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February 19, 2008, 01:54 PM ET
Underpaid in Georgia
A new study shows that professors at Georgia’s public universities are underpaid compared with their peers at comparable institutions in other states, the Athens Banner-Herald reports.
The study was commissioned by State Rep. Bob Smith, a Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s Higher Education Subcommittee. It shows that the average faculty salary at the University of Georgia is “3 percent lower than comparable universities across the country,” while “salaries at nearly all of Georgia’s 34 universities and colleges fall below the norm for a comparable school,” the reporter, Walter C. Jones, writes.
“The biggest gap is at Kennesaw State University where faculty make 18 percent less than their peers,” Jones adds.
Arnett C. Mace Jr., senior vice president for academic affairs at UGA, told Jones that the lower salaries are making it tough to retain top professors:
In order to keep key faculty from leaving, Mace has made 136 counteroffers in the last two years and shifted money to salaries that had been earmarked for other uses, a practice that’s been repeated at most Georgia schools.
“Those were dollars that could have gone toward adding additional faculty or operating expenses or adding new programs,” [Mace] said.
Categories: Faculty-hiring
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