"Non-Profit" New School Paid Its President $457,000 In 2006

The tax-exempt New School University in Manhattan claims to be a “non-profit” institution. Yet according to its Form 990 filing for the year beginning July 1, 2005 and ending June 30, 2006, New School University earned over $3.5 million in dividends and interest from the over $233 million in stocks and bonds which the New School then owned. And the “non-profit” New School University board of trustees paid its president—a former participant in the U.S. War Machine’s immoral military intervention in Viet Nam named Robert Kerrey—an annual salary of $457,329 in 2006.

In 2006, the “non-profit” New School University also paid its then-Provost, Arjun Appandurai, and its executive vice-president, James Murtha, each annual salaries of $360,782. In addition, the New School’s then-Vice-President for Development, Kristin Sorenson, was paid an annual salary of $224,462 in 2006, while the New School’s then-Senior Vice- President for Student Life, Linda Reimer, was paid an annual salary of $224,646 that same year.

New School Vice-President for Human Resources Carol Cantrell was also paid an annual salary of $209,877 in 2006, while an annual salary of $205,877 was paid to New School Vice-President for CEA Nancy Donner Martin that same year. Two other New School Vice-Presidents, Frank Barletta and Sherry Brabham, were also paid annual salaries exceeding $197,000 by the “non-profit” New School University board of trustees in 2006.

The Deans at New School University in 2006 also apparently were paid a lot more by the “non-profit” New School in real wages than clerical workers like myself were paid by the New School Administration when I worked at the New School registrar’s office in the late 1970s. A New School University Dean named Paul Goldberger, for example, was paid an annual salary of $356,618 in 2006, while a New School Dean named Fred Hochberg was paid an annual salary of $265,043 that same year. Another New School Dean named Benjamin Lee was also paid an annual salary of $233,077 in 2006.

In addition, the “non-profit” New School University also paid two of its professors, Professor Claudio Lomnitz and Professor Ann Stolar, annual salaries that exceeded $174,000 in 2006; while a New School professor named Adolph Reed was apparently paid an annual salary by the “non-profit” New School of $215,305 in 2003, according to the Form 990 financial files for the 2002-2003 academic year.

(additional information added on Nov. 23, 2011)
Some more updated figures on salary from form 990 filing for 2009 for the year beginning 7/1/09 and ending 6/30/10:
During 2009-2010 academic year, the "Non-profit" New School paid its president, administrators and some of its professors the following annual salaries:

1. New School President Bob Kerrey was paid an annual salary of $687,812;

2. New School EVP James Murtha was paid an annual salary of $501,770;

3. New School Provost Tim Marshall was paid an annual salary of $427,435;

4. New School SVP Frank Barletta was paid an annual salary of $300,495;

5. New School SVP Carol Cantrell was paid an annual salary of $266,445;

6. New School SVP Shelley Reed was paid an annual salary of $287,232;

7. New School SVP Mary Sanger was paid an annual salary of $246,197;

8. New School VP Lia Gartner was paid an annual salary of $282,490;

9. New School VP Robert Gay was paid an annual salary of $274,470;

10. New School VP Ben Lee was paid an annual salary of $569,900;

11.New School VP Nancy Donner was paid an annual salary of $261,156;

12. New School VP Roy Moskowitz was paid an annual salary of $276,408;

13. New School VP Doris Suarez was paid an annual salary of $269,612;

14. New School SVP Kristin Sorenson was paid an annual salary of $239,331;

15. New School SVP Joseph Westphal was paid an annual salary of $360,419;

16. New School SVP Linda Reimer was paid an annual salary of $263,802;

17. New School Dean Linda Dunne was paid an annual salary of $267,462;

18. New School Dean Neil Gordon was paid an annual salary of $247,976;

19. New School Dean Joel Lester was paid an annual salary of $242,883;

20. New School Drama School Director Robert Lupone was paid an annual salary of $218,309;

21. New School Dean Michael Schrober was paid an annual salary of $242,910;

22. New School Dean Lisa Servon was paid an annual salary of $268,968;

23. New School Dean Joel Towers was paid an annual salary of $227,061;

24. New School Dean Jonathan Veitch was paid an annual salary of 154,849;

25. New School Professor Sinom Collins was paid an annual salary of $223,597;

26. New School Professor Paul Goldberger was paid an annual salary of $210,668;

27. New School discharged Professor Ann Stoler was paid an annual salary of $267,945;

28. New School Professor Richard Bernstein was paid an annual salary of $206,730;

29. New School Professor William Bevington was paid an annual salary of $188,532;

30. New School VP Nancy Stier was paid an annual salary of $216,685; and

31. New School Professor Greggory Spence was paid an annual salary of $132,228.