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EDUCATION Purdue's faculty shares a common dilemma— low salaries compared to other income groups Purdue Other Grnuns Note Graph shows average salaries of Purdue (acuity compared with earnings of olher groups in 1957 É2 ,/, C* I CS> ° \ \ Έ -2 S = -Ξ -ni S -i= j ' .g ο ! \ *£ — «s: <c I ol $16,000 $14.000- $12,000 $10,000 $8.000 $6,C00 $4,0(X)-.j $2.600 Professional Persons in Industrial Relations 12-16-yr. Purdue Engineering Graduates 10-yr. College Graduates in Industry 2-6-yr. Purdue Engineering Graduates • • - ~ — r 195/ Purdue Graduates f Steel Mill Workers Average Salaries Source: American Association of University Professors (Purdue University Chapter) Salary Hikes Proposed Purdue group hopes to get half the school's faculty in the top 10% of the nation s income groups τ HERE'S a plan afoot at Purdue Uni- versity to put 50% of the school's teachers in the upper 10'Y of the na- tion's income brackets. Purdue's faculty shares a common problem with its cohorts across the na- tion—low salaries compared to other in- come groups. According to a survey just released by the American Associa- tion of University Professors (Purdue University Chapter): • 25% of the Purdue faculty are in the fourth (from the top) 10% of the nation's income brackets ($5300 to $6299 per year). •24% are in the third H)% ($6300 to $7599 ). • 26% are in the second 10% ( $7600 to $9799). •18% are in the top 10% (over $9800). These figures suggest that the Purdue salary levels compare favorably with nation-wide statistics. But they dont. For example, an average Purdue engi- neering graduate of 12 to 16 years ago (average age 36) made $10,070 last year, compared with $8250 for the average associate professor at Purdue (age 45). In another case, Purdue students who graduated two to six years ago (average age 27) made $6730 last year, a bit higher than the $6670 the average assistant professor received at Purdue—and he's around 38 years old. When viewed this way, the salary levels are below those of other income groups. Over a period of time, the AAUP chapter maintains, such salaries will not attract the average college graduate into teaching, much less the superior grad. Universities should draw their teachers from the top 10% of the population in terms of ability. To do so. they must pay salaries high enough to compete for the top 10% . • Has Plan. The chapter's survey set the stage for a plan which aims to raise Purdue's salaries (and those at other Indiana colleges and universities as well) to levels such that 50% of the entire faculty would fall into the top 10% of the incomes in the U. S. This means a 36' <• average increase. But such a hike would not handle expected cost of living increases. Consequently, the AAUP chapter proposes that salaries be raised roughly 7% a year for the next 11 years. Compounded, this comes to a 103% raise but it would as- sure steady salary growth to the higher income bracket as well as outpace grow- ing living costs. However, explains the chapter, should cost of living hikes be curbed, the program could be handled with an annual salary increase of 5%. First step in selling the plan is to get Purdue's administration to go along. Next, the chapter would work out a publicity program to sell the proposal to the public and state legislators. In the short-run competition with other universities for able faculty mem- bers, the AAUP chapter says, Purdue is now a little behind many comparable universities. Just to stay competitive, » salaries must be increased. But with just a slight step-up in salary increase schedules, Purdue would be in a spot to compete strongly for the upper 10% in brainpower. UW Gets Hanford School After a decade of running a graduate school for scientists and engineers at its Hanford, Wash., works (C&EN Oct. 28, 1957, page 80), General Electric has turned over administration of the program to the University of Washing- ton. To be directed by Kermit B. Bengtson, the school will be called Uni- versity of Washington Center for Graduate Study at Hanford. GE set up the school in 1947 to give its technical people working at the iso- lated Hanford works a chance to con- tinue their educations. Teachers were from the GE technical staff and were accredited, as were their courses, by several colleges in the Pacific North- west. As a result of this change of administration, the teachers will still be GE staffers, but the company will no longer have charge of running the school. Most of the students will be GE workers, however. Five schools have agreed to give credit for studies taken at Hanford. They are: University of Washington, University of Oregon, University of Idaho, Oregon State College, and Washington State College. Idaho, however, will withdraw after two years, will allow students in the school at that time to complete their work, but will accept no new ones. • The American Association of Univer- sity Women reveals that 13,000 of its members are willing to teach either in colleges, high schools, or grade schools to help relieve the teacher shortage. The association polled one in every 35 of its 140,000 members at the request of the National Science Foundation. 80 C&EN A U G . 2 5, 1 9 5 8 '$18,000
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EDUCATION
Purdue's faculty shares a common dilemma— low salaries compared to other income groups
Purdue Other Grnuns Note Graph shows average salaries of Purdue (acuity compared w i t h earnings of olher groups in 1957
É2 ,/, C* I CS> ° \ \ Έ -2 S = -Ξ - n i S -i= j ' .g ο ! \ *£ — «s: <c I o l
$16,000
$14.000-
$12,000
$10,000
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$4,0(X)-.j
$2.600
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Source: American Associat ion of Univers i ty Professors (Purdue Univers i ty Chapter)
Salary Hikes Proposed Purdue group hopes to get half the school's faculty in the top 10% of the nat ion s income groups
τ HERE'S a plan afoot at Purdue University to put 50% of the school's teachers in the upper 10'Y of the nation's income brackets.
