University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 25,1973
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Abandonment of federal wage ceiling has cleared the way for a long-planned program to increase faculty salaries to cover the full cost of board of Regents spokesman said Tuesday.
End of Controls Said to Up Wages
New fiscal guidelines approved Saturday on the Regents represented the first step in the process.
The source, who asked not to be named,
said studies had indicated that salaries at the University of Kansas were 15 to 18 per cent lower than those of peer group institutions as much as 10 years ago.
Student unrest and the resulting deterioration of public support for higher education postponed any corrective action, be said
The most damaging year was fiscal year
"That really hurt us," the spokesman said. "We're still rebounding."
1972, he said, when no salary increases were allowed.
The problem has not been exclusive to KU. Kansas State University ranks at the bottom of the Big Eight schools, he said, and it was a consequence of a group of 40 comparable institutions.
The source characterized the salary
Because K-State and the other state schools generally rank lower in their respective peer groups than KU and Wichita State University, the Regents hope to increase salaries at K-State and the other colleges faster than at KU and WSU.
discrepancies as "kind of pathetic."
Profs to Attend AAUP Meeting
Women's rights, tenure for professors and possible ambition for those who refused to fight in Vietnam will be among the topics to be discussed at the national conference of the American Association of University Teachers Friday and Saturday in St. Louis.
The University of Kansas chapter of AAUP will be represented at the conference by J. Bunker Clark, associate professor of music history and newly elected president of the state conference of AAUP; Marlinton Cox, associate professor of liberal arts and a member of the national AAUP council; Grant Goodman, professor of history and East Asian studies and newly elected president of the KU AAUP chapter; John Glinka, associate professor of library and a former chapter president; and Bill Paden, professor of English.
This year the national conference assigned a committee to report on the status of women in the academic profession which has been recognized as assurance that the views will be reviewed.
Reports from committee assigned to review complaints against universities for offending AUP principles will also be presented. Such reports are considered every year at the convention, according to the report. Recommendations to schools would be brought under review.
The Regents have authorized the chief administrators at K-State and the three state colleges to include 11 per cent salary increases in their fiscal year 1975 budget requests. KU and WSU will be allowed to request ten per cent increases.
If a university is found guilty of violating AUAP principles, it is "blacklisted" by which discourages student and faculty coercion. If an institution did not want to release the names of the
The first report to AAPU ever made by a women's group will be presented by a committee on the status of women. Glinka said an effort had been made last year by women to release a report to the national government, but it was been blocked for parliamentary reasons.
schools under review until the complaints had been considered at the convention.
the statement would reflect no change from that position.
Collective bargaining and tenure are expected to attract major consideration, Glinka said. AAUP issued a statement to be revised at the conference that recommends a new framework for collective bargaining units except as a labor resort. According to Glinka, proposed revisions in
Glinka said he had heard that a group would appear before the convention to request that AAUP issue a statement calling for amnesty for Vietnam draft conscripts, a statement, Glinka said, might not be in the proper realm of AAUP authority.
The salary increases would probably be a mixture of across-the-board hikes and merit pensions.
Six per cent of the increases would be standard cost-of-living jumps. The remaining portion would be used to restore salaries to competitive levels.
The proposed increases are part of a three-year plan to improve salaries by about 30 per cent, he said. The actions must be guided by the legislature and governor.
K-10 Improvements to Resume
Dismissal Thursday of a suit filed in Johnson County District Court against the State Highway Commission will allow the commission to proceed with purchasing a right-of-way along K-10 for read imagery along the highway commission attorneys.
Improvements have been delayed since October 1972, when a permanent injunction against further improvements was issued by the district court.
The project under inunction involved 7.5 miles of K-10 from a mile south of DeSoto to the southeast.
Dale Dugan of the highway commission's production control division said in March that a decision in the commission's favor at the hearing would allow the commission to proceed with condemnation along the improvement site.
In that event, Dugan said, grading and bridging along the DeboK-7-7 section might begin this summer, and surfacing contracts might be let in spring 1974.
