Business schools frequently utilize AACSB's Salary Survey ("Staff Compensation and Demographic Survey," or the "SCDS Report") to benchmark salaries being offered by other schools. While providing averages based on a national sample, the "SCDS Report" obscures differences that might exist in salary averages between…

This paper presents the annual report of the American Association of University Professors on the economic status of the profession for 2010-2011. This analysis of the economic status of the faculty begins with results from this year's annual survey of full-time faculty compensation. Survey report table 1 presents the most basic results, while…

This "First Look" presents findings from the Human Resources (HR) Component of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) winter 2009-10 data collection. The HR component consists of the following three sections: Employees by Assigned Position (EAP) and Fall Staff (S) for fall 2009 and Salaries (SA) for academic year…

This E.D. TAB presents findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Winter 2004-05 data collection, which included two required survey components: Employees by Assigned Position (EAP) for fall 2004 and Salaries (SA) for academic year 2004-05; the Fall Staff (S) component was optional for fall 2004. These data were…

In a market where salary adjustment is limited by equity constraints within ranks and across fields, non-salary adjustment to changing market conditions is likely to occur. Changes in the rate at which nontenured faculty are granted tenure is one such adjustment. A logit model that explains time to tenure as dependent on the time since an…

Reports results of a survey of ASJMC schools indicating that journalism and communication professors earn less than the average for all faculty in all fields, and that female faculty members earn less than males. (HTH)

It's not hard to understand why college and university professors might worry about trends in faculty compensation. It may be more difficult, however, to see why those outside higher education should share this concern. But they should. In 2005-06, average faculty salaries increased by less than the inflation rate for the second consecutive year,…

Discusses the current shortage of library science faculty members and reports the results of a survey of library school faculty that was conducted to document the need for replacement faculty. Topics discussed include age, predicted retirement patterns, tenure, length of time teaching, salaries, and effects on the library profession. (nine…

As the supply of new PhDs in business has declined in the past decade in the face of increasing demand, the cost of filling vacant faculty lines with qualified professors of business has increased substantially. Because salaries of current faculty members normally fail to keep up with market salaries, when a faculty line is vacated the college…

Provides results (in table format) of a 1982 survey, focusing on engineering faculty positions (filled and unfilled), engineering faculty characteristics (age, discipline, age/discipline), graduate student characteristics, salaries, faculty recruitment, and industry/school faculty mobility. Includes the complete survey instrument used. (JN)

A survey of CASE members in December 1979 reveals information about college public relations, alumni, and institutional advancement professionals: average salary, factors affecting salary, faculty status, staff size, length of service, and training and continuing professional education. (MSE)

Using a questionnaire designed to elicit information on factors relating to career enhancement, 438 faculty members of departments of psychology in the southeastern United States were questioned concerning: major area of expertise; rank; tenure status; teaching load; opportunities for summer teaching; general tenure requirements; relationship of…