Leaders in Total Compensation at Private Colleges, 2007-8. Source: IRS tax reports analyzed by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and it's likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds.
North Dakota state auditors will be going over cost overruns in the construction of new homes for the presidents of North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota.
SAN FRANCISCO - Earning a 6 and 5 win over Y.E. Yang, Tiger Woods improved to a perfect 5-0 in this year's Presidents Cup and clinched the third straight championship for the United States.
Fred Couples had his best week in golf without ever swinging a club.
Senior IOC members suggest the proven winning tactic of bringing top politicians to lobby for Olympic bids could be reaching an end.
All five living presidents will appear in a video shown before next week's All-Star game.
It's an unwritten rule in Mexico, followed by presidents for decades: Never criticize past or present leaders.
- It seems a shame to let the week go by without taking a deep breath and debriefing the first overseas trip by President Barack Obama.
So Robert Gates, what's it like working for Barack Obama after serving under George W. Bush?
They go home from the White House and step into new lives. Then what? Test your knowledge about what former presidents did after they left power behind.
Just days after the nation honored the 200th anniversary of his birth, 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the nation's best president.
White House moves have not always gone smoothly. Here are a few of the mix-ups between comings and goings of former presidents, adapted from "America's First Families," by National First Ladies Library historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony.
The National Archives and Records Administration is responsible for preserving all presidential records under a federal law passed in 1978. Before that, all presidents got to keep any of their White House records for themselves, but since President Ronald Reagan they have been publicly owned.
If only all home moves could be as quick and easy as at the White House.
That photographers' dream shot of the current president, the next president and the still-living presidents posing for a picture in the Rose Garden? Forget it! An unrelenting rain has forced the class picture inside.
Aiming for the smoothest transition of power he can manage, President George W. Bush is hosting a lunch next month with President-elect Barack Obama and all former presidents, the White House announced Wednesday.
All presidents are tested. Few walk into the Oval Office when the nation is in the throes of multiple crises. Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President-elect Obama is facing a banking emergency.
Barack Obama faces mammoth challenges as the next president, including two wars and a tanking economy, but when he takes office Jan. 20 he will have an unusually wide array of political tools at his disposal.
How much can the president — one man — shape the U.S. economy, a $14.4 trillion tangle?
With less than a week to go before the presidential election, there’s no question the 2008 race to the White House is hinging on the economy. There is a question, however, about how much power the winner will have to turn the troubled economy around.
Tom Landry and Don Shula hardly needed much help. Between them, the two coaches would win 617 games in the NFL. And in 1972, they had led strong teams to Super Bowl VI. Still, a couple of presidents determined that neither man could capture their championship without their assistance.
Joe Biden is taking heat for saying that running mate Barack Obama will face a manufactured foreign policy crisis designed to test his leadership if he is elected. Republicans say this is precisely why a seasoned John McCain will make a better president. Democrats say the new president, no matter who it is, will have early challenges to deal with.
John McCain's health plan would reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about 21.1 million people if fully put in place by 2010, while Barack Obama's would reduce the number by 26.6 million, an analysis predicts.
The college presidents said they wanted a national debate on the 21-year-old drinking age. They got it.