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.…

Priority internal administrative issues include tuition policy and financing, capital renewal and replacement, faculty and staff salaries and benefits, minority hiring and enrollment, and costs and productivity. Although costs and minority issues are more prominent than in recent past, endowment management, debt financing, and charitable…

A student editor's diary of the faculty strike following negotiations between the Rider chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Rider College administrative bargaining units. Includes a chart of strike issues (compensation, agency shop, faculty evaluation, and department chairman status) summarizing union…

To attract and keep first-rate presidents, governing boards must be more generous with salaries and benefits. Governing boards have been too modest in looking after college and university presidents. (MLW)

The 1984 Compensation and Benefits Survey of College and University Chief Executive Officers is discussed. The survey provides information on presidential compensation, benefits, and employment practices at public, independent, religious, and medical institutions. (MLW)

The negative side of academic scholarships, often considered a form of healthy collegiate recruiting, is that they are usually in the form of discounts in student costs, affecting cost in most areas of college expenditure, including faculty salaries, and causing institutions to have operating deficits. (MSE)

Based on 1974-75 financial data and 1975-76 projections the author concludes that for private colleges the faculty-student ratio has changed little, new programs far outnumber terminations, faculty performance has improved, enrollments are slightly up. Debit side: students less well prepared, faculty salaries hurt by inflation. (Editor/JT)

Changes to redress the inadequacies in American education are proposed: return to the ideal of genuinely liberal education for all, a nationwide system of standardized examination as the primary basis for educational promotion, and higher pay for teachers. (MLW)

A poll of department chairpersons about personal and professional attitudes, motivations, and concerns is reported. Opportunity, challenge, and responsibility were recurring themes. Recommendations are made: giving additional released time, clarifying requirements for promotion, providing credit for accomplishments, publicizing need for unpopular…

The Department of Justice has issued civil investigative demands to some colleges and universities. The demands require institutions to submit information on how they set tuition, fees, faculty and administration salaries, and financial aid awards. A rebuttal explains that the overlap group (23 northeast colleges) meet regularly to ensure…

Governing boards have to understand the money-and-power issues affecting intercollegiate athletics: coaches (their compensation and the hiring process); money from revenue-producing sports; money from other sources, such as booster clubs; and the impact of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. (Author/MLW)

The critical question of how financial resources are spent is categorized by the ABG/NACUBO Task Force: faculty and staff (salaries, benefits, employee relations, equal opportunity and affirmative action, faculty effort); purchasing; maintenance and replacement of capital assets; and energy. In each area aspects to consider are noted. (Author/LBH)

Trustees wishing to determine how well their institutions are doing can tabulate Q factors, which "are determined by the amount of money spent in each budget area to maintain an acceptable level of quality within an institution." (MLW)

U.S. undergraduate education was studied by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in a survey of 5,000 faculty and 5,000 students. Salary, academic freedom, collective bargaining, job satisfaction, and teaching and research are discussed. (MLW)