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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The Argonaut Reporter Should have Called the UI Faculty Union. Since 1976 we have published annual salary surveys. Here are the figures from the last fiscal year. The national comparisons for FY16 won't be available until March 2017.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Faculty Advocate (June 18, 2015)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">In This Issue:</span></b><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">UI and BSU Dead Last
Among Peers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">LCSC Full Profs 34%
Behind</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">ISU Refuses to Send
Salary Data</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Salary Steps Funded at
NIC</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Proposed UI-ISU-BSU
Step System</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Corrections to Local
News Stories</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">UI Full Profs 14% Behind
Land Grant Peers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Lag 26% for all
Ph.D.-granting Campuses</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">By Francesca Sammarruca, President</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">UI Faculty Federation/AFT/AFL-CIO</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Two corrections need to be made
concerning the editorial on UI faculty salaries (<i>Moscow-Pullman Daily News</i>, June 12). First, the UI Faculty
Federation salary surveys have always compared the UI with other public (not
private) Ph.D.-granting institutions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">We do not aspire to be a Yale, Harvard,
Princeton, or Columbia, but we do compete with WSU, where full professors there
make on average $122,800 while ours make $95,900. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Second, the
legislative appropriation for faculty raises this year was 3 percent, but our
calculations indicated that 90 percent of UI faculty received 2 percent instead.
(See department lists at <a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/UIFY2005.pdf" target="_blank">www.idaho-aft.org/UIFY2005.pdf</a>.) Instead of having a
separate appropriation for promotions, merit, and other salary adjustments,
which a union contract would demand, one percent is always taken off the top
for these purposes.<br>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">This year we
initially neglected to include comparisons to selected land-grant
universities. (That analysis can now be
found as Table II at </span><a href="http://www.idaho-aft.org/Survey15.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">www.idaho-aft.org/Survey15.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">.) Since 2009 we
have gone from fourth from last to dead last.
UI full professors are now 14 percent behind rather than 8 percent. <i>Montana State used to below us in the
ranking, but since they have chosen a union, they are now ahead of us</i>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">BSU Full Profs 20%
Behind Their Peers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Seven Peers have Union
Contracts</span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">As the attached table demonstrates, BSU stands
last among its peers, mostly selected metropolitan universities across the
country. BSU full profs are 20 percent behind; associates are at -11%;
assistants, -8.5%; and instructors, -8.7%. For some reason the American
Association of University Professors received no data from three peer
institutions: Portland State University, University of Texas at El Paso, and
Weber State University.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">LCSC Full Profs $3,700 below National
Assist. Prof Average; 34% behind National Fulls</span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3.55pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:11.05pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3.55pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:11.05pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Idaho university faculty are way behind their peers in salary, but LCSC
is shockingly so. According to the 2014-2015 AAUP salary survey, LCSC full
professors make $57,300 per year, but their peers in public baccalaureate
institutions (AAUP’s category IIB) make $87,182. <i>The national average
for assistant professors—$61,000—is $3,700 more than LCSC full professors.</i> (Last
year that differential was $2,800.) LCSC full professors make 34 percent less
than the national average for IIB campuses. Associate and assistant professors
are 31 and 24 percent behind respectively.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3.55pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;border:none;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">ISU REFUSES TO SEND SALARY INFO</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:3.55pt 0in;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;border:none;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:windowtext">For four 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. </span></p>
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system for postsecondary teachers in Idaho. For several years NIC’s Board
refused to fund the steps, even though it is expressed required by college
policies. With IFT legal aid, the local
AFT chapter consulted an attorney and his findings were presented to the
Board. At its last meeting it was
announced that the steps from the two previous years will now be funded.</span></p>
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contract is a salary scale. With satisfactory performance each employee
receives seniority pay by advancing one step in the scale. Cost-of-living
raises increase the base for each step. Where merit pay is recognized, the faculty
member then advances several steps. Promotion in rank is rewarded by jumping to
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Moscow Cares <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com" target="_blank">moscowcares@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of the University of Idaho Argonaut at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.uiargonaut.com/2016/04/18/many-factors-contribute-to-low-faculty-morale-at-ui/" target="_blank">https://www.uiargonaut.com/2016/04/18/many-factors-contribute-to-low-faculty-morale-at-ui/</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"></span></p><h4 style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">Many factors contribute to low faculty morale at UI</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">This is the country of opportunities, right?” Hrdlicka said. “At least that’s how it is marketed.”</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hrdlicka is one of many faculty members who believe the morale among UI employees is dangerously low. At the center of their many grievances is money.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">James Foster, a distinguished professor in the College of Science, said his salary is 30 percent less than the average pay for a professor of his rank at peer institutions — and he’s not the only one. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">At Washington State University, professors receive annual salaries well over $100,000, with some reaching past $200,000 per year. Faculty members at UI’s peer institution University of Nebraska-Lincoln receive salaries around $100,000.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In the 2015-2016 fiscal year, the salaries given to regular faculty at UI ranged from lower than $20,000 to more than $100,000 annually. Despite where their salaries stand, the majority of faculty have not seen significant raises, with much of faculty only seeing an increase of about $2,000 over the past three fiscal years. