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University Daily Kanean, March 21, 1983
Report shows KU lagging in faculty pay
By LAUREN PETERSON Staff Reporter
The most dishearring finding in the recently compiled statistics of 1981-1982 university faculty salaries is that KU ranks 21st out of 24 peer institutions, Robert Hohn, professor of educational psychology, and last year's
"I think the statistics confirm what people already know." Hohn said. "Compared to our peer institutions, we are low."
Hohn, who is an executive member of the American Association of University Professors, said that each spring the group's KU chapter compiled salary statistics from the previous year, taken from the summer issue of Academe, an AAUP periodical published in Washington, D.C.
THE STATISTICS show that out of 24 peer institutions, including Big Eight Conference schools such as Iowa State University, the university of
Missouri-Columbia, the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of California pays its faculty members the mone
The AAUP determines peer institutions according to universities that are similar to KU in enrollment and programs.
California-Berkley pays its professors $54,000, and KU professors receive $38,400. Benefits are included in these statistics.
MU ranks last among the 24 schools in salaries.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction and president of the KU chapter of AAUP, said that if low faculty salaries continued, she would move to the Kansas Legislature's commitment to higher education in the state.
SHE SAID professors might be forced to seek positions in the private business sector as an alternative to teaching.
"They may reach the point where
In salaries of associate and assistant professors, KU ranks last out of the 24 at least in some respects.
they can't do what they want to do — teach," she said.
NU and MU are slightly ahead of KU in those salaries. California and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professors are the highest salaries.
The statistics show a little brighter news in comparing KU with Big Eight
KU is ranked third in the conference in an overall comparison of average scores.
BUT THE AVERAGE SALARY of KU associate professors is $28,200, the lowest in the Big Eight. The University of Oklahoma pays its associate professors $40,000, the highest salary in the Big Eight.
David Shulenburger, associate professor of business, said the biggest problem was that associate professors were not being trained in schoolships if the salaries remained low.
"I hope the Legislature realizes that we are not a fat institution crying about the fact that our laws don't work."
In percentage salary increases, KU is ranked fifth out of six peer universities, including CU, ISU, OU, the University of Oregon and North Carolina.
OKLAHOMA HAD the largest salary increases with a high of 14.7 percent for its assistant professors and a 20.8 percent increase for its instructors.
Swarz said KU could not lag behind
salaries and continue to offer
higher salaries.
The highest salary increase at KU was 8 percent for its assistant professors. Full professors received a 6.8 percent increase and associate professors received an increase of 7.9 percent.
"Right now, I just hope that the Legislature recognizes that the University constitutes an important resource, and that with any resource, it has to be maintained to ensure quality," she said.
Cold temps keep the heat on at KU, officials say
From staff and wire reports
Spring officially began yesterday, but colder than normal temperatures have kept the heat on at the University of Kansas.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said yesterday that buildings would still be heated for at least a week. Facilities operations had been warm the heat this week because of the warm temperatures before spring break.
"We are just going to wait until it gets warm." he said.
THE TEMPERATURE in some buildings was lowered over spring
break, Anderson said, but all temperatures should be returned to normal today.
The University usually does not turn off the heat until around April 15. But in order to conserve energy costs, officials had decided before spring break to keep the campus in mid-March. However, unseasonably cold weather changed their plans.
This week's temperatures should continue to be below the 56 degree average March temperature, and rain or snow is possible by the end of the week, said Ron Cramall, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka.
During spring break, temperatures in Lawrence ranged from last Monday's high of 72 to yesterday's high of 33, he said.
A LOW PRESSURE system over the Mississippi Valley, upper air winds from the north and increasing cloudiness brought the cold temperatures and precipitation to the Midwest, he said.
Lawrence received less than an inch of snow yesterday, but western Kansas experienced its worst in 30 years.
The same low pressure system dumped four inches of snow across Missouri, Iowa and Illinois yesterday, but no serious injuries were reported.
Saturday up to six inches of snow fell in western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle.
Near-blizzard conditions in north central Michigan were brought on by high winds gusting to 30 mph and the 21st storm of snow that has fallen since Friday.
AT LEAST FOUR tornadoes spun through Louisiana and Mississippi, damaging homes, businesses and a coastal, but causing no serious injuries.
The east coast was hit by rains that swelled rivers in Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
Census reports more women attending college
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Women are going to college in ever increasing numbers, expanding their enrolment lead over men, and the average age of college students is creeping upward, a Census Bureau report said yesterday.
The report showed total enrollment at all school levels stayed about the same in 1981 as in 1980, but it has changed markedly since 1970, with the number of children in nursery schools nearly doubling.
