This year's annual report begins with good news from the 2024-25 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey: Wage growth for full-time faculty members in US higher education exceeded inflation for the second consecutive year, following three consecutive years of declining real (inflation-adjusted) salaries. However, despite the positive trend over the last…

The Engineering Manpower Commission of the Engineers Joint Council conducted a survey of the professional income of engineers. Salaries were reported by employers, in this case deans or other officials of educational institutions, as a function of years since graduation at the bachelor's degree level or of age. Additional information on the…

Presented is the directory of faculty contracts and bargaining agents in institutions of higher education, which as of December 31, 1980 consisted of 427 faculty unions who are certified as recognized bargaining agents, with more than 359 collective bargaining agreements in effect. Approximately 68 of these agents have either chosen not to…

The total number of dollars awarded to 120 nonprofit organizations, most universities, in contracts for research, development, testing, and evaluation for military projects and civilian water-resource projects are tabulated. Organizations listed are those that received over $1 million. (MSE)

This report for the College Opportunity Fund (COF) covers the first two fiscal years of the COF program, FY05-06, FY06-07. It describes the implementation efforts of COF program stakeholders, the statistics of participation in the program, and concerns of the program. COF enables qualifying resident students to use higher education tuition…

Significant contractual provisions in negotiating faculty workload were identified, using data on over 300 faculty contracts, 273 of which were in force on January 1, 1980. Individual campuses covered by these agreements numbered over 650. The following contractual workload provisions were assessed: workload credit hour teaching, load, overload…

Data on 1982 faculty bargaining agents and collective bargaining agreements in public and private U.S. and Canadian higher education institutions are presented. In addition, a brief narrative description of 1982 trends is included. For each institution which is listed alphabetically by state/province, information is provided on the bargaining…

Data on 1983 faculty bargaining agents and collective bargaining agreements in public and private U.S. and Canadian higher education institutions are presented, along with a brief narrative description of 1983 trends. For each institution, listed alphabetically by state/province, information is provided on the bargaining agent, unit size, the year…

Data on 1984 faculty bargaining agents and collective bargaining agreements in public and private U.S. and Canadian colleges are presented, along with a brief narrative description of 1984 trends. For each institution, information is provided on the bargaining agent, unit size, the year the current agent was elected, the year the initial contract…

Twenty-nine nonprofit organizations receiving a total of $10 million or more in contracts from the Department of Defense are listed, with total dollars noted for each. The figures cover only contracts of $25,000 or more for research, development, testing, and evaluation of military projects and for civilian water-resource projects. (Author/MSE)

Problems with finance data reported through the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) are reported. Less than one percent of institutions appear to have reported incorrect data for the fiscal year (FY) 1983 finance survey. One reporting problem concerns state appropriations that are radically different in previous years or that are…

Colleges universities, and nonprofit organizations received 2.1 billion dollars in Department of Defense contract funds for research, development, testing, and evaluation in fiscal 1984. Tables of the 1984 figures that list the top contractors are presented. (MLW)

This directory provides detailed data on unionization activities among college and university faculty in 1996 in the United States and Canada. Highlights indicate that academic unions now represent 250,716 professors, an increase of 1.8 percent from the previous year; there are now 509 bargaining agents on 1,097 campuses (92 are at private…

A national survey of law school deans revealed information about their educational backgrounds, law schools attended, law-related work experience, teaching experience, work experience prior to deanship, subjects taught, age and term in office, and activities after deanship. (MSE)

Results of a national survey concerning medical school policies for employing nontenured clinician-educator faculty, the titles given to faculty members in these tracks, and special features of employment are presented. (MSE)