Re: Sabbatical replacement

[George Spagna <gspagna@rmc.edu>]

At 03:48 PM 5/18/98 -0400, Herb Gottleib wrote:
> I feel that university professors should be getting paid much more
> that the high school teachers that they often have to teach.
> Am I wrong???

Some are, most are not!  Check the numbers in the March/April Academe for
the entire professoriate.  Kyle's numbers seem about where I would expect.

The disparity is even greater for those of us at small colleges - the
"market" does not place as much value on what we do as most outsiders think
we make.  Which makes the near-constant yammering in the media about
overpaid underworked faculty representing the "new American leisure class"
even more troubling.  At least they could get the numbers right!

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