The department has eight tenure and tenure-track professors and three adjuncts. The other two permanent professors don't get raises this year because one is new and the other is semi-retired. Sillars said the professors don't want to send a message to other departments, but merely wanted to help their colleague. I have great colleagues. However, Sillars said the greater budget problem can not be solved by philanthropy alone.
Fowler says the group was praying for the campus and students.
We want to see this campus turn upside down for God. Unlike their MSU colleagues last year, UM faculty members will not accept a freeze on their salaries to alleviate budget shortfalls, said Bill Chaloupka, University Teachers' Union president. Last year, Montana State University's administrators forced a faculty salary freeze because of financial constraints. The decision was an attempt to stop the budget crunching that has become a trend at Montana's institutions of higher learning. At the beginning of spring semester 2000, MSU's administration realized enrollment numbers were lower than projected by about 100 full-time students.