Houston U’s president cashes million-dollar paycheck, students struggle

The president of the bottom-ranked University of Houston is asking her working-class students to pay just a little more this fall, even as she continues to pull down a $1.2-million annual salary, ride with a chauffeur and live in a mansion.

UH president and chancellor Renu Khator is the seventh-highest paid public university president, cashing paychecks that top her peers’ income at private Princeton and Harvard – the nation’s top two colleges. In fact, those presidents aren’t even in the top 25, salarywise.

But there’s a big difference between Houston and its Ivy League brethren: UH ranks No. 189 in the US News & World Report’s annual list of top colleges. The school’s ranking in Money Magazine (rated by post-grad success) is worse still: No. 473. And Forbes? UH didn’t make a similar list there.

UH comprises four campuses, one of which is UH-Downtown, a school so bad that Money Magazine rates it one of the nation’s “dropout factories and diploma mills.”

The non-profit Education Trust think tank reported last year that Khator is the nation’s only university president making more than $1 million per year while her/his school has an overall graduation rate below the national average of 59 percent.

All that bad news and yet tuition is 20 percent above the national average.

Students at the University of Houston (UH) will pay an extra $433 in tuition and fees for the 2015-16 academic year. That’ll be enough to keep UH’s ranking as the second-highest tuition in the state, at $10,331 per year. And 65 percent of UH’s students are middle or lower-class minority students who rely heavily on loans and government grants.

In an era where students struggle to make ends meet if they can afford an education at all, this is distressing news to many.

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stupid article she's worth every penny. The writer can go suck an egg.

Also a school cannot be a diploma mill and a dropout factory at the same time. Writer is a moron

i read that article yesterday...the article uses idiotic logic...

she basically equates your universities academic reputation should be equivalent to your pay ...harvard presidents should get the most and university of houston should get 189th

that is where this article is stupid...academic reputations were established hundreds of years ago ..no current president was alive when their schools academic reputation was established...

a president at Harvard doesnt have to do much in an already established school..a university of Houston president has to do a ton to improve academic reputation to the top tier... you get payed based on what you have to do

the article even tries to degrade Houston saying we are a diploma mill and dropout factory as justification as to why she needs to be get less money .. that is the reason why she is paid that much.. to fix that.

this is were this stupid article showed its biased side..as it didn't point out a single accomplishment she has done in her short tenure at UH....
she notes we are 189 in USnews...why didnt they note we were completely unranked before she was hired..how come they didnt note that we become tier one academiclly acknowledged university by the Carnegie Foundation under here tenure...how the state government dramatically increased our funding under her tenure..

why didnt they note that our campus has gone through a renovation and remodeling revolution under here..if you came to our campus anytime between the 1980's to 2008 when she was hired, very little work was done, basically just upkeep..our campus was basically the same....but under her our campus has completely changed..and i mean COMPLETELY..half the old school building were torn down and new ones were built, most of the historic ones that were kept were completely renovated. and anywhere we could add high tech new facilities we did..we went from a commuter school before she came to being the second most dormed facility in texas...all the ghetto run down houses around our campus that made it look like bad were all taken down, we talked the state into fixing all the roads (which were all horrific before) and building a metro-rail that connected downtown to UH..we built a new stadium and are now in the process of renovating hof (our bball arena)..we also added a new bball facility and plans to add a IPF in the future

anyone who came to our campus in 09 and went to it today wouldn't recognize it at all, and i mean completely unrecognizable...our academic reputation has dramatically increased under her watch..her only critic before this stupid article was a state rep who felt she was turning UH into a poshy high end college that wasn't accessible to average Houstonian.. he felt UH should be commuter school for people who struggle in the inner city (and note this was because she was pushing that freshmen should be required to stay on campus as studies show those students who stay on campus have a higher chance at graduating) aka notice how she was trying to fix the graduation rate ..

(08-28-2015 04:11 PM)AirRaid Wrote:  stupid article she's worth every penny. The writer can go suck an egg.

Also a school cannot be a diploma mill and a dropout factory at the same time. Writer is a moron

How? Houston doesn't seem to have any sort of academic reputation and with so many good schools in the state like Rice, Texas A&M, UT-Austin, etc how could they ever compete?

(08-28-2015 04:25 PM)DSLAAR Wrote:  

(08-28-2015 04:11 PM)AirRaid Wrote:  stupid article she's worth every penny. The writer can go suck an egg.

Also a school cannot be a diploma mill and a dropout factory at the same time. Writer is a moron

How? Houston doesn't seem to have any sort of academic reputation and with so many good schools in the state like Rice, Texas A&M, UT-Austin, etc how could they ever compete?

read my response you troll...you realize our academic rep has dramatically improved since she took over?...the article uses the fact we are 189 as prove that she is bad and over paid..when the truth is we were completely unranked before she came... a person that can take you zero to 50 is worth 10x more than a person who can take you from 55 to 60

Obviously trying to troll. Texas Tech fans seem to have too much time on their as their team will be trash again.

(08-28-2015 03:44 PM)DSLAAR Wrote:  Houston U’s president cashes million-dollar paycheck, students struggle

The president of the bottom-ranked University of Houston is asking her working-class students to pay just a little more this fall, even as she continues to pull down a $1.2-million annual salary, ride with a chauffeur and live in a mansion.

UH president and chancellor Renu Khator is the seventh-highest paid public university president, cashing paychecks that top her peers’ income at private Princeton and Harvard – the nation’s top two colleges. In fact, those presidents aren’t even in the top 25, salarywise.

