om UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Appropriation Requests for the Biennium 1 o Contents Summary of Requests (at Lawrence) . - + ++ + ees Trend of Enrollment, Faculty and Appropriations. , Explanation of Salaries & Wages Request . +. s+ + «+ + Data on the Salary Scalo . «20 ese ee eo es # © 2 Explanation of Maintenance ecenet / a's 8 9 Explanation of Repairs Request .« 6 6 ee © ee es Explanation of Special Requests « + «4+ + s+ « © + » Summary of Requests (at Kansas City) . +. + e+» Explanation of Salaries & Wages, and Maintenance . Explanation of Repairs Request « . 6 + + + ee wo Explanation of Building Requests « + + + + «+ ¢-s ee Page os : 2 . 3 ‘ 4 . 5 ° 6 co we . 9 » Weel . ee , WY 15 SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATION REQUESTS Current Annronriations Recuested For 1235-36 1936- 1237-38 1938-39 1. Salaries and Wares $615,000 615,000 707,250 707,250 2, Additional Instructors ae -+- 97,090 7,000 3. Maintenance 175,000 175,000 275,000 275,000 4, Repairs & Improvements 45 ,000 45,000 55,000 55,000 5. Chancellor's Contingent Fund 250 250 500 50% 6. Geolozical Survey 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000. 7. Firemen's Short Course 500 500 500 500 8. Completion of Dyche Museum --- --- 55,000 == 9. Library Stack Bxtension --- wee 75,000 75,000 10. Watkins Dormitory Service Connection --- --- 5,000 --- 1l. Snecial Laboratory Equipment “a --- 7,500 --- Totals 4660 , 750 %60,750 1,302,750 1,235,250 For details, see followins pases. Trend of Enroliment, Faculty and Appropriations 1936-31 1933-54 1936-37 110 — 110 100% 1LOOg, 99 ~ 199 80 bow ee , ee poMB Co otiations LUO =OL 1955-04 1936-37 The chart shows the changes in enreéllment, instructional staff and regular appropriations for the three periods indicated, the figures for 1930 being used as a base of i100 per cent. The regular appropriations for the three years were; i930 1933 1936 Salaries & wages $819,600 $615,900 $615 , 000 Maintenance 25C ,009 191,250 175,000 Repairs & improv. 67 , 5900 45,0CC 45,000 Totals 1,136,500 851, 25° 835,660 The November 1 actual attendance for these years Was: in 1980 ----+--- 4950 1933 -+-+---+- 3415 1936 -=-----+- 4372 Reasons for using 1936, 1933 and 1936 are as follows: 1930 - The high enrollment previous to 1936 was in 1935C. The depression cut in appropriations came in 1951. 1933 - The low point of depression enrollment and budget was in 1933. The next year enrollment increased, necessitat- ing additional staff. 1936 = The current enrollment surpasses all previous marks. “oe SALARIES AND WAGES Requested for Appropriations: 1930-31 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39 Salaries and wages $819,090 615,000 Salaries and wages and new instructors 804,250 804,250 Explanation 1. Since 1933 the enrollment has increased 95C, necessitating employment of many part-time instructors and office assistants, This explanation, far from adequate for satisfactory administration and instruction, has been financed from reserve balances, as directed by the legislature, Since these balances will be exhausted during 1936437, some additional income is necessary. The cur- rent income from appropriations, student fees and endowment lacks $47,900 of meetine the present budget, 2. Most of the instructional staff added since 1933 has been of a temporary nature *= inexperienced, inexpensive young instructors and parte time graduate assistantss In the interest of good instruction part of this staff should be replaced with more experienced permanent personnel. To do this for about one«fourth of the added positions will cost *16,000 additionals 34 Previous to 1936 the high enrcllment was that of 1930, The present enrollment is 320 greater than that of 193¢, yet the instructional staff is several less{! This means larger classes, heavier teaching schedules, less attention to individual students -- in a word, dilution of the quality of services To relieve this situation will require appointment of about twenty additional instructors, This addition, for the most part in the lowest ranks, will cost at least $4¢,060, 4, An increase of at least 15 per cent ($92,750) in the current appro- priation is needed to make deserving individual adjustments. It will be recalled that the current salery and wages appropriation constitutes only 6¢ per cent of the total salary—wages budget for 1936=37. Complete or partial restoration in practically all other mid-western state universities places