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Want to know who is well compensated in higher education and who is less well paid, or to explore the divisions between full-time professors and faculty members working on temporary contracts? Examine these and other factors in this collection of 27 tables.
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At small, out-of-the-way colleges, and in departments of all kinds, some people worry that the supply of qualified faculty members from abroad may diminish.
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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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Public institutions that paid the most tended to be in states with high costs of living, like California and New York.
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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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Both Asians and nonresident aliens were most highly represented in the occupational category “graduate assistants.”
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Deans of medicine, dentistry, and law earned the highest median pay.
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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 most highly compensated chief executive earned $5.5 million. Most of that came from a deferred payout.
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Three of the eight leaders who made $1 million or more were in Texas.
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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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Nearly two-thirds of college presidents who worked their way up within higher education were previously provosts.
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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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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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Salaries were highest among professors at institutions that mainly served traditional full-time, degree-seeking students.
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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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Average salaries at most institutions were below $50,000.
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Twenty-five public and three private nonprofit universities employed more than 3,000 graduate assistants each.
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Three research institutions had at least 10 Fulbright scholars in the 2016-17 academic year.
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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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The largest occupational category was office and administrative support, representing more than 20 percent of such employees.
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Public institutions paid professors in the health professions more, on average, than private nonprofit institutions did.
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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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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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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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Overall percentage pay increases for administrators have exceeded the inflation rate for the past five years.
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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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Instructors at private, independent institutions got the highest increase, followed by instructors at public institutions.
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Many institutions on the list are medical colleges or health-science centers, or comprise them.