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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE of better salaries, lighter teaching loads, and greater opportunities for research at other places. Early in his administration he pledged himself to work for an annual 5 percent increase. In some years he was able to accomplish considerably more than that, but between 1968 and 1977 inflation averaging between 9 and 10 percent annually wiped out gains made nationwide by college faculty and many in other occupations as well. For most of the years between 1945 and 1985 the annual report of college and university salaries compiled by the American Association of University Professors offered a comparison between compensation paid to Gettysburg faculty and that received by colleagues in most sister institutions in all parts of the country. The first report of the A.A.U.P. committee on the economic status of the profession covered the year 1958-1959. Seven grades were assigned for an institution's performance in each rank: AA and A through F. Amounts needed to earn a particular grade in any one year depended on the price level and other factors. For the first year the Gettysburg chapter submitted salary information which the administration had supplied but, along with that from such other Pennsylvania colleges as Allegheny and Dickinson, its publication was not authorized. For 1959-1960, when the restriction was lifted, with an average salary of $5,951 for all ranks, Gettysburg earned scores of D, D, C, and B, the latter for instructors. Salaries paid in 1961-1962, the last year for which the General had responsibility, earned Gettysburg grades of C, C, C, and B. The average salary for a full-time faculty member in that year was $6,862. Deciding eventually that its existing grading system no longer served a useful purpose, in part because most institutions were raising salaries and consequently getting high grades, especially for the lower ranks, the A.A.U.P last used it in 1969-1970, by which time Gettysburg was earning scores of B, B, A, and A, and the average salary was $11,694. Beginning in 1970-1971, the A.A.U.P. divided institutions into three categories and established ten ratings for schools in each. As a four-year institution offering the baccalaureate degree, Gettysburg fell into the second category. During the rest of the Hanson administration, with only two exceptions, the College earned the highest ratings of one in each rank. The average salary for a full-time faculty member in 1977-1978 was $18,651.91 Surveying the state of the College and the apparently trying times ahead for higher education in the Northeast, upon assuming office in 1977 President Glassick began reminding faculty and trustees of 91Annual reports of the committee on the economic status of the profession were published in the A.A.U.P. Bulletin, usually in a summer issue. Determining whether compensation paid by one school was fair and how it compared with that in other institutions was a complicated task. The brief information given here offers only the beginning of a careful, comprehensive study of the subject. 82