I’m a College President. Go Ahead: Be Jealous

But Let Me Set the Record Straight On a Few Things

For the past 21 years, I’ve been the president of a small 150-year-old private college of 3000 students. My wife and I live in the middle of the North Central College campus, in Naperville, Ill., in a big white house, to which 15 staff members have keys. While the privacy-invading characteristics of this life can occasionally get to you–e.g., when my salary gets published in the local paper (it’s on the Federal 990 form and the college’s website)–the truth is I have the best job in the world.

A small college …