University Daily Kansan, September 17, 1982
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More retirement plan support wanted Regents official says state funding low
By DEBORAH BAER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Faculty at the Board of Regents institutions receive less support from the state for their retirement plan than university faculty members who are working to amend that problem, are working to amend that problem, are Regents official said yesterday.
At a meeting of Regents school presidents yesterday in Topeka, Teague Kopik, Regents executive officer, told the president that he had a plan to raise the state's contribution to the retirement fund that he thought the state might accept.
The state now contributes 5 percent of an employee's salary to the retirement fund used by the Regents institutions for unclassified employees. The same amount also is deducted from the employee's salary.
THE MANDATORY RETREME plan for Regents unclassified employees is the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund, companion organizations that serve only certain nonprofit and tax-exempt educational and scientific institutions.
Millie Smith, KU supervisor of staff
benefits, said faculty members and the state paid 5 percent of the employees' salaries to these organizations and faculty members receive monthly payments from TIAA-CREF when they retire.
James Seaver, chairman of the faculty presidents of the Regents institutions and chairman of KU's Faculty Senate, said the state contribution was low compared with the contribution of other states.
IN A PRESENTATION to the subcommittee of the Kansas Ways and Means Committee in August, Seaver, who also is director of the Western Civilization program, quoted research conducted by David Monical of the state legislature's research department.
He said Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana all contributed more to university faculty's retirement plans than
Oklahoma and Indiana contribute 15 percent of faculty members' salary, he said. Illinois contributes about 13 percent.
At that meeting, Seaver requested that the committee grant either a 12.5 percent state contribution for all faculty, or a graduated plan ranging
from contributions of 7.5 percent to 15 percent, depending on how long the faculty member had worked for the state.
At the meeting yesterday, Kolik suggested an alternate plan.
Kopik said the Ways and Means Committee might be interested in a plan allowing faculty members to increase the amount they contribute TIAA-CREF and requiring theUTE to participate in the faculty member's contribution.
THE CONTRIBUTION for employees who have worked for less than three years could remain at 5 percent, he suggested.
According to his proposal, employees who have worked more than three years could, if they wanted, increase their contribution to 6 percent, and the state would then be forced to contribute 6 percent to that employee. This would prove that the amount be increased again after the employee had worked for 10 years.
In other Council business, a report detailing the effectiveness of each academic degree program at each Regents institution is prepared every two years, Kolkap said. The report, to be called a Program Review, will be an attempt to show the
Dumas leaves Regents post
TOPEKA— Jim Dumas, a KU graduate, has resigned from the Board of Regents, William Hoch, Gov. John Carlin's press secretary, said yester-
Hoch said Dumas' letter of resignation was received by Carlin Sept. 14.
Dumas, director of manufacturing for the Western Electric Co., was transferred recently to the company's office in New Jersey.
He made public his plan to move to New Jersey and resign from the Regents this summer, but the resignation was not official until yesterday.
Dumas was one of six Democrats on the Regents, Hoch said. By law, a simple majority of the dominating 128 Republicans of the state is required for the Regents.
DUMAS BEGAN his duties as a
Regent Jan. 1, 1982.
When he was appointed, he was living in Prairie Village and working for Western Electric in Lee's Summit, Mo.
Ethan Lieber is in the bachelor's program
Dumas received his bachelor of
science and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the KU. He received a master's in business administration from Stanford University.
Dumur has been in New Jersey this summer and already has quit his duties as assistant coach.
strengths and weaknesses of each degree program.
Carlin will have to appoint a replacement to the nine-member board, but Hoch said he did not know when the appointment would be made. The terms of three other Regents will expire in late December.
KOPLIK SAID the report would be prepared by the Regents staff and administrators from each institution, not by the state.
"We need no legislative mandate for review, we need no legislative intrusions to keep our programs in order," he told the council.
He said the report would provide useful information to the Regents in case another round of budget cuts was necessary. He said the Regents did not want to make cuts across the board again. They would rather cut where they thought the cuts could be best afforded.
Koplik said that though the report would include specific on cost, its emphasis would be on the quality of each program, not the cost.
Student Union Activities has canceled its trip to the Walnut Valley Festival and National Flippacking Festival in West End-Backend, SUA officials said yesterday.
Gene Wee, SUA program adviser,
said that by the noon deadline
yesterday, none of the $45 packages
had been sold. Wee blamed the lack
of early advertising by SUA for the poor
sales.
SUA cancels Winfield trip
Scott Corbett, member of the SUA Travel Committee, agreed.
"THIS WAS ONE of the cheapest trips we've put together," he said. "We just got a late start promoting it. We have to catch a ride with their buddies."
However, there was some disagreement about the reason for the cancellation.
Students usually need three to five days to mull over a trip before they decide whether to go, Corbett said.
"The ads didn't start until Monday, and by then people had other plans," Wee said.
However, Jeff Brown, committee chairman, said the ads were right on schedule. Brown said that the trip would have sold if it was scheduled for fall but that right now students were more interested in campus activities.
"We had 40 to 50 people sign up for the cane trip that was over Labor Day weekend," Brown said.
HE ALSO CITED the cost of the trip as a drawback. Brown said students felt they could buy the tickets for the weekend and find their own way to Winfield for less money than SUA was charging.
He said that attendance for all trips was down, partially because of to the depressed economy.
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