![]() ![]() On average, across professorial ranks, women earn $92,787 compared with men’s pay, at $113,331. The AAUP report shows that full-time faculty who are women earn 81.9 percent of what their male colleagues earn. In the midst of the downturn, inequity means some people are hit harder than others. ![]() But high inflation rates are likely to change that equation. Because of key federal stimulus funding, higher education funding was maintained in many states, at least in the short term. The dependence of public colleges and universities on state appropriations is significant as well. Recovery has been slow, though by January 2022 employment at colleges and universities had climbed back to 90.2 percent from February 2020. The report takes a careful look at the last two years, describing the “swift and severe” impact of COVID-19 on higher education as one element in the “existential threat” that has included not just decreased pay but plummeting student enrollment, faculty and staff layoffs, and uncertain state budgets. … We can break the cycle only through up-to-date, objective, reliable demographic data and complete transparency regarding faculty compensation and working conditions, combined with collective action focused on social justice.” The general picture To interrupt the downward spiral, the AAUP calls on faculty, administrators, associations, labor unions, elected officials and citizens to “demand access to relevant data to inform policy decisions. “Deteriorating wages of college and university faculty members in relation to the wages of other professions, continued gender pay inequality, appallingly low pay for adjunct faculty members, erosion of the financial structures that support higher education, rising threats to academic freedom and shared governance, and continued uncertainty about the COVID-19 pandemic-all threaten the standards of the profession and the quality of higher education itself.” “Collectively, these data sources paint a bleak economic picture of the profession,” the AAUP concludes in a summary of the report. Meanwhile, women earned just 81.9 percent of what their male colleagues earned, and data shows the deepest disparities are in the higher ranks of the profession. The AAUP’s “ Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2021-22” headlines falling wages for full-time faculty: While they increased 2 percent in 2021-22, after taking inflation into account, real wages for full-time faculty decreased 5 percent-the largest one-year decrease on record since the AAUP began tracking this measure in 1972. AFT resources for organizing and back to school programsĬredit: Masterhouse / iStock / Getty Images Plus.Safe and welcoming public schools for all.DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).Standing united to protect immigrant rights. ![]()
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