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Harvard’s president has long been among the lower-paid Ivy League chiefs. In addition to Penn and Columbia, presidents at Brown, Cornell, and Yale earned more than the Mass. Hall occupant. Princeton’s president edged Summers by just $111 in 2004-2005. Dartmouth was the only Ivy whose chief made less than Summers...
...School spokesman Michael A. Armini and Radcliffe Institute spokeswoman Jenny Corke declined to release their deans’ salaries, both of which are likely considerably lower than that of the University president. Both Armini and Corke said that they do not release salaries beyond what is required in Harvard’s filings with the Internal Revenue Service...
Despite the fact that Summers’ salary was lower than that of many of his potential replacements, there is precedent for increasing the president’s compensation upon his taking office. Summers’ total compensation in his first year—$516,804, including travel and housing credits—was nearly 23 percent higher than that of his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, who earned $421,081 in his last year in office...
...there are two reasons why the score gap is not as startling as it should seem. First, the nature of affirmative action exaggerates the differences in measures of academic success for which it is trying to correct. For instance, students of color, who tend to be poorer, average lower SAT scores than wealthier students. Their lower SAT scores perhaps indicate a lack of opportunity to succeed academically, because of their financial circumstances, more than they suggest an academic deficiency...
Colleges, then, are right to forgive some students’ lower scores. Leadership qualities, extracurricular involvement, achievement outside of the classroom, and raw demographics are factors that are key in evaluating every applicant. When the numbers are tabulated, a few snapshots of the data will look extreme, but this is no reason to flee from a worthy process...