State Auditor issued the following statement.
Full-time tenured professors at Mississippi universities earn higher salaries while teaching fewer students than non-tenure and tenure-track faculty according to a new report released by the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor.
“Mississippi spends hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars on higher education, and we need to ask hard questions about the return we get on that investment,” said Auditor White. “This report reveals tenure can often be an excuse to get out of the classroom, and that needs to change.” Analysts at the Office of the State Auditor found that the average tenured professor taught fewer students than both the average non-tenure and tenure-track professor at every Mississippi university except for Mississippi State and the University of Mississippi. Despite teaching far fewer students, tenured faculty earn far more than non-tenured faculty. The pay gap varies widely by department. For example, the pay gap between tenured and non-tenured faculty is 70% in business departments and almost 200% in gender studies departments.
Analysts also determined that Mississippi’s Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) does not maintain data showing whether faculty perform a large part of their job duties, like research and community service, despite being responsible for providing oversight of the tenure process. Additionally, IHL allows universities to write their own promotion and tenure policies like those requiring professors to demonstrate “creativity in a service area that enhances school’s diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, professionalism, and wellness efforts.” “Other states like Florida have recently reformed their tenure process, now requiring a review of professors for job performance even after they are granted tenure, and Mississippi should do the same,” said White.
37 comments:
Anyone who knows anything about higher ed knows that tenured professors tend to teach less than non-tenured. They do research and hold administrative roles such as Department Chairs, etc. I know that the low IQ voter to which Shad constantly panders won't understand that, and I guess that's politics. But it's disappointing that a man who went to Havard wastes his time with BS like this.
Meanwhile at MSU, faculty complain they shouldn't have to work with students: https://reflector-online.com/36657/news/faculty-express-concerns-about-advising-remodel-set-for-2026/
I had 2 "professors" way back in the 80's that were full blown communists, neither one of which could find their asses with both hands and a set of directions.
Shad, please stay in your lane. I would also like to know if this study was funded using taxpayer dollars. Finally, I don't see you working very much, Shad. You seem to spend much more time promoting your book and grandstanding for the Press. I wonder how much of your taxpayer funded salary is rightfully earned by you, Shad.
What are the salaries of professors at UMMC?
It would make sense tenured professors make the most as they have been there the longest. It would also make sense that they teach less students since they usually teach the higher level classes. Your non tenured teachers get the intro classes with 100 students in them.
I am not a big fan of tenure, but this is Shad putting out a story to appeal to the saw something on Facebook voters.
In other news, water is wet. Let's defund the IHL.
Ha! How many tax dollars did he spend on this? Tenured Professors should NOT teach as much as their focus should be on research & administrative duties. Also, just curious why he didn't include UMMC in this audit. They have 6-7 schools.
Shad always bringing this blog the low hanging fruit while deflecting all legit criticisms from the establishment MSGOP.
IHL can't prove professors do anything useful outside teaching. They don't track research or service, whatever that is. That's what this report says, and I think that's a real problem.
It's almost like you people are comfortable lighting hundreds of millions of dollars on fire every year.
This study is a lame attempt by the Harvard-educated state auditor to rile up low-information voters. Sigh.
Apparently a lot of professors monitor and post on JJ.
Tenured professors tend to do a lot of sitting around with no accountability. They don't show up every day to work and compete, because they are untouchable.
All you critics need to remember one thing about the State Auditor.
State Auditor Shad said Phil was the whistleblower.
That pretty much covers it.
WTF is a legit criticism from establishment MSGOP?
"Shad doesn't play nice." Good.
"Shad talks about things we don't like." Even better.
"Shad is too conservative." That's the point.
@1:27 please, explain yourself.
The report is garbage & incomplete garbage at that. He didn't include all schools under the IHL umbrella - leaving out one of the largest, UMMC. I'm no professor - not even close, but even I know the difference between tenured & non-tenured. He obviously didn't do his homework & this makes him look like a complete idiot.
what firm was paid to do this study? didnt he get called out for that last time?
It's time for Shad to go. He's the one wasting taxpayer dollars. Did he pay Harvard to conduct this study?
@2:07, MDs are hardly the same as the professors at the 8 normal universities. MDs make a ton more money, and their employer has a completely different function.
Even IHL often separates UMMC from the rest of the schools, especially when they're talking about salaries.
Did nobody read the part where the physicians were required to do DEI? Yikes.
C'mon Shad. You don't have to do this. We're not too smart, but we're not as stupid as you might think. You can do better. Or have you just run out of good stuff?
And yet, here you are riled up.
Not all faculty at UMMC are MDs. And are you saying zero faculty at the other schools have an MD? Surely that's not accurate!
Shad was doing pretty well until he laid this turd. He clearly does not understand higher ed. Tenure track professors are told to publish or perish. Putting out peer-reviewed research is their priority, not teaching. That is what a PhD is, a research degree.
WTH is "Gender Studies?"...I'm Pretty Sure I Don't Need a College Education to Tell the Difference Between Stems & Buttonholes...
If you are reading this report here at JJ, you aren't the target audience.
Arguably, if you can read, you aren't the target audience.
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The tenured professors are bringing it on Shadrick today! Must have skipped classes to "do research" on JJ.
Having attended MSU years back after my community college experience, I understood that the tenured professors didn't teach lower level courses and even some upper level ones because they wanted smaller classes to focus on research and serve on committees. I will go out on a limb and say that tenured faculty at all these schools could teach a little more and spend less time on research, which is some areas amounts to little more than whatever pet project that professor enjoys which may or may not add to the body of knowledge of the field.
That being said Shad is appearing desperate at this point to keep his name in the news and finding new crusades to take on. Maybe his office should focus on how we have 8 IHLs and 4 is plenty for a state our size. Think of the money saved on administration, athletics, facilities, and other areas. Combine four of the schools with larger ones and see how much it saves.
One tenured, you are free to coast-
12:20, nothing in that article said anything about faculty complaining they shouldn't have to work with students. If anything, they were advocating for keeping the advising process within each department.
another pet political issue brought to us by Shad White
And not everyone who criticizes Shad does so merely because they are targets of his nakedly-political adventures (3:21)
@ 12:19 -1, Shad 0 Shad doesn't understand many things and apparently makes no effort to. Headlines are his game. We need an efficiency study on the State Auditors' Office. Young, inexperienced staff that have to be trained by the agencies they are "auditing". What a farce!
The much more important question here is why are we funding gender studies departments.
It would seem the comment section is joined today by an unusually high number of tenured professors. LOL.
Could it be that UMMC professors are included in the UM figures? After all, UMMC = University of Mississippi Medical Center
"we're not as stupid as you might think", please, speak for yourself, sir.
The much more important question here is why are we funding gender studies departments.
Because there are currently over 9000 recognized genders and every single one of them is as valid as YOUR gender!
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