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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED205056 AUTHOR: Van Alstyne, Carol; And Others
TITLE: Women and Minorities in Administration of Higher
Education Institutions: Employment Patterns and Salary
Comparisons. Special Supplement: 1975-76 Administrative
Compensation Survey.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 166 p.
AVAILABILITY: College and University Personnel Association;
11 Dupont Circle, Suite 120, Washington, DC 20036 ($7.00
nonmember, $4.00 member; $3.00 each for 50 or more).
ABSTRACT: Employment patterns and salary levels of 18,035
college and university administrators were compared by sex
and race. The national survey compared the status of women
and minorities with those of white men in order to establish
baselines for measuring progress toward achieving
affirmative action goals and to raise questions about the
causes of differential employment opportunities. The data
for 1,037 institutions were collected as part of the 1975-76
Administrative Compensation Survey conducted by the College
and University Personnel Association. Among the findings are
the following: the large majority (79 percent) of people
holding the 52 administrative positions studied were white
men, while white women held 14 percent, minority men held 5
percent, and minority women held under 2 percent; the
institutions with women or minority student bodies employed
a much larger percentage of women and minorities in
administrative posts than did white coeducational colleges;
at all institutions, men dominated the chief executive
positions; women and minorities were generally best
represented in positions relating to student affairs and
external affairs; the employment patterns and salary levels
of minority women were different from but closer to those of
white women than to those of miority men; women, both white
and minority, were paid only about 80 percent as much as men
with the same job title when employed by the same type of
institution; and in contrast, though employed predominantly
in the lower-paying positions, minority men were generally
paid about as much as white men holding the same job title
at the same type of institution. Appended materials include
a sample questionnaire and instructions, position
descriptions, and data on median salaries by sex and race.
(SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Comparative-Analysis; Employment
Opportunities; Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; Females-; Higher
Education; Males-; Minority-Groups; National-Surveys; Race-;
Salary-Wage-Differentials; Whites-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrators-; *College-Administration;
*Employment-Patterns; *Racial-Discrimination; *Salaries-;
*Sex-Discrimination
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