President Bob Fisher is one of the highest-paid private university presidents in the country, raking in $1,119,690 in the 2012 fiscal year, according to public tax forms. His total compensation increased 13.5 percent from his $968,435 salary as reported in the 2011 fiscal year. The fiscal year runs from June 1 to May 31. Fisher’s salary started with a base pay of $819,021. He also earned $141,268 in bonuses and $222,863 in deferred compensation to retirement or other funds. A

Salaries for university presidents are rising in what the Chronicle of Higher Education has described as “an income gap that widens at the top,” and Dr. Bob Fisher’s compensation is in keeping with that trend. After 10 years at Belmont, Fisher’s compensation as president for the 2010 fiscal year was $862,686, according to the university’s latest available Form 990, the tax return the IRS requires for most nonprofits. The figure is nearly four times his salary in his first yea