Bad publicity leads to tragic consequences for law school dean
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Last week somebody at New England Law decided to leak the fact that John O’Brien was strong-arming the faculty into accepting a host of buyouts, via various forms of bureaucratic terrorism.
On Tuesday, the Boston Business Journal reported that next year (not now) O’Brien will take a 25% pay cut, which will reportedly reduce his salary to $650,000. (NEL’s Board of Trustees saw fit to pay O’Brien $867,000 in FY2011 and $865,000 in FY2012. His salary for FY2013 and FY2014 is not public information).
As a point of comparison, the University of Michigan paid the dean of the law school $186,000 in 1980 (in 2012 dollars), $325,000 in 2005, and $470,000 in 2012.