WOMEN BEGAN to outnumber men on college campuses in 1979. By 1981, there were 108 women in college to every 100 men, the report said. In 1972.
there were 74 women per 100 men in college.
The survey showed most college students were older than 21, and more than a third were 25 and older.
Enrollment in colleges rose by one-third from 1972 to 1981, to a total of 12.1 million, with the number of men in college up 12 percent and the number of women up 63 percent. Total enrollment in colleges was 14.5 million, of age was 10.7 million, meaning 1.4 million people 35 years of age and older were attending colleges.
Women, the report said, comprised half the full-time undergraduates under the age of 35 and 45 percent of the graduate students. They also accounted
for a majority of the part-time and two-year college students.
TOTAL ENROLLMENT in all schools did not change much from 1908 to 1801, hitting nearly 58.4 million in 1801. But the composition of the enrollment has changed significantly from 1970, said the bureau.
The number of children in nursery schools doubled during the decade to nearly 2.1 million, and it was up nearly four times from 1965.
As the children of the baby boom years have grown older, the number of elementary school students has dropped about 18 percent from a peak of almost 34 million in 1970 to 27.8 million in 1981.
percent to 14.6 million from its apparent peak in 1978-77.
THE PROPORTION of elementary and secondary students in private schools was about the same in 1881 and rose to 11 percent. It was 13 percent in 1964.
There has been a decline in the percentage of young blacks who have dropped out of school in the past decade. The number that of whites has remained the same.
Among black civilians 18 and 19 years old, 19 percent were not in school and did not graduated in 1961, in contrast to 50 percent who gathered — when the proportion was 28 percent. The proportion of white dropouts was 16 percent in both years.
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"I think it's a good thing that they take a closer look at themselves," he said. "Student groups and individuals don't stand up enough to the Senate."
MICHAEL SILENCE, a member of Praxis, which is one of the student groups that had objected to the way the Senate had handled the disclaimer issue, said he thought Senate was leading to criticism from the groups.
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Obviously, what is printed in the pamphlets does reflect the views of the group, she said.
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"We thought it would be a good compromise," he said. "It would please the groups because it would be a positive statement rather than a negative one. And it would please Senate because I think, in reality, it would be absurd to think that anyone who was disgusted with the material printed would prosecute Senate for libel."
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"I think Senate should be hesitant to appear so powerful and mighty that if someone doesn't agree with it, they have to print a disclaimer."
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
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Busby agreed that the claimer would absolve Senate of legal responsibility and "would just make Senate look a lot better."
"I don't know if it a stifling of free speech, but any time you have a negative disclaimer, I think it demeans the group," he said.
"A LOT OF groups are really upset with the amount of Student Senate interference," he said. "It's time to emphasize certain segments of the student
In response to the concerns of certain student groups, two Student Senate leaders have proposed a bill to change a Senate procedure that requires groups using student money to include a disclaimer in material they print.
THE SENATE needs to be protected from legal repercussions, he said. He said he had asked a lawyer with Legal Services for Students whether a
THE SENATE Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee will review the recommendations.
If the Senate passes the bill, the bills will have to print a claimer in literature they print stating that the opinions expressed within the document are group and that the group assumes full legal responsibility for these opinions.
The Senate has recently been criticized for enforcing a rule in its Business Procedures handbook that requires groups funded by student money to print a disclaimer in their literature stating that "these views do not necessary represent the views of the University of Kansas Student."
The rule has not been enforced by past Senate administrations.
"We thought, 'Why not have a claimer instead of a disclaimer,' because organizations take pride in their editorial opinions. They believe they have the right to say such things.' Lawhorn said.
Loren Busby, chairman of the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, and Charles Lawhon, chairman of the Senate Student Services Committee, said the bill was an attempt to please both the Senate and the groups.
MEMBERS OF several student groups objected to what they called a lack of communication between themselves and the current administration when Senate leaders decided to start enforcing the rule.
The current administration started to enforce the rule to make sure that the Senate could not be held accountable for the ideas in literature printed by student groups who are financed by student money.
claimer would be strong enough to absolve the Senate of legal liability.
The lawyer said a claimer would protect the Senate as well as a disclaimer would.
KU Health Ed Program to hold seminar
The KU Health Education Program and the American Heart Association will hold a health seminar for Kansas health educators Friday and Saturday, at the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 W Turnip Access Rd.
The program is designed to bring teachers up to date on the most current material available, Becky Donatelle, professor of health, physical education and recreation, said recently.
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