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Professor Salaries for the 09-10 Academic Year

Last Updated:12/13/09 Section: News

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The decision to print faculty salaries was a difficult one for our editorial board. The importance of transparency, however, was ultimately the deciding factor.

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student @ wm

posted 11/18/09 @ 1:16 PM EST

Thank you for posting this.

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VAINformerfactchecker

posted 11/18/09 @ 1:25 PM EST

Okay great, you can fill out a FOIA request. Now let's see you do something with it. Show me an average by department, or average pay vs. political contributions. (Continued…)

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Lars

posted 11/18/09 @ 2:45 PM EST

Wow, so basically we're crying over financial crises while feeding all the business and law professors with millions of dollars every year? And while this happens all the english and other professors barely make the average salary for a college graduate??? If this isn't unfair, I don't know what is. (Continued…)

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simple

posted 11/18/09 @ 3:25 PM EST

It is standard practice for law and business professors to receive higher salaries. This in part is because professorships in law and business are much more competitive and require much higher standards than professorships in the liberal arts. (Continued…)

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Undergrad

posted 11/24/09 @ 12:45 PM EST

I think that you guys should compare how much the professors make to how much the different sports coaches (particularly the basketball coach) makes a year. (Continued…)

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eugenia

posted 12/09/09 @ 11:43 PM EST

this makes me sad :(

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