Top faculty at state colleges: 'Dangerous signs ... we are being downgraded'

Long-simmering resentment on the part of a group of distinguished professors at the four Connecticut State Universities toward the University of Connecticut has boiled over in a letter to state officials blasting what they say is the latest example of inequity -- a proposal by the governor to increase funding to UConn.

All 12 "CSU Professors" -- the highest designation faculty at Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Connecticut state universities can receive -- co-signed a three-page letter Thursday in which they complain that CSU faculty is paid 30 percent less than professors at UConn, while being required to teach twice as many classes. Read More