Salaries for Deans

Deans in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) should certainly be paid at a level commensurate with their efforts (Deans’ Morale Plummets as Contract Talks Continue, Oct. 7). In the meantime, a quick fix might be to have the Board of Trustees make all of the deans instructors and all of the instructors deans. Doing so would immediately resolve the perceived disparity in deans’ and instructors’ salaries. Further, having a dean in every classroom would probably entice back many of the students lost to surrounding community college districts as a result of The Times’ first series of assaults on the credibility of the LACCD that began during the critical enrollment period two weeks before the start of the current semester.

PAUL GRADY, Encino