Salaries for coaches, professors

Unfortunately, the basketball coach's salary is not limited to that position. Southeast consistently ranks in the lower 20 percentile, often in the lower 10 percentile, in salaries according to the data collected by the American Association of University Professors. Significantly increasing the salary of the basketball coach would result in demands for an increase in salaries from the coaches in other sports. Should those salaries be increased faculty and staff would demand higher salaries as well. Robert Foster, a former president and vice president at Southeast once said that increasing salaries at Southeast would enrage local businesses, which would also have to compete for workers by giving higher salaries once Southeast, the second largest employer, increased salaries. Perhaps the new president of the university will be willing to tackle this ongoing problem, although I doubt that he will.

Dr. Michael Weatherson, Fresno, California