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)

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…

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)

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)

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)