Underpaid 83-Year-Old Professor Died Trying to Make Ends Meet by Working Night Shift at Eat an' Save

[Divernan]

25. Penn State breathes sigh of relief; Duquesne now most reviled school in PA.

The current president is an arrogant man known for firing popular deans and professors, and doing so in very insulting ways. The university has been the target of multiple sex and race discrimination lawsuits by faculty members - which are traditionally settled for hefty fees accompanied by non-disclosure agreements.

In this particular instance, it is of note that President Dougherty (annual salary, $700,000) touts himself on the university website as a national scholar and expert in health care ethics! He is also a board member AND CHAIRMAN OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE of the non-profit hospital which was dunning the deceased for payment for her cancer treatments. Some (not on DU, yet) have questioned why she could have big medical bills if she was old enough for Medicare. Simple. Medicare pays only 80%. Cancer treatments & surgery can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. God forbid that "non-profit" UPMC-Mercy hospital should write off that 20 percent when a patient is indigent.

Dougherty (b. 1949) is a nationally recognized scholar and expert in health care ethics, and has served on numerous health care advisory commissions and projects. Most recently, Dougherty has worked with the Not-for-Profit Hospital Trustees Project at the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine, as well as the National Coalition on Catholic Health Care. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Health Association and the Board of Editors at both Creighton University Press and Health Progress. Dougherty has also served as a Commissioner for the State of Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission, a government ethics panel.

He is a member of the board of directors of UPMC Mercy Hospital, where he chairs the Ethics Committee, the Senator John Heinz History Center, The Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh. He also serves on the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania (AICUP), the President's Committee of the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education (PCHE) and the Atlantic 10 Council of Presidents