The Chronicle of Higher Education released its annual report on executive compensation at colleges and universities in its Nov. 14 issue. Elon is one of 595 private schools included in the report.

According to the Chronicle, Elon's highest paid employee, President Leo Lambert, received $239,379 in 2001-02, up from $229,372 in 2000-01. Lambert also received $ 23,828 in benefits in 2001-02 and $13,458 in expense compensation.

Lambert's pay was $54,904 more than the median compensation level at master's college or university ­ the category in which Elon was classified.

Elon's following four highest paid employees and their 2001-02 salaries are: Gerald Francis, provost, $199,496; John Burbridge, dean of the Love School of Business, $159,909; Gerald Whittington, vice president of business, finance and technology, $151,086 and Elizabeth Rogers, associate dean of physical therapy, $135,554.

Like Lambert, all four received pay raises from 2000-01 to 2001-02. For the most part, executives' raises were comparable to the 4 percent rise in the average faculty salary over the same time period.

Francis' 9.5 percent raise was the highest of the top five employees. All others had a raise of less than 5 percent.

According to the Chronicle, the highest paid president at a master's college or university was Theodore Gross at Roosevelt University, earning $610,028 in 2001-02.

The highest compensation at any college or university for the 2002 fiscal year was $891,400, going to Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Presidents at Vanderbilt University, the University of Pennsylvania and Rockefeller University also earned more than $800,000.

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