NEIUPI

If you did not have a chance to stop by the UPI tables this week to pick up the latest materials, please find attached to this email a comparison of NEIU faculty salaries to institutions identified by the administration as comparable to NEIU. You will also find a comparison of NEIU faculty salaries to other Illinois public universities identified as IIA (Master’s), with the exception of one, none were identified as comparable to us.

Using an AAUP report on faculty salaries, the percentile rating for NEIU faculty salaries by rank was estimated and compared to other Illinois public universities. The percentile rating by rank is especially revealing about how poorly paid the NEIU instructors are relative to the national figures for IIA universities…NEIU instructors are below the 10th percentile. Unfortunately, I did not find a similar study to use when estimating the percentile rating of NEIU Academic Support Professionals and can only conclude that their rating is probably similar to that of our Instructors.

The AAUP salary study also examined Presidents’ salaries compared to those of full Professors. Using the ratios computed in this national study, it appears that our President’s salary is 3.74 times greater than the average salary of an NEIU full professor.

Here are two documents comparing the Administration’s proposals and our UPI proposals. The first document was sent out during the summer and compares proposals passed during June and July. I’ve included it for comparison to the second document. The second document compares proposals passed this in the last few weeks. The documents do not identify all differences in the Administration and UPI proposals.

Please contact members of the UPI bargaining team if you have any questions about these comparisons or issues that did not appear in the proposal comparisons.

Allen Shub has advised me that the ASP workplan and evaluation schedule has been posted. You can find it at:

ASP workplan and evaluation schedule

Allen Shub, contract administrator, has posted the 2010-2011 evaluation schedule for Instructors and Academic Resource Professionals (formerly known as Temporary Resource Professionals). Click on the link below to access the schedule

Instructor-ARP 2010-11 evaluation schedule

Please participate in the nationwide survey on contingent faculty (non tenured) conducted by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce. You can access the survey at:

Survey of Contingent Faculty

More about the Coalition on the Academic Workforce appears below.

About the Coalition on the Academic Workforce

The Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) is a group of higher education associations, disciplinary associations, and faculty organizations committed to working on the issues associated with the deteriorating faculty working conditions and their effect on the success of college and university students in the United States. Specifically, CAW’s purpose is to collect and disseminate information on the use and treatment of faculty members serving full- and part-time off the tenure track and the implications for students, parents, faculty members, and institutions;

• articulate and clarify differences in the extent and consequences of changes in the faculty within and among the various academic disciplines and fields of study;
• evaluate both short-term and long-term consequences of changes in the academic workforce for society and the public good;
• identify and promote strategies for solving the problems created by inappropriate use and exploitation of part-time, adjunct, and similar faculty appointments; and
• promote conditions by which all faculty members, including full- and part-time faculty members serving off the tenure track, can strengthen their teaching and scholarship, better serve their students, and advance their professional careers.