earnings, staff members with the lower degrees frequently earn larger amounts than is the case of those who hold the higher degrees.

TABLE 16.—Highest degree of staff members with relation to outside earnings

The relationships that salaries bear to the type of work done by staff members, undergraduate instruction, graduate work, research, administration, extension, creative work other than research, and maintenance of public contacts are presented by Tables 21 to 27.

Attention is called to the fact that the largest groups of staff members who devote from 80 per cent to 100 per cent of their time to any type of work other than administration and public contacts are found in each case in the $2,000 to $2,999 range of salaries, while the largest number spending from 80 per cent to 100 per cent of their time upon administrative work is found in the salary range. from $3,000 to $3,999. Tables 17 to 23 will repay careful, detailed study and analysis.

TABLE 17.-Percentage of time staff members devote to undergraduates with reference to salary range

TABLE 18.-Percentage of time which staff members devote to graduates with reference to salary range

TABLE 19.-Percentage of time which staff members devote to research with reference to salary range

TABLE 20.-Percentage of time which staff members devote to administrative work with reference to salary range

TABLE 21.-Percentage of time staff members devote to extension work with reference to salary range

$15,000 and over.

Total...

tact with the world of affairs the college student seems to be on any of the major issues of the day. In all other respects, he is a strongly socialized animal seeking herd strength. In his interest in political matters, excepting at the time of a major campaign, he is apparently purely individualistic, at least if the complete absence of reports of political organizations, permanent in character, on the land-grant college campuses is any basis of judgment. Since the League of Women Voters is nonpartisan and entirely educational in aim, it is perhaps not so strange to find that this organization maintains continued life from year to year.

PART VII. STAFF

The earnings, training, experience, age, family responsibilities, type of work, rank, and scholarly affiliations of members of the staffs of colleges and universities are intimately related. The survey of land-grant institutions presented an opportunity to secure information in sufficient quantity to justify analysis of some of these relationships in greater detail than staff studies have usually undertaken. There are now 20,988 men and 5,321 women members of administrative and instructional staffs in the land-grant colleges and universities. More than 12,000 members of the staffs of these institutions cooperated by furnishing in usable form information requested by an extensive questionnaire.

Since limitations of time and space have made it impossible to analyze and present in this report all the information thus collected, the following list of items covered by this questionnaire may be of assistance to students who desire to pursue the subject further by personal investigation of the data on file in the United States Office of Education. The questionnaire secured information for each staff member concerning age, academic rank, title of position; college, school, or major division of service; department, sex, race, marital condition, birthplace, salary, perquisites, additional institutional earnings, noninstitutional employment; college, normal school, and university training upon both the undergraduate and graduate levels; major and minor subjects studied, work in professional education; earned and honorary degrees, degree equivalents; elementary and secondary school experience in teaching, supervisory and administrative work, and in various subject-matter fields; business and professional experience; college, normal school, and university experience with tenure, subject-matter field, level and nature of work in each such institution; age of attaining and length of service in each academic rank; teaching load; percentage of time employed by institution; distribution of time among different institutional duties; nature and number of publications; sabbatic and other leaves; membership in and attendance upon meetings of professional, scholastic, and scientific organizations; special honors attained.1

The statistical records of selected portions of the information secured by this questionnaire constitute the greater part of the report that follows. Comment has been restricted to the more obviously interesting and significant features of these records in order that a larger portion of the data themselves might be presented. It is believed that the statistical tables that follow will provide data for interpretation and study that have not usually been available to students and institutional administrators.

1 For discussion of the staff from the standpoint of the major divisions see Parts IX, X, and XI, and Vol. II, Parts III and V.