Kansas at an almost hopeless disadvantage in the competition for persons to fill important vacancies caused by death, retirement or resignation, In 1930 the average mid-western instructional scale was from 11 to 20 per cent above that of K. Us; this year it is from 21 to 35 per cent higher. This change is due to relatively heavier reductions efter 1930~-'31l in Kansas than in the other states, and earlier end more generous restorations in the other states than have been possible in Kanses, NOTE: Attention is called to the fect thet since 1933 the schedule of fees for resident students has been reduced 25 per cent, by order of the Lesisla- ture, This reduces the University income further, (This year, $45,000). THE SALARY SCALE. In 1930-'31 the median instructional salaries at 12 mid-western state universities* were on the average from 11.6 to 19.9 per cent higher than these at the University of Kansas. Fceur years later (1934+'35) the difference ranged from 20,8 to 30.4 per cent. This year the differential runs from 21.6 to 35,4 per cent. The averages for the varicus ranks are as follows: Professors Assoc. Prof. Asst. Frof. Instructors Per cent BQ 3] 3he35 36m37 30-3) 34—35 36-37 BO~SlL 34-35 36-37 30-31 54-35 36-57 that av- erage is above Kans. 15,8 30.4 35,4 13as 20.0 Bsc 164 5,1 256 lia® BOsb Ele This difference doubtless would be found to be even greater if we included state universities in the East and fer West and the large endowed universities, since their 1930 salaries were in general considerably higher and their depression reductions much less than those in Kansas. All these schools compete with Kansas for staff members. The discrepancy against K. U. is due to two things: (1) relatively heavier reductions in individual salaries after 1930-"'31 at K. U, than at other state universities; and (2) earlier and more generous restorations in other states than have been possible in Kansas, The individual reductions in Kansas ranged from 15 to 25 per cent (except in case of the Chancellor who was cut 30 per cent). Only two of the thirteen states in the survey received heavier cuts than Kansas (Nebraska, 22%; and Texas, 25 to 30%), and partial restorations have been made in both states (Nebraska, 2% and 5%; Texas, 80 to 100%). Other states have made general restorations, as follows:: APeenees « « + + 6s i 1 COLOfeaRS 1 39 8 @ * * @ 100% Tllinots « « « « « « « 25 to 100% (None. above $5000). Minnesota «». « « « « 100% below $1329; 50% above $132f, Missourl « « « « + « « 100%, in most cases. Ohio State »« » « « « « 56% (average) Wisconsin ¢«¢ € & © é Partial, in Lower prackets. * Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin. iw MAINTENANGB Requested For 1930-31 1936-37 491937-38 1938-39 Maintenance $250 ,000 175,000 275,000 25,000 Reasons for increase 1. The present avrrovriation is $75,000 less than that in 1930 when the enrollment was 370 less. If the children of today are to have educational onportunity equal to that offered those of 1930, the avnropriation should be increased as indicated. 2. The 1935 lerislature cut the apnropriation $16,250 each year of the 1936-37 bienniun, directing the University to use accumulated reserves to cover the reduction and meet any additional needs imposed by increased enrollment. The reserves havins been depleted, an annronriation increase of 325,000 is needed to main- tain the current inadeauate maintenance budzet. 3. Durinz the depression years the price of many essential articles and services did not decrease (fuel, water, sas, nostazce, boo'ts and periodicals, telephone service, scientific annaratus, typewriters, etc.). In order to maintain these essential items, the maintenance allowance for most administrative offices and in- structional denartments had to be cut out of nroportion to the anpropriation reductién. Two inevitable results followed, and still exist: first, many immortant class and general services were drastically curtailed or eliminated; and second, regular replacement of classroom, laboratory and office equipment was either greatly reduced or postponed indefinitely, thus making each year a more critical accwmlation of needs. 