Ithaca College

https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/AAUP_Report_InstrStaff-75-
11_apr2013.pdf

"Tenured faculty represent only 17 percent of college instructors. Part-time
adjuncts are now the majority of the professoriate and its fastest-growing
segment. From 1975 to 2011, the number of part-time adjuncts quadrupled. And
the so-called part-time designation is misleading because most of them are
piecing together teaching jobs at multiple institutions simultaneously. A 2014
congressional report suggests that 89 percent of adjuncts work at more than one
institution; 13 percent work at four or more. The need for several appointments
becomes obvious when we realize how little any one of them pays. In 2013, The
Chronicle began collecting data on salary and benefits from adjuncts across the
country. An English-department adjunct at Berkeley, for example, received $6,500
to teach a full-semester course. It’s easy to lose sight of all the people struggling
beneath the data points. $7,000 at Duke. $6,000 at Columbia. $5,950 at the
University of Iowa." http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Shame-of-
Our/239148/

Dear 6 figure administrators, please stop wasting precious resources on consultant
groups that are hired merely to support your point of view. This is shameful waste.
6 figure administrators need to donate a portion of their lavish salaries toward a
solution to make the finances of IC "sustainable" and "efficient." If they are not
willing to pitch in like the rest of us, that is to say, to work more for less, then they
are part of the problem and not the solution to sustainability. Top administrators
might want to try working part-time so that we can save on benefits packages as
well. They can cobble together work from elsewhere and have their attentions and
energies wastefully divided like the rest of us.

While I understand the 6 figures argue that they must make this amount of money
to have the proper incentive to do a good job, the logic then suggests that those of
us paid almost nothing for our educational and experiential expertise should have
zero incentive to do a good job based on our wages. But, in fact, we do excellent
work and mentor our students because this is what we do professionally and who
we are ethically. I would like to see the 6 figures make a real commitment to this
institution that has nothing to do with monetary incentive arguments and
justifications for lavish salaries. We don't care what group you use to justify these
wasteful salaries, your stance is ethically deficient.

HEAR! HEAR!

This is administration-speak for "let's give ourselves another pay raise." I have no doubt that Sibson Consulting is just as "excited" to "partner" with the administration in providing yet another excuse for IC to funnel tuition dollars away from the classroom and into the pockets of consultants and administrators. The corporate university is a lucrative racket indeed - for everyone but those who study and those who teach.