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or less of their total income for salaries, this being the percentage for 

 this institution. The average percentage is 53. Also 29 institutions 

 pay the same or a smaller salary than Ave do to full professors, 6 to as- 

 sistant professors and 10 to instructors, the average salaries for the 

 respective grades in the 4G institutions being, 12,201.00, .fl, 411.00 and 

 1961.00. Also, there are 20 institutions lor which the teaching salary 

 expense per student enrolled is the same or less than for this college, 

 viz.: flGl.OO, the average l>eing, |1TG.00. 



These figures, after making all allowances for varying conditions, 

 are significant and point forcibly to the necessity of increasing the 

 salary budget for this institution, both as a total and as a scale for 

 the several grades, if we would maintain our reputation as a high grade 

 institution. 



The ideal scheme of salaries should include a plan of promotion in 

 the several grades, so that new men would know what prospects are 

 before them if they render satisfactory service. Under present arrange- 

 ments at this college we frequently cannot attract desirable men, not 

 only because of low initial salaries; but also because of indefiniteness 

 of reward for good effort. 



After a careful consideration of the whole question I suggest the 

 following scale of salaries as appropriate to this institution : 



Instructors: First vear, |000; second year, |1,050; third year, |1,- 

 200; fourth year, $1,400. • 



Assistant Professors: First year, |1,600; third year, |1,800; fifth 

 year, |2,000. 



Professors : First year, |2,500 ; third year, |2,750 ; fifth year, |3,000. 



I also suggest that the number of teachers of instructor grade be 

 kept down to one-half the total instruction force and that a substantial 

 increase in the number of men of assistant i^rofessor grade be made 

 for the engineering work at this college. 



"The ideal professor is the man who knows his subjects not merely 

 as they exist in printed rules or texts, but as they have lived and grown, 

 in his thoughts and have been tried by his practice, a man whose fund 

 of information is large and whose professional experience has led him in 

 broad lines. He is not only a masterful teacher, a leader of thought 

 in the field he represents, but is one able to stand among professional 

 men and aid in their discussion of practical problems. ****** 

 The presence of one or two fine men, however, is not sufficient for the 

 modern state college of engineering, but in these later days the staff 

 must be strong numerically as well as individually.'- — Dean W. F. M. 

 Goss, College of Engineering, University of Illinois. 



AMOUNT OF TEACHING REQUIRED OP MEMBERS OP THE INSTRUCTION STAPP. 



''The effect of engineering research is so great in stimulating the 

 activities of professors and students, and in maintaining correct ideals 

 with reference to all things mechanical, that no state college of en- 

 gineering is to be regarded as performing its full function, which fails 

 to devote a portion of its energies to such investigntions." — Dean W. 

 F. M. Goss, College of Engineering, University of Illinois. 



This opinion is the concensus of all engineering educators and, judged 

 by it, the engineering work at this college is weak. To repair the weak- 

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