Brandeis profs asked to take pay cuts

by E Wayne Ross on December 9, 2008

The Justice: Profs could take pay cuts

The Faculty Senate proposed that Arts and Sciences faculty could volunteer to take a 1-percent salary cut in order to prevent two to three other staff layoffs that would have occurred as a result of the projected gaps in the University’s fiscal year 2009 operating budget.

“Some of us felt that given Brandeis’ traditional, historical commitment to social justice, those faculty members whose jobs were secure might want to take a little bit of the burden for balancing the budget off the backs of staff members whose jobs aren’t [secure],” Chair of the Faculty Senate Prof. William Flesch (ENG) wrote in an e-mail to the Justice.