From the Chronicle: "Faculty Pay Remains Flat at Public Colleges, Edges Up at Private Colleges"

[KansDem]

Amid a still-recovering economy and tight state finances, faculty members at public colleges saw no increase in pay this year, on average, for the second year in a row, a survey has found. Private-college faculty members did slightly better, receiving an average raise of 2 percent, which kept their pay on pace with inflation.

Those results come from an annual survey released this week by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. The association reported on salary levels at 812 four-year public and private institutions in the 2010-11 academic year.

At public colleges, only assistant professors who started their jobs in 2010-11 received higher pay than did such faculty members in the previous year, according to the survey results. Those professors received an average of 1.4 percent more this year than the same group did last year. Pay for other faculty ranks was flat.

In contrast, faculty members across all academic ranks at private institutions received increases of at least 1 percent.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

But, I thought public school faculty got a whole shit-load of money? :crazy:

[mike_c]

1. we LOST two negotiated raises that the CSU refused to pay...

...in our last contract, and negotiations on a new contract are not going well at all.

[KansDem]

2. Sorry to hear that

Seems like this kind of thing is breaking out all over. I posted this thread earlier:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x604816

My wife's a member of KNEA and has KPERS. She's not at all happy about this.

I may be coming to a faculty job fair at Pasadena City College (CA) next month. I know the situation in California is not good, but it has to be better than Kansas.

KansDem

[mike_c]

3. best of luck to you, my friend....

Solidarity!

[damntexdem]

5. Hah, A couple of decades ago I took a faculty job in KS coming from CSU ...

because Kansas wasn't having the types of cuts (including recissions during a budget year) that were occurring in California.

But at least if you take the job, you'll get to live in California -- not that you'll be paid enough to do so.

Good luck!

[KansDem]

6. Thanks!

:hi:
I grew up not too far from Pasadena, so I would be moving back without any illusions.

And I know I wouldn't be paying $200-300 a month for heat in the winter and a.c. in the summer...

[damntexdem]

4. Just got done doing the annual merit evaluations ...

so we can compute the percentages to allocate of zero -- once again, no raises in pay.

But at least there haven't been pay cuts here, nor faculty layoffs. In fact, the system is aggressively hiring in some fields.