Advocate Online - Special Issue

The Status of the Academic Professions: 2003-04

This annual issue of the Advocate provides a statistical look at the employment conditions of the higher education professions. In these pages, you will find data on faculty and staff salaries, including a listing of faculty salaries at public two- and four-year colleges and universities, as well as articles on health benefits and pension issues. We also look at state higher education funding, employment trends, and the effects of collective bargaining.

In this issue of the Advocate...

... we present the complete universe of higher education faculty salaries for the nation's public two-year and four-year colleges and universities for the academic year 2002-03, derived from official salary reports mandated by the Department of Education.

This special edition of the Advocate provides a comprehensive picture of faculty salaries, along with information on other groups of higher education employees.

NEA also provides a detailed report on faculty salaries in the NEA Higher Education Almanac, published in February and available on the NEA higher education Web site at www.nea.org/he.

The 2005 NEA Higher Education Almanac will report on 2003-04 salaries. Check the NEA Higher Education Web site for first release.

Two other organizations, the American Association of University Professors and the Colleges and University Personnel Association, also report on faculty salaries, using different data gathering instruments and smaller data sets. Their reports, appearing this spring, find a 2.1 percent increase in faculty salaries for 2003-04, the smallest increase in percentage terms in 30 years.

This special issue (899 k) and a list of public-sector faculty salaries (353 k) are also provided in Acrobat pdf format.