4. The price level is advancing steadily. REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS Requested For 1930-31 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39 Anpropriation $67,500 45,000 55,000 55,000 The current avyronriation is the lowest since the World War. Comared to 1915, the a-rropriation has increased only 50% whereas buildine volume to be maintained has increased 110%. The result: major repairs and imorovements have been eliminated, revular routine maintenance (renainting, revlasterinz, etc,) has been ereatly reduced, and minor improvements have been limited to emer- rency itens. The annronriation reauested will allow two immortant minor inmmrovements and a modest increase in the routine maintenance “rogram. Major items will have to be delayed further. Trend of Building Volume and Appropriations For Repairs and Improvements 1915 1919-20 1924-25 1929-30 G_ 193435 PTT Teeter eT Tet i bh eee of - 200% b. » 200% o/ ie WV g ie 2 Buiidinds 508 4 oa j 100% | , 100% Pa ee eee ttre i tik 1914-15 1919-20 1924-25 1929-30 1934=35 a So SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS Requested For 1930-31 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39 Chancellor's Continzent Fund Anpropriation $500 250 500 500 The present allowance is far inadequate to cover necessary travel, not to mention continsent exmenses. State Geoloszical Survey Arvropriation $25,000 25 ,000 25,000 25 ,000 A continuance of the present arpropriation is requested. Firemen's Short Course Aprropriation | -<- 500 500 * S00 This item although anvropriated to the State Firemen's Association is assigned to the University for rurposes of admin- istration. Details of the request will be found in the budset request of the Firemen's Associafion. Dyche Museum Completion Anvropriation --— woes 55,000 sik On Dec. 1, 1932, the Dyche Museum of Natural History was closed to the public on orders of the State Fire Marshal because of the unsafe interior structure. By aid of a $25,000 appropri- ation by the 1933 Legislature and a WPA grant part of the interior structure has been rebuilt. In the meantime, the vriceless collections have remained in storage, > great loss to the general public as well as to the student body. Dormitory Service Connection Appropriation _ae ontiing 5,000 dienes Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins of Lawrence is giving to the Univer- sity a modern dormitory for self-supporting women. The building, now under construction, will be ready for use in September, 1937. The only cost to the State will be construction of a service tunnel with service lines connecting with the campus system. SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS - cont. Requested For 1930-31 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39 Library Stack Extension Appropriation ~~ --~ $75,000 75,000 The library stack, inadequate when built, accommodates only 121,000 books. Makeshift stacks in corridors and shelving in reading rooms take care of 54,000 more; and branch libraries, badly overcrowded and in need of relief, contain about 47,000 volumes, This leaves an overflow of 44,000 which has to be stored, and thus is unavailable to the public. To this overflow the library is adding about 9,000 volumes a year. The book appropriation should be increased to bring the University collection in line with those of other universities in this area, but even if money were avail- able it would be useless to do so until adequate stack space is added. To remedy this deplorable condition it is urged that the stack be extended 70 feet west in conformity with the original building plans, and filled to one-half its capacity with steel stacks (additional shelf space for 210,000 volumes). Nev Roiler,-Hech. Bars Lids Appropriation ~—- -—= 71500 oo The boiler for generation of steam needed to operate engines and apparatus in the mechanical engineering laboratory has been condemned and declared as beyond repair, by the boiler inspector. Replacement should be made at once, since the laboratory is forced to run this year without a boiler. SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATION REQUESTS (at Kansas City) Current Appropriations Requested For. 1935-36 1936-37 1937~38 1938-39 Salaries & Wages $86 ,250 86,250 145 ,000 145 ,000 Maintenance 46,500 46 5500 75,000 77,000 Repairs & Improvements 2,500 2,500 7,500 7 +500 Connecting Corridor wrnsen moons 60 ,000 “= Negro Ward -—~ cones oe 75,000 Power Plant Addition ~-= oe 60 ,000 —- Completion & Equip- ment of New Units. wtene ee 52,000 53,000 Totals $135 ,250 135,250 399,500 357,500 SALARIES AND WAGES, AND MAINTENANCE Requested For 1930-31 1931-32 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39 Salaries & Wages $100,000 115,000 86,250 145,000 145,000 Maintenance 50,000 