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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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1084 BOARD OF TRUSTEES slightly, the percentage listed has decreased. The net relative standing, therefore, of the faculty in terms of these limited criteria is slightly lower now than it was in 1934. Salaries Paid Faculty Members Another index of faculty quality is the salary scale which an institution maintains. This is true for two reasons: It determines: (1) the power of an institution to hold its younger and developing men, and ( 2 ) the ability of an institution to attract scholars who have already attained eminence elsewhere. Exclusive of administrative officers, the average salary paid full professors at the University was $5,716 in 1932-33. By 1934 this average had fallen to $4,869. This decrease is a direct result of a series of salary cuts put into effect during the depression years and reflects a condition almost universal in the universities of America. There has been a steady increase in the average salaries paid professors, from $4,967 in 1935-36 to $5,389 in 1941-42. The United States Office of Education has recently issued figures on the median salaries of the five largest land-grant institutions for 1935-36 and for 1939-40. Since Illinois is one of this group, its median salaries may easily be compared with those of its sister institutions. For its regular teaching staff, salaries at the University of Illinois in 1935-36 at every rank level were consistently slightly above the median of the five institutions taken as a group. The same was true in 1939-40, with the exception of instructors' salaries which were about $25 under the median of the instructors' of the five institutions taken together. T o be sure, the salaries at the University of Illinois are not up to the predepression level (in 1932-33), but it is also evident that other state universities of similar rank have also been unable fully to restore the cuts made during the depression. The present salaries of the instructional and administrative staffs at the University of Illinois compare favorably with salaries paid similar personnel at other state universities. A careful examination of salaries at the University reveals that there are two and sometimes three typical salaries within a given rank. There is also a tendency to establish maxima for the various ranks. The Commission is of the opinion that [66 — A.C.E. Report]
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