[HenryLeeII]

Yep. The College has lost many faculty and staff, and stands to lose more if salaries and facilities aren't improved. Our hard sciences (physics, chemistry, etc.) are some of the best in the nation, outranking many much larger institutions in various categories, but the buildings (inside) and classrooms look like mediocre high schools. We're a state college (a "Public Ivy" due to our quality), and as state employees we have received a 2.5% pay raise in the last three years. So, after factoring in inflation over that time, we've lost ground. Now, for a professor making $90K and with no kids at home, that's not a lifestyle-threatening situation. But for those of us in the lower salary ranges with families, etc., its time to start looking elsewhere.

[Montfort]

I just looked at a document listing average pay at various levels for all colleges and universities in Virginia. I seem to remember that W&M was pretty high compared to almost all other Virginia schools (which it ought to be, because it is right at the top in terms of quality). From what I have heard, it is extremely challenging, where grade deflation is arguably more of a problem than grade inflation.

They excluded med school professors, which suggests to me that well-paid law school profs at UVA, UR, W&M and George Mason might have brought the averages up for those schools.

[Clodia Pulcher]

Prof... I am a W&M graduate and my family founded the College. I told Sullivan that his grand scheme of merging the State colleges would never work, and his real option was going private... which W & M could more easily do than the other state institutions.

The place has always been underpaid and a crummy facility ... and that REALLY doesn't matter much.

If you leave ( in this lousy job market) some just as good will plop right in your slot.

What does matter is Sullivan has become a querlous old man... and is catching the Liberal disease from other college presidents and that Adams is an idiot as well...

This will turn off the alum spigot... The bake sale was just one example.