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paper,” Cohen said.
He said committee members are
trying to formulate an accurate pic
ture of their situation so they can
figure out what steps to take to im
prove the problem. He said non
tenured faculty work in a different
atmosphere with different advan
tages.
“It’s difficult for them to know
what they’re entitled to and have a
relationship with their employer,
simply because of their non
tenured track status,” he said.
Loyalty has its price
Unlike Davis, Cohen is not as
optimistic about the future of high
er education in Oregon.
"Oregon has done a very poor
job of investing in higher educa
tion,” he said. “The signs of opti
mism we were discussing last year
are evaporating in the current
budget talks in Salem.”
But Cohen said an equally large
problem is the professors who
choose to stay at the University,
because they often make financial
sacrifices by not leaving.
“For every faculty member who
leaves for a better salary, there are
several who don’t leave,” he said.
Cohen said many professors re
sist the urge to leave for greater op
portunities because they are loyal
to the University.
“People are actually making sac
rifices to stay here and they do it
willingly, but I think everyone
wishes we didn’t have to wrestle
with the budget,” he said.
Laura Alpert, an associate pro
fessor of sculpture, is one of those
people. She has been a faculty
member at the University since
1979, and said one major problem
is salary compression. This occurs
when newer faculty are offered
higher salaries than faculty who
have been on staff for several
years, such as Alpert.
“It’s a problem with faculty
members at the University of Ore
gon,” she said. “For a long time
our salaries have [not] been com
petitive, and it’s harder for people
here a long time to get proportional
raises that are fair.”
Alpert said she knows of several
former colleagues in the design de
partment who left because they
found they could earn double their
University faculty salaries compared
to its six comparator schools
Salaries reported in thousands of dollars, rounded to the nearest hundred.
$96.7 $82.6 $85.0 $89.6 $93.8 $101.2 $71.5
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University of Oregon
salaries elsewhere.
She said in the 1980s, there were
usually hundreds of applications
submitted for positions in the Uni
versity’s fine arts department, hut
now not nearly as many people ap
ply for jobs in that department.
“We really need to make sure we
can hire faculty equal to the historic
quality of this school,” Alpert said.
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