Jones, Jr., Trinity College (Connecticut)—$1,118,678
• Richard Brodhead, Duke—$1,102,608
• Ronald J. Daniels, Johns Hopkins—$1,100,844
• John A. Fry, Drexel University—$1,074,814
• Barbara R. Snyder, Case Western—$1,035,849
• Scott S. Cowen, Tulane—$1,020,000
• Walter Harrison, University of Hartford–$1,019,779
• James W. Wagner, Emory—$1,019,607
• Richard M. Joel, Yeshiva—$1,016,453
• Edward Guiliano, New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury—$1,015,259
• Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond—$1,008,770
• Nathan O. Hatch, Wake Forest—$1,005,505

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