On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, James Endress wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, Tony Buffa wrote: > (Edited) > > At my home institution, we hire new PHD's at under 35K per year (almost > > poverty in Calif, and certainly almost never get married people at that > > level) ... people who have been thru 4 years of undergrad and up to 10 of > > grad and postdocs..... our max salary (attained after about 20 years if > > you are kept) is 61K. And we are getting raked over the coals for not > > being able to attract minority faculty .... ! > > > > What a hypocritical arena > > DI athletics has become. The presidents OK six figure salaries for > > athletic directors and coaches, and let the faculty recruiting go to hell. > > One of these days, it will all come home to roost. > > > > Tony Buffa > > RPI '64 > > U of Illinois '66 > > U of Illinois '69 > > > > Physics Dept, Cal Poly, SLO > > > Supply and demand. When there are too few PhD's and too many hockey > coaches, the salaries will change. > > James > Unfortunely supply and demand has little to do with. The Communication Dept. here at university has only been able to fill 4 of 7 faculty positions the last two years and next fall will reduce the number of TAs hired. Meanwhile the University has just built a new $25 million athletic facality. Somebody's priorites are messed up. David