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Hemenway pledges to carry on salary fight
WIDENING THE GAP
Comparison of average KU faculty salaries to average faculty salaries of similar universities in the Association of American Universities (AAU).
AVERAGE SALARY
$60,000
$50,000
$40,000
$30,000
$20,000
$10,000
1980 $23,973
1982 $25,515
1984 $31,285
1986 $34,917
1988 $37,645
1990 $44,020
1982 $27,622
1984 $33,974
1986 $38,641
1988 $44,268
1990 $49,936
1992 $45,871
1994 $54,074
1996 $56,995
1998 $61,179
1998 $65,475
YEAR
Association of American Universities (AAU)
University of Kansas Faculty
Source: University of Kansas Profiles. Tables 6-335 and 6-336
By Kristi Reimer
Kansan staff writer
Richard Bachman/KANSAN
Last week, a House subcommittee chairman charged that there was no crisis of faculty leaving the state for higher-paying jobs and carved $1.5 million out of a $2.5 million meritorious-faculty fund recommended by Gov. Bill Graves.
The University of Kansas and the Board of Regents have not given up their fight to raise faculty salaries to levels at least comparable to similar universities nationwide.
But this week, a Senate subcommittee thought differently and recommended adding $900,000 to the proposal, which would bring to the fund to $3.4 million. The Legislature is debating faculty salaries as part of this year's state budget.
In response, higher-education offi
cials are renewing their efforts to prove that if the situation continues, Kansas will suffer.
"I'm very concerned that if something is not done, the numbers leaving will be much more impressive in the future," Provost David Shulenburger said. "We don't want to get into that situation."
In a recent memo to Chancellor Robert Hemenway, Shulenburger reported that 31 faculty members had received or expected to receive offers from other institutions.
Those 31 instructors had been responsible for securing $6.7 million in outside grant money, or an average of $200,000 each. Shulenburger said in the memo. Two of the instructors had won University-wide teaching awards
Shulenburger and Hemenway have been walking the halls of the Capitol in Topeka for weeks, meeting with legislators and testifying before committees about the faculty-salary initiative. Hemenway said he and Shulenburger would continue to do so.
"The legislators are not hostile. They respect the University; they respect the Board of Regents." Hemenway said. "We have to convince them that this function the University performs is of sufficient value to the business of the state and that faculty need to be paid competitively."
"Other universities are targeting our best faculty and drawing them away," Shulenburger said.
"What that means is that faculty are lagging behind their fellow citizens," he said. "A salary is a reflection of the value of an individual to the society
Hemenway said average per capita income in Kansas had outpaced increases in pay for faculty in the last five years by about 1.5 percent.
that supports that person."
Robert Basow, associate professor of journalism and Faculty Senate president, said the salary issue extended beyond individual professors to the future quality of education.
"In order to keep attracting bright young minds to teach bright young minds, we have to act now," he said.
He said young faculty were often loaded with debt from their own education and had no choice to accept the best-paying jobs. With a third of the faculty above the age of 55 and retiring in the next decade, and young faculty going elsewhere, class sizes would rise and educational quality would decrease, he said.
"If we lose sight of the big picture, there will be no picture," he said.
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Conference features KU alumni
Leadership award history focus of weekend meeting
By Nadia Mustafa
Kansan staff writer
Almost 20 University of Kansas alumni will return to campus this week to speak with students and serve as panelists for a portion of the 12th annual Blueprints Student Leadership Conference.
the alumni's return marks the 25th anniversary of the Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award, first awarded in 1973 to KU law student Rusty Leffel for his work promoting higher education in Kansas and establishing public support for the University.
Leffel will be among those returning to the University this weekend. In 1970, he founded Students Concerned about Higher Education in Kansas, now called Student Legislative Awareness Board.
Aaron Quisenberry, assistant director Organi zations and Leadership Center, said he hoped the conference would promote student involvement on campus.
"The conference can open students' eyes to how to act in a group," he said. "If we can get students at the conference, maybe they'll get involved with SUA or become an R.A. (resident assistant). Hopefully, we can give them a kick start."
Author and certified speaking professional
Carl Mays will be the keynote speaker at the conference, which is sponsored by the Organizations and Leadership Center. The conference is entitled "Discovering the Foundations of Leadership."
