“Can you think of another job classification where someone does the same work and gets paid 53 cents on the dollar?” Oregon Sen. Rob Wagner, D-Lake Oswego, asked at a legislative hearing last week for Senate Bill 416.
If passed, the bill would ensure part-time faculty at Oregon’s public colleges and universities are paid the same hourly rate as full-time faculty with similar levels of experience and expertise. Right now, for most institutions, that’s not the case.
On average across the state’s 17 community colleges, part-time faculty members are paid rates roughly half that of full-time faculty, according to information submitted to the Legislature from the Oregon Education Association.
More than a dozen part-time faculty members at colleges and universities across the state have testified directly to state legislators in support of the pay equality bill, with more submitting their support through written testimony. But some college administrators and other higher education officials say the bill would be too difficult to implement, and that they’re already paying part-time instructors fairly based on the duties of their jobs.
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