U-M Prof On Sabbatical With $148k Salary Complains About Paying For Home Internet – Michigan Capitol Confidential

U-M Prof On Sabbatical With $148k Salary Complains About Paying For Home Internet – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"At a time when Michigan’s unemployment rate is 14.8%, two University of Michigan professors took to social media to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on their work lives.
“Just realized that I am being asked to work at home as much as possible until the end of the year and so now I pick up all of the physical cost of my job (electricity, upgrading internet) with no raise or subsidy from the University. Those with child care duties-no compensation,” Pam Davis-Kean, a professor of psychology at U-M, tweeted July 29.
Kean was paid $133,882 in 2016-17 by U-M and saw her salary increase to $148,021 in 2019-20.
Her U-M profile states, “Dr. Davis-Kean is not accepting students for the 2020-2021 year due to sabbatical. Please consider applying for 2021-2022.”
Betsey Stevenson, a professor of economics at U-M’s Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, replied to Kean’s tweet and mentioned a “real wage cut.”
“We have had a real wage cut but so have many, perhaps most, workers...
Stevenson’s salary has increased from $192,000 in 2016-17 to $230,339 in 2019-20, according to U-M records...Read all.