12 . University of Kansas

EXPLANATION OF REQUESTS FOR INCREASES OR
SPECIAL ITEMS

A. At LAWRENCE

1, SaLartes AND WaceEs. An annual increase of $162,148 is requested to pro-
vide for additional staff and to make modest adjustments in salaries.

a. New Staff. In order-that the University may keep abreast of the times
and offer courses in the new techniques which students are demanding, $33,100
is needed for additional staff: four instructors, one each in aeronautical engi-
neering, occupational therapy, nursery school supervision, and sanitary engi-
neering; a dean of the newly-created William Allen White School of Journal-
ism; a secretary to the dean; an extension center director, and a secretary to
_ the director; a taxidermist and a preparator for the museum of natural history ;
several part-time assistants in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to make
possible an improved and expanded student advising program.

b. Salaries and Wages. In order to keep from dropping too far behind the
current market, $129,048 is urgently needed to provide modest increases in
salaries in individual cases, largely in the lower brackets. This total is dis-
tributed $13,893 to the classified service and $115,155 to the unclassified service.

Two years ago the University requested an annual increase of $42,970 in the
appropriation for salaries and wages, distributed $34,330 to salary increases,
largely for the teaching staff, and $8,640 to additional maintenance staff. The
1943 legislature increased the appropriation as requested by the University, but
directed that pay increases of $33,193.45 required under the war-elnergency pay
plan of the Civil Service Department have first claim on the additional funds.
The University request had been compiled without reference to any horizontal
adjustment for the staff in the classified service mainly because no information
was available from the Civil Service Department at the time the biennial
budget was submitted as to proposals under consideration for war-emergency
pay increases. The University was glad to make the much-deserved increases
for the staff, but pointed out that to do so would leave only $1,136.55 for in-
creases to staff in the unclassified service, after setting aside $8,640 for new
maintenance staff as planned. Recognizing the problem before the University,
the Ways and Means Committee advised the University to meet the needs of
the unclassified staff from reserve balances which were accumulating from
leaves of absence granted to faculty for war service. The increases made in ac-
cordance with this advice are given in the table below. Also shown in the
table is the amount found necessary to increase the classified staff during the
biennium because of the increasing pay scale in the area.

The distribution of the amount needed for salary increases is as follows:

a. Classified staff:

Increases made in current biennium in excess of appropriation..... $6,031.75
Increases considered necessary next biennium.................... 7,861.50
i ————_ $18,893.25
b. Unclassified service:
Increases made in current biennium from reserve balances......... 52,819.27
Increases considered necessary next biennium.................... 61,436.00
Increases for secretarial training staff........... Daw eate rales Geeta 900.00
115,155.27

$129,048.52

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