Faculty Compensation and the Cost of Living in American Higher Education

For over two centuries, the College was the characteristic form of higher education in the United States, and the College was closely allied to the church in a predominantly Protestant land. The university became the characteristic form of American higher education starting in the late nineteenth Century, and universities long continued to reflect the nation's Protestant culture. By about 1900, however, Catholics and Jews began to enter universities in increasing numbers. What was the experience of Jewish students in these institutions, and how did authorities respond to their appearance? These questions will be addressed in this article by focusing on the Jewish presence at the University of Illinois in the early twentieth Century. Religion, like a red thread, is interwoven throughout the entire fabric of this story.

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A Conversation with Dolores Huerta

JCSCORE ◽

10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2016.2.2.134-147 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 134-147

Author(s):

Dolores Huerta ◽

Robert Con Davis-Undiano ◽

Cristóbal Salinas, Jr. ◽

Kathleen Wong (Lau)

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

San Francisco ◽

Executive Committee ◽

Race And Ethnicity ◽

Human Relations ◽

National Conference ◽

American Higher Education ◽

Parent Organization ◽

Union Square

Dolores Huerta did an interview on June 1, 2016 in San Francisco at The Hilton San Francisco Union Square. The interviewers were Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Cristóbal Salinas, Jr., and Kathleen Wong (Lau) - all members of the executive committee of the Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, the parent organization for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE).

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A comparison of the cost of research in South Africa's public research and higher education institutions

South African Journal of Science ◽

10.1590/s0038-23532008000600013 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 104 (11/12) ◽

Author(s):

D.R. Walwyn

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Public Research ◽

Pricing Policy ◽

The Public ◽

Annual Salary ◽

Research Sector ◽

Salary Survey ◽

The Cost ◽

Comparative Information

Despite the importance of labour and overhead costs to both funders and performers of research in South Africa, there is little published information on the remuneration structures for researchers, technician and research support staff. Moreover, there are widely different pricing practices and perceptions within the public research and higher education institutions, which in some cases do not reflect the underlying costs to the institution or the inherent value of the research. In this article, data from the 2004/5 Research and Development Survey have been used to generate comparative information on the cost of research in various performance sectors. It is shown that this cost is lowest in the higher education institutions, and highest in the business sector, although the differences in direct labour and overheads are not as large as may have been expected. The calculated cost of research is then compared with the gazetted rates for engineers, scientists and auditors performing work on behalf of the public sector, which in all cases are higher than the research sector. This analysis emphasizes the need within the public research and higher education institutions for the development of a common pricing policy and for an annual salary survey, in order to dispel some of the myths around the relative costs of research, the relative levels of overhead ratios and the apparent disparity in remuneration levels.

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PREREQUISITES FOR THE FORMATION OF A MECHANISM FOR STATE REGULATION OF SOCIAL GUARANTEES IN THE REGION

International scientific journal Internauka Series Economical Sciences ◽

10.25313/2520-2294-2020-9-6287 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Vitaly Lobas ◽

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Elena Petryaeva ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Protection ◽

Well Being ◽

State Regulation ◽

The State ◽

Point Of View ◽

Periodic Review ◽

Cost Of Living ◽

Economic Relations ◽

State Management ◽

The Cost

The article deals with modern mechanisms for managing social protection of the population by the state and the private sector. From the point of view of forms of state regulation of the sphere of social protection, system indicators usually include the state and dynamics of growth in the standard of living of the population, material goods, services and social guarantees for the poorly provided segments of the population. The main indicator among the above is the state of the consumer market, as one of the main factors in the development of the state. Priority areas of public administration with the use of various forms of social security have been identified. It should be emphasized that, despite the legislative conflicts that exist today in Ukraine, mandatory indexation of the cost of living is established, which is associated with inflation. Various scientists note that although the definition of the cost of living index has a well-established methodology, there are quite a lot of regional features in the structure of consumption. All this is due to restrictions that are included in the consumer basket of goods and different levels of socio-economic development of regions. The analysis of the establishment and periodic review of the minimum consumer budgets of the subsistence minimum and wages of the working population and the need to form state insurance funds for unforeseen circumstances is carried out. Considering in this context the levers of state management of social guarantees of the population, we drew attention to the crisis periods that are associated with the market transformation of the regional economy. In these conditions, there is a need to develop and implement new mechanisms and clusters in the system of socio-economic relations. The components of the mechanisms ofstate regulation ofsocial guarantees of the population are proposed. The deepening of market relations in the process of reforming the system of social protection of the population should be aimed at social well-being.

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Wage disparities between high and low wage cities with and without the cost of living within Punjab and Sindh: An application of Oaxaca-Blinder using PSLM with HIES

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies ◽

10.34260/jaebs.441 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Farrukh Mahmood ◽

Shumaila Hashim ◽

Uzma Iram ◽

Muhammad Zubair Chishti

Keyword(s):

Estimation Method ◽

Living Standards ◽

Wage Dispersion ◽

Cost Of Living ◽

Wage Policy ◽

Essential Component ◽

Sindh Province ◽

Economic Survey ◽

The Cost ◽

Wage Disparities

Wage disparities research hardly incorporate for the cost of living differences due to data restriction, while the wage disparity issue is the crucial area of economist interest. The study aims to examine the wage disparities between high and low wage cities for Punjab and Sindh province of Pakistan with and without the cost of living, deploying the data of Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) with Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) for 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2013. Applying the Oaxaca-Blinder estimation method, the findings infer that wage dispersion is high without the cost of living model for both provinces (Punjab and Sindh) as compared to with cost of the living model. Moreover, the results reveal that the wage dispersion is greater in Punjab province than Sindh province. For policymakers, our study suggests that the cost of living is an essential component of the wage dispersion in Pakistan’s cities; it should be considered while formulating for wage policy.

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