Today’s RG Op-Ed from Faculty Union President Michael Dreiling:
Quality higher education requires investment
The University of Oregon’s Board of Trustees recently approved a new mission statement for the university. Its first line declares that the UO “is a comprehensive public research university committed to exceptional teaching, discovery, and service.” The university faculty are primarily responsible for carrying out this core mission. Research and teaching stand at the center of our professional work. Investing in teaching and research excellence builds the long-term academic reputation of a university, something that carries far more value to parents, students, and alums than any other type of branding work. …
The 2009 statement from the RG Editorial Board:
Bottom of the heap; UO rates dead last in faculty salaries
APPEARED IN PRINT: SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2009, PAGE G2
… But by national, even regional, standards, faculty pay at the UO is scandalously low. And there is a connection between low faculty pay and high joblessness: Higher education is the engine of the economy, and Oregon is running on low-octane fuel.
Faculty salaries at the University of Oregon and other state universities aren’t just low. By some important measures, they’re the lowest.
Among AAU universities, faculty salaries at the UO rank dead last — 60th out of 60, with an average salary for all faculty ranks of $73,300. Second from the bottom is the University of Missouri, at $81,600. The UO would have to raise faculty salaries by 11.5 percent across the board just to climb out of last place. …
The raises that got Lariviere fired, and those the faculty union negotiated in Fall 2013, have been significant. But not as impressive as the raises that UO’s senior administrators have given to themselves. From UO Institutional Research data:
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