The Chronicle: Is Tenure Denial a Fair-Pay Issue? Federal Judge Says Yes
When President Obama signed a new law in January that expanded workers’ rights to sue for discriminatory pay inequities, some higher-education legal experts predicted the measure would have little effect on colleges.
But a recent ruling by a federal judge in Mississippi could change that drastically by widening the areas covered by the law, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, to include decisions on tenure.
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Courier Mail: Teachers, nurses demand pay rise as others fear job losses
JOB loss fears amid the recession and the fight for better pay for teachers and nurses are set to dominate today’s Labour Day march in Brisbane.
Teachers will lead the marches in Brisbane and regional centres to launch a national advertising campaign over state pay levels and in recognition of the 120th anniversary of the Queensland Teachers Union.
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The Gazette: Classes back at Montreal university after strike vote
MONTREAL — Classes will resume on Monday at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal after striking professors approved new contracts Friday.
Nearly 1,000 professors and full-time language instructors had been on strike since March 16.
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The Chronicle: 2-Year Colleges Can Win Over Adjuncts With Benefits, Study Suggests
A new study of community-college faculty members suggests that offering adjuncts benefits like dental insurance does a lot to keep them showing up to work with a smile.
Adjunct faculty members who receive dental, health, disability, or life insurance are not only more likely to feel satisfied with their benefits packages—as would be expected—but they are also substantially more likely to feel satisfied with their salaries than are other adjuncts earning the same amount, the study found.
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News 14: Greensboro College cuts jobs, wages
GREENSBORO – Economic stresses have forced another Triad college to make some hard financial choices. Greensboro College administrators said they were forced to make some budget cuts.
Word of cuts spread quickly around campus.
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Greenville News: Clemson faculty passes resolution citing concern over administrators’ pay
CLEMSON — In a unanimous vote, the Clemson University Faculty Senate approved a resolution today expressing concern over what its members called disproportionately higher administrators’ pay.
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The resolution cited lost trust in the area of administrative salaries.
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Sun Sentinel: FAU says no to recommended faculty raises
BOCA RATON – Florida Atlantic University is rejecting a magistrate’s recommendation to give larger raises to faculty.
The university and the United Faculty of Florida have been at impasse since November over faculty salaries. Special Magistrate Joseph M. Schneider recommended the university offer a one-year 2.5 percent raise, saying that should be “the minimum salary increase needed to keep faculty salaries competitive in the labor market.” The recommendation was nonbinding, but the union believed FAU should have abided by it.
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Inside Higher Ed: Murky Picture for Faculty Salaries
On paper, the annual report on faculty salaries being released today by the American Association of University Professors suggests a good year for professors’ pay. The average increase across all categories was found to be 3.4 percent for 2008-9. While that’s down from last year’s average of 3.8 percent, last year’s total was outpaced by inflation, while this year’s gains came amid virtually no inflation (at least according to official statistics).
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The Chronicle: Professors’ Pay Raises Beat Inflation; So Much for the Good News
Faculty pay has been battered by the deepening national recession, but you can’t tell that from the American Association of University Professors’ new annual report on the economic status of the profession. The average salary of a full-time faculty member rose 3.4 percent in 2008-9, it says, a rate well above inflation.
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The Times of India: Students, faculty support FTII staff’s demand
Members of the staff association of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), students and faculty all stood in solidarity demanding the resignation of FTII registrar S K Thakur on Saturday. The peaceful protest was held after the registrar failed to clear the arrears of the FTII staff following the sixth pay commission hike in August 2008. “Since September we have been asking the registrar to clear our due4s, but all along we have been given no concrete answer. The registrar kept saying the money hasn’t arrived yet,” said P A Mahajan, president of FTII’s staff association.
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Los Angeles Times: L.A. school board chief meets with teachers willing to accept pay cuts
A top Los Angeles school district official is meeting this morning with teachers who are breaking with their union to support pay cuts as a way to avoid layoffs.
Board of Education President Monica Garcia will huddle with teachers from Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, just west of downtown, where more than 30 young or less experienced faculty members have received notice that they might lose their jobs at the end of the year. Delegations from other schools also are expected to attend.
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Daily Sun: Salary: Delta NUT vows to sustain strike
In spite of assurances by the Delta State Education Commissioner, Dr. (Mrs.) Elizabeth Uvo- Gardner that the strike action by teachers in the state would soon be called off as government has commenced the desk payment of the teachers’ salaries which is a major point in the dispute, there are indications that the two-week-old strike action embarked upon by the teachers would not be called off.
This is coming on the heels of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Delta State chapter vowing to sustain the strike until their February 2009 salary is paid.
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Globe and Mail: Ontario campus employee wages at top of class
U of T investment manager was paid more than $550,000 last year, making him highest-paid university executive
The highest paid university employee in the province is not a campus leader, but the man responsible for managing investments at the University of Toronto.
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Inside Higher Ed: Following the Money in New Mexico
At the University of New Mexico, the salary budget for upper administrators and associated professional positions, including directors, grew by 71 percent – in raw numbers an increase of more than $4 million – from 2002 to 2008. Compensation just for those positions above the level of dean (i.e. associate vice presidents and above) grew 42.1 percent between 2002 and 2007, and another 12.3 percent by 2008.
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World University News: UK: Pay boost for university leaders
Many British vice-chancellors are paid as much if not more than the Prime Minister. But not, of course, as much as Premier League footballers – or failed bankers. Latest figures collated and audited by accountants Grant Thornton on behalf of Times Higher Education show the average university head earned £193,970 (US$282,000) (including benefits but not pension contributions) in 2007-08, a 9% increase on the previous year, and a steeper rise than in the previous two years. Gordon Brown was paid £194,250 last year for running the country.
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Newsday: Adelphi pays $300G to settle sex discrimination suit
Adelphi University has agreed to salary hikes and payments totaling more than $300,000 to several female professors as part of a settlement of a federal gender discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.
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Globe and Mail: Having kids costly for educated moms
Highly educated women face a much more severe loss of earning power when they have children compared to mothers with less education, says a report published yesterday by Statistics Canada.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Even in recession, UC spends big on top brass
The University of California’s worst financial crisis in years has not prevented the hiring of high-salaried administrative talent or the awarding of pay raises, promotions and perks to a dozen executives, university records show.
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The Chronicle Review: March Money Madness: The Coaches vs. the Professors
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Thomas Cottle: In March Money Madness, It’s Coaches vs. Professors
College basketball’s March Madness has come at a time when one prominent coach’s salary has been held up for inspection. Apparently, the fact that the $1.6-million annual income of the University of Connecticut’s Jim Calhoun makes him the highest-paid public employee in his state has rankled some people. Or are they more upset that he was caught off guard at a postgame news conference and appeared somewhat haughty?
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