Update: KEZI’s Susan Gager has a story on pay and the union effort, with a brief interview with Prof Dan Pope. 5/3/2011: Professors Sarah Douglas and Marie Vitulli have prepared a careful comparison of faculty pay at UO with that of our “comparator” institutions, and posted it on the UO…
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4/20/2011: From Sarah Douglas and Marie Vitulli at UO’s AAUP chapter. Also see the AAUP/AFT faulty union website and the Bunsis analysis of UO finances. President Lariviere’s compensation details are here. He is in the top 22nd percentile of public research schools. Don’t get me started on the Chancellor. Stories…
4/19/2011: Stefan Verbano in the ODE has details. (Also see Bill Graves in the Oregonian. Read the comments if you dare.) One of the faculty union proponents, Anne McLucas, is quoted in the ODE: According to OUS data, upper-level administrative costs have risen 63 percent from 2006 to 2010, while…
8/30/2010: for state union employees begins Wednesday. Update: We’ve been told that this increase will only go to those employees not already at the highest step, and that it will barely compensate for the mandatory furlough pay cut, even for those who do get it.
6/25/2010: From Dana Tims in the Oregonian: A sagging national economy, paired with distributors’ moves to drop even established Oregon wine accounts, means all of the new wine coming into the pipeline now must be sold in-state — an unlikely prospect given that the number of Oregon wineries has roughly…
6/14/2010: … at the University of Florida. From Paul Fain in the Chronicle: Despite struggles with years of budget cuts, the University of Florida announced on Friday a broad package of pay raises for faculty members. The 4-percent merit raises buck a national trend of wage freezes at public universities…
6/8/2010: This is rumor but we hear President Lariviere is still going to push to raise faculty pay. For full prof’s this is the lowest in the AAU by 10% and is currently at 84% of our “peer institutions.” Most of the raises will go to the full’s as a…
5/10/2010: The local AAUP (American Association of University Professors) chapter sent along these recent data on faculty salaries at UO relative to our “comparator” schools. Obviously we are not comparable. Compensation is 90%, 97%, 93%, and 85%, for instructors, assistants, associates, and fulls, respectively. It’s worse if you look at…
4/19/2010: Rumor control reports that Brad Shelton’s new budget model has already translated into new money for some academic departments for next year, and that Pres Lariviere has developed a 5 year plan to raise UO faculty salaries to the average of UO’s “peer” institutions, with the first round of…
3/17/2010: Eugene housing prices are 140% of the median college town. The 98th highest out of 117.UO pays senior faculty 83% of the national median salary. The lowest of all AAU schools, by a big margin. One of Lariviere’s first statements to the OUS board after he was hired was…
1/29/2010: PERS currently has assets to pay only 75% of liabilities. This Ted Sickinger story reports that the board votes today to raise the pay in rates from 12% to 18% next year all at once or do so so gradually (most likely scenario). Either case will mean a big…
When using identical and comparable institutions: UO senior administrators are paid 120% of their peers. UO full professors are paid 81% of their peers. Scroll down for spreadsheets. Comparison institutions are all public and private PhD granting institutions from the Chronicle of Higher Ed. This is the comparison group UO…
6/25/2009: I haven’t had time to digest these issues, but the AAU / AFT union people have been raising questions about the switch to a self-insurance health plan. Details here. The Gist: Starting in January 2010 PEBB will “self insure” our health insurance with Providence as the plan administrator. Providence…
6/15/2009: The RG has an editorial today on low faculty salaries at UO – repeating the now infamous $7,300 less than Missouri number, and making enough other comparisons to head off the counter-arguments and excuses we’ve been hearing from President Frohnmayer and UO’s administrators on this. The RG then argues…
6/11/2009: One thing that will inevitably come up when discussing the fact that UO’s pay is last in the AAU and 10% below that of Missouri is benefits. Administrators claim that UO’s benefits are better than average. What they really mean is that UO pays more for benefits than other…