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Your story (News, July 20) about the hiring of Stanley Fish at the University of Illinois at Chicago for $230,000 a year will again have people outside of academia asking for cutting the costs of higher education (for example, by abolishing tenure, etc.).
Let me make it very clear: Professor Fish comes to UIC as an administrator, not as a teacher. He will only see the inside of a classroom if he fails as a dean.
I suggest that salaries of administrators be scrutinized for possible cuts, not those of professors, who generally (aside from so-called superstars) earn only a fraction of administrators. Salaries at public universities are a matter of public record and can easily be checked out.
