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KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Thursday, March 4, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 109 USPS 650-640
Industry, other schools lure faculty from KU
By ANNE CALOVICH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Michael Brady liked the college-town atmosphere of Lawrence. He loved the University of Kansas. But the former associate professor of geology took a consulting job to supplement teaching and then began to realize he was divided on his time between two jobs, as time to move.
There were not enough teaching assistants in the geology department, anyway. The budget did not allow for enough of those, or for technicians, or for adequate equipment. Teaching loads were becoming too heavy and were cutting into our time.
So the 40-year-old professor with tenure left 10 years of teaching behind and skilled careers
Brady now makes more than twice his $26,000 teaching salary as a regional geologist for the National Park Service.
"it was an awfully tough decision," Brady said. "There was so much we liked about KU. But we thought, 'if we're going to make a move, the market is good for leaving now.' "
BRADY IS just a part of a group of professors who have already left or who are now plotting ways to leave KU for better-paying jobs in the area. We've got less loss in simple numbers and in terms of quality leaves school officials staring academic mediocrity in the face and helpless to do anything about it, while the Kansas Legislature debates next year's budget for salaries and
"It's a very big problem," Ernest Angino, chairman of the department of geology, said. "You just don't know who's going next. We last two faculty members late last year. We're getting replacements for the guys that are gone, and you're putting all your damn time getting replacements.
"Veah. I'm frustrated."
According to the Kansas Board of Regents, of 117 faculty members who left KU between 1979 and 1981, 30 left for employment outside of higher education and 58 left for other jobs in higher education.
The problem is a national one as well, because universities compete with each other and private institutions.
LAWRENCE MERIAGE, former associate professor of history when he became the chair in 1980; August 1980, is making
more than twice the $26,000 he made at KU. He is now manager of the public affairs planning department at City Services in Tulsa, Oka. In his free time, he speaks to students and faculty members at universities throughout the country about setting jobs in industry.
"I get inquiries from people, 'How did you do it?' How did you make the move?" he said. "I had into ex-academics all the time and I haven't made one who regrets the change they have made
"I've been really quite surprised at the amount of people who had senior faculty positions who have gone on to be tenured."
Various associations across the country are studying the movement of faculty members to private industry, including the American Geological Institute, to see how big the problem
"Its' happening," Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism, said. "I can see it happen more and more. Several faculty members who have chosen to stay here have been offered double and triple their salaries for newspaper and advertising management."
becomes a prime recruiting ground for industry."
The school lost 17 faculty members over the last two years, with some going to private industry and some to other universities. A KU professor of business makes 8.9 percent less than other full professors from state-supported colleges. The same professor makes 5 percent below the average and an assistant professor makes 12.3 percent below the average.
The dean of the School of Business, John
Gillen, one academic head who is worried
about the trustees.
DREAM ON
Tollison said to bring salaries up to the current national average would require an 8.9 percent increase for the year now in progress. In addition, a 10 percent increase for the year, the Legislature would have to grant a 14.4 percent increase this year for KU to be competitive next year, he said.
The Legislature is not thinking of those figures. While the Board of Regents and Chancellor Gene A. Budig have requested a 13 percent increase in salaries for next year, Gov. John Carlin has recommended what is in effect a 7.5 percent increase in a figure the Legislature has thus far favored.
According to this year's report of the Economic Status Committee of the Profession for the American Association of University Professors, KU salaries ranked 20th out of 24 other member schools of the American Association of Universities North Central Institutions.
Meriage remembered thinking that the Legislature did not properly decide faculty salaries and did not take into consideration cost of living increases.
"From a personal perspective, it was frustrating to see the Legislature play games with faculty salary," he said. "There's almost an in-bred assumption that the faculty are being pampered. It was frustrating to see the work you did with compensation being left up to the political arena."
MERIAGE SAID the decision to leave KU came easy for him.
"It's very different when you're used to getting $1,000 or $2,000 raises, and then getting $12,000 a couple of times in private industry," he said.
couple of times in private meetings with Leaving was harder for Robert Phillips.
Wass was a professor who was an astronomer professor in physics and astronomy who would have received tenure, according to the chairman of the department, if he would not have been lured away by a 60 percent raise as an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Phillips said while he was getting his doctorate he thought about teaching for the rest of his life.
