Why so many higher ed professors get lower-level pay - Paul Takahashi, Las Vegas Sun

William Donati has a master’s degree from UCLA and a doctorate from UNLV. He makes less than $25,000 a year. For the past 12 years, Donati has taught English composition and world literature to undergraduate students at UNLV. He typically teaches eight courses a year, reviewing at least 24,000 pages of student papers. Between preparing for class, teaching, grading, holding office hours, attending departmental meetings and writing recommendation letters, Donati estimates he works about 30 hours a week. For this, UNLV pays him $24,456 a year. That’s about $10,000 less than the average starting salary for a first-year public K-12 schoolteacher in Las Vegas. “It’s great I have a job, but the pay could be better,” Donati says as he sits in a small trailer office he shares with seven other part-time instructors. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/jun/15/why-so-many-higher-ed-professors-get-lower-level-p/