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Theobald’s salary far below other presidents’, study says

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By Paul Klein

President Theobald's makes more than $100,000 less than the median public university president's salary. | TTN FILE PHOTO

President Theobald’s makes more than $100,000 less than the median public university president. | TTN FILE PHOTO

President Theobald has a salary well below many other public university leaders, ranking No. 173 among all public college executives, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education survey published earlier this summer.

With total compensation at $352,021 in the 2013 fiscal year, Theobald made nearly $127,000 less than the middle of the pack. However, in the current fiscal year, Theobald will receive a significant bump in salary.

Slated to earn $450,000 this fiscal year and an additional $200,000 in deferred compensation as part of his contract, Theobald would move up 67 spots in the rankings, assuming no other salaries change.

A university spokesman said Theobald is also provided with a residence for personal and university use with an additional car and driver for university business.

The Chronicle’s survey, published May 16, ranked the salaries of 255 chief executives at 227 public universities or systems nationwide. In Pennsylvania, Theobald’s compensation was also below average.

University of Pittsburgh’s outgoing chancellor, Mark Nordenberg, made nearly $300,000 more than Theobald and was ranked the 43rd highest. Nordenberg, who will retire Aug. 1, served Pittsburgh for more than 36 years, 19 of which he was chancellor.

The second highest Pennsylvania public university president was Pennsylvania State University’s Rodney Erickson who received $618,220 and was ranked 42nd. Erickson, who retired last month, assumed the position in late 2011 after president Graham Spanier was ousted in the heat of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

With the exception of head executives who served for less than a whole fiscal year, like Temple’s former interim president Richard Englert, Theobald’s compensation only trumped Michael Driscoll of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Theobald earned nearly $25,000 more than Driscoll.

Not one active Pennsylvania state college executive was in the Top 10 or even the Top 20. However, next fiscal year will be a different story for Pennsylvania’s state higher education leaders.

Pittsburgh’s new chancellor Patrick Gallagher will be receiving a base salary of $525,000. Penn State’s new president Eric Barron will make $800,000 with $200,000 in transitional payment.

Paul Klein can be reached at tua80386@temple.edu.

Students for Monteiro hold rally, march to Sullivan Hall

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Students stood outside Sullivan Hall to hand in a petition. They waited roughly 30 minutes until administrators came outside to take the petition.

Students stood outside Sullivan Hall to hand in a petition. They waited roughly 30 minutes until administrators came outside to take the petition.

Members of the coalition Students for Monteiro held a rally this afternoon to demand the reinstatement of Anthony Monteiro, an adjunct African American studies professor whose contract is not being renewed.

People Utilizing Real Power and Temple Democratic Socialists, the main student organizations in the coalition, spoke about topics ranging from gentrification to alleged racism in the College of Liberal Arts and their feelings about Monteiro in front of the Bell Tower. The students said that Monteiro was scheduled to speak, but he was not present and told The Temple News he had not planned to.

After the speeches, the group of about 30 protesters marched toward Anderson Hall and north past the Tyler School of Art before circling back and arriving at the doors of Sullivan Hall, which houses administrative offices.

The protesters chanted “Monteiro in, Soufas out,” “beat back Temple’s attack” and “up with the people, down with the police.” While the protesters gathered around the front door of Sullivan Hall, Temple police put up crowd control barriers on Beasley’s Walk, where there is a side door.

After about a half hour of chanting, Acting Executive Director of Campus Safety Services Charlie Leone along with William Bergman, special assistant to President Theobald, came outside to receive a petition from the protesters. Estimates for the number of signatories to the petition varied, with members of Students for Monteiro citing numbers between 500 and 900.

Last week, the protesters were stationed in front of the Bell Tower gathering signatures for their petition, which made four demands: reinstate Monteiro with tenure, fire CLA Dean Teresa Soufas, get student representation on the Board of Trustees and foster better community relations for Temple.

After Bergman and Leone took the petition, PURP member Paul-Winston Cange dismissed the crowd and announced a joint community-and-students protest on Wed. April 16 at 1 p.m.

“We’ll be right back here next week,” Cange said.

Joe Brandt can be reached at jbrandt@temple.edu or on Twitter @JBrandt_TU.