Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1912 — WHERE BRAINS ARE CHEAP. [ARTICLE]

WHERE BRAINS ARE CHEAP.

Low Range of Salaries Paid to Higher Class of Educators In the United States.

_ New York.—The range of salaries for the heads and faculties of state aided institutions of higher learning in this country is given in a bulletin issued by the United States bureau of education.

According to this authority one can see that Bert Williams, the negro comedian, can ipake a great deal more money than even the highest type of college president. The best paid head of any institution of this class is the president of the University of California, who receives $12,000 a year and a house. The presidents of Illinois university and Cornell university each receive SIO,OOO a year and house, while the president of the University of Minnesota gets SIO,OOO without a house.

From these figures the presidents’ salaries run down as low as $2,400. The salaries of the faculty members range from SSO a year for the least paid tutor to $6,000 a year for the best paid full professor, both extremes being touched at Cornell.

The bureau of education’s bulletin shows that the United States now contains exactly 100 universities and other Institutions of higher education which depend In considerable measure on the state or federal government for their support. Of these, sixteen are agricultural and mechanical colleges for negroes. Four of these state aided institutions have more than 40Q members on their faculties —namely, the University of California, with a faculty of 421; the University of Illinois, with 530; Cornell university, with 652, and the University of Wisconsin, with 486.