<p>starbright is in an area of business as an academic field, if I recall correctly. I’m at a large public university in the Midwest. AAU, Carnegie 1 research institution, etc. Here, the incoming assistant professors in business are offered more than the median salary of our full professors in physics, math, and chemistry, and probably close to twice the median salary in history. Even the deans don’t make $400,000 a year. I think the numbers in the Chronicle of Higher Ed are correct. They look like the cross-institutional data I’ve seen from other sources. starbright’s experiences are not general to the professoriate.</p>
<p>Also, I can add that the tuition dollars generated by our Department are now twice our entire general fund budget from the University. Our research $ and overhead come in on top of that. So the tuition funds are going elsewhere (not faculty salaries). It’s quite difficult to find out exactly where that is. (Maybe it’s to the College of Business.)</p>