Bendapudi gets 47% raise

NittanyLion99 said:
Penn State branch campus professors outraged as President Bendapudi gets 47% pay raise amid campus closures | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette https://share.google/h5iQlikmUKVvanQt1
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Campus closures and the president’s raise are 2 different things ( apples and oranges….at least Fuji and Macintosh ), but 47% is well beyond ridiculous…..unless she was initially seriously underpaid ( not familiar with the contract)
 
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I worked for a company where the new CFO's bonus was based on how much ROA was improved. Well, the operational issues and overall performance wasn't fixed, but he made big, big money just by outsourcing everything to 3rd parties ...facilities, IT, inventory. The ROA shot up, but profit continued to flail. He eventually got canned, but he did what he was incentivized to do.
 
27Pellis said:
Campus closures and the president’s raise are 2 different things ( apples and oranges….at least Fuji and Macintosh ), but 47% is well beyond ridiculous…..unless he was initially seriously underpaid ( not familiar with the contract)
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Agree they are different. I was simply posting a PSU related news item. That said, she was making ~$1M and got a raise to $1.47M. IDK the justification, but this seems abnormal. She is now the highest paid B1G president and 2nd highest paid public university president.
 
27Pellis said:
Campus closures and the president’s raise are 2 different things ( apples and oranges….at least Fuji and Macintosh ), but 47% is well beyond ridiculous…..unless she was initially seriously underpaid ( not familiar with the contract)
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She was below the median, and this supposedly takes her to the 80th percentile. Sounds like she's been successful at raising money, helping to secure $560 million in philanthropic donations. Closing some of the branch campuses probably makes sense, though I'd like to have seen it studied a bit more.
 
IANit said:
She was below the median, and this supposedly takes her to the 80th percentile. Sounds like she's been successful at raising money, helping to secure $560 million in philanthropic donations. Closing some of the branch campuses probably makes sense, though I'd like to have seen it studied a bit more.
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Below the median, and 80th percentile of what? All universities?
The article says she is now the highest paid B1G president and 2nd highest paid public university president.
 
NittanyLion99 said:
Below the median, and 80th percentile of what? All universities?
The article says she is now the highest paid B1G president and 2nd highest paid public university president.
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I'm sure they did a 'study' to make the pay package seem reasonable.

Just like the 9/11 Museum folks.
 
NittanyLion99 said:
Below the median, and 80th percentile of what? All universities?
The article says she is now the highest paid B1G president and 2nd highest paid public university president.
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Yeah, I greatly question that. She was supposedly 7th of 180 public doctoral university presidents in 2024 according to the Chronical of Higher Education. Perhaps this is referring to a benchmark of peers, but that doesn't seem right, either.
 
NittanyLion99 said:
Agree they are different. I was simply posting a PSU related news item. That said, she was making ~$1M and got a raise to $1.47M. IDK the justification, but this seems abnormal. She is now the highest paid B1G president and 2nd highest paid public university president.
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LMAOROFL who has the highest tuition at a public university? Google PSU & FSU tuition and LOL. Now realize that the *** clowns who took tuition from $1,350/yr to $20,000+/yr im my life time are teaching economics. LMAOROFL
 
marylovesthelions said:
LMAOROFL who has the highest tuition at a public university? Google PSU & FSU tuition and LOL. Now realize that the *** clowns who took tuition from $1,350/yr to $20,000+/yr im my life time are teaching economics. LMAOROFL
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Like the university's and its academic Public Relations departments dropping into the fetal position when the Sandusky thing went down. As the saying goes, if you can't do, then teach.
 
Is there an issue with PSU governance structure? Are there transparent checks and balances, or does it allow for graft, nepotism, cronyism, or just inefficient bureacracies? Is it some golden goose tucked away in the mountains for the connected?
A serious question because I never thought to look into it and now wonder about decisions it made over the past 20 years.
 
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