Excessive Professor Salary at Thunderbird

[Yanji]

Although I do support high compensation for business school professors, (and Thunderbird should certainly try to recruit the best International Business professors, seeing as they are essentially a one-trick pony school) their financial mismanagement shocks me. Depending on the nature of their relationship with the for-profit education company mentioned in the article, I really hope IU will "re-evaluate" their existing joint degree partnership with Thunderbird, and in fact I will encourage them to. I cannot stomach the thought of the Kelley School's good name being sullied by a partnership with a school wading into the murky waters of for-profit education. I think the for-profit partnership is more to help Thunderbird trim organizational fat to become financially stable rather than changing to a for-profit school though, although I'm not exactly sure how they are in such dire financial shape with their sky-high tuition.

With competition from UA and the ever-rising ASU in Arizona though, I can see Thunderbird continue to struggle and perhaps either have to flee to another state or return to being a low-key school in the desert.