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2003-04 AAUP Salary Report

2003-04 AAUP Salary Report: "Don%u2019t Blame Faculty for High Tuition
The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession
2003-04
By last spring, most faculty members at public institutions
of higher education were justifiably pessimistic about their likely salary
increases for the 2003%u201304 academic year. Many states were running large
budget deficits for the second or third year in a row and no longer had reserves
to draw upon to balance their budgets. These shortfalls resulted in reduced
fiscal 2004 appropriations for higher education in twenty-three U.S. states
compared with those of the previous year; in only fifteen states did increases
in higher education appropriations exceed the rate of inflation.1
Nationally, state appropriations for higher education in
fiscal 2004 declined by 2.1 percent, the first such decline in eleven years.2
This cut followed a year in which state appropriations for
higher education rose by only 1.2 percent."

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