Widening Gap Seen in Faculty Pay Between Public and Private Universities

The gap between faculty salaries for full professors at public and private universities is five times as great as it was 20 years ago. And from the looks of things, it will continue to grow, according to a scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Since 1980, public institutions have been losing their competitive edge in the academic marketplace, said F. King Alexander, an assistant professor of higher education. According to his data, which

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