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• Ex-Penn St head was top paid among public colleges
• Salaries of public college chiefs rise, median tops $400,000
• Greece invokes emergency powers to block teachers' strike

Ex-Penn St head was top paid among public colleges Posted: 12 May 2013 03:21 PM PDT BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Former Penn State President Graham Spanier became the highest paid public college president of 2011-12 when he was forced out over his handling of the sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to a survey released Sunday.

Salaries of public college chiefs rise, median tops $400,000 Posted: 12 May 2013 03:03 PM PDT By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian NEW YORK (Reuters) - Salaries of presidents of U.S. public universities rose almost 5 percent in the last fiscal year, even as tuition rose and student debt soared, with the median pay package topping $400,000, according to a report released on Sunday. Penn State's Graham Spanier was the top earner last year at the time he was fired over the Jerry Sandusky scandal, according to the study by the Chronicle of Higher Education, though his compensation was inflated by $2.4 million in severance pay and deferred compensation. ...

Greece invokes emergency powers to block teachers' strike Posted: 12 May 2013 09:34 AM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has threatened high school teachers with arrest if they go ahead with a nationwide strike that would disrupt university entrance exams that start this week, the official government gazette said. It is the third time this year that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's government has invoked emergency law to force strikers back to work to try to show foreign lenders who bailed out Greece that the country is sticking to unpopular reforms. ...

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