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).