AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey 2009-10
John Curtis, AAUP (jcurtis@aaup.org)

This summer, AAUP is updating contact information for next year’s survey. We hope to send out a brief questionnaire to our survey contacts in August or September to request your input on a few potential changes in the survey process for the upcoming year (see below).

If you know that the contact person or other information about your institution will be changing, please send an e-mail to aaupfcs@aaup.org. You can also call 202-737-5900 ext. 118 for assistance, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Eastern time during business days.

At the AIR Forum in Atlanta, we announced plans to carry out a pilot test collecting individual-level faculty compensation data. This would eliminate the need for sections III (continuing faculty) and IV (distribution by salary intervals) of our survey, and would allow for calculation of medians, minima and maxima. It would also allow for the collection of salary data by discipline. We do not want individually identifiable data, and confidentiality rules would be maintained. The new format would be entirely optional for 2009-10. We do not have a specific format for submitting data yet. However, if you are interested in participating, please send us an e-mail to the address below.

We are also working on some changes to the Web interface for submitting and reviewing data, and the process for ordering custom reports. We plan to ask for feedback from our survey contacts prior to implementing these changes.

AAUP Research Office
John Curtis, Director of Research and Public Policy
Michael Kinsella, Research Assistant
aaupfcs@aaup.org