She was told that Dr. Gruetzemacher is ready to come to Faculty Council to report on item 11. This is still not a regular sabbatical, but it may provide some relief. There was general discussion about salaries. Several points were made and reiterated by various speakers. In a percentage raise system, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Inflation tends to negate the minimal percentage raises most of the faculty members get.
Morale loss accompanies money loss. Faculty lines must be kept somewhat competitive with lines across the country. The market drives the salaries of certain faculty members higher. Economists and engineers are worth more on the open market than classicists, medievalists, and flautists. He wanted to know what EDO meant financially and whether or not a faculty member could at the initial EDO stages discover anything about his own individual performance funding.