The salary adjustments described above affected 157 tenured or tenure-track faculty. These increases were below those granted on many other campuses. The role of faculty in academic quality . Educational excellence is what we are all about.
Educational excellence requires outstanding faculty.
Recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty require competitive salaries. Quality faculty represent the heart of the academic enterprise. Accordingly, achieving competitive salaries is a top priority at WOU and we have allocated and reallocated accordingly. A history of salary challenges . When the Oregon College of Education became Western Oregon State College in 1981, a dramatic transformation of institutional mission occurred.