Dive Brief:
- The board of trustees for the College of DuPage, a public community college, has agreed to pay the school’s president a $763,000 severance when he retires March 31, 2016.
- The payment is more than twice the base salary of the president, Robert Breuder, the Chicago Tribune reported.
- Breuder has been the subject of scrutiny over financial dealings at the college, including the loss of $20 million in state funding after emails from the president indicated his school didn’t need the money but would make it seem like it was going to a politically attractive purpose.
Dive Insight:
Also under Breuder, the college retained a campus radio station employee and kept paying his business for two years after he was convicted of stealing money through that business from another college. Breuder, who headed DuPage since 2009, received the college's first-ever vote of no confidence from full-time faculty. The community college, the largest in the state, will also name its new Homeland Security Education Center after him.