Hoeller, Dr. Keith, and Longmate, Jack Op-Ed Opposed to SHB 2158: "Who are Our State's Worst Paid Teachers?" Washington State Part Time Faculty Association, Seattle Times, Friday, April 26, 2019

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UPDATE SUNDAY APRIL 28, 2019

Both E2SHB 2158 and Conference Budget Omit Equity Pay for Adjunct Professors

 

 

"The Democrats are still trying to pass legislation tomorrow (Sunday) and leave Olympia.  Their big plan is to tax businesses and home sellers in order to pay for free college tuition for high school graduates.

Except for us, no one in Olympia has suggested the hypocrisy of offering free tuition to attend colleges staffed by low paid adjuncts. 

Jack Longmate and I have been writing legislators.  But it would help if they heard from others as well.  Letters should be short (they don't read long ones) and to the point:  Please provide money specifically for adjuncts to reduce the huge disparity in our pay compared with the full-timers.

We laid out the complete argument in our op-ed (you can post comments too):

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/who-are-our-states-worst-paid-teachers/

It would really help if you can take the time to write a few legislators in support of adjunct faculty equity pay.  You can find their email addresses at leg.wa.gov.  Family members can write too.

 

Christine RolfesChair, Senate Ways and Means CommitteeOlympia, WA 98504Both the Conference budget and E2SHB 2158 do not contain any money earmarked solely to adjunct faculty for the purpose of reducing the huge disparity in their pay compared to their full-time counterparts.  Unless you earmark adjunct equity money now, we will go on being paid only 60 cents on the dollar for teaching the exact same courses as the full-timers.

E2SHB 2158 says that "The legislature finds that individuals with a post-secondary credential have a greater chance of earning a wage that can support themselves and their families than if they do not obtain a post-secondary credential."

But this fact does not apply to students who earn advanced degrees if they choose to teach in those colleges.  The average adjunct professor who teaches half-time is lucky to earn even $20K a year, while the average public school teacher earns $60K plus benefits.

Please put the Democrats on the side of "equal pay for equal work."  Don't leave Olympia without earmarking a significant down payment to improve salaries specifically for adjunct professors.

Cordially,

Keith Hoeller, Ph.D. 

Co-founder, Washington Part-Time Faculty Association

Editor, Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System (Vanderbilt University Press)

Seattle, WA

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
"Jack Longmate and I have just published an op-ed in The Seattle Times.  It is called, "Who are our state's worst paid teachers?"  https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/who-are-our-states-worst-paid-teachers/ "

We are opposing SHB 2158 because it wants to tax businesses hundreds of millions of dollars in large part to offer free college tuition to lower income residents while doing nothing at all for the adjuncts who teach in those colleges.

We find this hypocritical, to say the least.

Could you take the time to write your legislators and to ask them 1) to vote against SHB 2158 and 2) to put money in the budget for adjunct faculty? 

 

[Here is the link: http://leg.wa.gov/ ]

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Op-Ed Opposed to SHB 2158: "Who are Our State's Worst Paid Teachers?"   Can you write to your legislators opposing SHB 2158 immediately?   We urge you to please read our op-ed below to understand why the Washington Part-Time Faculty is opposed to SHB 2158.  It would offer free college tuition to low income residents, while doing nothing--for the 10th year in a row--to improve the poverty-level salaries of our state's 8,000 adjunct college professors. We ask you to VOTE NO on SHB 2158--until and unless the bill is amended to address this issue this session by allocating $50 million this biennium solely to adjunct salaries. Cordially, Keith Hoeller Washington Part-Time Faculty Association Seattle and Spokane, WA Opinion  The Seattle Times Who are our state’s worst paid teachers? April 26, 2019 at 2:47 pm Updated April 26, 2019 at 3:21 pm By Jack Longmate  and  Keith Hoeller Special to The Times (Excerpts) In 2018, the average public school teacher salary in Washington was nearly $60,000 though it is surely higher this year. Yet an adjunct college professor who possesses a master’s or doctorate degree, would be lucky to earn even $20,000 for teaching a half-time load... Rep. Drew Hansen, D-Bainbridge, wants to enable all state residents “to get a decent job and be able to support their family.” Yet his House Bill 2158, called the Workforce Education Investment Act, seeks to “invest in Washington students for Washington jobs” without doing anything at all for the students who got graduate degrees and ended up teaching in the adjunct ghetto created quite deliberately by our two-year colleges.... From 1996-2009 the Legislature did make payments each biennium for a total of $50 million for the sole purpose of improving adjunct pay, but stopped with the recession.  The current Legislature should renew its commitment to equalizing adjunct salaries by allocating $50 million per biennium solely for the funding of equal pay for adjuncts over three biennia so that, by 2025, equal pay is achieved.... If our politicians truly care about education, they will provide a living wage for the 8,000 adjuncts who toil in our academic vineyards before spending more money offering free tuition to new students. For complete article, please go to: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/who-are-our-states-worst-paid-teachers/