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Thursday, February 20, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Faculty pay still lagging
By RICHARD PAXSON
Kansan Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Karansa' ranking among the states in per capita funding of higher education has improved, but University of Kansas faculty salaries are still below average. University administration and the House Ways and Means Council Tuesday.
At the committee's hearings on KU's proposed budget for fiscal 1976, Elmer Jackson, chairman of the board, said the plan would be followed by governorship in the nation in 1973-74 to 18th this year.
The improvement was the result of a 10 per cent faculty salary increase at the state universities and an 11 per cent increase at the Kansas legislature last year, Jackson said.
"We hope this indicates a trend which we should note." he said. "Kansas must
continue this effort if it is to support all the phases of higher education which have come in for their appropriations, and it will help us to make better appreciation per capita to do this job."
Fiscal 1973-74 was the first year of a three-year program that the board hopes will make faculty happy and competent in comparable colleges and universities in other states, Jackson said.
Despite the improved ranking in per capita aid to higher education, KU faculty salaries remain below average, according to the budget report submitted by the University to the Ways and Means Committee.
The report compares KU salaries for professors, associate professors, assistant professors and instructors. It also shows the 18 public colleges and universities that are members of the
SenEx recommended that faculty members halt class until smoking ends in their classrooms, but this wouldn't be strict enough under the new law.
KU salaries ranked thirteenth for professors and fourteenth for associate professors, assistant professors and instructors.
University. In these regulations, no real reprimands are set down for the offending smoker, although each instructor is supposed to enforce the no-smoking rule in his classroom.
Association of American Universities in the North Central Association area.
If the no-smoking rule is passed by the House and signed into law, Chancellor Schenck would preclude Shankle's guidelines and the new law would be enforced on campus.
Another survey, conducted by the American Association of University Professors, compared KU salaries with those at a rival degree institution in degreelevel salaries for all four faculty ranks at KU were given the lowest possible rating by the association.
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