41,743* _46,500 75,000 77,000 Total $150,000 156,743 132,750 220,000 222,000 Unlike other divisions of the University, Medicine and Nursing showed increases in enrollment rather than decreases during the depression years. Increased Enrollment, Decreased Appropriations: The opening of the New Ward and Nurses Home in 1930 increased the hospital bed capacity and this in turn provided clinical facilities for additional medical students. The legislature of 1931 recognized this fact by increasing salary and maintenance appropriations by $27 ,000 annually for the next biennium. The intervention of the depression, how- ever, necessitated an emergency reduction of appropriations of 11 per cent in 1931-32 and about 25 per cent in 1932-33. Legislative appropri- ations for 1933-37 were continued on the reduced basis. Reserve Balances Exhausted: In the meantime the enrollment showed no decrease, For several years the appropriation reduction was offset by the savings effected through the horizontal salary reductions. In addition the hospital accumulated a surplus due to the low market prices. Rapidly shifting conditions soon altered the situation materially. Wage ad- vances in Kansas City forced adjustments for both skilled and unskilled hospital employees; the cost of food and hospital supplies advanced sharply; the demand for cha¥ity medical services increased five or six times over that of 1930; the State took advantage of opportunities to secure a great amouné of construction and landscaping work through PWA and WPA; and a Tubercular Ward was opened at the old medical plant to relieve the overflow at Norton and to provide clinical patients for medical classes. The result is that by the end of the current fiscal year the reserve balances will have been exhausted, and in addition a deficiency of $22,000 will result. Increases Needed: The amounts requested are essential to operation of the School of Medicine and Hospitals on an acceptable basis, The reasons for the increases are, in brief: 1. Reserve balances having been exhausted, additional funds are needed to maintain the current budget. * The original appropriation was $62,000. The emergency reduction brought it to this figure, however, «it « SALARIES AND WAGES, AND MAINTENANCE - Cont. 2. The rising labor market dictates additional salary and wage adjustments if the present staff is to be retained. 3. Expansions should be made in the teaching and hospital staffs as centemplated before the 1951 emergency reductions. 4, Addition of four new units, at least part of which will be epened next year, will require increased allowance fer main- tenance, 5, The cost of service to patients in the new Tubercular Ward used as clinical subjects. fer medical classes will be an additional charge. 6, Maintenance allowances to medical teaching departments should be increased to their fermer level to permit resumption of e- quipment purchases, which have been either sharply reduced er suspended since 1931, ”. The cost of medical supplies and equipment has advanced sharply, and in most cases never declined at all. 8. The standards of the national medical school association must be met if the rating of the School of Medicine is not to drop, Trend of Enrollment and Appropriations* £9 "36 31-32 33-354 35-36 14) | | | 1 : sic — Oe Enro thinent 120 oid —~ wa 110 Lo sell 100% Appropriations 99 —| 90 | | | | | | | 29-3C S1L~-32 35-34 35-36 *Salaries & Wages, Maintenance, Repairs & Improvements (regular). Note: The November 1 enrollment is used, i REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS Requested For 1930-31 1936~37 1937-38 1938-39 Appropriation $5,000 2 »500 1,500 7 »500 The reduction of this appropriation for six years has resulted in an accumulation of improvement needs. In addition, the four new units started during the past year have placed added demands on the appropriation. The following urgent needs would be met by the amount requested: 1. Repairs to Parapet Walls ---------+---- $2,500 Parapet walls around the Administration Building, the Nurses Home and the Ward Building show some leak- age. In the Nurses Home considerable damage already has occurred from seepage. 2. Addition to Water Softener - - - - - - - - - - - ~ - $3,000 Expansion of the hospital plant and increased de- mands of the laundry make the present water softener facilities inadequate. 3. Feedwater Pump for Power Plant ----------- $400 The one present pump is inadequate to handle the strain. 