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Business-School Professors Learn a Hard Lesson in Competition, Study Finds

(November 6, 2009)

By Peter Schmidt

Vancouver, British Columbia

Among faculty members at business schools in the United States, the rich tend to be getting richer while others fall farther behind, according to a paper being presented here Thursday at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

In recent years, business schools that were already in the top fifth in terms of what they pay tenured and tenure-track faculty members have been giving professors substantially larger pay raises than those being offered by competing institutions, the paper says. The wealth is not being shared equally, however. The faculties of the highest-paying institutions are themselves becoming more stratified in terms of earnings, with professors at the top of the heap enjoying much faster proportional growth in their salaries than those on the bottom…….

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Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education