David Petraeus, KKR’s ambassador at CUNY honors college. In April, David Petraeus, a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and leader of coalition forces during the war in Iraq, took an adjunct professorship at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York.
Other high-level national-security officials have also recently moved into academia. In September 2011, former CIA director and onetime secretary of defense Robert Gates became the chancellor of the College of William and Mary. And last month Janet Napolitano, former director of the Department of Homeland Security, assumed the office of president of the University of California system. Petraeus’ appointment has generated opposition. Criticism from many — including New York City mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio — led to the reduction of Petraeus’ reported $200,000 salary for teaching one seminar to $1. Hundreds of students and others signed a petition protesting Petraeus’ faculty position, suggesting CUNY had become a “war college.” Could Grad Students Regain Union Rights? Some Hopeful Signs. Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013, 4:20 pm BY Rebecca Burns Graduate students at NYU who work as teaching assistants, research assistants and graduate assistants are demanding their right to collectively bargain.
(GSOC-UAW Local 2110) In one iteration of an ongoing joke in The Simpsons about the lot of graduate students, Lisa throws bread on the ground to feed a group of ducks, only to have a crowd of scraggly students converge instead. A professor with a whip appears and barks, "No food for you grad students until you grade 3,000 papers. " Whips aside, the scene captures the thin line between education and exploitation for advanced degree candidates, who often go deep into debt for the privilege of spending years grading Sisyphean towers of paperwork. CUNY is Paying David Petraeus $200,000 to Work Three Hours a Week. Yeah.
Maybe my outrage-o-meter is off today. But I live near the University of Michigan. The highest paid adjuncts are in the law school- making 3-4x the President of the University's salary. Not surprised. Right, because resigning in disgrace from public service should be rewarded with lucrative contracts. And if hiring middle-aged lotharios who can't keep it in their pants, despite being charged with the highest level of security clearance can bring a lil' naughty notoriety to an institution dedicated to knowledge, who are we to be buzzkills? No, it says it will be supplemented by a private gift. "It brings publicity, hopefully additional investment from other private donors who like that the school is bringing in well known/respected experts, and hopefully will increase enrollment in the school.
" Not sure that CUNY needs more publicity, and probably not of this sort. David Petraeus Decides Against Accepting Six-Figure Salary From CUNY To Teach One Class. Four-star general and former CIA director David Petraeus will not accept a six-figure salary to teach one class as a visiting professor at the City University of New York honors college, The New York Times reported Monday.
His new salary? One dollar. CUNY announced in April that Petraeus would teach a class in the university system's Macaulay Honors College, months after he resigned from the CIA amid revelations of an extramarital affair with a biographer. Gawker revealed on July 1 that Petraeus was offered $200,000 as payment by CUNY. General Petraeus at CUNY: Poor Judgment Under Fire « Samir Chopra. General David Petraeus‘ $200,000 deal with CUNY is no longer on; he will now teach in the fall at CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College for the princely sum of $1.
Yesterday, I participated in a Huffington Post Live segment–along with Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors and Kieran Lalor of the New York State Assembly–to discuss this development in the Petraeus at CUNY saga; like everything else in the sordid tale that preceded it, this latest bit of news, announced by the New York Times, merely adds to a picture of confused communication, insensitivity, and poor judgment. In accepting a salary of $1, Petraeus is now posturing as the Magnanimous Public Servant[tm] showering the largesse of his knowledge and experience on the unworthy at CUNY. This is the same man who could barely contain his glee at salaries elsewhere–’you won’t believe what USC will pay per week’–during the course of his grubby-enough negotiations with CUNY.
Like this: Petraeus’s Pay for Part-Time CUNY Job, Criticized at $200,000, Drops to $1.