Former University of Illinois President Michael Hogan's new $285,100 professor's salary makes him the highest paid employee on the school's Springfield campus.
Only one other University of Illinois-Springfield employee makes more than $200,000 a year. That is Vice President and Chancellor Susan Koch at $220,000.
Hogan resigned as president under pressure from faculty unhappy over his management style and plans for the university. He became a history professor when his resignation as president took effect at the end of June but is first spending a year on sabbatical.
Among his new colleagues in the UIS history department only two make more than $100,000.
Hogan will teach two classes a year when he begins teaching in 2013. Most of his colleagues teach six.