Geneseo salaries don't stack up
Kevin Muller
Issue date: 10/23/08 Section: News
English professor Thomas Greenfield agreed.
"I'm convinced the administration is absolutely committed to getting salaries up to benchmarks," he said. "They are completely sincere in this."
Richard Young, professor of geological sciences, said his main concern is that Geneseo is "still behind most of the SUNY institutions." He cited Brockport, a similarly sized SUNY school whose professional faculty make more on average than Geneseo's.
Conway-Turner said that some SUNY schools that employ a large proportion of adjunct faculty can afford to pay full-time faculty slightly more, noting that Geneseo has decided to maintain a high percentage of full-time faculty. Larger SUNY schools also have large graduate and research programs that add money to their budgets.
Although organizations like CUPA provide clear benchmarks for the salaries of academic faculty, national standards do not exist for professionals like librarians and the Computing Information Technology staff. Conway-Turner said the administration will "really look carefully at librarian salaries in the future."
UUP sets a minimum and maximum salary for professional faculty at six different levels, but the discrepancy between the low and high limit is more than $20,000 at every level.
"I'm convinced the administration is absolutely committed to getting salaries up to benchmarks," he said. "They are completely sincere in this."
Richard Young, professor of geological sciences, said his main concern is that Geneseo is "still behind most of the SUNY institutions." He cited Brockport, a similarly sized SUNY school whose professional faculty make more on average than Geneseo's.
Conway-Turner said that some SUNY schools that employ a large proportion of adjunct faculty can afford to pay full-time faculty slightly more, noting that Geneseo has decided to maintain a high percentage of full-time faculty. Larger SUNY schools also have large graduate and research programs that add money to their budgets.
Although organizations like CUPA provide clear benchmarks for the salaries of academic faculty, national standards do not exist for professionals like librarians and the Computing Information Technology staff. Conway-Turner said the administration will "really look carefully at librarian salaries in the future."
UUP sets a minimum and maximum salary for professional faculty at six different levels, but the discrepancy between the low and high limit is more than $20,000 at every level.
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