"I didn't want to leave," Phillips said. "It certainly was a cold-blooded decision. I would be perfectly happy to live and die in Lawrence." published plenty of articles when I was the headline writer at The New York Times. I loved my superiors. They're great folks. Basically, it was mostly, it was because of salary."
Employees blast proposal
See FACULTY page 5
Pay plan may cut classified salaries
By COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
KU Classified Senate leaders, alarmed by a proposal to slash the salary increase for classified employees, took their complaints to Gov. John Carlin and legislators in Topeka
The classified employees protested on Tuesday a suggestion by Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, that the committee cut Carlin's recommended 8.75 percent classified salary increase to 8 percent.
Hess suggested that funds cut from classified salaries might go into an enrichment fund for faculty salaries in subject that are being drained by private industry.
"We absolutely support an enrichment fund, but not at the expense of classified employees," Jan O'Neill, president-elect of the Classified Senate, said yesterday.
CARLIN'S RECOMMENDED 8.75 percent increase would be divided between a 7.5 percent cost-of-living increase for all employees, and a 1.25 percent merit increase that each department would distribute individually.
Hess suggested cutting 75 percent of this increase to help finance the enrichment fund.
Senate President Ross Lynch, Prosecutor,
encrust the enrichment at A ways and
Means Committee meeting Tuesday. It would be an addition to a 7.5 percent faculty salary increase the committee already approved, and Doyen said schools would probably use it for the departments of engineering, business administration and computer science.
The fund would not be part of the budget package the committee sends to the Senate, but would be brought up at the end of the session he said.
But classified employees objected to part of their salary increase being diverted to faculty
Gail Hamilton, Classified Senate president, said this was the first hint she had that classified salary increases might be only 8 percent.
"But I'm not surprised," she said.
She said she supported higher faculty salaries, but added that employees were not directly involved in the University, also.
"In the University, we all work together," she said. "We feed the student, we mow the grass."
But he said he did not propose diverting funds specifically from classified salaries.
Hess said that although he supported a classified salary increase, he wanted to give him the flexibility to work.
"I just don't want faculty getting the short end of the stick," he said. "We're trying to hold all budgets down to an 8 percent increase."
"I think that's being misinterpreted," Hess said. "I've been saving all along for classified
employees not to expect more than 8 percent."
HE SAID IF AN enrichment fund were approved, money for it would be taken from
"We're going to have to get it from somewhere," he said. "One of the many areas are open."
He said classified salaries went up by 10 percent last year, while faculty salaries in increased.
"We're striving for increases based on revenues," Hess said. "This year we're seeing an 8 percent growth rate. They (class) are making sure they don't get any class or less than 8 percent."
A classified employee is guaranteed a cost of living raise, and additional raises depend on staff evaluations and on an employee's level in the pay plan, she said.
But O'Neill said figures comparing faculty and classified salary increases were
This is because classified employees receive raises based on evaluations and the number of years they have been employed, she said.
LAST YEAR'S 10 percent salary increase was only a rough average of the actual pay increase.
Some employees received only the 5 percent cost-of-living increase, and some experienced a 10 percent cost of living increase.
"It's like comparing apples and oranges," she said.
Bill's passage may set stage for state low-level waste site
RVKEVIN HELLIKER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- Radioactive waste from as many as nine states could be earmarked for storage in Kansas if the Legislature approves a bill expected to go before the House this week.
The unit, sponsored and already approved by the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee, would forge Kansas into an interstate compact that would establish in one state a storage spot for low-level radioactive waste produced in all the member states.
Under the compact, any member state could volunteer to store the waste. But that is not likely to happen, State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said yesterday.
"Nobody wants to be the host state," said Charlton, a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. "I doubt very seriously if there'll be any volunteers."
IF THAT BECOMES the case, a compact commission, comprised of representatives from each member state, will select a state in which to store the low-level waste, Charlton said.
Other states now considering the compact are Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Because one of the criteria for selecting the host state would be its accessibility to other states, the centrality of Kansas could make it a prime candidate, Charlton said.
