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Two Southeastern states have taken different directions on access: One has reined in tuition. The other state let it grow.
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Women’s pay was closest to men’s in the position with the lowest female representation: top executive.
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Of the more than 900,000 faculty members in the U.S. without tenure status, nearly half were on contracts of less than a year’s duration.
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Women made up about a quarter of professors at doctoral institutions with the highest and higher research activity, and a third elsewhere.
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Nearly half of the instructional staff employed at American institutions of higher education worked at doctoral universities.
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Nearly two-thirds of nonresident-alien employees were tenured faculty members at the University of Kentucky and Reed College.
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The head of a campus museum had the greatest median salary at four-year institutions, and a Level-1 library cataloger had the lowest.
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Deans of medicine, dentistry, and law earned the highest median pay.
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Overall percentage pay increases for administrators have exceeded the inflation rate for the past five years.
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Only a third of faculty members at all colleges were tenured or on the tenure track in the fall of 2015.
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Both Asians and nonresident aliens were most highly represented in the occupational category “graduate assistants.”
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The most highly compensated chief executive earned $5.5 million. Most of that came from a deferred payout.
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Public institutions paid professors in the health professions more, on average, than private nonprofit institutions did.
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Instructors at private, independent institutions got the highest increase, followed by instructors at public institutions.
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In two of the three executive positions in which women’s median salaries exceeded men’s, female representation was relatively low.
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Two-year and four-year for-profit institutions paid higher average salaries than completely distance-education institutions in other sectors did.
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Average salaries at most institutions were below $50,000.
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In just one such executive post did racial and ethnic minorities represent more than 20 percent of job holders.
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The largest occupational category was office and administrative support, representing more than 20 percent of such employees.
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Just under half of the full-time instructional staff at tribal and historically black colleges were female.
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Salaries were highest among professors at institutions that mainly served traditional full-time, degree-seeking students.
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Nearly two-thirds of college presidents who worked their way up within higher education were previously provosts.
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Over five years, the proportion of presidents who were members of minority groups climbed by about four percentage points.
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Women were underrepresented in computer science, earning only about 20 percent of the associate, bachelor’s, or doctoral degrees in the field.
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On average, public doctoral institutions had at least twice the enrollment of any other type of institution.
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Graduation rates for all of the top 20 four-year private nonprofit colleges were above 90 percent, compared with six above 90 percent for the top 20 four-year public institutions.
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Doctorate recipients in the physical sciences finished their degrees in the shortest period of time and at the youngest median age.
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Doctoral universities and associate colleges each enroll almost a third of all students.
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Women accumulated more debt than men at every level of higher education.
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More than a quarter of all undergraduate students in the United States were 25 or older in the fall of 2015.
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The share of undergraduate students who were 25 and older has dropped since 2011, and has fallen even more significantly since the 1990s.
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Five colleges on the list relied on tuition for more than half of their revenue.
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The 30 universities with the largest share of first-year Pell Grant recipients were all in the public sector.
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The market value of Harvard University’s endowment dropped by nearly $2 billion in a year, but it is still far larger than any other university’s endowment.
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Almost all of the top fund raisers were doctoral universities with the highest research activity.
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Eleven institutions with the highest charges for state residents were in Pennsylvania, and 10 were in New Jersey.
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Among the 100 most expensive colleges, 64 charged tuition and fees exceeding $50,000.
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Discount rates grew by more than 11 percentage points for first-time, full-time freshmen.
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Nearly two-thirds of expenditures at four-year for-profit institutions went to student services, and academic and institutional support.
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Higher-education institutions spent nearly $68.7 billion on research and development in the 2015 fiscal year.