Despite wildly erroneous impressions worldwide and by the corporate news media to the contrary, the overwhelming majority of American faculty are neither well-paid nor secure in their positions. Graduate students and precarious faculty do 3/4 of the teaching, frequently for around US$15,ooo a year. In most disciplines, the majority of persons earning these wages are women. On the same campuses, however, there are plenty of persons earning well over US$1oo,ooo. These individuals are generally overwhelmingly men: administrators, union-busting lawyers, sports coaches, and faculty in male-dominated disciplines such as business and engineering.
See the 5-minute video "Faculty on Food Stamps" at http://howtheuniversityworks.com
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Interesting and sad! That's true, in Denmark at least, we often point to the US and UK systems for tenure as a much stronger system for securing academic freedom than we have here. But the US tenure system seems to be slowly eroding.
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