Some legislators, at a hearing for the bill last month, arraued that Kansas would be an unfair
Charlton said that if Kansas became the host state, a large storage of low-level waste in Kansas could preclude the eventuality of high-level waste being dummed here.
candidate for a host state because it produced
a positive effect, but some other states
consider the impact.
If the site is chosen in this state, however, Solbach said that "Kansas can get out of it (the United States) faster."
But a legislative research report compiled this year stated that although Kansas now produced only four cubic meters of low-level waste a year, that figure could jump to 424 cubic meters once the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant at Burlington became operational.
Low-level waste, now produced by hospitals, universities and factories in Kansas, has a lifetime measured in weeks or years rather than thousands of years. the legislative report said.
But high level waste never loses its hazardous potency, the report said.
SOLBACH AGREED there could be some advantages to operating a low-level waste storage in Kansai, where might discourage heavy-loading ships. But it would not preclude the possible he said, he
"That's not up to the states to decide," he said. Last year, Gov. John Carlin along with the Legislature endorsed the concept of an interstate compact, asking the state Disposal Facility Approval Board to enter into an interstate compact into and enacted an interstate compact which regulates the transportation, storage and disposal of low-level radioactive waste."
Glow of stadium lights could attract TV contracts
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Possible plans to add lighting to the stadium could help the football program secure television contracts and subsequent publicity for games scheduled in the afternoon.
Don Fambrough, KU football coach, said recently that he thought it would be important to have lights because of NCAA television contracts that have been signed for the fall.
Memorial Stadium may someday glow in the dark.
Lights in the stadium could give the University of Kansas a better chance of getting on television, because then KU would be able to play both day and night games.
"That's news to me," said Lessig. "The Big Eight Conference is having a meeting in Kansas City on Thursday and Friday, and I imagine if it was discussed, it would be discussed at that time."
James Lesless, new KU athletic director, said he did not know about the lighting plan.
The NCAA recently signed a contract to broadcast games over WTBS-Altanta cable, and CBS and ABC have signed contracts to broadcast double-hander games for the 1982 football
Although the lights will be discussed, not much else is known about cost, materials, or even whether the lights would be an advantage to the Big Eight schools.
STEVE HATCELL, Big Eight commissioner,
said that the lights would be on today's agenda,
along with a discussion of television contracts for
football and basketball.
"I'd hate to be in a position to miss out on that, for any reason." Fambrough said. "TV is just a great way of putting your program on display, and that's always good for your program."
Fambrough said that being televised would be important to the football team.
Farnham said that lighting would be something to consider for the future, but that no one else is ready.
"It could be important in our attendance," he said. "Plus the fact that if we had lights,
they could be used by the high school and others."
FLOYD TEMPLE, assistant athletic director, said that the Big Eight never had needed lights because games were played later in September when afternoons were cool, so games could be played early in the afternoon under plenty of sunlight.
He said that other conferences, especially those in the South, have had lights because warm day-time temperatures force games to be played inside. He said that games run into early evening and darker hours.
Those teams who have lights will get more revenue from television contracts, but KU may not be able to do so.
Susan Wachter, athletics business manager,
said that she was not aware of any plans for new
lights in the stadium, and that their cost would
be included in the budget to be submitted in
April.
THE UNIVERSITY still owes about $1.7 million for renovation done five years ago. They did not report the cost.
representative to the conference meeting and dean of the School of Journalism, said the athletic directors would discuss the cost of the lights at their meeting.
"We would do it if it were aesthetic and financially feasible," Brinkman said.
"It's like a lot of programs at the University. You don't wait for one to be paid off before you graduate."
Brinkman said that the longer a program at the University was delayed, the more it would
Temple said that no study had been made to estimate the cost of lights for Memorial Stadium, but that a similar study had been done for the cost of lighting lights in the baseball stadium.
At that time, the cost was estimated at $250,000.
Temple said that the University would not consider lightning unless its expense could be covered.
"Lights are something that we'll probably look to in the future." Temple said. "Anything that can be done to enhance that revenue, it's important for us."
Weather
CLOUDY
Today will be cloudy with a high in the low to mid-30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The weather will north to northeast at 10 to 20 mph.
Friday will be partly cloudy with winds out of the north at 20 mph. The high will be 35 to 40.