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ALL HAIL RAMSES!

Er, I mean Ramsey. More terrific national publicity for America’s most deeply troubled (nice way of putting “corrupt”) university, the University of Louisville. See how the Great Man James Ramsey totally dominates all other university presidents in salary! No contest – he makes millions more!

Ramsey [$4.3 million] was the top earner in 2017 by a healthy margin. The second-highest-paid chief executive, Jay Gogue, president of Auburn University, received $1.8 million. Next on the list was William H. McRaven, chancellor of the University of Texas system, who earned $1.5 million. Gogue retired in 2017; McRaven stepped down this year.

Not sure a healthy margin is quite the way to put it, unless you consider Ramsey’s purchase of multiple Florida mcmansions healthy… Unless you consider appointing a president who transfers much of the wealth of the university to himself and his friends healthy…

Anyway. Jimbo’s down there in Florida, see, and he’s not getting any younger. Like his model, Bernie Madoff, he might be figuring he can out-die (opposite of out-live) his legal and criminal problems… And unlike Bernie, he’ll probably be right. Die snug in his mcbed, lawsuits swirling ’round his head…

Margaret Soltan, July 16, 2018 8:15AM
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2 Responses to “ALL HAIL RAMSES!”

  1. theprofessor Says:

    These grasping parvenus like Ramsey are making academia look bad. By comparison, the well-bred, genteel, and impeccably progressive Drew Gilpin Faust is settling for a mere $575K annually from Goldman Sachs in her retirement. Also, what is this deal with him going by his first name? Everyone knows that the Nice People go by their middle names.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    tp: Thanks for reminding me that Faust, who, coming after the rapacious Larry Summers, felt compelled to lecture us on the evils of materialism before ultimately finding the same comfort level.

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