April 20, 2007

For the First Time in 3 Years, Faculty Salaries Beat Inflation

By SIERRA MILLMAN

Underlying financial inequalities trouble the AAUP

Even as faculty salaries outpaced inflation for the first time in three years, the American Association of University Professors warned of growing financial inequalities within higher education.

"One year cannot reverse discouraging trends that have been developing over decades," writes Saranna R. Thornton, a professor of economics at Hampden-Sydney College and author of this year's edition of the annual AAUP

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