September 24, 1999

Professors' Salaries and the Cost of Living

To the Editor:

When I responded to Denise K. Magner's query about the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy's comparison of inflation-adjusted professorial salaries at research universities, I did not have access to the report itself ("Study Adjusts Salary Data on Professors to Reflect Cost of Living in Different Areas," August 13). Consequently, although I cautioned about the difficulty of making local cost-of-living adjustments and suggested a comparison

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