When General David Petraeus begins his stint as adjunct professor at a New York university later this year the former CIA Director will be paid $150,000 annually – about six times the salary of a first-time teacher without access to state secrets.
In April of this year the City University of New York announced
that Petraeus would teach public policy at Macaulay Honors
College, located in Manhattan. In a statement released at the
time Petraeus said he was excited to lead a seminar “that
examines the developments that could position the United States —
and our North American partners — to lead the world out of the
current global economic slowdown.”
Petraeus, who will deliver two lectures through the semester and
be helped by a group of graduate students who will, do “course
research, administration, and grading,” will earn a paycheck
in the six-figure range. He was originally slated to earn
$200,000, according to Gawker, but took a pay cut and claimed he
will donate some of the proceeds to unspecified “veterans’
organizations.”
Petraeus, 60, was hailed for orchestrating the American
counter-insurgency strategy in Iraq before US President Barack
Obama named him CIA Director in September 2011.
It was in the summer of 2012 when Jill Kelley, a Tampa, Florida
socialite and friend of Petraeus family told the FBI she had been
receiving threatening emails sent anonymously. The Bureau traced
the messages to Paula Broadwell, Petraeus’ biographer, and soon
discovered that Petraeus and Broadwell began having an affair
sometime in 2011, a relationship that ended in the summer of 2012
with a dejected Broadwell reportedly suspecting Jill Kelley as
Petraeus’ new mistress.
President Obama accepted Petraeus’ resignation on November 9,
2012. The Associated Press reported that, to avoid detection, the
couple had shared a Gmail account, saving messages for each other
in a draft folder without ever sending them in order to
communicate.
Along with teaching at CUNY, the former four-star general is
scheduled to begin teaching part-time and mentor veterans at the
University of Southern California.
CUNY is a majority publicly funded collegiate system with over 500,000 students enrolled
throughout the New York City area. Sixty-two per cent of the
university’s budget, according to Baruch College, comes directly
from city and state tax dollars. After five straight years of
budget cuts students, professors and community members
successfully lobbied for an additional one billion state dollars
for the 2013-2014 academic year, although it was unclear how
General Petraeus’ salary factors into those plans.
Regarding Petraeus’ new post,
the CUNY Director of Communications told Gawker that “the
University is in the process on fundraising for this
position.”
Republished with permission from:: RT