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hrdlicka said low pay has the potential to act as a statement to employees. He said because UI uses a kind of scoring system to determine pay, low employee compensation shows faculty, staff and administrators where they rank and how much the UI administration values them. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Liz Brandt, a distinguished professor in the College of Law, said it doesn’t impact morale right away when faculty don’t see a significant raise to their salary in a year — it’s when the pattern repeats that it can cause damage. </span></p><blockquote style="padding:10px 20px;margin:0px 0px 20px;border-left-width:5px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><p style="margin:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“If you have a year with no pay increase, I don’t think most people take it like that,” Brandt said. “If you have two years without a pay increase I don’t think most people take it like that. If you have six years without a pay increase, you start to think, ‘What am I, chopped liver?’”</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">But most faculty members don’t come to UI because of the pay, Brandt said. There are other issues along with low salaries that are detrimental to morale. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Foster said the increasing number of created administrative positions combined with the steady rise in salaries for administrators can lead other employees to wonder why that money can’t be spent to raise salaries for non-administrators. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">UI Provost and Executive Vice President John Wiencek said he’s not sure if this issue is based in truth, but he would look into it.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“My experience with these things is it’s myth often that gets generated without data to back it up,” Wiencek said.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Wiencek and other new administrators that arrived at UI in recent years have received the biggest raises compared to what their predecessors received.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Wiencek’s current annual salary is $46,176 more than what the previous Provost and Executive Vice President Douglas Baker received.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">According to the Faculty and Exempt Salaries report over the past three fiscal years, in 2013-2014 Bruce Pitman held the title of both vice provost of Student Affairs and dean of students, and received a yearly salary of $132,828.80. The next year, after Pitman announced his retirement, he was listed as vice provost for Student Affairs, while Craig Chatriand assumed dean of students in January 2015, a promotion from associate dean. That year Pitman received a raise of just under $3,000. When Jean Kim stepped in as vice provost for Student Affairs, her annual salary jumped to $178,526.40.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Wiencek said there is a current search going on for a new Vice Provost for Enrollment Management, which will be a new position within the UI adminstration.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Low pay is a primary source of the high faculty and staff turnover rates, which is yet another blow to morale. UI President Chuck Staben said faculty turnover at UI is twice the national average at 14.5 percent. Wiencek said turnover numbers for staff are even higher at 18 percent. Staff members are the ones leaving UI more often, and Brandt said this impacts faculty morale as well. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">When staff members leave, other employees need to work to hire and train replacements. The lack of familiarity also doesn’t encourage employees to make connections with each other.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“I’ve had three different faculty assistants in the last 18 months,” Brandt said.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Staben has said one of his primary goals for the university is to increase enrollment by 50 percent, but this objective can also demoralize faculty, Hrdlicka said. He said many employees don’t necessarily believe the university can reach this goal, and increasing enrollment has been tied to raising salaries. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Even if the university does reach the goal and enrolls about 15,000 students, Hrdlicka said he and many other faculty members aren’t certain that their pay will rise anyway. Such a spike in the number of students will bring about more issues for UI, like limited housing options and fewer faculty members to teach them. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Wiencek said the State Board of Education came up with the goal to increase enrollment to address the needs of the state.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Our president has made it clear that he is 100 percent behind the direction that the State Board wants to take the state in general in this regard,” Wiencek said.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In terms of low faculty morale, Wiencek said he isn’t sure there is much of a problem to begin with. He said it may just be because he is an administrator, but he’s gathered from the conversations he’s had with faculty and staff that many UI employees are more hopeful for the future.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“They really feel that there’s a new day and that things are really moving in a positive direction,” Wiencek said.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Though there is still plenty of room to improve, Hrdlicka, Foster and Brandt all said they feel there has been an improvement to faculty morale in the past year. All of them tied it to the increase in transparency among administrators, specifically Wiencek and Vice President for Finance Brian Foisy. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Vice President Foisy I think is — among the staff in particular but also faculty probably feel this way — is somewhat of a rock star,” Wiencek said.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Where Brandt said the end of the last academic year was an all-time low for faculty morale, there has been an increase this year due to the attitudes of the people in charge. Last year she said employees saw no clear direction for the university because Staben’s administrative team was still in development, but now it’s clear that the administration is making an effort to improve UI and the people who are a part of it. Their openness to discussing major concerns is a big part of that, she said.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“I think right now people really appreciate the sense of transparency and openness that is there,” Brandt said.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><i>Erin Bamer </i><i>can be reached at </i><i style="line-height:1.5"><a href="mailto:arg-news@uidaho.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">arg-news@uidaho.edu</a> </i><i style="line-height:1.5">or on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/@ErinBamer" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">@ErinBamer</a></i></span></p></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================<br>
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=======================================================<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div> <div style="min-height:auto;width:auto"> <div> <div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-size:13.3333330154419px">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. </span><br style="font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-size:13.3333330154419px">-Greek proverb</span></div><div><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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--Immanuel Kant<br>
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