In Wednesday’s front-page story about the departures of many of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s finest faculty members, relatively small salaries were cited as a main reason. It’s fairly common knowledge that we are paid far less than our colleagues at peer institutions, not to mention at institutions that lack the UW’s prestige.
Less known are other irritations that have many of us thinking of packing our bags. Let me mention one that I find particularly galling: the policy for reimbursement of travel expenses.