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Monday, May 8, 1978
University Daily Kansan
AAUP wants evaluation changes
A University of Kansas faculty group passed resolutions last week to recommend changes in the method of evaluating faculty and awarding salary increases.
The group, the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, recommended that the current method of student evaluation of teachers be amended, that faculty be evaluated by their peers, and that the faculty of faculty are amended to administrators.
They also recommended that percentages not be used for salary increases of faculty.
The group unanimously agreed Thursday that the current method of student evaluation of teachers was unfair. The group has about 150 members.
ACCOording TO the recommendation,
student evaluations provide only an average
rating and percentage ranking of instructors'
performance, you should consider to be an
inaccurate measure.
THE GROUP said that student evaluations should include a margin of error and a standard deviation. A standard deviation would give a measure of how an evaluation of one professor would compare with others.
The group also made a recommendation that faculty be evaluated annually by their peer.
Currently, they said, there is no such method and faculty are deprived of evaluations that would be important when they were considered for proration or
The group also said that the annual evaluations should be extended to administrators, who currently are evaluated once every five years.
Annual evaluations for instructors and administrators that are similar, AAPU and other universities.
A further rec...aundation by the group that the current system of awarding pay increases by percentage be eliminated was supported by the group because it said that system caused too much disparity between the salaries of faculty members.
alientation that '%' '*mes exists between*
the tworow.
For example, a faculty member who receives $10,000 annually and is granted a 10 percent increase receives an extra $1,000 the next year. However, a faculty member who receives $30,000 annually and is granted a 10 percent increase would receive an extra $2,000 the next year.
SUCH PERCENTAGE increases, the group said, gave too much to the higher income bracket and too little to the lower income bracket.
There are currently 14 pay scales for KU instructors, which the group said was an answer to the question.
Along with the recommendation that percentage pay increases be eliminated, the group expressed its discontent with current salaries.
THE GROUP said that in the AAPU Report on Economic Status of the Profession for 1976-77, the salaries of KU instructors ranked fifth out of six peer institutions, slightly above the University of Oklahoma.
According to the report, average faculty salaries have increased from $14,363 in 1971 to $20,282 in 1977. This represents a 41.2 percent increase from 1971.
They also said that although they had received significant salary increases recently, they had started from what they were earning and having a 2.6 percent decrease in salary in 1972.
The report said, however, that the cost of living had increased 47 percent during the period.
Seating won't alter old ceremony
Although seating for the 106th annual University of Kansas commencement will be different from previous years the date to take place in the way that it has in the past.
Candidates for degrees will be seated on the football field in Memorial Stadium because of the stadium's renovations which began in December.
The procession for the May 22 commencement to the stadium will begin at 7:30 p.m. on the law of Strong Hall. It will
In the past, graduates and guests sat on the stands.
Memorial Stadium commencement seating plan
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CEREMONIES ARE scheduled to begin at 8 n.m.
Gob. Robert F. Bennett will give his
traditional greeting to the graduates and
Walter Hirstenel, chairman of the Kansas
Board of Regents, will address the
Special parking near the southeast gate and seating in section 4 on the stadium map.
Guests can enter the stadium through the south nates.
Handicapped people who attend the ceremony can apply for special parking permits.
The stage will be at the south end of the stadium and the commencement band will
Graduates will sit behind and on either side of the band. Faculty will be seated
SPECIAL GUESTS of the University, including recipient of unspecified service located in sequestered site
There will be seating in the stadium for about 10,000 guests on the field.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes will have a reception for graduates and their parents at his residence at 3 p.m. on commencement commencement band will play at the reception.
At 5 p.m., there will be a senior-pant dinner in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
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