Recent Issues at TTU

• Fair Compensation for Quality Instruction, January 2008 (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• "Financial Inequality in Higher Education," 2006-07 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession (AAUP)
• Free Exchange on Campus
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006)
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
• The Future of Tennessee: A Forum, Monday, October 9, 2006, 7 p.m., Derryberry Auditorium, TTU
• Downsizing the University: The Plight of Part-time and Contingent Faculty, Panel Discussion, November 18, 2004
• 2005 Legislative Update (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• Tennessee State Budget:
  Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Shaping the Future: The Economic Impact of Public Universities (Adobe .pdf format)
  (National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges)
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Defining Our Future report, Tennessee Board of Regents, December 2001
• Faculty Sub-Council Response to Defining Our Future report
• State Fiscal Outlook for FY2002, October 31, 2001 report (National Conference of State Legislatures)
• Southern Regional Education Board
• Fact Book on Higher Education 2001
  (Southern Regional Education Board)
• Tennessee Featured Facts
  (SREB Fact Book on Higher Education)
  [.pdf format requires Adobe Acorbat Reader]
• Faculty Salaries in Colleges and Universities:
  Where Do SREB States Stand?
  (Southern Regional Education Board)
• The State of E-Learning in the States (National Governors Association)
• A Vision of E-Learning for America’s Workplace:
  Report of the Commission on Technology and Adult Learning (National Governors Association)
• Distance Learning Jobs (Career Network, Chronicle of Higher Education)
• "Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education," October 1997 (David F. Noble)
• David Noble's articles on Digital Diploma Mills
• Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
• Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
  (Government Performance Project)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States
  (Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy) 
• Tennessee Division of Budget (official state site)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Notes About the 2000 Faculty Equity Study and Pay Raise (Paul Semmes)
  [.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
• 2000 Faculty Equity Adjustment Graphs (Paul Semmes) [.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
• Funding Higher Education in the New Millenium:
  A Forum on Tax Reform, October 14, 1999
• Tennesseans for Fair Taxation
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006)
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Recommendations of Ad Hoc Committee on Equity
• Form for payroll deduction of AAUP dues
• Faculty Salaries Information (Office of Institutional Research, TTU)
• May 6, 1999 meeting
• Called meeting on Thursday, April 29, 1999, 7:30 p.m., HH 205
• April 22, 1999 meeting on pay equity issue
• Proposed resolution to be discussed at April 22, 1999 meeting
• Follow-up meetings on pay equity issue, April 15, 22, 29, 1999
• April, 6, 1999 Talk on "Faculty Salaries, Equity, and Legal Options"

Last updated on January 8, 2008

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