College presidents' pay rose in past year

"Chronicle editor Jeffrey Selingo said there is relatively little data covering previous national economic downturns" Are you telling us that Colleges didn't keep financial records and that those records that were kept didn't record the salariesof their own administrators? I don't believe that. What I do believe is that colleges, even "public" colleges, refuse to release this information. They don't want the public to know that College administrations do well no matter how bad the economy gets. After all, it's other people's money, especially government grants, that pays theeir salaries, so why should those administrators take a pay cut? It's not THEIR economy that is in the tank, right? The greedy bastards!