Professor salaries don't make the grade
Growing pay rate disparities have faculty concerned about future
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The University of North Florida ranks last among state public colleges and universities in faculty salaries, according to findings recently published by Florida Gulf Coast University.
Faculty includes assistant professors, associate professors, professors, instructors and lecturers. It does not include administrators and staff, who comprise the other part of the more than 1,600 paid positions at the university.
As of 2007, the highest paid full-time faculty member at UNF, Dr. Cheryl Fountain, made $181,189 for one contract year. The lowest-paid part-time instructor made $12,360.
"Our salaries are not as competitive as we would like them to be," said Joann Campbell, associate vice president for academic affairs. "We have made strides over the last couple of years from President [John] Delaney pumping money into salaries ... We are moving in the right direction, but we're not where we want to be at this point."
While a large gap exists between faculty salaries at UNF and the state's larger universities, discrepancies also appear between faculty in UNF's separate colleges and departments.
Out of the university's five colleges, the Coggin College of Business pays the faculty in its four departments the highest average salary at $78,285.
More than $10,000 behind the first-place department, faculty in the College of Computing, Engineering and Construction earn the second-highest average salary at $67,337.
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Hazmat crews called to campus
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Fire and rescue crew respond after two students fainted in a bio. class. |
Two female University of North Florida students fainted in their biology class Oct. 23, causing University Police Department, Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department and Duval County Emergency Management officials to converge on
Building 4.
The students were in a Principles of Biology class watching a movie at approximately 12:40 p.m. when the first student was getting up to go to the restroom. She fainted and hit her head, said Sharon Ashton, assistant vice president for public relations.
The second student rose to help the first student when she also fainted and hit her nose, Ashton said. Both students reported dizziness before they passed out, but regained consciousness on their own before UPD arrived, Ashton said.
Neither reported smelling anything unusual before fainting and after regaining consciousness, Ashton said. Each student received four stitches for their lacerations at St. Lukes Hospital.
After evacuating the second floor of the building, JFRD officials tested the air quality in three classrooms, Ashton said. The officials found high levels of acetone and ether in a room two classrooms away from the one in which the students fainted.
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Ex-Gov. Bush talks business
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Former Gov. Jeb Bush participated in Face to Face, a program presented by the UNF Honors Program Oct. 22. Bush answered questions by local entrepreneur Lawrence DuBow (right) about the business of politics. |
