Battalion/Page 4
January 19, 1982
local/state
Southern universities pay better
North loses profs to budget cuts
Faculty salaries rise
at Texas universities
Editor’s note: This is the second
in a three-part series on ‘‘raid
ing, ” the hiring of qualified per
sonnel in universities by busines
ses and other universities with
more money.
by Kathy O’Connell
Battalion Reporter
At Texas A&M University,
the colleges of business adminis
tration, engineering and scien
ces are involved in the mad
scramble to get top-notch facul
ty and researchers. And they’re
willing to pay a price for them.
Dr. A. El Kohen, an assistant
professor of mathematics, came
to Texas A&M last year from the
University of Wisconsin at Madi
son. His salary at UW as a re
search assistant was $17,000; his
salary at Texas A&M is $20,000,
an increase of 14.7 percent.
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Kohen said he came to Texas
A&M because, “the teaching
load is reasonable and one can
do a lot of research here.”
Kohen, along with 125 other
faculty members, was hired at
Texas A&M this year. The Fort
nightly, a newsletter for Univer
sity faculty and staff, reports
that 50 of these new faculty
members came to Texas A&M
from northern states and 40
from southern states. The other
35 came from private industry
or international universities.
An article in the Milwaukee
Journal reported that an assis
tant professor in the physical sci
ences earning less than $22,000
a year at the University of Wis
consin at Madison was offered
$37,000 a year at Texas A&M, a
difference of 68.2 percent.
The average salary in pet
roleum engineering in the
Southwest was $45,600, while
the same position in the Midwest
and Northeast drew a salary of
$35,195, a difference of 26 per
cent.
The same is true for a profes
sor in chemical engineering. In
the Southwest the average salary
was $45,100, in the Midwest and
Northeast the salary was
$34,000, a 26.2 percent differ
ence.
Not only are individual col
leges faced with losing faculty
because of low salaries, but
northern universities as a whole
also are faced with defecting fa
culty.
Take, for instance, the Uni
versity of Washington. An unex
pected 10 percent cut in the
1981-82 budget—a loss in state
appropiations of $33 million in
its operating budget — aroused
the fear that hundreds of faculty
would be laid off.
Higher education appropria
tions in the state of Washington
only increased by 6.4 percent be
tween the 1979-80 academic
year and the 1980-81 academic
year. This compares with a 44.8
percent increase in Texas
appropriations over the same
period.
Michigan State University
also was faced with $16 million
in budget cuts and the potential
lay-off of more than 100 te
nured faculty. Yet, it successful
ly managed to reduce the num
ber of faculty who were
threatened with losing their
jobs.
The reduction in faculty was
achieved through an incentive
program to faculty members
whose jobs were threatened.
Under the program, the profes
sor would volunteer to leave the
university with two years’ salary,
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or to work during the 1980-81
school year and leave with an
additional 18 months’ pay.
One factor behind the faculty
shortage is that graduates with a
bachelor’s degree in business or
engineering are offered starting
salaries in private industry be
tween $22,000 and $23,000. In
three years, their salary could in
crease to about $30,000.
The American Assembly of
Collegiate Schools of Business,
which awards accreditation to
the country’s business colleges,
shows that the number of unfil
led business faculty positions is
three times greater than the
number of doctoral candidates.
This shortage of Ph.Ds pre
sents a problem when universi
ties want to hire faculty with doc
torate degrees.
The AACSB reports that at
the current production rate of
business graduates, it would
take nearly seven years to fill
business faculty positions in the
1980-81 academic year.
With 5,291 students, Texas
A&M’s business college has the
sixth largest undergraduate en
rollment in the nation. The col
lege has 327 graduate students
and 66 students working toward
a doctorate of business adminis
tration.
Higher salaries may be one of
the primary reasons why faculty
are moving from the Frostbelt to
the Sunbelt — and salaries at
Texas universities are no excep
tion.
Bolstered by substantial in
creases in legislative funding, fa
culty salaries at Texas public
senior colleges and universities
rose 18 percent last fall, the
largest annual increase since the
Coordinating Board began col
lecting the data in 1965.
Faculty salaries rose an aver
age of 8.9 percent nationwide,
and preliminary data indicate
the increase in Texas will exceed
all other states.
The 18 percent increase ex
ceeded the rate of inflation for
the first time in six years, as com
pared to the Consumer Price In
dex, which measured 10.2 per
cent in fiscal 1981.
A study by the Coordinating
Board last year found that
Texas faculty members had lost
more than 22 percent in pur
chasing power since 1969.
Annual increases in faculty
salaries had fallen behind the
rate of inflation every year since
1975-76, Coordinating Board
data shows.
Salaries for faculty members
of the first four ranks this fall
averaged $26,465 at the state’s
public senior colleges and uni
versities, an increase of 18.1 per
cent or more than $4,000 over
the 1980-81 average.
Average budgeted salaries
for all faculty ranks (including
lecturers and teaching
tants) at public senior instil
tions jumped 18 percentl
$23,453. The 1980-81 avenf
was $19,881.
At Texas public juniord
leges, average budgeted faoi
salaries rose 13.4 percent.!
average salary of $22,849rep|
sents a $2,698 increase overlj
year. Thejunior college avert
reflects salary levels for |
academic programs only
does not include data fromvoi
tion-technical programs.
These increases are expect
to place faculty salaries inleil
at or slightly above the natioi E
average. In several states,noi I
creases in faculty salaries wc I
appropriated because of tij
economic conditions.
In a letter to Gov. Willia
Clements, Preston Smith 11
Lubbock, chairman of theCoct I
dinating Board, said: “1
strength of our institutionsdi I
pends largely on the exceltai j
of their faculty. The actions! I
the past legislative session b i
no doubt that state policy mil
ers are committed to a topcjui! I
ty system of higher education
In response to concernso«
the loss of faculty purchasic
power, the 67 th Legislalu
appropriated a 17 percent pi
raise for faculty members!
public colleges and universitii
for 1981-82. Another 8.7 pci
cent pay raise was authorized!!
next fall in anticipation thatl j
inflation rate would be atlas
that high for another year.
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