Harvard Receives Highest Ratings In Survey of Professors' Salaries

In a recent survey of salary scales in nearly 200 colleges, Harvard was the only institution to receive an A rating for both minimum and average pay in the various teaching ranks.

The study, conducted by the American Association of University Professors, gave Yale and Princeton A's for their minimum pay scales, but B's for their average salaries. Only seven other institutions received a B rating in either category, while 36 earned C's. Other grades ranged from D down to F.

Average salaries exceeding $10,500 for all faculty members are being paid only by Harvard, Princeton, and the New York School of Social Work, the report showed. The figure at Yale was slightly below this amount.

The average salary paid to the 53,000 college teachers covered by the study is $7,329. Describing this figure as "intolerable," the report called on colleges to double faculty salaries within five to ten years.

Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and principal speaker at the group's meeting last Saturday, said that colleges should raise their salaries in order to attract "the kind of people needed to provide leadership in an educational community."

Attacking control of policy decisions by administrators and trustees, Flemming called on scholars to take a more active role in formulating non-academic policy. He also suggested that colleges make a greater effort to present to Congress their views on legislation concerning education.