AAUP Forum on Faculty Salaries 11 November 2015 David K. Robinson Professor of History Past-president of Missouri Conference of AAUP
This presentation will be posted on aaup.truman.edu aaup.truman.edu Useful website from Chron. High. Ed. Source: U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Data System (IPEDS)
Unless otherwise indicated, data source is “AAUP Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession,” found on www.aaup.org
Missouri IIA (master’s) state universities
Prioritizing all but faculty/staff support (besides salary issues) Faculty support lost since 1995: Summer research grants; fac. and curr. dev. grants Extra funding to present at conferences On-campus daycare center Sabbaticals--suspended for several years; still very limited “Defined benefit” retirement lost in 2011; retirement health-care gone before that No printers in faculty offices Choose your own …
Prioritizing all but faculty/staff support (besides salary issues) Clear priorities since 1995: Merit scholarships to draw highly selected students (discounting) Summer research grants to students Travel money for students to attend conferences Bringing administrator salaries ‘up to market’ ( ) Addressing ‘deferred maintenance’ on campus (during past few years)
Average annual increases in administrative vs. instructional salaries, Source: IPEDS
Source: Missouri Secretary of State ‘Bluebook’ ( ) Salaries (1000s) of state university presidents descending order: U. Missouri Missouri St. U U. of Central MO257.6 Northwest MO St. U Truman St. U Southeast MO St. U Lincoln U Harris-Stowe St. U MO Western St. U Linn St. Tech. College168.5 MO Southern St. U. ?