Post by pavel on May 5, 2016 4:52:07 GMT -6
FAYETTEVILLE -- A resolution approved by University of Arkansas at Fayetteville faculty members calls for the university to make increases in their pay a top priority after years of faculty raises lagging behind pay increases for administrators.
UA's faculty senate voted in favor of a "Resolution for Fairness in Faculty Salaries" at its meeting Wednesday.
The resolution "strongly urges" UA's administration to keep "average administration raises no more than average tenure-track faculty raises." It also states that UA's average pay for professors and associate professors "for many years" has fallen short of the average pay for faculty as reported by the Southern University Group, a body of schools considered by the group to be comparable to UA.
The resolution does not force any policy changes. Laura Jacobs, chief of staff for Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz, wrote in an email that Steinmetz considers it a "big priority" for UA to have "competitive" faculty salaries.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/may/05/faculty-group-at-ua-presses-for-pay-rai/?latest
UA's faculty senate voted in favor of a "Resolution for Fairness in Faculty Salaries" at its meeting Wednesday.
The resolution "strongly urges" UA's administration to keep "average administration raises no more than average tenure-track faculty raises." It also states that UA's average pay for professors and associate professors "for many years" has fallen short of the average pay for faculty as reported by the Southern University Group, a body of schools considered by the group to be comparable to UA.
The resolution does not force any policy changes. Laura Jacobs, chief of staff for Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz, wrote in an email that Steinmetz considers it a "big priority" for UA to have "competitive" faculty salaries.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/may/05/faculty-group-at-ua-presses-for-pay-rai/?latest