«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and
faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.
The endowment value declined from $ 25.6 billion on June 30, 2015, to $ 25.4 billion on June 30, 2016, net of spending that supports
faculty salaries, student scholarships, and other expenses.
The greatest costs in education come from bringing people face - to - face and paying
faculty salaries.
We will also be able to continue increasing
faculty salary and retirement benefits to support and nurture our highly skilled and talented teachers.
Gifts to our campaign support classes in woodwork, handwork, eurythmy, Spanish, chorus and strings as well as geography, cultural studies, English, science, math, campus maintenance, tuition assistance and CWS
faculty salaries and professional development.
The DFA survey found that
faculty salaries at Dalhousie rank near the bottom of the salary scale across Canada.
The proposed raise will improve the competitiveness of Dalhousie
faculty salaries with other institutions.
Corporate donations allow us to offer talented
faculty the salaries that attract and retain them, which contributes to higher rankings.»
A 1975 survey of
faculty salaries in higher education by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) showed that women made 10 % less than men, which wasn't bad, considering that the wage gap for all professions then was 41 %.
They came up with a list: An on - site daycare for the medical campus; greater transparency about
faculty salaries and research space allocation; and greater consideration of, and attention to compensate for, unconscious or implicit biases.
Universities love that arrangement because their expenses for
faculty salaries are notably decreased.
The school, a nationally prominent coeducational boarding and day institution for grades 8 through 12 near Princeton and Trenton, plans to use more than 40 percent of the proceeds from the drive, or $ 51.3 million, to «increase sharply»
faculty salaries and benefits, school officials said.
The usually invisible budget gaps stem from differences in
faculty salaries, which tend to be lower for schools with more low - performing students and more students from low - income families.
This is reflected as well by the recent finding by Courant and Turner that
faculty salaries at research universities are determined primarily by research performance and the reputation that comes with it.
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It includes information about
faculty salaries, state appropriations, and state subsidy of instruction costs.
Innovating to compete with industry by valuing work experience in teacher and
faculty salary schedules.
He said he thought the board needed more time to study other solutions, so he proposed a three - part, short - term solution: raise the mandatory student fee for all students, from $ 1500 a year to $ 5000 a year; freeze
faculty salaries for two years; and have alumni raise the remainder.
«Once UMass owns the law school, taxpayers become responsible for
faculty salaries, student housing, and all other infrastructure and resources needed to support the campus.»
Law school faculty pushed tuition up at several times the rate of inflation for decades, while raising
faculty salaries and reducing teaching loads.
An equally valid argument could be made that, because we're public institutions and
our faculty salaries are paid from public monies, all faculty research should be published in open - access vehicles and made freely available to all.
The ability of law schools to continue to charge high tuitions — and continue to pay
their faculties salaries far higher than those typical in the arts and sciences — depends on making the end product (the law degree) worth it.
Not exact matches
The ranking takes into account a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data captured in the five major lists, from surveys of corporate recruiters, MBA graduates, deans and
faculty publication records, to median GPA and GMAT scores of entering students, as well as
salary and employment statistics for the latest graduating class.
Guthrie figures he would have had to cut research funds for
faculty, summer
salaries for junior
faculty, and other expenses.
While U.S. News» overall rankings are based on numerous metrics, including GMAT scores, employment rates, and starting
salaries, the specialty rankings are derived solely from nominations by business school deans, directors of accredited masters programs, and senior
faculty in the schools surveyed.
Their initial letter called out the school for funding a portion of a new building being constructed in honor of alumnus Gary Chapman, as well as for freezing
faculty pay yet not tightening
salaries at the administrative level.
Are
salary differences within the
faculty, within the staff, and between
faculty and staff appropriate or damaging?
He or she may gain some satisfaction from success in competition with other members of the
faculty, for example, from gaining a larger
salary at the expense of others.
We offer a competitive
salary, health insurance and tuition remission for qualified
faculty children.
Such generosity strengthens the School's mission by providing resources for student needs,
faculty and staff
salaries, financial aid, and community outreach.
From tuition assistance to
faculty support, classroom materials to
salaries and benefits, the success of this fund drive ensures our ability to continue providing a quality Waldorf education to our students.
The growth of CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein's
salary has vastly outpaced that of his
faculty.
The University at Buffalo Foundation spent $ 104.5 million in 2013 - 14, nearly 40 percent of which went toward paying university and foundation employees, including «top ups» to the
salaries of some unnamed
faculty members and administrators, according to a new report, renewing calls for more transparency.
Kaloyeros, who first joined the UAlbany
faculty as a physics professor in the late 1980s, is likely the most compensated professor in the SUNY system's history, earning millions of dollars in
salary and bonuses for grants over the years.
«I'm seeing some
faculty leaving to take jobs at other places with higher
salaries.»
Universities commonly depend on NIH grant funding to pay
faculty members»
salaries, even some who ostensibly have tenure.
Or perhaps institutions will come up with something truly radical — say, attracting scientists by offering good
salaries and appealing career ladders that don't involve
faculty status.
Negotiations came to a grinding halt in February this year, when the DFA and the university failed to reach an agreement on the key issues of
salaries and the number of teaching positions in each
faculty, as well as a host of other topics such as parental leave, nondiscrimination, flexible retirement, technology - assisted classes, and peer review in tenure cases.
Only a «limited» number of
faculty members share in this kind of wealth, but «on more than half of the research - intensive campuses in the United States, there are a handful of
faculty who earn more than their
salaries each year from royalties» — some a great deal more, she notes.
For example at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), recruitment of international
faculty is occurring across a wide range of subject areas, including engineering and science, with special emphasis on its Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme, awarding 10 to 12 distinguished young
faculty each year with a competitive
salary and up to $ 1 million startup funds over the first three years.
If I could get a bridge or transition grant to cover my
salary for that time, it would make the hunt for a
faculty position significantly easier later on.
Postdocs receive what universities term training wages rather than
faculty - worthy
salaries, and large numbers admitted on H - 1Bs (and other visas) make possible the depressed pay scale.
Average
salaries, not including summer pay, for full - time community college
faculty in all disciplines are nearly $ 53,000, according to a 2006 - 07 survey.
Some scientific groups have supported such efforts to curb
faculty from depending entirely on so - called «soft money» for their
salary.
The authors write that institutions should «increase bridge funding for promising
faculty who are struggling to fund their research»; «lower the percentage of
salary that
faculty must cover through grants»; «improve administrative support for the grant submission process»; and «increase the level of formal acknowledgement of research collaboration expressed in the coauthor and coinvestigator status, both in the annual
faculty appraisals and in the criteria for promotion and tenure.»
Goldstein appreciates that
faculty are paid full - year
salaries, as opposed to nine month
salaries as seen in the States.
This evolution, combined with the flexibility granted to the institutions to recruit and negotiate
salaries for their research
faculty, has helped the nation become more attractive to top scientific talent.
Not only is BPA using it as an example in its attempts to improve MIT postdoc
salaries, but the HMS postdoc office has been telling their
faculty about the developments at Whitehead.
Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the
salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted
salaries of African - American
faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American
faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased
salary discrepancies.10
Provides up to $ 20,000 in matching funds to regular
faculty — untenured or tenure - track — at selected institutions in the fields of mathematics, science, engineering, or technology faced with urgent family responsibilities so that they can take a leave with
salary or, after a leave, resume research.