Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26.
It is sobering.
Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008.
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everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is:
Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more.
Please cite this as the Carroll report.