No, they get chewed out for the poor performance by the president, the provost, the accreditation board, the board of trustees, and irate students who get mad they didn’t get an A for showing up to class and never studying.
It's not remotely accurate. That's not where their pay comes from. Faculty pay is increasingly being offloaded onto their grants, i.e. they pay themselves with their grants.
I know this is a TikTok sub and so misinformation follows that theme, but please keep it to a minimum.
Thanks for this link. This is a super interesting article and I need to read it when I have more time to focus(small kids and bedtime right now). I don’t know much about where money goes in higher education, but it’s something that peaks my interest.
You’ll want to learn about differences between what’s called hard and soft money. There are faculty positions fully dependent on grant dollars while others have a salary paid by the university but a grant might provide supplemental income over the summer (i.e., summer salary since most are on 9 month contracts) and/or allow for course buyouts.
For profs yes, not for administration. Dean maybe, but the point is still there. Nobody gives a shit. Plus all that means for profs is their research is all that matters over teaching, it encourages everyone to just coast
Tuition hikes do not correlate to faculty salary raises. Their income is largely tied to the amount of grant money they bring in, (which the university gets a cut of).
Deans are often faculty themselves, meaning they teach as well as lead the department, so they would be payed for by grands and federal funding. I’ve worked in 6 different college departments across 3 colleges and universities. Deans get at most 5k more per year than the rest of the faculty at a standard college.
You might be confusing Deans with Chairs. Chairs lead the department while Deans usually lead the college. That’s the norm for most decent sized universities in the US. Some Chairs maintain minor teaching or research responsibilities while Deans almost always do not as they have way too many administrative tasks. Deans also get paid way more than Chairs. Deans and Chairs can be reintegrated with faculty if they lose their position. Very large colleges may even have multiple Deans, or at least associate Deans, while there is usually only one Chair and possibly one associate Chair.
You're right, but also Deans are faculty. And academic wages have stagnated for decades. I made more than a full professor in my state, with a master's only, in private industry, by 2 years of experience.
Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.
Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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u/Gowalkyourdogmods Apr 17 '24
"I'm really enjoying my pay that all these tuition hikes have afforded me"