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Princeton Slashes Its Budget Again and Freezes Salaries

The Chronicle News Blog: Princeton Slashes Its Budget Again and Freezes Salaries

Facing endowment losses more severe than anticipated, Princeton University will freeze salaries for tenured faculty members and staff members who earn more than $75,000 and slash its budget for the 2011 fiscal year by $80-million, the university’s president, Shirley M. Tilghman, announced this week.

Regents tell U Iowa, ISU and UNI to freeze salaries

Chicago Tribune: Regents tell Iowa, ISU and UNI to freeze salaries

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Iowa’s Board of Regents unanimously approved Thursday a resolution directing the state’s three public universities to freeze the salaries of non-union employees for 2009-2010.

Full-time RISD faculty forgo salary increases

The Brown Daily Herald: Full-time RISD faculty forgo salary increases

Full-time faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design have agreed to forgo a salary increase next year in the face of the worsening economic climate.

Henry Ferreira, associate professor of printmaking and president of the full-time faculty’s union, said the faculty “arrived at a decision that it would probably be best” to give up raises for a year to see where the economy was headed.

The union’s current contract expires July 1, at the end of this fiscal year. The faculty members have decided to wait for a year rather than negotiate a new contract amid economic turmoil, Ferreira said.

Rhode Island: RISD teachers’ union votes to voluntarily freeze wages

Providence Journal: RISD teachers’ union votes to voluntarily freeze wages
Friday, March 6, 2009

PROVIDENCE — The approximately 144 members of the full-time teachers’ union at the Rhode Island School of Design have voted to voluntarily freeze wages and stipends for the next fiscal year.