Is it time for the University of Washington president to make a million bucks a year? You may say no. You may say hell no. You may say that it’s no time to ratchet up the already humongous salary for the top Dawg, given the various budgetary brutalities inflicted upon our state’s colleges and universities lately. But the people who make this decision won’t really be listening to you. They’ll be listening to the market. And this market only ever says one thing: More. Absurd as it sounds, it will be a near-miracle if the next president at UW doesn’t make more money than the departing Mark Emmert (shown at Washington-Washington State game w/Gov. Chris Gregoire in January), who is the second-best-paid public-college president in the land, at more than $900,000 a year/Shawn Vestal, SR. More here.

Question: Is any college president in the land worth $1 million per year?