Get the Facts!

State System of Higher Education Chancellor Judy Hample has stated:

“As Chancellor of the State System, I believe faculty members deserve to be well compensated for the excellent job they do in the classroom. In fact, they are: State System faculty salaries consistently rank among the top 10% at similar public universities nationwide.”

Unfortunately, Chancellor Hample’s statement is UNTRUE!

Here are the facts:

? According to the March/April issue of Academe, your faculty’s average salaries (in parenthesis below) are in the following national percentiles (Academe’s Table 8) for public master’s universities, category IIA:

Professor ($ 86,900) Associate ($ 69,800) Assistant ($ 56,400)

78.40 % 78.30 % 80.20 %

? But when you compare SSHE faculty salaries to those in the mid-Atlantic region in which our universities are located APSCUF faculty average near the 50th percentile. Mid-Atlantic averages (again, public master’s universities, category IIA) are:

Professor ($ 83,515) Associate ($ 65,604) Assistant ($ 52,567)

Other facts:
? From 1998 to 2002, State System tuition and fees have risen 28.60%; the number of students has risen by 7.70%.During this period faculty have increased by only 1.20%. Administrators have increased by 8.30%.

? The student to faculty ratio has increased by 6.4%, while the student to management ratio has declined (0.50%).  That means larger class sizes for you!

?During the period from 1997 to 2001, faculty salaries increased by 17.30% (approximately = cost of living), while management salaries increased by 28.10%.

? Final data for 2002 are not in yet, but estimates place management salaries higher by another 5.43% (a “retroactive” increase back to July, 2002, was announced in January, 2003).

?Also, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s August 29, 2003 report of median salaries of administrators, our administrators faired pretty well. 

	National Median Salaries	SSHE Salaries
System CEO (chancellor) Assistant to System CEO	$ 158,859 $ 72,500	Dr. Hample = $ 291,000 Dr. Becker = $ 134,500

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