The Scandalous Teach Public Policy Too

Mitchell Langbert

Last Sunday the New York Post reported that Martha Stark, who had resigned as New York City Finance Commissioner because she was accused of hiring relatives and dating subordinates, has been hired as a public policy professor at Baruch College, the business school of the City University of New York. In New York State, public universities have been viewed as a source of political plums.  The Post suggests that this was the case with respect to Ms. Stark, an attorney. My father recently e-mailed a Money Magazine survey that claims that being a professor is the third best job despite the stiff competition for tenure track openings.  It falls right behind physician's assistant and systems engineer.   Ms. Stark's salary was cut by 53%, from $190,000 as NYC Finance Commissioner to $100,000 as Baruch College professor. But the hours are likely better at Baruch.

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