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With the dollar’s declining value taken into account, new data shows that real wages grew by half a percent. But pay remains well below pre-pandemic levels, and full-time women and part-timers continue to receive less than others. For the first time since the pandemic began, the average salary has risen for full-time U.S. faculty members after adjusting for inflation, according to the American Association of University Professors’ annual pay survey. But while that’s welcome news, the raise was small—only about a half-percent uptick from fall 2022 to this past fall. 

Private colleges in Pittsburgh like Duquesne University and Robert Morris University have seen declining enrollment over the past decade. What has led to the dip?

Some academics have publicly announced resignations, but evidence of a mass faculty exodus from states like Florida is thin, at least so far. Media hyped a brain drain regardless. Florida’s governor, seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has pushed his state and its education system further and further to the right. Texas has banned diversity, equity and inclusion programs from public universities.

Was his tenure a model for how to navigate the partisan divide over higher ed?

“We want to help the community,” said Unicoi County Public Library Director Selena Harmon. “We want to educate them and help them live healthy.”