In an effort to document demographic changes in the academic linguistics community, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) has commissioned an annual report detailing information about job titles, students, degrees awarded, average salaries, and more. The report offers information about trends in student enrollment and employment by industry.…

Data pertaining to students, faculty, programs, finances, and facilities of Madison College are presented for the purpose of providing a reference that will be useful to the college community and other interested persons. Thirty-eight statistical tables are presented including: comparison of resident enrollment, 1956-57 through 1975-76;…

The current situation of doctoral research staff in academe is described and the probable trends affecting them are examined. This group is comprised of university-employed Ph.D. scientists and engineers who are considered neither postdoctoral appointees (temporary trainees) nor members of the faculty and who are principally involved in research…

The document consists of statistical tables which characterize social work education in the United States in 1978. Data were supplied by all Council on Social Work Education accredited graduate programs and all but three undergraduate programs. Six sections comprise the document. Section I analyzes the regional distribution of 264 institutions,…

Salary and compensation of faculty in Illinois public colleges and universities were studied using a cluster analytic approach. Twenty-seven institutional variables were factor analyzed to obtain a smaller set of closely related variables. Factor scores were obtained for each of the 1,126 institutions of higher education. A cluster analysis was…

Comparisons of the University of Maryland (the University) with peer institutions are provided concerning characteristics of the student population, institutional resources, and financial resources and expenditure patterns. Findings include the following: part-time enrollment at the University accounts for a significantly higher proportion of…

Data on 1981-82 salaries of full-time nursing faculty employed in baccalaureate and graduate programs who hold membership in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) are presented. Salaries are presented for 256 AACN member schools, which covers 7,547 full-time nurse faculty positions as of fall 1981-1982. Data are presented on both…

Data on salaries of engineers in education in 1979-80 are presented. Salaries were reported as a function of years since graduation at the bachelor's degree level or as a function of age. Information is broken down according to six academic ranks, two contract periods, and three types of institutions: engineering schools with PhD programs, those…

SUCCEED (Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education) is an eight-campus coalition of engineering schools formed in 1992 under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. In 1997, a faculty survey of instructional practices and attitudes regarding the climate for teaching on the Coalition campuses was designed…