Thread by @MatthewBoedy

Our Georgia AAUP webpage has great @BORUSG university system salary data. Let’s see how many “teaching” positions we lose if the $66 million cut soon to passed by state lawmakers directly hits faculty 1/x #gapol
aaupgeorgia.org/salary-studies

This table shows 2019 data of faculty titles, how many per title, and total salary. $66 million ends non-tenure jobs of last 4 categories: instructors, limited term, adjuncts, etc. That is roughly 15% of teaching staff 2/x

Or doing it another way, cutting 2/3 of non-tenured lecturers and senior lecturers. 1200ish positions to cut $66 million. Either option would decimate many humanities depts. 3/x

Or 22% of assistant professors, 20% of associate professors, or 16% of full professors. Tenure gives those last two groups some job protection but in depts that have already cut non-tenured, the only cuts left are tenured/on track. 4/x

These are gross (pun intended) numbers. Cutting “teaching” isn’t necessarily all cuts to people. But after years of unfilled positions and retirements as cuts, many schools facing deep enrollment problems now face difficult decisions. 5/x

That said, USG has broad leeway to allocate its budget as it sees fit within the “teaching” category. It doesn’t have to spread cuts equally. And there is the matter of “carry forward” funds mentioned as cover by GOP Senate leaders. 6/x

It’s complicated but those $ are at the program level, and depts ask USG to carry over based on specific reasons with limited $. And some funds - such as state appropriations - have to be spent. The $500 mill cited as USG carry over isn’t and can’t directly cover this cut. 7/x

A final analogy. Many faculty talk about wasted $ on admin aka “bloat.” This chart shows $66 mil cut could equal no deans or no provosts/presidents. That is how deep this cut will impact the USG. /end

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