Summer Salary

The faculty questionnaire asked tenure-track or tenured faculty hired after 1996 whether they received summer salary funds when they were first hired at their current institution. Of those who responded, 71 percent of men and 68 per­cent of women indicated they did. When disaggregated by discipline, interesting differences appeared, with female faculty having a higher percentage in chemistry (81.8 percent compared to 71.2 percent for male faculty) who received summer salary; while in mathematics the reverse was true, with 42.9 percent of male fac­ulty as contrasted with 29.1 percent of female faculty (see Appendix 4-10).