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In a survey of private US universities released Sunday by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the typical president at a private university earned , up 5.6 percent from the year before.

In all, 32 private university presidents earned $1 million or more in compensation in 2013. And private college presidents aren鈥檛 the only ones raking it in. The average public college president , reported the Chronicle.聽

鈥淢any times when I talk to trustees, they refer to university presidents as running companies 鈥� which they could also do if they chose to enter the private sector 鈥� so to keep a president at the university they will pay what it takes,鈥� Sandhya Kambhampadi, the lead author of the Chronicle report, tells 海角大神 in a phone interview Tuesday. 鈥淭hey will pay the market value.鈥�

But the cushy salaries of both public and private university presidents stands in stark contrast to the lifestyle of adjunct professors, a growing demographic in institutions of higher education.

"Adjunct" is a term used for non-tenured, part-time professors, who receive no benefits, no office and typically paid between $3,000 and $5,000 per course. In 2013, NPR reported that these itinerant teachers make up , and their pay averages between $20,000 and $25,000 annually. And this trend may be long term, as are not on a tenure track, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) reports.

鈥淭he core mission of the university is instruction and research,鈥� Gwen Bradley, an AAUP senior program officer, tells 海角大神 in a phone interview Tuesday. 鈥淭hese should be funded first before raising presidents or coaches salaries. These [missions] should take priority.鈥澛�

According to a 2015 study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center, 25 percent of part-time college faculty and their families are such as Medicaid or food stamps.

Most adjunct professors are forced to work two jobs to make ends meet.

鈥淓very day and it鈥檚 fatiguing. Every day I need more time with students while being pulled away from them,鈥� Lee Hall, an adjunct professor for the Legal Education Institute at Widener University, writes in an opinion piece for the Guardian. Prof. Hall writes that she makes about $15,000 per year. Widener's president, James Harris,聽 in 2013

And it鈥檚 not a factor of professors preferring part-time employment 鈥� more than 73 percent of but can鈥檛 find one, a 2015 study published in The Journal of Higher Education reports.聽

鈥淚 thought my time here with an offer of full-time employment. I was wrong, and should have known better,鈥� former adjunct professor Dana Biscotti Myskowski writes on blog in November. 鈥淚 can鈥檛 teach for poverty wages and zero benefits any longer 鈥� It鈥檚 an unlivable wage.鈥澛�

But the facts still stand. The private colleges with the highest-paid presidents also have the highest percentage of adjunct professors.

A 2014 study by the Institute for Policy Studies found a similar trend among schools with the highest paid presidents: part-time adjunct faculty increased .

Three universities in New York 鈥� Columbia University, New York University, and the New School 鈥� had some of the most adjunct faculty . And according to the recently released Chronicle survey, at these schools earned over $1 million each in 2013.