This piece suffers from a faulty generalization. That the president of U Alberta was overpaid, and then paid very generously on admin leave, does not mean that every university administrator, let alone every faculty member, is overpaid. In addition, there is so little understanding of how universities ought to be run here. University Presidents are actually not the one's running the academic side of the university (they coordinate the administrative side and the academic side, they fundraise (mostly they fundraise), but the Vice President Academic is and ought to be the person managing academic programming when collegial governance is working properly.