The completion date would depend upon weather conditions once work had begun,
The injunction was issued as the result of a petition filed in August 1972 against the
highway commission by S.R. Brunn, Johnson County landowner.
Brunn said that the commission acted with "gross impropriety and arbitrariness" in its attempted condemnation and acquisition of a section of Brunn's property.
Brunn said that the highway commission failed to comply with Kansas laws and federal requirements in its attempt to acquire Brunn's property.
The dismissal of the case by District Court Judge Herbert Walton followed a motion for dismissal by highway commission attorneys who claimed that Brunn had failed to meet certain requirements in preparing his case.
The section under injunction from DeSoto to K-7 was one of four sections in the total K-10 project which would provide a divided four-lane, and controlled access freeway to the intersection of K-10 with N5 in Johnson County, Dugan said.
One section involving 5.5 miles between K-7 and I-35 has been under contract for three years and will probably be completed this fall, Dugan said.
According to Dugan, two sections comprising 11.5 miles between Lawrence and
DeSoa are scheduled to be let for grading and bridging in spring 1974 with surfacing to the existing trench.
If all goes according to schedule, Dugan said, the Lawrence-DeSoto sections could possibly be opened to traffic in October 1975, marking the completion of the K-10 project.
Since the weather has turned warm, campus has literally blossomed into a landlord would think that the temptation to pick the IKEA furniture hard to resist. However, Harry Buchholz, director of physical plants for the university, said that there seldom is any problem.
KU Flowers Begin Blooming
"Usually the people respect the flowers and why they there." Buchholz said.
He said that although there was not any official law against picking the flowers, it is dismayful.
"There's no set law against coming into someone's front yard and picking flowers," she said. "It's not a crime."
B.A. Degree Changes Go to Vote
Kansan Staff Writer
By JEFFREY STINSON
The College Assembly voted Tuesday to end discussion of proposed changes in the bachelor of arts degree requirements and put them to a mail ballot.
Assembly members will vote in the next ten days on proposed changes in English, foreign language, mathematics, speech and Western Civilization requirements. There were efforts during the meeting to vote on each of the changes separately, but all
motions to do so failed.
The hearing had been tentatively scheduled for this week by Dr. E. D. Lyman, director of the state health department.
A public hearing which was to be held this week to discuss the Wakarua Manor nursing home in Lawrence will be delayed, for some time according to Bob Corbett, attorney for the Kansas State Board of Health in Toeika.
The changes have been discussed since March 27. The foreign language and mathematics requirements have been the hottest points of controversy.
Corbett said a date for the hearing would be announced the middle of next week. The hearing will give concerned citizens a chance to publicly discuss conditions at the home.
If the proposal passes, requirements for English would be changed from nine hours of composition and literature to English 1. composition courses; English 3.8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 16.
The home was inspected April 18 by state and county inspectors and found to be general unsatisfactory. The inspectors also noted that the home lacked skilled care than the home could provide.
Foreign language requirements would be altered from proficiency or 16 hours in one foreign language to proficiency or 10 hours in another language. Students have the option of two additional language courses, two culture courses taught in that language or 10 hours of a different foreign language.
Board of Health To Reschedule Home Hearing
In other action, the assembly tabled consideration of establishing a pluralistic, responsible, integrated humanities program.
The current proficiency in mathematics or math 2C or 11 requirements would be altered to: two courses in mathematics or logic or both; an ACT score of 27, and one course in mathematics or logic or a beginning course in calculus.
The assembly also revised major requirements for biology, speech and drama, classical languages and classical antiquity.
It revised requirements for honors in physics, approved a new course in Latin and Greek.
The body also made curricula changes in American studies, anthropology, biology, etnology, systematics and ecology, classics and classical archaeology, history of art, human development and family life and speech and drama.
The present requirement of speech proficiency or a two-hour course in the English language is offered.
western Civilization would be changed from discussion I and II and the com prehensive examination to a choice between the current program and two other three-credit-hour courses to be offered by the department.
to oral communication proficiency or a two or three hour course in oral communication
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