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Salary still not equal
Carroll in fear for safety
AMANDA WOODRUFF
Issue date: 9/23/08 Section: News
"The raise ... still leaves me below each of these three professors," Carroll wrote in an e-mail to The Red & Black.
"(Patrick, Du and Kumar) have made dramatically more than I each year since their hire," she wrote. "This has been the situation for years and years."
But faculty salaries differ based on factors such as productivity and evaluations, said Richard Fox, who served as interim-department head of marketing following the investigation.
Attempts to reach Patrick and Kumar were unsuccessful. In an e-mail to The Red & Black, Du wrote, "The facts will speak for themselves" and declined to comment further.
"(My raise) simply brought my 12-month salary in a range comparable others, " Carroll said.
Online comments to Monday's story in The Red & Black on Carroll's settlement with Terry College left the professor in fear for her "personal safety."
"The posts full of hatred and name-calling make me very concerned," she wrote in an e-mail Monday. "(The article) is not the full story ... and has left many with the impression that I am a racist, the grand wizard, and/or I blew someone to get this raise."
"I am not a racist," she wrote. "All I have ever wanted from UGA is pay comparable to others of my same or lower rank, performing duties comparable to my own (e.g., research and teaching), regardless of race, sex, or age. As I understand it, this is what equal pay laws are all about."
"While it does not make up for my dramatically lower pay for many years," she said, "It does allow me to retire with a pension comparable to others of my same/lower rank and was an upward adjustment sufficient for me to sign a covenant not to sue."
"(Patrick, Du and Kumar) have made dramatically more than I each year since their hire," she wrote. "This has been the situation for years and years."
But faculty salaries differ based on factors such as productivity and evaluations, said Richard Fox, who served as interim-department head of marketing following the investigation.
Attempts to reach Patrick and Kumar were unsuccessful. In an e-mail to The Red & Black, Du wrote, "The facts will speak for themselves" and declined to comment further.
"(My raise) simply brought my 12-month salary in a range comparable others, " Carroll said.
Online comments to Monday's story in The Red & Black on Carroll's settlement with Terry College left the professor in fear for her "personal safety."
"The posts full of hatred and name-calling make me very concerned," she wrote in an e-mail Monday. "(The article) is not the full story ... and has left many with the impression that I am a racist, the grand wizard, and/or I blew someone to get this raise."
"I am not a racist," she wrote. "All I have ever wanted from UGA is pay comparable to others of my same or lower rank, performing duties comparable to my own (e.g., research and teaching), regardless of race, sex, or age. As I understand it, this is what equal pay laws are all about."
"While it does not make up for my dramatically lower pay for many years," she said, "It does allow me to retire with a pension comparable to others of my same/lower rank and was an upward adjustment sufficient for me to sign a covenant not to sue."
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Andy
posted 9/23/08 @ 8:35 AM EST
What this shows is that folks in general are vastly overpaid in the Terry College for what they do.
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