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Salary Increases Clipped From University Budget
Hopes for salary increases for University faculty members were severely nipped early last week when Gov. George Docking excluded the increases from his budget recommendations to the state legislature for the fiscal year 1960.
However the picture for two other legislature-controlled proposals brightened considerably — prevailing wages for workers and a new faculty retirement plan.
Docking recommended a total budget of $15,182,218 for the coming fiscal year which begins July 1. 1959. Estimated expenditures for the current fiscal year total $15,317,603. The University had asked for a new budget of $15,967,242—more than $785,000 over Docking's total.
Docking's proposal for salaries and wages in the educational and
general program was $8,687,933,
slightly more than the current year's
$8,536,728. The University had re-
quested $9,401,441 for salaries.
Docking told the legislature he could not approve faculty pay increases until the Board of Regents established a plan for definite pay ranges, similar to civil service.
Later in the week, the Senate Ways and Means Committee introduced into the Legislature a bill authorizing the University and Kansas State College to restore prevailing wage rates for certain classified employees until July 1 of this year.
The employees, primarily maintenance workers, took wage cuts Jan 1 when the attorney general ruled prevailing wage rates were illegal
Lawrence. They are about 70 per cent of union scale and higher than Civil Service wages.
Monday, Feb. 2, 1959
The Ways and Means Committee said the money to pay prevailing wages had already been appropriated by the last Budget Session of the Legislature.
Friday, the Board of Regents presented a proposal for a new faculty retirement plan to the Senate State Affairs Committee.
The plan would allow the regents to aid in the purchase of old age and disability benefit annuities through the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Assn. Each faculty member and the state would contribute a sum equal to five per cent of the member's salary toward the purchase.
Prevailing wages are compared to wages paid for non-state jobs in
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Business Placement Bureau. Interviews.
Wendell E. Pascoe. The Pascoe Co.
Consultant for sophomores and
juniors; C. L. Yohé, S. Kresge Co.
Catalysts, adjuncts; Harper,
Airlines Airfare. Hostsges.
Episcopal Morning Prayer. 6:45 a.m and Holy Communion. 7 a.m. with breakfast following, Canterbury House.
Newman Club Mass. 6:30 a.m., St
Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m., St.
John's Church, 11th and Kentucky.
Mathematical Colloquium 4:15 p.m.
203 Strong Hall; coffee at 3:50 p.m. Dr.
A. Ostrowski, University of Basel,
Switzerland, "Sylvester's Law of Iner-
gence."
8 U. Faculty, Club, Square Dance, 8 p. HUs; Hosts: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Nicholson.
Teachers Appointment Bureau. Dr
Kendall, Chico St. College, Chico, Calif.
(college positions only.)
Business Placement Bureau Interviews.
Mr. R. B. Somod, Colgate-Palmolive Co,
Sofia.
Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m., St.
John's Church, 11th and Kentucky.
and Holy Communion, 7 a.m., with breakfast following, Canterbury House. Faculty Forum Notice. Prof. James Maloney. "Senate Advisory Committee."
Jay James, 5 p.m. Room 305, Kansas Union Pledging service. Attendance required.
Quill Club, 7:30 p.m., Pine Room at Union, Election of Officers.
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Statewide Activities Celebrates 50th Year
Statewide activities, sometimes called the "KU Chamber of Commerce," is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
During World War II Statewide Activities was curtailed. Only skeleton organizations remained under sponsorship of the ASC. This year under the direction of President Ric Barnes, Seneca junior, the organization has been revamped into smaller, more compact divisions. One of these divisions plans high school assemblies, using speakers, panel discussions, and skits to depict life at KU.
Statewide Activities was formed by a group of students and faculty in an effort to develop more intracounty fellowship and to spread goodwill for the University of Kansas. Many present faculty members were active in the organization in their school days.
Jayhawker annuals were bought at a special price of $1.75 each and sent to high schools and city libraries. During vacations, members of the organization plan parties and receptions in their hometown for alumni and high school seniors.
Window displays are another division of Statewide Activities. Local hometown merchants are contacted and window space is obtained in which KU pictures, souvenirs, Jayhawks and slide rules are used to help the high school student become more acquainted with college life.
Kansas newspapers appoint hometown correspondents to send articles back about students and their activities. The correspondents receive tip sheets each month from Statewide Activities to help them get ideas and, at the end of the year, prizes totaling $75 are awarded for the best string books.
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