By Elise Young and Terrence Dopp
New Jersey’s Essex County College paid $680 to relocate the incoming president’s pet. The state’s Brookdale Community College reimbursed the now-retired president $41,000 for his childrens’ university tuition.
Governing boards at New Jersey’s community colleges agreed to augment presidents’ salaries with those perks in recent years, along with housing allowances, country-club memberships and airfare for spouses to travel to conventions, according to a report yesterday by state Comptroller Matthew Boxer. They also paid for country-club memberships and automobiles.
Governor Chris Christie yesterday called the findings “disturbing” and ordered an investigation. New Jersey’s two- year colleges, which serve all 21 counties, market themselves as an affordable way for 260,000 students to fulfill core requirements and transfer credits to four-year universities.
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