{"id":80465,"date":"2022-04-29T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80465"},"modified":"2022-04-29T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:08:01","slug":"higher-ed-faces-shrinking-workforce-and-pay-increases-outpaced-by-inflation-spitalniak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/29\/higher-ed-faces-shrinking-workforce-and-pay-increases-outpaced-by-inflation-spitalniak\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher ed faces shrinking workforce and pay increases outpaced by inflation [Spitalniak]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/higher-ed-faces-shrinking-workforce-and-pay-increases-outpaced-by-inflation\/622823\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Higher ed faces shrinking workforce and pay increases outpaced by inflation<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief<\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> (emphasis DSC):<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The median salary increase for all higher ed professionals was less than half of the inflation rate in 2021-2022,<\/strong><\/span> according to workforce survey data released Wednesday by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, CUPA-HR.<\/li>\n<li>Administrators saw the greatest average salary increase, at 3.4%. The salaries of professional staff rose 2.9%, while tenure-track and nontenure-track faculty got average increases of 1.6% and 1.5%, respectively. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The consumer price index for 2021 was 6.8%, the largest increase in decades.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>The size of full-time and part-time staff as well as tenure-track faculty declined. CUPA-HR said colleges are feeling the same nationwide hiring and retention challenges as other employers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">This is going to hurt higher ed &#8212; how much so remains to be seen. But losing real purchasing power and working harder than ever doesn&#8217;t make for an effective, appealing, winning, long-term career proposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">On the parental side of things, I&#8217;m not at all excited to have to absorb even higher costs as our son continues to make his way through college.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher ed faces shrinking workforce and pay increases outpaced by inflation &#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak Dive Brief (emphasis DSC): The median salary increase for all higher ed professionals was less than half of the inflation rate in 2021-2022, according to workforce survey data released Wednesday by the College and University Professional Association for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,61,174,115,302,57,71,3,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80478,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80465\/revisions\/80478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}