But there’s a big difference between Houston and its Ivy League brethren: UH ranks No. 189 in the US News & World Report’s annual list of top colleges. The school’s ranking in Money Magazine (rated by post-grad success) is worse still: No. 473. And Forbes? UH didn’t make a similar list there.

UH comprises four campuses, one of which is UH-Downtown, a school so bad that Money Magazine rates it one of the nation’s “dropout factories and diploma mills.”

The non-profit Education Trust think tank reported last year that Khator is the nation’s only university president making more than $1 million per year while her/his school has an overall graduation rate below the national average of 59 percent.

All that bad news and yet tuition is 20 percent above the national average.

Students at the University of Houston (UH) will pay an extra $433 in tuition and fees for the 2015-16 academic year. That’ll be enough to keep UH’s ranking as the second-highest tuition in the state, at $10,331 per year. And 65 percent of UH’s students are middle or lower-class minority students who rely heavily on loans and government grants.

In an era where students struggle to make ends meet if they can afford an education at all, this is distressing news to many.

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And here I am, Pissed that our president drives a Porshe.

...Mostly because he's too damn tall for one:

LOL

This might be the worst troll attempt I have ever seen.

Hahaha

(08-28-2015 04:36 PM)Borncoog74 Wrote:  LOL

This might be the worst troll attempt I have ever seen.

Hahaha

lol...exactly. Its like a ToddRodge post with punctuation and capital letters.

The dropout factory and degree mill was referenced at UH-Downtown.

The article was all over the place and the entire basis is on the USNR.

I think Khator is overpaid. I think all college Presidents are overpaid. She is great for the University of Houston and if it requires that much money to keep her then you do it.

Who cares...she is getting what they will pay her just like any of us would.

And nobody is forcing any of the students to go there.

lame

(08-28-2015 05:01 PM)UHDC Wrote:  The dropout factory and degree mill was referenced at UH-Downtown.

The article was all over the place and the entire basis is on the USNR.

I think Khator is overpaid. I think all college Presidents are overpaid. She is great for the University of Houston and if it requires that much money to keep her then you do it.

UH Downtown is basically a 4 year community college. Its never going to be a academic Mecca. UH central campus is transitioning from the cities blue collar university to the a tier one state destination university.

The states two top public institutions are hopelessly overcrowded. Due to racial and other considerations, UT and Aggie automatically accept anyone in the top 8% of any HS class in order to guarantee access and diversity at these institutions. Unfortunately, the quality of HS educations in Texas is not equal. Some high schools churn out tons of incredibly qualified kids, some not so much. Due this, there are tons of hard working smart kids who meet the standards of UT and A&M, but wont get in. Texas and Aggie are currently turning away thousands of highly qualified applicants every year. Those kids are leaving the state to attend other high quality universities. The legislature is pumping money into the states higher education system in a effort to solidify Tech and Houston as solid public tier one in-state alternatives to UT and A&M.

Thus, the UH mission is changing, and apparently, that bothers some people.

Khator is not only President of the UH main campus, she is also Chancellor of the entire UH system (5 or 6 campuses).

It's in this dual role that her salary must be considered. As I understand it, just the Chancellor of the UT System makes almost twice what Khator makes, never mind what the other guy who runs UT-Austin makes.

(08-28-2015 05:11 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(08-28-2015 05:01 PM)UHDC Wrote:  The dropout factory and degree mill was referenced at UH-Downtown.

The article was all over the place and the entire basis is on the USNR.

I think Khator is overpaid. I think all college Presidents are overpaid. She is great for the University of Houston and if it requires that much money to keep her then you do it.

UH Downtown is basically a 4 year community college. Its never going to be a academic Mecca. UH central campus is transitioning from the cities blue collar university to the a tier one state destination university.

The states two top public institutions are hopelessly overcrowded. Due to racial and other considerations, UT and Aggie automatically accept anyone in the top 8% of any HS class in order to guarantee access and diversity at these institutions. Unfortunately, the quality of HS educations in Texas is not equal. Some high schools churn out tons of incredibly qualified kids, some not so much. Due this, there are tons of hard working smart kids who meet the standards of UT and A&M, but wont get in. Texas and Aggie are currently turning away thousands of highly qualified applicants every year. Those kids are leaving the state to attend other high quality universities. The legislature is pumping money into the states higher education system in a effort to solidify Tech and Houston as solid tier one in-state alternatives to UT and A&M.

Thus, the UH mission is changing, and apparently, that bothers some people.

yeah, this is a pretty bad troll attempt. Texas tech fans who mock Houston need to give it up. If Houston wasn't a threat, they wouldn't be wasting their time making these posts. Cheers!

A chauffeur for the president of UH is hilarious. I couldn't imagine the public outrage if our president had one.

Is that you JML??

Man I love UofH, and the new stadium is awesome, but we gotta do something about some of the roads on campus. Pothole city. Doesn't look good.

(08-28-2015 05:06 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  Who cares...she is getting what they will pay her just like any of us would.

And nobody is forcing any of the students to go there.

lame

(08-28-2015 07:00 PM)Bull Wrote:  Man I love UofH, and the new stadium is awesome, but we gotta do something about some of the roads on campus. Pothole city. Doesn't look good.

Agree 100%, but that's mostly on the city council. We've at least filled up MOST of the potholes when we redid Cullen but we still have a few streets to go.

Don't feed this fool. Ignore him.