Greed and Corruption: The Downfall of the Humanities at Suny Albany 1995-2003

The "university president racket" -- which has gotten out of hand (average salary $500,000 a year plus huge fringe benefits) is especially scandalous at the State University of New York, where the so-called "SUNY Central" administrators are politically appointed cronies and their astronomic salaries ($190,000-$350,000 a year)are taken by the Trustees from taxpayers' revenues, while the professors are paid minimal famine salaries (median for full professors after 30 years of service $60,000 a year), not replaced upon retirement and no new appointments in the Humanities are made. Moreover, the book details press accounts of the infamous Strevell case, where the State University appointed administrators' cronies at astronomic salaries to a new SUNY division which existed only on paper and had no actual function except to pay out those salaries from the taxpayers' pockets. Author biography: Herman Prins Salomon has been teaching modern languages and literatures (Portuguese, Dutch, French) at the University at Albany since 1969.