Thu, 21 Feb 2008 Michael Bernstein Provost, Tulane University 200 Gibson Hall Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Dear Provost Bernstein, In October 2007 you met with a number of faculty members through our chapter to discuss your plans to deal with shortfalls in faculty compensation. At about that time, to inform ourselves and fellow faculty about where Tulane salaries stood in relation to those at other institutuions, we obtained from the Washington office of the AAUP a comparative analysis. This included our peer institutions as published in earlier Tulane planning documents, and includes the majority of those you mentioned in our meeting. We certainly share your concern, as the Tulane figures--even including some relatively high-salary professional divisions in the averages--rank at the bottom or near-bottom of the group. (Wake Forest is sometimes lower, but as a Category II institution is perhaps not as close a comparison as some of the other institutions). We hope these figures will be of assistance in your assessment of the need for salary remediation, and would welcome the opportunity to contribute further to that process. Yours sincerely, Linda L. Carroll President and Secretary for the executive committee: David Rice, Treasurer; Janet Rice Downtown Representative; Graham Owen, Uptown Representative Attachments: Tulane0607_group1_report1.pdf Tulane0607_group1_report5.pdf Tulane0607_group1_report2.pdf Tulane0506_group1_report5.pdf Tulane0506_group1_report1.pdf Tulane0506_group1_report2.pdf