Salary-Trend Studies of Faculty for the Years 1992-93 and 1995-96 in the Following Academic Disciplines/Major Fields: History, General...Visual and Performing Arts.

This document provides comparative salary trend data for full-time faculty at 212 public and 337 private colleges and universities, based on two surveys, one for the baseline year 1992-93 and the other for the "trend" year 1995-96. For each of 26 disciplines, a summary review provides a definition of the discipline; information on average salaries by rank, including "new assistant professor"; faculty mix percentage; and comparisons between the two study years and the Consumer Price Index. Appended to the review of each discipline are lists of the 41 disciplines surveyed and the public and private institutions that participated in that segment of the study. Data and summary details are provided for the following disciplines/major fields: History, General; Home Economics; Instructional Media Technology; Library Science; Mathematics; Multi-Interdisciplinary Studies; Music, General; Nursing; Occupational Therapy; Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies; Philosophy and Religion; Physical Science; Physical Therapy; Physics; Political Science, General; Psychology; Protective Services; Public Health; Reading Teacher Education; Social Sciences; Social Work; Sociology; Special Education; Speech Pathology and Audiology; Teacher Education; and Visual and Performing Arts. (CH)