This paper is an update of research report 2011-TS-02. It presents tables that show the minimum and maximum salaries for BC's Category 5 and Category 6, or equivalent, for provinces and territories. A sample of school districts is included for those provinces/territories with multiple collective agreements.

This survey of university personnel preparation programs in visual impairment in the United States and Canada investigated the demographic characteristics of faculty members and programs, instructional models, and funding formulas in 2007-08. It found that many programs used some form of distance education and that there was a correlation between…

The life cycle of a faculty member from pre-employment through retirement is examined in these proceedings. Paper titles and authors are as follows: "The Role of Faculty in Obtaining Quality in Higher Education: Facing the New Realities" (Frank Newman); "The American Professoriate: Rewards and Satisfactions" (Eugene Rice);…

A study created profiles of full-time faculty teaching at nine Canadian universities in 1992-93 in terms of age, rank, tenure status, mobility, and gender, and assessed implications for institutional flexibility and renewal. Salary projections for 1993-2030 are provided, and costs and savings of early retirement programs are evaluated.…

Answers are provided to eleven questions regarding legal aspects of collective bargaining in higher education in Canada. Issues discussed include certification of faculty associations as bargaining agents, coverage of bargaining agreements, preserving of salary differentials based on marketable skills, and effects on merit pay, job security, and…

Describes how formal written contracts for senior school board officials in Canada can successfully address four potential problem areas: tenure, compensation, performance, and growth. Reports some of the results of the Canadian Association of School Administrators' 1979 survey on contracts for superintendents. (SB)

A survey of 142 Canadian and U.S. medical schools found almost all have faculty tenure systems; 9 limit tenure to basic science faculty. Over three-fourths define tenure to include some financial guarantee, which only rarely covers full salary/compensation. Pretenure probationary periods vary. Flexibility was a key policy feature. (Author/MSE)

Aspects dealt with in this overview include: characteristics of the professoriate; recruitment and selection; salaries and fringe benefits; rank, promotion, and tenure; teaching, research, and community service; professorial associations; and the professoriate and politics. (Editor/LBH)

This monograph examines tenure and pay structures in Canadian universities, focusing on hiring, tenure, promotion, salaries, and termination; and examining the employment relationship from both economic and managerial perspectives. After briefly reviewing the concept of tenure, the discussion moves to career hierarchies and pay structures,…

Quebec colleges remained firmly entrenched in the pure classicism of prerevolutionary France until well into the twentieth century. Formal Roman Catholic Church control of Laval University, a Jesuit university, ceased in 1965 at a time when the institution and its administration were expanding greatly, and the faculty quickly began to resent the…

A study of 738 Canadian university librarians compared the job satisfaction of faculty/non-faculty and administrative/non-administrative librarians: faculty are more satisfied with roles in university affairs, promotion, and tenure processes but not with work load and salary; administrative librarians are more satisfied with most aspects of their…

There is a strong movement toward legal abolition of fixed-age retirement in Canada. Several factors justify the existing practice, but these arguments are unlikely to prevail, and institutions should consider administrative measures such as facilitation of early retirement, modified benefit plans, and more systematic faculty assessment throughout…

A bibliography of 765 items which illustrates the wide range of topics that affect collective bargaining in higher education and the professions for 1981, is presented. Items are dated 1978 or later, and ERIC reference numbers are cited where appropriate. The primary focus and interest is academic collective bargaining; however, the literature on…

This document's seven papers examine compensation and employment risk in the United States and Canada. "Introduction" (John A. Turner) discusses compensation risk bearing in labor markets. "Wage and Job Risk for Workers" (John A. Turner) explores the problems of macroeconomic instability, job turnover, job and earnings…

This bulletin is the result of a study made in the Province of Ontario during the fall of 1914. The purpose of the investigation was, more than anything else, to seek some fair basis for comparison of the Schools of Old Ontario--wedged in as it is between New York and Michigan--and the States across the border. Chief attention is to rural life and…