4, Garage Doors - - - - - ee $500 Due to lack of funds the new warehouse garage was left without doors. 5. Transformer Vault - -----------7+-7---- $500 For proper underground electrical distribution a new transformer vault is needed. 6. Tunnel from Power Plant to Hixon Laboratory ~ - ~ - $1,600 Distilled water and chemical supplies for the hospital operating and treatment rooms will be transported from the Hixon Laboratory through tunnels connecting all buildings. The only tunnel not already constructed is that one proposed above. -~ 12 ~ REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS ~ cont, Electrical Panel for Administration Building - - - - $1,500 The present overloaded, antiquated, unsafe pancl should be replaced with an adequate, safe, modern panel, Electrical Panel for Power Plant -----+-+-<---- $500 Enlargement of the Power Plant will require changes in the present panel board. Ice Making Bquipment - -+-------+-+-----=- $4,500 The cost of ice (at 30 conts the hundred pounds) amounts to as much as $600 a month during the summer. Installation of an ice-making machine would enable the hospital to make a big saving on this item. BUILDING NEEDS of the School of Medicine and University Hospitals (at Kansas City) Negro Ward Clinic Building Nt ~ S Power Plant and Laundry Warehouse Connecting Research Laboratory Children’s Ward res3 125, peocwcee ie EELS q Ward Building ts = * Negro Ward ¢ a see J le oa, 5 a ° eS Nurses Home oe Administranon Building (Bell! Memonal Hospital) D Units Now New Units or == Units Future LL Occupied Under Construction J Requested Expansion For details see p. 14 and 15. BUILDINGS Ee $60 ,000 The present Clinic Building cannot be used until some physical connection is made with the main hospital plant. A Connecting Corridor is proposed, to be 200 feet long, 30 ~ 50 feet wide and two stories high, The basement would provide much-needed cold storage facilities and isolated quarters for the morgue and post-~ mortem room. The second floor would provide (1) room for a cancer clinic, and (2) more adequate quarters for the x-ray department, Expansion of the x~ray department, an im- portant income producer, waits on larger quarters, 2. Negro Ward - ~ -» +--+... . a ~~ = $75,000 A three-story unit is proposed to handle 40 patients. The basement will be an annex to the storeroom; the two upper floors will be wards. The unit would have a deliy- ery and operating suite = complete facilities for instruc- tion of Negro medical students. It would replace the present temporary wooden Negro Ward. 3+ Addition to Power Plant, with Equipment --~--...-..- $60 ,000 The present Power Plant is unable to provide heat for the new Clinic Buflding and the Childrens Pavilion, The Power Plant Addition would remedy this situation, and in addition would provide more space for the overcrowded laundry and for the maintenance shops, 4. Completion and Equipment of New Units a. Completion of Chéldrens Pavilion ----.-j-... $24,000 Due to lack of funds the third and fourth floors and the basement remain unfinished, Completion of the basement would provide a much-needed class- room large enough to accommodate the Medical School classes, At the present time the third and fourth floors have no partitions. b. Equipment for Childrens Pavilion - ~+«.#«..«..... $9,500 This includes installation of an elevator and provision for enough furniture to care for oO additional patients. « 1h w d. BUILDINGS - cont. . Completion of Clinic Building - - - - - “_ manne $28,000 Neither the second nor third floor has any partitions. Without completion of these floors the use of the building will be greatly restricted. Equipment for Clinic Building - - - - - “see oe $19,750 This includes two elevators, kitchen equipment and refrigeration, furniture, etc. Warehouse Blevator and Doors ~-------- 7-7 ~ $2,000 Due to lack of funds doors and an elevator had to be postponed. X-Ray Equipment for Connecting Corridor - ----- $11,750 Much of the present x-ray equipment is anti- quated and badly worn, It should be replaced with new, modern equipment, adequate to handle the increasing service demands. The item re- quested while insufficient will care for the major part of the needs for the next triennium. Equipment of Négro Ward - - ------+----7 7 $10,000 This includes an elevator, opernting room equipment, and general equipment for the wards. NOTE: Items 1, 3, 4a and 4e are requested for 1937+38; items 2, 4b, 4a, Ye, Uf and 4g are requested for 193839. & 15%