At 11:11 AM 8/29/03 -0400, Charles Lippy wrote:
>My personal outrage at the way salary inequity is being perpetuated stems
>as much from the demeaning remarks reported in the press this morning as
>from administrators getting hired at inflated salaries or being given
>raises approaching ten percent (in order to be competitive, we're told).
>All of us deserve a competitive salary. But the statement attributed to a
>top-level administrator that administrators work harder than faculty and
>were being asked to do more in tough financial times (aren't we all?) was
>hard to swallow. So, too, was the "let them eat cake" type of statement
>reported when another, even more senior adminstrator was quoted as saying
>that it was easier to fix a few salaries than 250. In good conscience I had
>to rescind my acceptance of an invitation to the Chancellor's home for
>faculty on a school night at that. After all, I did not want to add to the
>perception that as a mere faculty member I had nothing to do on a weekend
>but socialize. Perhaps the UTC administration has taken too many lessons
>from Schumacher.
>Chuck Lippy
>LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies
  I know I do not rate very highly here at UTC(monetarily speaking), just
being an adjunct instructor in Physics, despite what our
  contracts say each semester..It is true that our faculty are underpaid,
but most the
full time faculty and staff have had several raises since adjuncts had one.
It could be worse, full time people could be in the same boat as we are .