Compensation

The SCU AAUP Chapter maintains an issues page on compensation and a resource page on salaries and benefits to track resources and efforts on campus for compensation reform. On this page, we post articles in the national press on the topic.

The AAUP publishes an annual report on the economic status of the profession in its flagship journal, Academe. Here is a link to the current report, along with a link to a current report by the Chronicle of Higher Education:

• John W. Curtis and Saranna Thornton, Losing Focus: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2013-14, Academe (March-April 2014).
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Campus Pay Equality, Chronicle of Higher Education (2015).

Additional stories that have caught the eye of our chapter members:

• Jack Grove, UCU Report: “Academics Work Two Days a Week Unpaid,” Times Higher Education (3 June 2016).

• Andrew Mortazavi, At 100 Colleges around the Country, Adjuncts Take Action to Demand an End to Precarity and Low Pay, In These Times (26 February 2015).

• Lydia DePillis, Adjunct Professors Get Poverty-level Wages. Should Their Pay Quintuple? The Washington Post (6 February 2015).

• Noam Chomsky (transcript prepared by Robin J. Sowards), Noam Chomsky: Corporate Business Models Are Hurting American Universities, Salon.com (10 October 2014).

• Thomas Frank, College Is Ripping You Off: Students Are Cash Cows, and Schools the Predators, Salon.com (1 October 2014).

• Colman McCarthy, Adjunct Professors Fight for Crumbs on Campus, The Washington Post (22 August 2014).

• David Perry, Faculty Refuse to See Themselves as Workers. Why? Vitae (22 May 2014).

• Tamar Lewin, Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities with Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds, New York Times (18 May 2014).

• Michael Bérubé, The New “Austerity Imperative” for Universities, The Chronicle of Higher Education (5 May 2014).

• Elizabeth Segran, The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back, The Atlantic (28 April 2014).

• Audrey Williams June, Stuck in the Middle: Associate Professors See Their Earning Power Drop Compared with Their Colleagues above and below, The Chronicle of Higher Education (7 April 2014).

• Jessica Hall, USM Lays Off a Dozen Amid Protests – Facing a $14 million budget shortfall, the University of Southern Maine is laying off a dozen faculty members, along with 24-34 staff (21 March 2014).

• Noel K. Gallagher, USM President Reverses Faculty Layoffs, Portland Press Herald (12 April 2014).

• David M. Perry, Faculty Members Are Not Cashiers: Why the “Customer Service” Lingo in Academe is Bad for Students, The Chronicle of Higher Education (17 March 2014).

• Jon Marcus, New Analysis Shows Problematic Boom in Higher Ed Administrators, New England Center for Investigative Reporting (6 February 2014).