How much will IU’s new chancellor make?

IU’s incoming chancellor, David Reingold, will make $655,000 a year, according to an offer letter obtained by the IDS.  

He will also receive retirement benefits and an extra $1,000 a month in executive allowance as a member of IU President Pamela Whitten’s executive management team. His salary is $5,000 more annually than Whitten’s initial offer when she began her presidency in 2021. 

The offer includes his administrative salary and academic salary as a tenured faculty member in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, though his teaching position is contingent on a decision IU’s Board of Trustees will make in their June meeting.  

Reingold previously worked at IU from 1997 to 2015 as a professor of public policy and executive associate dean of O’Neill. In the 2014-15 fiscal year, his salary was listed as $191,612.  

Since leaving IU, he has worked as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and professor of sociology at Purdue University. He attended a chancellor candidate town hall at IU in February and was announced as the new chancellor in March. He will assume the role June 2.  

He will be IU’s first chancellor since the position was eliminated in 2006 after IU struggled to fill the position. Whitten announced the reinstatement of the chancellor position in June 2024 in an email to the Bloomington campus. She cited “challenges of higher education paired with the size and complexity of the Bloomington campus” as motivations for the decision.  

The university created a search committee of IU students, faculty, staff and members of the Bloomington Faculty Council to determine candidates alongside search firm Isaacson, Miller. 

Every other IU campus currently has a chancellor, and most have had the position filled consistently over the past few decades. According to a press release announcing Reingold’s hiring, he will oversee the Office of the Provost as well as the university’s finances, community engagement, student life, campus research, enrollment management and creative activities.