1.   Applications surged, and faculty salaries rose to ninth highest in the nation.

2.   As one Cooper Union employee notes, while faculty salaries may currently track the averages, it is the rare Cooper Union teacher who considers himself merely average.

3.   But even with the improvement, Ole Miss remains well behind other Southern universities in critical areas, like faculty salaries, research grants and number of library volumes.

4.   Faculty salaries at Nassau, a two-year college, had surpassed some at Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Cornell.

5.   Koplik said community college faculty salaries need to be reviewed immediately.

6.   Most of the money is to be used for financial aid, faculty salaries and academic programs, university officials said.

7.   Most of the money is to be used for financial aid, faculty salaries and academic programs, university officials say.

8.   No recipient has been named, however, because the income from the endowment falls far short of what is needed to pay a full faculty salary and benefits.

9.   Richard Kessel, another trustee, said the only logical role for the board was to demand that the county freeze faculty salaries.

10.   Strapped for cash, the government has kept faculty salaries and student aid at Soviet-era levels, while the ruble has plunged and prices have soared.