119 members initially responded and now over half the Full-Time Faculty have signed on to show their support for the Bargaining team as they negotiate for fair pay for Monmouth faculty.

We, the faculty of Monmouth University, write in support of the FAMCO Bargaining Team’s salary proposal. We request that faculty be paid a reasonable salary in return for providing stellar educations to our students. As faculty, we have essentially taken a pay cut over the last contract given that our salary did not keep up with inflation. The salaries most faculty are being given by the Administration are too low to afford living in the counties surrounding our place of employment. Faculty were already finding it difficult to afford middle-class housing, decent healthcare, childcare, eldercare, or to save for retirement, and the cost of living has only risen. In fact, the median Assistant Professor salary is $95,091, yet the pre-tax living wage for a family of four in Monmouth County is $164,195 (https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/34025). Only 20 individuals in our faculty ranks enough to meet this Monmouth County living wage threshold on their own without partnering up, sharing living expenses with a roommate, or finding a side hustle.

Faculty, all of whom have advanced professional training and degrees and who work hard day in and day out to provide Monmouth University students with stellar educations, deserve a salary that allows them to provide a healthy life for themselves and their families. Monmouth University students come to our institution for the education faculty offer. Faculty provide for our students; it is time Monmouth University provides for its faculty.

As Inside Higher Ed wrote, Monmouth University is a “rare debt-free college.” And, according to independent financial analysis from the AAUP based on Monmouth University data, the institution has solid levels of reserves for its size. The university has had the financial freedom to retire a mortgage early and to pay $1.6 million to switch athletic conferences for example. Monmouth University is thriving. Their faculty should be, too. 

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We pledge our support for the bargaining team as they negotiate for fair pay for Monmouth faculty

Patrick O’Halloran
Elizabeth Gilmartin-Keating
Dickie Cox
Sue Starke
Natalie Ciarocco
Amanda Stojanov
Jonathan Ouellet
Susan Goulding
Mark Ludak
Corey Dzenko
Michael Cronin
Lisa M. Dinella
Lisa Iannucci
Jen McGovern
Andrea Hope
Jamie Nappi
Jeanne Koller
Mihaela Moscaliuc
Shannon Hokanson
Alena Graedon
Beth Gough
Cheryl Leiningen
Beth Sara Swanson
Kathryn Lionetti
Nick Messina
Bernadette Dunphy
Mary Harris
Paul Urbanski
Frank Fury
Joan Raso, MSN, RN, CHSE
Jamie Pigman, PhD
Patrick Love
Specialist Professor Rick Roberts
Robert Scott
Yun Luo
Jaishree Sharma
Yulin Li
Steve Chapman
Joe Patten
Gary Lewandowski
Lindsay R. Mehrkam
Melissa Alvare
Megan Delaney
Greg Moehring
Kevin Dooley
Jamie Goodwin-Uhler, Ph.D.
Peter Jacques
Manuel Chavez
Bochen Li
Jonathan Daigle
Pauline Papapietro
James Fries
John Burke
Sanjana Ragudaran
Lisa Vetere
Laura Turner
Courtney Wright-Werner
Kenneth Campbell
Tom Baker
Meg Forney
Pedram Daneshgar
Alexis Silverio
Alysson Goodwin
Christa Hogan
Francis Valiquette
Stephanie Bobbitt
Brian Lockwood
Gabrielle Hackenberg
Mike Richison
Michelle Schpakow
Michael Phillips-Anderson
Richard Bastian
Christine Forbes
Patricia Sciscione
Charles Willow
Erin Nau
Jennifer Shamrock
Jiacun Wang
Torrey Gallagher
Lynn Kraemer-Siracusa
Stacy Lauderdale Littin
Richard Scherl
Nikita Burrows
Hillary DelPrete
Nica Davidov
Michelle Scott
Johanna Foster
Melissa Brzycki
Denise Crowley
Jaime Myers
Stephanie Lynch
Kevin Dillon
John Comiskey
Jing Zhou
Frank Damiani
Aaron Furgason
Carson Clements
Jennifer Harpootlian
Heide Estes
Giuseppe Fazari
Scott Jeffrey
Katherine Parkin
Thomas Carey
Peter Liu
Kiameesha Evans
John Buzza
Warren Brown
Susan Meyer
Matthew Tozzi
Ilyong Jung
Kathryn Lubniewski
Jeremy Lackman
Chuck Whedon
Jamie Adler
Wobbe F. Koning
Mikhail Sher
Weihao Qu
Robyn Holmes
Maureen Dorment
John Morano
Joanne Jodry
David Marshall
Davis Jose
Sherry Wien
Anne Deepak
Vecihi Serbay Zambak
Jangwook Lee
Joelle Zabotka
Jangho Gil
Ralph Cuseglio
Minna Yu
Datta Naik
Kerry Carley-Rizzuto
Jeffrey E. Jackson
Joe Palazzolo