This is the twenty-first in an annual series of research reports conducted for the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU). This year, Richard Sherry of Bethel University has collected the information, using materials, templates, and the format developed by Donald Lerew of Messiah College. The purpose of this study is to provide member colleges with comparative and longitudinal salary data.
The research has traditionally been based on information compiled for the AAUP, appearing in Academe each spring (for the current study, from March/April, 2005). Thirty-three CCCU institutions are not represented in the AAUP survey this year. Thus, the author surveyed all non-reporting institutions in order to assure a better response. Responses were obtained from 83 of 101 institutions, including 14 of 33 non-AAUP reporting institutions, with the data appearing in the Appendix. In a departure from previous reports developed by Mr. Lerew, this report includes data reported by schools neither submitting information to Academe nor to the CCCU request. This information uses data reported to the federal governments Integrated Postsecondary Educational Data System (IPEDS). Because some of the statistics are significantly altered by the inclusion of this data, where major variances occur they are noted. As a result, the total number of campuses with data included in the survey is 101.
Readers should keep in mind that the data collected by the author are self-reported from the schools in the non-reporting group. Each of these institutions was given the definitions from the AAUP survey to help attain similarity and comparability. This may make a difference in comparing salaries across the CCCU. Second, data collected through the IPEDS system follows definitions in use from the federal government. Note that on several of the tables following, two columns appear for 2004-05. The all column includes these IPEDS-only campuses; the second 04-05 column omits them.