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Bousquet, Marc – Academe, 2012
American Association of University Professors (AAUP) members are likely to be familiar with the 1960 adaptation of Howard Fast's "Spartacus" by Stanley Kubrick and Dalton Trumbo, a rousing Kirk Douglas production widely credited with breaking the Hollywood blacklist. They are a bit less likely to be among the five or six million weekly viewers of…
Descriptors: Rewards, Films, Wages, Work Environment
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Tam, Teresa; Jacoby, Daniel – Academe, 2009
The effects of reliance on part-time faculty in higher education have been much discussed of late. Most observers now agree that the increasing reliance on contingent academic labor has worrisome consequences for both students and faculty. The authors recently attempted to provide needed analysis of what drives the current reliance on part-time…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Part Time Faculty, Salary Wage Differentials, Occupational Information
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Cooperstein, Deborah – Academe, 2008
It is clear from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Faculty Gender Equities Indicator 2006 report and other studies that female faculty members have not achieved equity with their male colleagues. One indicator of this is that women, even when they hold the same rank as men, are paid less. Institutions frequently argue that…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Salary Wage Differentials, Gender Discrimination, Comparable Worth
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Academe, 2011
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Great Recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. With a duration of eighteen months, this recession was almost double the length of the average post-World War II economic downturn. Although the worst recession since the Great Depression is now technically over, this analysis…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Economic Climate, Economic Status, Economic Impact
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Weaver, Benjamin – Academe, 2008
As in campaigns to organize graduate student employees, the way in which postdocs are classified by their institutions is important. A postdoc is no longer a student and should not expect to be treated like one. Frequently, however, the postdoc experience is little different from that of a graduate student, with perhaps slightly higher pay.…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Specialization, Employees, Collective Bargaining
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Adele, Niame; Rack, Christine – Academe, 2008
In this article, the authors provide a description of the academic climate in New Mexico. Like many other places in the world today, New Mexico is trying to find an identity in an environment that the authors label "increasingly privatized, corporatized, and militarized." New Mexico's higher education salaries are lower than those in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Salary Wage Differentials, Nontenured Faculty, College Administration
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Marthers, Paul; Parker, Jeff – Academe, 2008
Do liberal arts colleges act like research universities when they seek to appoint new faculty members? Evidence shows that research universities bid aggressively for talent, using discretionary salary policies to achieve a diverse professoriate, appoint research stars, and fill vacancies in fields where market forces require differential salaries.…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Salary Wage Differentials, Computer Science, Liberal Arts