Life as an associate professor with tenure can be even more isolating and overwhelming than being an assistant professor on the tenure track. The path to achieving what amounts to higher education's golden ring is well marked and includes guidance from more-experienced peers. But once a professor earns tenure, that guidance disappears, the amount…

Service is not an optional part of being an assistant professor. The trick is knowing how to do enough without doing too much. In Part 1 of this series, the author enumerated the "good deeds" that assistant professors do in the realm of teaching that tend to blow up or backfire. He cautioned that, while doing good for students was their primary…

In this article, the author is questioning the system(s) that professors continue to follow in the practice and process not only of promotion and tenure but also of their general academic lives. That, at least, was the course of her meditations as she ransacked her office and home for copies of reprints and sample syllabi--all already available…

In this article, the author describes his and a colleague's experience of selecting and interviewing candidates for a tenure-track faculty position. He relates how they thought that they had selected 18 excellent candidates until they met them for interview. The author found that the majority of those they interviewed knew nothing about the…

This article presents the case of of Martin Zelnik v. Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) et al. and the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on the case. Zelnik served on the faculty of FIT from 1969 to 1999, retiring as a full professor of interior design. Zelnik applied for an emeritus status but was denied by FIT. The…

Describes the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists (COACH), a support group for senior female chemists that works to improve the professional lot of female scientists at all ranks. COACH is unusual in focusing on the senior level, rather than the entry level, in their efforts to improve the status of women in science. (SLD)

This study shows that by type of institution, salaries are highest at doctorate-granting public and private universities. By sector, faculty members at private, independent institutions continue to have the highest earnings. The salary gap between men and women persists, with women earning less than men at every rank. (MLW)

Tables show the average salaries of college faculty by rank and by their major fields. Data are based on reports from 262 public institutions that are members of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and from 440 private colleges and universities. (MLW)

Tables from an annual report on the economic status of college faculty provide data on average salaries by institution type, trends in faculty pay and the cost of living, average faculty salaries by rank and gender, and annual percentage salary increases since 1989-90. Also lists average faculty salaries at more than 1,700 institutions by rank.…

Tables showing average faculty salaries by rank at colleges, universities, and multi-campus systems in 1988-89 are presented. The salaries cover all instructional staff except those in medical schools. The figures were compiled for the American Association of University Professors. (MLW)

A survey conducted for the American Association of University Professors tabulates, by state and institution within each state, salaries of full-time instructional staff, excluding medical school faculty. Percentile distributions of salaries for each academic rank are shown. (MLW)

Annual survey found average salary for professors at all types of institutions to be $43,720--5.4 percent higher than last year's average but below 6 percent projected increase in cost of living. Tables detail results, showing average faculty salaries by type of institutions, average salaries for men and women by rank, and average faculty salaries…

Describes the case of a woman biology teacher who was denied tenure at Case Western Reserve University. Critics see her as a researcher who couldn't get along with students and who is blaming her problems on others. Supporters of the gender discrimination suit she is expected to file say that the Biology Department has a pattern of discrimination…

Salary data gathered from 261 public and 478 private institutions are presented by rank (professor, associate professor, assistant professor, new assistant professor, and instructor) for 47 disciplines. (MSE)

A table compares faculty salaries by intellectual disciplines and by faculty rank. A total of 272 public and 451 private institutions were surveyed by the College and University Personnel Association. (MLW)