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August 18, 2014

Profession

Lauren Lancaster for The Chronicle

Neil Basescu (center) teaches physics at SUNY’s Westchester Community College, which has the highest average pay for full professors among two-year institutions nationwide.

Colleges navigated a time of transition over the past year in whom they employ and how those employees work. Among the questions raised were how much institutions can restrict professors’ speech on social media and how viable their economic model for hiring faculty will be in the face of union-organizing activity among adjuncts.

ARTICLE: Academic Freedom Meets Twitter, and Adjuncts Gain Politically

The Data

Faculty

• Average Salaries of Full-Time Faculty Members, by Rank and Type of Institution, 2013-14
• Average Salaries of Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Members at 4-Year Colleges, by Discipline and Rank, 2013-14
• Professors’ Salaries, by Institution and Faculty Rank, 2013-14
• Change in Professors’ Pay, by Rank and Institution Type, 2000-14
• Percentage Increases in Faculty Salaries at Public and Private Institutions, 2008-13
• Differences Between Male and Female Full-Time Professors in Representation and Average Salaries, by Rank and Institution Type, 2013-14
• Race and Ethnicity of College Administrators, Faculty, and Staff, Fall 2011
• Differences Between Part-Time and Full-Time Faculty at Community Colleges, 2009-13
• Full-Time Instructional Faculty, by Institution Type and Faculty Rank, 2012
• Number of Higher-Education Institutions in the U.S., by Carnegie Classification, 2010

Presidents

• Background of New Chief Executives at Colleges, 2013-14
• Executive Compensation at Public Colleges, 2012-13
• Highest-Paid Chief Executives at Community-College Systems, 2012-13
• Executive Compensation at Private Colleges, 2011
• Chief Executives at Private Colleges Who Made the Most Relative to the College Budget, 2011
• Lowest-Paid Chief Executives of Public and Private Nonprofit Colleges

Other Employees

• Background of Newly Appointed Provosts, 2013-14
• Background of Newly Appointed Deans, 2013-14
• Median Salaries of Senior College Administrators, by Job Category and Type of Institution, 2013-14
• Median Salaries of Higher-Education Professionals, by Job Category and Type of Institution, 2013-14
• Median Annual Wages of Nonexempt College Employees, 2013-14
• Annual Change in Senior Administrators’ Median Salaries, by Institution Type, FY 2010-14
• Annual Change in Academic Professionals’ Median Salaries, by Institution Type, FY 2011-14
• Number of FTE Faculty per FTE Executive and Professional Staff, by College Sector, 1990, 2000, and 2012

More Profession Data, With News Coverage

• Survey: Views of Faculty and Administrators on Campus Relations
• Drop in Single Authorship Across Scientific Fields
• Where History Ph.D.'s Are Working
• Widening Gender Gap in Scholars’ Self-Citation
• College Professors Who Have Served in Congress
• Change in Sociology-Job Listings, 2008-13
• The Adjunct Project: Self-Reported Pay by Discipline and Institution
• Infographic and Videos: Trends in Job Conditions and Representation of Adjuncts
• Changes in Leadership and Students’ Religion at Catholic Colleges
• Proliferation of Title IX-Coordinator Positions, 2013-14
• Freshmen’s Assessment of Quality of Teaching, by Institutions’ Selectivity Level, 2014
• Executive Compensation at Private Colleges, 2012
• Share of Full-Time Faculty Members Off the Tenure Track, 2005 and 2013
• Top Producers of Fulbright Scholars and Students, 2014-15
• Highest-Paid Private-College Employees Who Aren’t Presidents, 2012