LorenzoP wrote:
my neighbors (here in Madtown) are top profs&researchers in medical biology, they bring in millions of dollars in research . . . they got an offer from another U and they are gone . . . all happened in 2-3 months
We'll be fine.
Governor Walker has faced intense, widespread criticism since announcing plans to cut the University of Wisconsin System’s budget by a whopping $300 million in his upcoming biennial budget.
The Governor argues that the System—which as recently as two years ago
had a secret $648 million slush fund—can afford to do more with less, and that professors should be doing more work and teaching more courses to earn their lucrative salaries.
Naturally, UW System President Ray Cross called that ridiculous and said that the state needs to invest even more in faculty members.
Perhaps Cross might want to consider this:
Governor Walker earned $143,871.52 last year. That would make him the
408th highest paid employee in the University of Wisconsin System. That’s right, there are 407 people in Wisconsin’s universities that made more money last year than Wisconsin’s Governor.
In fact, there were
1,713 employees who made more than $100,000,
349 who made more than $150,000,
110 who made more than $200,000, and
33 who made more than $250,000 last year.
Cross himself earned $525,000—more than three times the Governor’s salary.
The highest-paid professor
earned $306,030. According to
publicly available University of Wisconsin-Madison class schedules, he didn’t teach a single course during the fall semester, and is not teaching any courses this semester—
instead overseeing graduate students as they write their theses.
The second-highest paid professor also teaches economics at Madison and made $296,085. He taught two classes last semester and the same two this semester, though he did teach one with another professor.
That professor made $232,583 himself yet is
not teaching a single course by himself this semester.
The ten highest-paid professors in the UW System all teach at Madison and earned an average salary of $269,253 but are only teaching a total of 15 different courses. Four of those ten professors are only teaching one course, and only one is teaching three.
One might be tempted to suggest that such a light workload only exists at the top of the faculty salary scale, but a look at
the ten professors with salaries closest to the Governor’s $143,000 is even more revealing.
They earned an average of $143,813 but only taught a total of 12 courses. While they did oversee internships, direct research, and guide independent study, they were only in the classroom for 12 courses.
In fact,
a UW Madison survey of 191 faculty members last February revealed that they spent an average of just 14.1 hours per week in the classroom.
Moreover, UW System schools are in session an average of just eight months per year, as both students and professors alike get roughly one month off for winter break and more than three months for summer in addition to at least two days off for Thanksgiving and a week off for Spring Break during the school year.
Yet 407 UW System employees make more money in those seven months than the governor of the state makes in 12, and many professors who do spend just a small fraction of the time that they actually are on campus in the classroom.
In light of that, does Governor Walker’s call for a less bloated, more efficient UW System at which professors spend more time teaching really seem that ridiculous?
Read more:
http://www.newstalk1130.com/...03494/#ixzz3dvDfrJ9O
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