BY PAUL CAMPOS The following is reposted with permission from the Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog. Paul Campos is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Here are some numbers that I hope speak for themselves. ALL FIGURES ARE INFLATION-ADJUSTED INTO CONSTANT 2018 OR 2019 DOLLARS. Salary of full-time faculty at American colleges…
BY MADHUKAR VABLE Large classes, replacing tenure-track faculty with contingent faculty without fringe benefits, and subpar wages have not put brakes on tuition increases in excess of inflation, because the cost drivers prior to the pandemic were not in the instructional part of the universities. Administrative bloat is one of the cost drivers, but there…
BY CAPRICE LAWLESS What does it look like to have been asking for a raise above poverty wages for seven years? When an AAUP group, on behalf of several thousand faculty, has been engaged in that pursuit, it is crucial to document that work. Our “Milestones: AAUP Chapters of the CCCS” (below) briefly lists the…
BY CHAMPLAIN AND SAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGE AAUP CHAPTERS The Champlain and Saint Michael’s College AAUP chapters wrote a joint letter last week protesting the recent pay cuts to non-tenured faculty at the University of Vermont and in support of the UVM AAUP chapter, which is currently engaged in bargaining with the university administration. The letter,…
BY THE AAUP RESEARCH OFFICE This year’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession summarizes results from the 2019–20 Faculty Compensation Survey, which collected data from 928 colleges and universities across the United States, including community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and major research universities. The survey covered almost 380,000 full-time and more…
BY THE AAUP RESEARCH OFFICE For our annual Faculty Compensation Survey, the AAUP collected data from 928 colleges and universities across the United States, including community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and major research universities. The 2019–20 survey covers almost 380,000 full-time and more than 96,000 part-time faculty members, as well as senior administrators at…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of Jennifer Freyd, who sued the University of Oregon (UO) for gender discrimination based on significant pay disparities with male faculty members. A district court had dismissed her suit based, in part,…
BY GWENDOLYN BRADLEY The AAUP has released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2018–19. This year’s report provides an overview of the results of the 2018–19 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey, which compiled data on more than 380,000 full-time faculty members at 952 colleges and universities, as well as improved data on pay…
BY GWENDOLYN BRADLEY Faculty salaries barely budged when adjusted for inflation during the 2018-2019 academic year, according to the AAUP’s 2018-19 Faculty Compensation Survey. Average salaries for full-time faculty members at US colleges and universities are 2 percent higher in 2018-19 than they were in the preceding academic year, but with prices in the economy…
BY GRETCHEN MCNAMARA The following blog post, by a member of AAUP-Wright State University, which has filed an intent-to-strike notice, originally appeared as a testimonial on Facebook. We are reposting it here with the author’s permission. This is my story. And the story of many….they are my friends and colleagues. In 2007 after earning a…