Competition versus Collegiality: Academe's Dilemma for the 1990s.

Y

15

Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners

Career Choice; College Faculty; Collegiality; Comparative Analysis; Competition; Economic Factors; Graduate Students; Higher Education; Intellectual Disciplines; Labor Turnover; Peer Relationship; Salary Wage Differentials; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Salaries; Teacher Supply and Demand

0022-1546

Examination of college faculty salaries across disciplines suggests that the traditional academic wage scale is increasingly stressed by academic labor market forces. This trend has implications for faculty morale and commitment, turnover, faculty encouragement of students to pursue academic careers, and the relationship of the reward system to institutional values. (MSE)

1993

EJ455971