Educators, administrators and simple logic have been telling us for some time that years of zero growth in instructor pay would come back to haunt the University of Wisconsin System. Now, studies are adding facts and figures to that argument. A recent study by the American Association of University Professors found that salaries at American colleges and universities increased by an average of 2.1 percent in the 2003-04 school year and 2.8 percent in the 2004-05 year. During the same time period, UW salaries essentially didn’t increase at all as the Legislature made broad cuts to the System to offset mounting state budget deficits.
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