Alex FriedrichInter Faculty Organization President Jim Grabowska says faculty will receive a 7 percent pay hike over two years, retroactive to last year. Adjunct faculty get similar raises. Read more →
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There apparently aren’t too many things that Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system CFO Laura King and faculty union rep Russ Stanton agree on. But this afternoon it was this: That MnSCU really isn’t being extravagant in the amount of money paid out in unused sick pay and vacation to retiring MnSCU employees — Read more →
The U is apparently instituting a voluntary leave of absence program to free up money during the state shutdown. I’ve got calls in to get details on this. For now, here are some details from what appears to be the application form: Due to the temporary suspension of funding caused by a potential or actual Read more →
Average annual salary, all faculty (in thousands) Institution Name All Men Women Alexandria Tech and CC 62.6 62.2 63.3 Anoka Tech C 60.9 60.9 60.9 Anoka-Ramsey CC 59.7 59.3 60.0 Central Lakes C 61.7 62.2 61.0 Century C 60.8 62.0 59.9 Dakota County Tech C 63.3 63.5 63.1 Fond du Lac Tribal and CC 59.4 Read more →
Future faculty hired by the University of Minnesota will have to pay more toward their retirement funds than current members according to a decision made today by the Board of Regents, my MPR colleague Tim Post reports: The payments will more than double. Currently U faculty put 2.5 percent of their salaries into retirement, while Read more →
No, we’re not talking spring break here. Former Wall Street Journal editor Naomi Schaefer Riley takes a shot at tenure and the “lazy,” “incompetent” and “distracted” professors she says protects them when she discusses her book,The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get The College Education You Pay For on her old paper’s Read more →
MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel We’ve taken our pay hits University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks has jumped in on the Zellers flap, saying that salary freezes have been the norm — not 20-30 percent pay raises. In a commentary for MPR, he lists several cost-cutting measures the U has already taken, and mentions what’s coming up Read more →