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Article: Community college instructors organize for better salaries.
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- November 23, 1998
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ After years of low pay _ dead last among 15 Southern states _ N.C. community college faculty are doing more this fall than complaining. They've launched a statewide organization aimed partly at fighting for better salaries.
North Carolina's community colleges often are praised as national models _ efficient, effective schools that train workers and help drive the state's economic engine.
But their teaching salaries don't match their well-regarded image. With a 1997-98 average salary of $32,206, N.C. community college instructors' pay trails community colleges across much of the nation. And recently, N.C. faculty have seen their pay slip ...