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SAN FRANCISCO AP -- When Princeton University's president, Shirley Tilghman, joined Google Inc.'s board of directors this month she also joined the company's seemingly endless parade of wealth.

Instead of cash, the online search engine leader is paying Tilghman as it does all its other directors -- with a bushel of prized stock that eventually could turn her Google duties into a better-paying gig than her job running an Ivy League school.

...Tilghman, a molecular biologist, received a $485,000 salary during Princeton's 2002-03 school year, according to the most recent available information from Guidestar.org, which tracks tax returns filed by nonprofits such as the university.

The median compensation package for directors at companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 was $139,060 during the fiscal year ending in May 2005, according to Equilar Inc., a San Mateo, Calif., firm specializing in compensation issues.

...If Tilghman gets lucky, she may get as rich as another Google director from academia, Stanford University President John Hennessey. When Google appointed Hennessey to the board 18 months ago, he received 65,000 stock options now worth about $18 million.

Tilghman is the first woman on Google's board, joining Hennessey and eight other wealthy men whose duties include attending most board meetings -- 15 last year.

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