Dive Summary:
- Some Eastern Washington University professors will get big raises and some will get nothing in an unusual new deal that focuses on bringing faculty up to the national salary averages in their fields.
- The unusual contract, embraced both by the faculty union and administrators, means a few professors will get raises as big as $18,000 a year over the next three years.
- About 75% of the school's faculty members were paid significantly below the national average, and the university is putting about $6.5 million toward this salary initiative over the three years of the contract.
From the article:
... Eastern was losing people to other schools in California and Washington and having trouble competing with schools from across the country when looking for new faculty, Arevalo said. Sometimes it didn't even help that new faculty members could be offered competitive salaries, because they also look at salaries across the university and see that the average at Eastern is below everywhere else. Arevalo hopes the school's new three-year faculty contract will fix salary inequities and raise the university's profile as a creative and collaborative place. ...
