BRYANT UNIVERSITY President Ronald K. Machtley was ranked as the highest-compensated private-college leader in the U.S. in 2017, in a new report by The Chronicle of Higher Education. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
PROVIDENCE – A soon-to-be retired leader of a Rhode Island-based private university is ranked as the nation’s highest-compensated private-college president, while a former private university chancellor is a close second. The Chronicle of Higher Education, which has a database of more than 1,400 chief executives at more than 600 private colleges from 2008 to 2017,…