[Vision2020] Idaho Faculty Salaries Continue to Lag

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Nick
Push for an in house candidate for president, such as Bruce Pittman. He may not be flashy enough, but we could use someone more down to earth.
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Subject: [Vision2020] Idaho Faculty Salaries Continue to Lag
From: "Nicholas Gier" 
To: vision2020 
Date: 05/14/13 20:45:28

 IDAHO FACULTY SALARIES CONTINUE TO LAG
By Nick Gier
The faculty union has UI salary figures that go back to 1982, so it is significant to note the growing inequity between faculty and administration, and among administrators themselves. In 1982 UI professors were only 17 percent behind the national average for Ph.D.-granting institutions, but that has now grown to 26 percent. Assistant and associate professors now lag 17 and 16 percent respectively. Among Mountain West schools the UI stands at -18/-12/-14 in the three professorial ranks.
In 1982 UI President Richard Gibb was only 15 percent ahead of his fellow administrators, but President Duane Nellis' salary has jumped 45 percent ahead of his. Over 31 years UI administrative salaries have risen 293 percent versus 213 percent for full professors.  The CPI is 231.
President Nellis is now only 15 percent behind his public institution peers, while his full professors lag 26 percent. Adjusted for inflation, the nation's higher education executive salaries rose 35 percent from 1995-2006, while faculty pay went up only five percent.
When UI President Duane Nellis demanded $40,000 more than his predecessor, the State Board of Education decided to equalize executive pay at the three universities at $342,000. At Idaho's three 2-year colleges, which have independent boards,  presidential pay ranges from $160,000 at North Idaho College, $175,000 at College of Western Idaho, and $204,294 at College of Southern Idaho.
For this past year Idaho's K-12 union teachers averaged $49,734 per year, while CWI and CSI faculty made only $43,545 and $48,927 respectively.  For 2-year colleges with professorial rank, CSI is 26 percent behind its national peers, while its assistants and associates lag 17 and 19 percent respectively.
At an average of $53,481 North Idaho College faculty are 15 percent behind national 2-year schools without professorial rank. Primarily because of their salary step system, their instructors still earn $9,936 more than their CWI colleagues and $4,254 more than professors at CSI.
A salary step system is at the center of all collective bargaining agreements.  Better salaries and grievance procedures come with union contracts, and my organization has tried to introduce a higher education collective bargaining bill in the Idaho Legislature, not to no avail.
Incredibly enough, the Lewis Clark State College faculty average for all ranks was only $49,400, just behind their K-12 colleagues, and their full professors were 1.3 percent behind their peers at College of Southern Idaho. LCSC full professors make $56,900 per year, but their national peers in public baccalaureate institutions make $86,400-34 percent ahead.  LCSC assistant and associate professors are 23 and 31 percent behind respectively.
Even though BSU does grant some doctoral degrees, it still does not qualify, according to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), as a Category I Ph.D.-granting university.  In our previous surveys we have erred in including BSU with UI and ISU as Category I.
Nationally, at the Category IIA level, BSU full professors are 9 percent behind, while assistants and associates both lag 7 percent. Among Mountain West peer schools BSU is actually a bit ahead in each rank: +1.5, +2.4, and +3.2 percent respectively.
For two years running, the ISU administration has declined to send salary data to the AAUP.  After President Arthur Vailas disbanded a duly elected faculty senate, the AAUP voted to place ISU on its sanction list in June, 2011.  It now has the dubious distinction of being one of four institutions in the U.S. that are on this black list.
In Montana, where all the campuses are unionized, state appropriations for higher education there have declined only 5.9 percent since 2008, but Idaho has experienced a drop of 20 percent.
We all need to lobby our legislators to restore the $46.8 million that our colleges and universities have lost since the beginning of the Great Recession.
Nick Gier is President of the Higher Education Council of the Idaho Federation of Teachers. Salary tables can be viewed at www.idaho-aft.org/survey13.pdf.  Salaries by UI department are at www.idaho-aft.org/UI FY13.pdf.
 
 
 
 
 
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