At 10:19 PM 9/7/96 -0700, you wrote: >Are the following "facts" true? > >1. Faculty salaries are not keeping up with inflation. This is not true for every year since 1976. I should have added the CPI (1983=100) data to my chart from last Friday. All data from Research Associates of Washington's *Inflation Measures for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries* (1996). The 1995 indexes (1983=100) for a few wage classes (including some private/public distinctions I have added since last Friday marked by >>>): Research Faculty 180.3 Faculty 176.1 >>>Priv. U. Full Prof. 192.9 >>>Pub. U. Full Prof. 177.0 >>>Priv. Coll Full Prof. 180.2 >>>Pub. Coll. Full Prof. 170.5 RA's 171 TA's 171 Library Pro Staff 167.2 Admin Pro Staff 179.7 Clerical 159.6 >>>>>>> CPI <<<<<<<< 153.3 Student Workers 145.2 Service 149.2 Operator/Laborers 146.7 You have a mirror of the U.S. economy as whole in the above the rich get richest, their sycophants get nice crumbs, and the lowest lose. >2. Charges for a college education abstracting from > financial aid and state subsidies are increasing > faster than inflation. Very true. Jim Westrich University of Illinois at Chicago Institute on Disability and Human Development "... are you living in some kind of Disney where thinking is king?" --- Bomb the Bass
