As College Insurrection recently reported, CUNY was planning to pay David Petraeus an absurd amount of money for minimal teaching time. After public scrutiny, the school changed its mind.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports.

CUNY reduces Petraeus salary from $150,000 to $1

In an effort to quash a growing scandal over how much the City University of New York was willing to pay former CIA chief David Petraeus to teach a single class next fall, administrators announced Monday that Petraeus’ salary would be reduced from $150,000 to just $1.

Petraeus was perfectly willing to teach for less, and wanted to put the controversy behind him, his lawyer said.

“The general never was taking on this teaching assignment for the money,” said Robert Barnett, Petraeus’s lawyer, in a statement to The New York Times.

CUNY confirmed the change while maintaining that Petraeus’ expertise was worth much more than $1.

“We felt that we had the opportunity to bring somebody of extreme stature to be with our students and that whether the salary was $200,000 or $150,000 he was absolutely worth it,” said Dr. Ann Kirschner, dean of the Macauley Honors College at CUNY, in a statement.

The announcement came at a time when left-leaning professors, Republican legislators, teachers unions and journalists were all clamoring for CUNY to reverse course.

Petraeus’s original salary of $200,000 — which is 50 times greater than what the average first-time adjunct at CUNY makes — provoked widespread anger after Gawker published records of the salary negotiations in late June. The former general was only asked to teach for three hours a week, and would receive several perks, including administrative help from graduate students.