Altogether, if bonuses are paid out, Landry will earn $4.5 million from for a job that lasted less than 12 months. Florida law caps the amount of presidential salaries funded by the state at $200,000. His previous most senior administrative role was as Department Chair.
Don Moynihan
The way Ron DeSantis has turned Florida’s previously top-notch university system into a lavish slush fund for his friends and co-segregationists needs to be the subject of a withering political campaign. Everyone who touched this process should be made radioactive in polite society.
University of Florida interim president Donald Landry is set to receive a $2 million payout as part of an unusual contract provision entitling him to severance pay if he didn’t get the permanent job.
