ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns both the lay and the religious members of the faculty. The origins, freedom, academic citizenship, working conditions, and morale of the lay faculty will be discussed. Thus, the junior members of Catholic faculties are likely to receive compensation at the A or B norm, while at the higher levels of associate and full professor compensation slips to C and D. As far as determine, the principal reason for the rather low state of faculty morale is the basic distrust, on the part of the lay faculty, of the religious order that administers the school. Many religious scholars have high morale. Since many schools have a requirement of a theology course every semester, or four or five courses during the four years of college, a large staff is needed in the theology department. Philosophy was at the very core of the curriculum of the so-called "liberal" or "humanities" education in Catholic colleges and particularly the Jesuit schools.
