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University presidential contracts

By Macleans.ca | July 7th, 2008 | 1:08 pm

Ontario universities this month began releasing their presidents’ contracts. Maclean’s has requested a copy from each of the province’s publicly-funded universities. As we receive contracts, we will make them available here. We’re also following local media and will link to news stories as they are published. Check back as we will update often.

University

President

2007 Compensation

Maclean’s Coverage

Other Media Coverage

Algoma

Celia Ross

$143,085.41

Contract

McMaster

Peter George

$504,792.05

Contract

Maclean’s On Campus

Local media:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Trent

Bonnie Patterson

$326,534.00

Contract

Local media:
1

Brock

Jack Lightstone

$311,217.86

Contract

Local media:
1, 2, 3

Carleton

Roseann Runte

N/A1

Contract

Guelph

Alastair Summerlee

$446,573.23

Contract

Local media:
1, 2

Lakehead

Frederick Gilbert

$249,267.10

Contract

Maclean’s On Campus

Laurentian

Judith Woodsworth

$291,811.10

Contract

Laurier

Max Blouw

$214,486.245

Contract

Local media:
1, 2

Nipissing

Dennis R. Mock

$259,721.98

Contract3

OCAD

Sara Diamond

$240,145.55

Contract

UOIT

Ron Bordessa

$282,117.34

Contract3

Ottawa

Allan Rock

N/A1 ($395,000)6

Contract

Maclean’s On Campus

Local media:
1

Queen’s

Thomas R. Williams4

N/A1

Contract

Ryerson

Sheldon Levy

$349,093.10

Contract3

Toronto

David Naylor

$429,681.60

Contract

Waterloo

David Johnston

$491,551.50

Contract3

Local media:
1

Western

Paul Davenport

$376,703.16

Contract

Maclean’s On Campus

Windsor

Alan Wildeman

N/A1

Contract

Maclean’s On Campus

Local media:
1

York

Mamdouh Shoukri

$179,287.005

Contract

Chart Notes:

  1. 2007 salary data not available as these presidents were not in office at that time
  2. Awaiting response from university on our request for public disclosure of the contract
  3. Link to The Hamilton Spectator
  4. Interim Executive Head
  5. Took office in 2007.
  6. Salary listed in contract

Former Presidents

University

President

Final Full Year
Compensation

Retirement
Year

Contracts

Notes

Ottawa

Patry Gilles

$345,466.68

2008

Contract + Addendum

Maclean’s coverage:
1

Updates:

10 July 2008: Added link to local media story at Guelph.

12 July 2008: Added contracts at Ottawa, Algoma, Brock.
Linked to Spectator file for UOIT contract.
Added local media for McMaster

15 July 2008: Created former presidents section.
Added Patry Gilles to section with new contract addendum.
Added Allan Rock, UOttawa president to main chart with link to contract.
Added local media for Brock (1, 2, and 3), Laurier (2), and Ottawa (1)

27 July 2008: Added contracts for OCAD and Queens. Changed links for contracts Maclean’s has received.





5 Responses to “University presidential contracts”

  1. How much does your president make? : Macleans OnCampus says:
    July 7, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    [...] Ontario universities began releasing their presidential contracts two weeks ago, in response to a two-year old access to information request from The Hamilton Spectator. The contract of long-serving McMaster University president Peter George was the first to be made public, and most other Ontario universities have since followed suit. The accompanying table lists the details of each of these contracts, as well as links to other media coverage — and PDFs of the contracts themselves. As universities make their presidential contracts public, we will be posting them online. You can find all of them, here. [...]

  3. Patry to earn president’s salary after stepping down : Macleans OnCampus says:
    July 14, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    [...] duties as a regular professor—but one earning a presidential salary. According to the terms of Patry’s contract, signed in 2002, on stepping down he will have the right to up to two years of paid leave, paid at [...]

  4. More updates to the contract chart : Macleans OnCampus says:
    July 15, 2008 at 10:49 am

    [...] Just updated the presidential chart… [...]

  5. Ontario uni prez contract chart updated : Macleans OnCampus says:
    July 28, 2008 at 1:03 am

    [...] updated the presidential contract chart to include contracts for Executive Heads of OCAD and [...]