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Date: Jun 15, 2006

word on raises?

Date: Jun 16, 2006

I am in the College of Arts and Letters. I am very pleased (and a little shocked) with my raise.

Date: Jun 16, 2006

Southern Belle wrote:

I am in the College of Arts and Letters. I am very pleased (and a little shocked) with my raise.

Good for you. My raise was a bad joke.

Date: Jun 17, 2006

Rumor has it that a faculty member on the coast did an end-run around dept chair and dean and went straight to Assoc Provost (down there) who approved raise that would have exceeded 20% of 9 month salary. Do not know if it was approved further up the chain. This happened in a college whose dean is very tight with the $.

Date: Jun 17, 2006

i'm reminded of the california raisins--i heard it thru the grapevine.

Date: Jun 17, 2006

still tuned in wrote:

Rumor has it that a faculty member on the coast did an end-run around dept chair and dean and went straight to Assoc Provost (down there) who approved raise that would have exceeded 20% of 9 month salary. Do not know if it was approved further up the chain. This happened in a college whose dean is very tight with the $.

You forgot the special "written justification" required for raises <3% or > 7%. A 20% raise would require writing a book.

Date: Jun 17, 2006

Good News: With my new raise I'll be making as much next year as the average assistant professor at the University of Mississippi did in 2005-2006.

Bad News: I've been a full professor here at USM for several years.

Date: Jun 17, 2006

No news in COH. Like all information in our college, information is passed via rumor, from the FS or from this website. Information from the Dean's Office??? FORGETABOUTIT!