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...Texas A&M, since they have recently become hot property in the eyes of industrial recruiters. For instance, the most recent beneficiaries of the university's largesse were its engineering professors. "The competition was becoming so heavy we had to increase our salaries, just to keep our faculty," Groot explains...
Aside from the exigencies of competition. Texas A&M's chief factor in calculating salaries for its professors is individual achievement, says Groot. "After we've considered the competition, to figure the rest of the salary increase we strictly look at merit--peer evaluations and specific accomplishments...
...what Harvard calls intellectual unity. Texas A&M calls managerial blindness. "It's much easier to determine raises across the board, but we don't think it is better," says Groot. "Even though we've been growing we've attempted to maintain individual attention to our professors...
...Groot admits, however, that his thinking is conditioned as much by pragmatism as by solicitousness. "We don't have much choice," he says. "If we didn't adjust our salaries to respond to the market, we would lose our faculty...
...there is a difference between defensively boosting a professor's salary to keep him on the faculty on the one hand, and rewarding him with a raise for meritorious achievement on the other, which Groot indicates is also a Texas A&M practice...