Purdue's faculty shares a common problem with its cohorts across the nation—low salaries compared to other income groups. According to a survey just released by the American Association of University Professors (Purdue University Chapter) :
• 25% of the Purdue faculty are in the fourth (from the top) 10% of the nation's income brackets ($5300 to $6299 per year) .
• 2 4 % are in the third H)% ($6300 to $7599 ).
• 26% are in the second 10% ( $7600 to $9799) .
• 1 8 % are in the top 10% (over $9800) .
These figures suggest that the Purdue salary levels compare favorably with nation-wide statistics. But they dont . For example, an average Purdue engineering graduate of 12 to 16 years ago (average age 36) made $10,070 last year, compared with $8250 for the average associate professor at Purdue (age 4 5 ) . In another case, Purdue
students who graduated two to six years ago (average age 27) made $6730 last year, a bit higher than the $6670 the average assistant professor received at Purdue—and he's around 38 years old.
When viewed this way, the salary levels are below those of other income groups. Over a period of time, the AAUP chapter maintains, such salaries will not attract the average college graduate into teaching, much less the superior grad. Universities should draw their teachers from the top 10% of the population in terms of ability. To do so. they must pay salaries high enough to compete for the top 10% .
• Has Plan. The chapter 's survey set the stage for a plan which aims to raise Purdue's salaries (and those at other Indiana colleges and universities as well) to levels such that 50% of the entire faculty would fall into the top 10% of the incomes in the U. S. This means a 36 ' <• average increase. But such a hike would not handle expected cost of living increases. Consequently, the AAUP chapter proposes that salaries be raised roughly 7% a year for the next 11 years. Compounded, this comes to a 103% raise but it would assure steady salary growth to the higher income bracket as well as outpace grow
ing living costs. However, explains the chapter, should cost of living hikes be curbed, the program could be handled wi th an annual salary increase of 5%.
First step in selling the plan is to get Purdue 's administration to go along. Next, the chapter would work out a publicity program to sell the proposal to the public and state legislators.
In the short-run competition with other universities for able faculty members, the AAUP chapter says, Purdue is now a little behind many comparable universities. Just to stay competitive,
» salaries must be increased. But with just a slight step-up in salary increase schedules, Purdue would be in a spot to compete strongly for the upper 10% in brainpower.
UW Gets Hanford School After a decade of running a graduate
school for scientists and engineers at its Hanford, Wash. , works (C&EN Oct. 28, 1957, page 80) , General Electric has turned over administration of the program to the University of Washington. To be directed by Kermit B. Bengtson, the school will be called University of Washington Center for Graduate Study at Hanford.
G E set up the school in 1947 to give its technical people working at the isolated Hanford works a chance to cont inue their educations. Teachers were from the GE technical staff and were accredited, as were their courses, by several colleges in the Pacific Northwest. As a result of this change of administration, the teachers will still be GE staffers, but the company will no longer have charge of running the school. Most of the students will be G E workers, however.
Five schools have agreed to give credit for studies taken at Hanford. They are: University of Washington, University of Oregon, University of Idaho, Oregon State College, and Washington State College. Idaho, however, will withdraw after two years, will allow students in the school at that t ime to complete their work, but will accept no new ones.
• The American Association of University Women reveals that 13,000 of its members are willing to teach either in colleges, high schools, or grade schools to help relieve the teacher shortage. T h e association polled one in every 35 of its 140,000 members at the request of the National Science Foundation.
8 0 C & E N A U G . 2 5, 1 9 5 8
'$18,000
