The skyrocketing pay and benefits of corporate executives have kept reporters and, sometimes, prosecutors busy in recent years. The resulting public outrage over these tales of excess has contributed to a backlash. Now the news media, in searching for excessive pay in places where there seems to be no cap on costs, have increasingly focused their investigative lenses on the leaders of colleges and universities. The spending in question has ranged from $457.43 spent by the president of the Community College of Allegheny County on a rental car to $334-million in questionable pay and perquisites for high-level employees at the University of California system. This article reports on presidential salaries and spending compensation which are making headlines.