Mays is a specialist in motivation, human relations and performance improvement who has spoken to more than 2,000 groups including Fortune 500 companies. He has written leadership books entitled A Strategy for Winning and Anatomy of a Leader. He has also received the Council of Peers Award for Excellence.
Mays will deliver a second speech sponsored by the KU greek community at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Admission is free and open to students.
Karen Isley, conference co-chair and Sylvania, Ohio, senior, said the conference would give students interested in leadership a chance to meet people and learn about opportunities available at the University.
"There's something for everyone at this conference," she said. "It's an extra source of motivation. Even if your goal is to get excited about school, this will definitely do it."
Students will be able to watch three speakers, listen to Mays and question the panel of former award recipients.
BLUEPRINTS SPEAKERS
Sarah Hill, Hutchinson freshman, said that she was going to attend the conference to meet other
James Kitchen, dean of students
Then they will participate in a community service project with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Lawrence. Students will bowl at Jaybowl and complete a scavenger hunt at the Natural History Museum with the children.
■ Reggie Robinson, special counsel to the chancellor
Danny Kaiser, Organizations and Leadership Center director
Barbara Ballard, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs
Gloria Flores, associate director of the Multicultural Resource Center
Mary Ryan, director of new student orientation
*Paul Buskirk, associate director of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation*
Stephen Fawcett, distinguished professor of bujo development and family life
Lori Joseph, communication studies graduate teaching assistant
■ Greg Shepherd, associate professor of communication studies
- Tim Bengson, associate professor of journalism
Pearl McDonald, leadership consultant
undergraduate students interested in leadership "It's a good opportunity to learn a lot about organizing and leading groups," she said.
Students who want to attend the conference must register at the Organizations and Leadership Center in the union by 5 p.m. on Friday. There is a $10 fee for program materials, lunch and a conference T-shirt.
Edited by Jason Pearce
Twisting metal into art
Sculptor Matt Shepard, Wichita junior, files down a sculpture with a hand-held power grinder. The piece, which will be eight feet tall, is being constructed from 16-gauge aluminum in the basement of the Art and Design Building. Photo by Gus Koffler/KANSAN
Diana Carlin, associate professor of communications studies, gave a speech about women and politics as part of the February Sisters Forum. The event was at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., last night. Photo by Erin McElhiney/KANSAN.
Speaker says Barbie can hurt U.S. women's health and self-esteem
By Dan Curry
Kansan staff writer
Barbie might look good, but hardly any women look like that doll, a speaker at the February Sisters Forum said last night.
Eve-Lynn Nelson, Springfield Mo., graduate student, said that according to a 1996 study by Norton et. al., only one woman in 100,000 would be able to match Barbie's proportions.
"For me to match Barbie's image, I would have to grow two feet taller, a half-foot in my chest, and a half-foot in on my waist," she said, referring to another study done about Barbie by Brownell and Napolitano in 1996.
Lorraine Bayard de Volo, assistant professor of political science, and Diana Carlin, associate professor of communications studies, also spoke during the forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Presenters at the forum, which was sponsored by the Women's Studies Program, spoke to an audience of 35 about images of women in media, politics and war, but it was the image of Barbie that caught the audience's attention.
"She has a completely unbelievable physique for playing soccer." Hayes said. "She wouldn't be able to breathe. Her legs would break."
Matt Hayes, Middlesborough, England, graduate student, said he saw a soccer-playing Barbie advertised in a soccer magazine.
"If you watch MTV you see a lot of thin people who are receiving a lot of attention for their bodies," Nelson said.
Nelson spoke about how Barbie and the media's portrayal of ideal U.S. women were connected to eating disorders and poor self-images in women.
Nelson said a 1996 KU study found that women who were shown slides of stereotypically attractive women later had lower self-esteem and were more depressed.
Media exposure, however, is just one factor in whether women develop eating disorders or not other factors include genetics, self-esteem, stress factors and family, she said.
The thinness of these women affects the way women view themselves and whether they might alter their eating habits, she said.
Nelson said her personal research looked into the ways mothers and daughters talked about images of women.
She said that people could combat the forces of the media on women by talking to their children about what those media images mean.
"Talk about acting beautiful instead of just looking beautiful," she said.
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