Youngstown P/T Faculty Salaries Stuck In Time

In 20 years much has changed. Tuition escalated from $2,700 a year to $6,956, stamps increased from 25 cents to 43 and gasoline jumped from $1.19 a gallon to $2.66. One thing, though, has stayed the same: Youngstown State University’s part-time faculty’s salary. The Ohio legislature is considering a bill to remove the exemption of part-time instructors, part-time lecturers, previously exempted public-employed students and adjunct faculty from the current Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act. This change would allow those employees to collectively bargain and gain greater compensation benefits. "If they can unionize, it would regulate how much they get paid […]