Linda Benson indicated if you double her salary tomorrow, you will get no better teaching from her than you get from her now, because teaching is her profession and her passion. What we need is a combination of reduction of class load and increase in salary. Need better screening and hiring process for adjuncts to improve quality. Need more effective communication institution-wide. Karl Worthington suggested one reason for this may be students - the enrollment growth.
Tuition pays for adjunct faculty.
Karin Davidson then suggested we need to aggressively go after new money from the legislature to fund more full-time faculty and increase faculty salaries. Linda Benson reported she has taught in higher education for a long time. Mike Freeman reported he can honestly say he cares more about the UVSC library budget going up than my own salary going up. Doug Miller suggested the low full-time faculty salaries here at UVSC have to do with the ethics of equity. The pay here is so low that it's demoralizing.