Sight-Saving Class Exchange. New York, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. 5 times a year. Contains news of interest to persons concerned with sight-saving classes in school systems. Sight-Saving Review. New York, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Quarterly. Designed to "meet the needs of State and local prevention of blindness workers, educators, illuminating engineers, public health administrators, industrial physicians and nurses, sight-saving class teachers and supervisors, ophthalmologists, and any one interested in the sociological aspects of saving sight." Teachers' Forum. New York, Bureau of Research and Education, American Foundation for the Blind. 5 times a year. A periodical for instructors of blind children. Discusses methods and projects applicable to their education. 3. CRIPPLED Crippled Child. 800 Lorain County Bank Building, Elyria, Ohio. Bimonthly. Official organ of the International Society for Crippled Children. Presents the cause of crippled children from the standpoint of physical, medical, and educational provisions. Monthly Letter of the International Society for Crippled Children. Elyria, Ohio. Gives news notes of current activities in behalf of crippled children. 4. DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING American Annals of the Deaf. Gallaudet College, Washington, D. C. Bimonthly during school year. The organ of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf. problems of the education of deaf children. Devoted to the Auditory Outlook. 1537 Thirty-fifth Street, Washington, D. C. Monthly. The official organ of the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing. Devoted to the interests of the deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and to the social work which is going on among them, with some attention also to educational problems. Vocational Teacher. 506 Park Avenue, Fulton, Mo. Quarterly. Devoted to the improvement of vocational instruction in American schools for the deaf. Volta Review. 1537 Thirty-fifth Street, Washington, D. C. Organ of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Devoted to a consideration of problems of the deaf and adequate methods of meeting them. 5. MENTALLY DEFECTIVE Psychological Clinic. (See under 1, above. Training School Bulletin. The Training School, Vineland, N. J. Monthly. (Except July and August.) Devoted to problems of the mentally defective and their education. 6. SPEECH DEFECTIVE Quarterly Journal of Speech. Flanigan Pearson Co., 10 Chester Street, Champaign, Ill. Organ of the National Association of Teachers of Speech. Includes consideration of all phases of speech teaching, with some reference to speech correction. SALARIES IN LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES Introduction Financial compensation of teachers in colleges and universities is one of the important problems confronting higher education in the United States. The question is of vital concern not only to the staff members at present employed but also to candidates preparing themselves for entrance into the profession of college teaching. Information is already available regarding the general salary conditions prevailing in institutions of higher learning, but there is little reliable information as to the salaries paid within the various academic branches. This is particularly true with reference to the differences between the compensation of men and of women teachers, among the several major divisions, and among the departments of arts and sciences. The purpose of this bulletin is to analyze the salaries of college teachers with respect to these various factors. Source of data. The material upon which the investigation is based was collected in the course of the survey of land-grant colleges and universities recently conducted by the United States Office of Education. Exigencies of time and space prevented its use in the final official report of the nation-wide survey. The institutions represented include only publicly supported land-grant universities and colleges. Of the total of 50 making up the list, there are 24 State universities and 26 separate land-grant colleges.' Salary figures consist of returns made by individual staff members to a questionnaire sent them in the survey rather than salary schedules of the institutions. Limitation of data. The appraisal of salaries is limited to those of teachers in selected fields of study and does not include all the branches of work conducted by State univers ties and colleges. Staff members of the agricultural experiment stations as well as those engaged in agricultural and home economics extension have been omitted. On account of the small number of returns, it has been necessary also to eliminate the major divisions of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and law. The salaries in all instances are for the academic year of 1927-28. Because the questionnaire did not make provision for the segregation of teachers working on a 9-month and a 12-month basis, the figures include salaries for both periods of employment. Inasmuch as the median salaries of deans, professors, and associate professors serving on a 12-month basis in the institutions are slightly less than of those working on a 9-month basis, it 1 See Appendix D for list of institutions. See pp. 570-576, Bulletin 1930, No. 9, U. S. Office of Education, Survey of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities. 1 is not believed that the median salaries contained in this bulletin will be materially affected by the inability to make a separation between the two bases of salaries. Assistants, fellows, and graduate students with teaching fellowships are not included since they do not occupy the status of full-time faculty membership. Extent of data.-Annual salaries of 6,890 staff members divided as to sex and academic rank are available for analysis in the seven major divisions of liberal arts, education, home economics, agriculture, engineering, commerce and business, and physical education. Within the liberal arts college, similar data are at hand for 2,576 teachers distributed among the departments of English, chemistry, mathematics, biological sciences, foreign languages, history and political science, physics, economics, and psychology. Methods of handling data.-Current statistical practices have been adopted in the tabulation of the data. Salary distributions by sex, rank, major division, and department are presented in tabular form. The median salaries and the quartiles, Q1 and Q3, have been computed for each of the distributions. In the presentation of the salaries of the teachers, the text has been limited to a discussion of the salient points. All basic tables have been included in the appendices where they may be examined for more detailed information. Salaries by Sex and Rank The sex and rank of college teachers bears a significant relation to financial compensation. Of the total of 6,890 full-time staff members in all fields of study combined, there are 5,822 men and 1,068 women teachers. Figured on a percentage basis, the proportion of men teachers is 84.5 per cent and of women teachers 15.5 per cent. In other words, five times as many men as women are employed. Salaries vary with academic rank, and it is of great importance, therefore, in comparing salaries by sexes to determine whether men and women are distributed proportionately among the several ranks. Table 1 shows the number and percentages of teachers by sex holding the different ranks for all the fields of study combined. TABLE 1.-Number of teachers and percentage distribution of each sex by rank |