Budget pressures, tightening labor markets, and increasing public interest should prompt colleges and universities to review their wage and salary programs. Many administrators have never been exposed to practices other than those common to higher education, and trustees with corporate experience may provide some insight. (Author/MSE)

It is critical to institutional health that college clerical and administrative employees have a sense of participation in the institution. Personnel policy incorporating the principle of comparable worth in salary determination will become essential as nonfaculty employees note discrepancies between faculty and nonfaculty employment practices.…