For all four-year institutions, faculty who spend more time on research and publishing and less time on teaching earn the highest salaries. While many institutions provide equal access to students from underrepresented groups, institutions often fail to provide effective and concrete ways of ensuring support and success within the educational programs. The students African American students attending an historically Black college or university show comparable first-year cognitive gains to their counterparts attending predominantly white institutions. A positive association exists between high student ratings of teacher organization and preparation and students, reading comprehension, mathematics, and critical thinking achievements. Cognitive impediments associated with women's participation in intercollegiate athletics were most pronounced for women athletes who entered college with lowest levels of prior academic achievement.
Students learn more from a coherent and developmental sequence of courses.
Faculty, employers, and policy makers agree about the importance of many skills for college graduates. College graduates need critical thinking skills in order to become more effective communicators. The faculty While faculty are innovative and adjust their teaching styles to accommodate students' needs, little reward exists in the system for such investment. Faculty with the lowest salary have between 6 and 11 classroom hours a week and are the ones who typically teach the bulk of a department's classes. Faculty with least amount of student contact hours earned the highest salaries.