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‘In April 2012, student activists passed out packets at a campus town hall meeting with information on the school’s financial troubles, and then asked Joel about his salary, asserting that he had taken a recent raise. “I really resent answering this question,” Joel responded, before asserting that he earned $750,000 a year, not the $1.3 million that the student quoted. Joel also said that he had not taken a pay raise in five years. (Joel’s estimation of his own salary is suspect. According to publicly available IRS filings, his total salary in 2011, not including deferred compensation, was $1 million.)’

A Forward piece on Yeshiva University continues:

Its undergraduate schools admitted 84% of applicants for the 2012 academic year, far more than Brandeis, which admits just 39%, or nearby Fordham, which admits 43%. Y.U.’s acceptance rates have long been relatively high, but they climbed in 2012 as the number of applicants dropped. The undergraduate schools received 2,169 applications on the eve of the recession for the 2007-2008 school year; in the most recent cycle the number was down to 1,633. At the same time, tuition for students living on campus has jumped from $44,000 in 2008 to $53,000 in 2013.

Joel refused to comment on his grow-your-own-salary/avoid-responsibility-for-anything leadership philosophy. The Forward did pull up this explanatory remark from a recent public event.

“What I’ve come to realize as a president of a university… after 10 years as president, God rules the world. … I can do my part to partner with God, but ultimately God rules the world.”

Bad university presidents pass the buck. Scorched earth presidents pass the buck to God.

Margaret Soltan, November 4, 2013 7:27AM
Posted in: forms of religious experience

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