Faculty have it made on this campus; NH citizens would be shocked at the waste that goes on at UNH and the pay that some professors receive for doing bare minimum is outrageous; UNH pays professors based on teaching, service, and publications and faculty are supposed to receive reviews each year yet the ones that are tenured dont have to submit a review and there is nothing that UNH can do about it. There are professors on campus that get paid well over 100, 000 and teach two days a week for 3 hours, each day; they serve on no committees, often cancel classes, barely return communication with students, and refuse to come to campus on "their days off".

Not only did staff making over $40k take a pay freeze they froze any sort of raise for all staff members! The administration feels if they let go Operating Staff they are going to save money however OS employees are the lowest paid in the USNH and often do the most work. OS and PAT staff have no job security, there job requires them to be on campus 5 days a week regardless how far away they live from campus; staff are expected to come to work on days that the weather is bad, when you cant see the roads because the roads havent been plowed, or the wind and snow are whipping in a way that you cant see two feet in front of you, who else is going to field the calls from faculty that live within 10 miles of campus and call to cancel their classes?

I could go on and on about how faculty and the administration have it made here at UNH, and I am sure at other higher educational institutes, but I have a lot of work to do all for the below poverty wages I earn. Facutly live in their own world, not the real world!

Time to face the real world faculty!

How does this compare to salaries in other comparable universities?

So, they take a hit now, you advise. Are they going to get a *bigger* raise than the other NE state universities, when times are good again, to make up for it? I think not.

And, you've left out the fact that the state funds this university at the lowest level among the 50 states. As far as I know, it's still the case that if the state doubled it's outlay for higher education, NH would still be dead last. We aren't last in per capita income. Last I knew , we were quite high on that totem pole. So, the only other sources are grants and raising tuition. Isn't it the faculty who go out there and get those grants?

Me, I still see this cheap-a** state as being the main culprit. You've simply accepted that and, instead, call the faculty greedy. Maybe it's more the case that the voters and legislators, who campaign on no taxes (I.E., no services, including higher education funding), are the greedy, self-serving ones. Or, not. But, I can't see you letting them completely off the hook.

We got into this situation because of banking and real estate greed. Some people got VERY rich, and now we're all suffering for it. Wall St. is back to getting richer again, while the jobless rate is 10% - the jobless recovery. Faculty isn't to blame, here. Faculty has every right to ask for what they think is fair, judging by what other faculty receive, in the same economic climate.

My point is, you're really not looking at the big picture. It's the big players who are the problem, from my point of view.