Curran stepped down as president at the end of June and currently is on a one-year sabbatical. UD’s President Emeritus and executive-in-residence for Asian affairs plans to return to UD next year as a professor.
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Eric Spina took over as UD’s 19th president on July 1. The university would not reveal his salary. According to The Chronicle, he made $631,350 in 2014 as vice chancellor and provost at Syracuse University.
Curran’s salary breakdown from 2014: $517,868 in base pay; $130,290 in bonus pay; and $100,986 in other pay.
This media outlet reported in June that Curran’s total compensation for 2014 was $790,854, based on information in the university’s Form 990, which it files every year for tax purposes. That total included $19,500 in deferred compensation that The Chronicle did not include in its report.
Wilmington (Del.) University president Jack Varsalona was the highest-paid president on The Chronicle’s list with total pay of $5,449,405.
Thirty-nine president made more than $1 million two years ago. That list included Case Western Reserve’s Barbara Snyder, whose pay of $1,154,775 million was tops in Ohio.
Other recognizable names on the list include:
Donna Shalala, University of Miami — No. 11 at $1,570,761. She was Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton.
Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University — No. 49 at $926,634. He’s the son of the famous evangelist of the same name who died in 2007.
Kenneth Starr, Baylor — No. 54 at $895,966. The former U.S. Solicitor General resigned earlier this year in the midst of a scandal involving sexual assaults at the school.
Thirty-five presidents made fewer than $100,000 in 2014, including 17 that weren’t paid a dime. Among those whose salaries were $0 was Boston College’s William Leahy, a Jesuit priest who has taken a vow of poverty.
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