Understanding Faculty Salaries at GVSU: Current Process, Proposals, and Critical Perspectives

Wednesday, January 18, 2023
7:00 p.m.
Online
Faculty, Students

How a university spends its money says what it values most, especially when budgets are tight. The recent American Association of University Professor’s report on the economic status of the profession for 2020-21 found that “real wages for full-time faculty decreased 0.4 percent, the first decrease since the Great Recession, after adjusting for inflation”. Not only the public, but many faculty themselves express confusion about how salary, raises, merit increases, and overall compensation work. At this open forum, the GVSU AAUP Advocacy Chapter teams up with the Chair of the Faculty Salary and Budget Committee (FSBC) to answer these questions and consider how GVSU faculty have weathered the pandemic, as well as how this compares to other public universities in Michigan. A representative from the GVSU chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) will also review parallel discussions regarding student wages on campus. There will be plenty of time for Q&A and open discussion; colleagues are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Speakers:

Bob Hollister, FSBC, Biology

Matt Boelkins, AAUP, Math

Joel Stillerman, AAUP, Sociology/Honors

Foster Thorburn, YDSA

The event is free and open to the public

Location Information

To register and get a Zoom link: https://gvsu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkfumrrDksGNV1QncS4eQjINrv1ZRrS8d3

Contact Information

Andrew Spear: [email protected]

Foster Thorburn: [email protected]

Hosting Department, Organization, or Business

GVSU Young Democratic Socialists of America, GVSU AAUP Chapter

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This event was added to the calendar by Joel Stillerman (stillejo@gvsu.edu) on Monday, January 9, 2023 and was last updated on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 3:59 p.m.