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tuesday, august 26, 2003
Salary gaps concern professors
Professional schools pay more than liberal, fine arts
by Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Professors of fine arts at the University of Kansas make roughly two-thirds the salary business professors do.
"It's an issue—it affects faculty morale," said Lawrence Mallett, department chair of music and dance.
Mallett said that fine arts professors leaving because of low salaries was a continuing problem at the University. He said that one professor had already left this year, in part because of the low pay.
School Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Law $120,674 $79,000 — Business 116,473 89,942 $93,871 Engineering 95,388 72,969 63,198 Pharmacy 94,739 65,888 58,780 College of liberal arts and sciences 78,117 57,801 47,974 Education 75,156 56,799 46,488 Architecture 72,380 54,557 45,650 Journalism 71,797 58,404 52,598 Social Welfare 71,454 61,860 48,806 Fine Arts 63,832 48,723 41,851 University Averages 84,217 59,686 50,765
Despite their comparable educations, some professional school professors earn tens of thousands more than humanities and sciences professors.
He said that he was optimistic that the tuition increase would help to close that particular pay gap.
FACULTY SALARIES BY RANK AND SCHOOL FOR THE 2003 YEAR Twelve-month salaries have been converted to nine-month equivalents.
Greg Simpson, the department chair of psychology, echoed Wilcox's frustration.
and scientific praction Kim Wilcox, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that while the pay gap was frustrating, University liberal arts teachers were more bothered that teachers in their particular fields had higher wages at other universities.
He blamed the pay gap on competition with the non-academic marketplace.
"There's no doubt those who are making less are frustrated by this, but they are more frustrated by other schools' pay," he said.
"All of the faculty understands it," he said. "But as you might imagine, it bothers people in the arts and sciences."
However, he also said he had a suspicion that even if the University equalized all teachers' salaries by raising those of liberal arts and sciences professors without lowering anyone else's, professional-school professors would be unhappy.
University Averages
Chris Crandall, associate professor of social psychology, agreed with Simpson.
Source: Institutional Research and Planning
"They'd be peeved because
they like being paid better," he said.
Christopher Anderson, associate professor of business, said that such a statement was "facetious and somewhat spiteful."
tours and so that teachers of different disciplines belonged to different labor markets, and therefore their salaries should not be compared.
pared.
"If a humanities professor wants to aspire to the salary of a business professor, then they should go acquire the skill set of that labor market," he said.
Anderson said that having every professor receive the same pay at the University would not bother him at all.
Crandall said that in theory, two factors determined teachers' pay; their market value, both in and out of academia, and how well they did their jobs.
won they believe.
"More of it is market value than anything," he said. "It isn't completely idiotic, but it is out of proportion."
He said that a lot of market value was based on history, and that psychologists have always been underpaid.
been praised by William Eakin, vice provost for administration and finance, said that comparing the pay between professional-school professors and everyone else was pointless.
"Most of us that work at the University say we could've made more money doing something else,but we do this for other rewards."
rewards"
Vice provost for administration and finance
William Eakin
He said that teachers' pay in each department had to be competitive with other universities, not different departments, in order to attract the best teachers.
Eakin dismissed the idea that salaries of professional-school professors were higher because universities had to compete with the high salaries that these professors could make outside of the academic world.
"Most of us that work at the University say we could've made more money doing something else, but we do this for other rewards," he said.
He said that reasons people chose to work in academia included the opportunity to shape future generations and the freedom of curriculum that teaching allowed. Eakin also said that many law professors maintained
practices while they taught.
He blamed competition between universities and demand created by large numbers of students going into certain fields for teachers' salary differences, not a need to lure professional-school teachers away from the commercial world.
Most people make up their minds to become teachers before they graduate, making competition among different schools the biggest factor in determining pay, said Stuart Bell, dean of engineering. However, he said engineering professors' salaries had to be reasonably competitive with what they could earn outside of academia.
"It's pretty difficult for an academic institution to keep up with the commercial world," he said. "But that competition does exist."
Bell said he had never perceived any tension among colleagues at the University because of his higher pay.
As of this year, the University ranked seventh among the Big 12 in terms of educators' salaries.
One of the Chancellor's goals for the tuition increase is to improve that ranking in order to retain and attract the best teachers possible.
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Banks throughout the Midwest can join FinCrime, a computer database that allows financial institutions and law enforcement
Bankers associations in 10 states, including Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin, are taking part and others are considering it. Most of the associations offer FinCrime free to their member institutions. Over 200 banks
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