As Mount Ida’s Debt Increased, So Did Its Executives’ Pay

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Mount Ida College is a private college in Newton, Massachusetts, United States, offering professional undergraduate and graduate degrees. Wikipedia

Address: 777 Dedham St, Newton, MA 02459

Acceptance rate: 68.5% (2014)

Undergraduate tuition and fees: 30,447 USD (2015)

Total enrollment: 1,481 (2010)

Typical SAT scores: Math 390-490 (2014), Reading 390-500 (2014), Writing 380-490 (2014)

Pay and other compensation for Mount Ida College’s president and other executives increased while its increasing debt load threatened to drive it out of business.

The board of trustees of the small college in Newton kept approving significant increases in salary for president Barry Brown and other leading officials during the last few years leading up to the college’s decision to close and sell the campus to the University of Massachusetts, according to the Boston Business Journal.

Brown made $446,000 in 2016, including $390,082 in base salary, the Boston Business Journal reported. The total compensation that year was up from $406,000 in 2014. Debt increased from $58 million to $68 million between 2014 and 2016, states the Boston Business Journal, citing documents the college was required to file with the federal government.

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