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The development and use of a faculty salary model for a higher education system

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Most of the earlier attempts to develop faculty salary models have been based on data from a single institution or from an undifferentiated group of institutions, without a data base adequate to support the design. The overall objective of this paper is to report on the development, characteristics, statistical findings, and utility of a faculty salary model employed over the period 1978–79 to 1980–81 for a higher education system containing 16 institutions ranging from a comprehensive university to a small rural community college in complexity and mission. The need for the model grew out of requirements for the governing board to: (1) deal with litigation and the issues of equity for minorities and females; (2) make interinstitutional salary comparisons as these relate to size, complexity, and mission; and (3) better understand the factors which “determine” faculty salaries.

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  1. Tennessee Technological University, USA

    Roy L. Lassiter Jr.

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Lassiter, R.L. The development and use of a faculty salary model for a higher education system. Res High Educ 18, 333–358 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00979604

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