This document provides comparative salary trend data for full-time faculty at 307 public institutions and 490 private colleges and universities based on two surveys, one for the baseline year 1993-94 and the other for the trend year 1996-97. For each of the 27 disciplines, a summary includes a definition of the discipline; information on average salaries by rank; faculty mix percentages; and comparisons between the two study years and the Consumer Price Index. Appended to the review of each discipline are lists of the 53 disciplines surveyed and the public and private institutions that participated in that segment of the study. Data and summary details are provided for the following disciplines/major fields: Accounting; Administrative Assistant/Secretarial Science, General; Anthropology; Architecture and Related Programs; Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies; Art, General; Biological Sciences/Life Sciences; Business Management & Administrative Services; Business Administration and Management, General; Business/Managerial Economics; Chemistry, General; Communications; Computer and Information Services; Counselor Education/Student Counseling and Guidance; Curriculum and Instruction; Drama/Theater Arts, General; Economics, General; Education; Education Administration and Supervision, General; Education/Instructional Media/Technician; Engineering; Engineering-Related Technologies; English Language and Literature/Letters; Enterprise Management and Operation, General; Foreign Languages and Literatures; Geography; and Geology. (DB)