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Chancellor's performance earns pay raise
BY KIM LYNCH
Chancellor Robert Hemenway got a raise Wednesday when the Kansas Board of Regents approved salary increases for the leading official at each of the six state universities.
Hemenway received $250,519 in state funding, an increase over his state-paid salary of $240,884 last year. The 4 percent increase is still
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well under that national average, Dick Bond, Board of Regents member and chairman of the compensation committee said.
Hemenway can receive an addi-
according to a press release. Last year, he was allowed $307,000 of supplemental income.
tional $319,280 from university endowments to supplement his state income if the funds are available,
Bond said that one of the most important factors in determining the compensation increase was the quality of the officials' performance. Hemenway received excellent performance reviews from the Regents, Bond said.
He said Hemenway was the highest paid official in the University of Kansas because it was a huge undertaking to manage the University and its Medical Center.
Bond said a national education consultant, John Hicks, told him that the salaries for top administrators of the research campuses — the University, Kansas State University and Wichita State University — were well under market value. He said
Hicks was brought in to help with the search for the Emporia State University president.
Bond said one possible reason why Kansas was falling behind in salaries was because it had not been searching for a leading official for some time. He said the top positions had a lot of tenure.
Bond said Hemenway's compensation was considerably under market value.
If the Regents were to replace Hemenway, the market minimum starting salary would be $400,000, he said.
"Kansas is getting a real bargain with Bob Hewenway," Bond said.
Kansan staff writer Kim Lynch can be contacted at klynch@kansan. com.
ENROLLMENT
Regents releases numbers, scores
BY ERIN CASTANEDA
University of Kansas enrollment is at its second highest level despite declining from last fall, according to the Kansas Board of Regents.
The Board of Regents released its 20th day enrollment report Thursday, which included enrollment figures, minority enrollment and ACT scores for incoming freshmen.
Todd Cohen, University spokesman, said the decrease is statistically insignificant.
The Board of Regents studied six state university enrollment statistics 20 days into the fall semester. Total University enrollment, which includes the Medical Center, is 29,613, down 11 students from last fall. Enrollment at the Lawrence campus is 26,733, down 161 from last fall.
"We're only 11 off of the highest record of enrollment at the University," he said. "Basically there is no change."
Minority enrollment has increased however. According to the Regents records, it has increased 2.3 percent from last fall. Students identify themselves on University records and 12.2 percent identified themselves as Asian, Hispanic,
African-American or American
Indian. Total international enrol-
ment has increased to 5.9 percent
up from 5.6 percent last fall.
"The University has made a major effort to not only recruit a more diverse student body but add offices that will help keep them here," Cohen said.
He said Hawk Link, for example, is an award-winning program that helps students who are the first in their family to attend college.
Cohen said the University was most excited about ACT scores.
He said the ACT company records the national average, which is 21.7. The University average is 24.6, up from 24.4. About a third of the freshmen from the class of 2010 scored 27 or higher out of the 36 points. It is the highest percentage ever, according to University Relations.
"We feel good that we are attracting the best and the brightest." Cohen said.
Kansan staff writer Erin Castanea da can be contacted at ecastanea@kansan.com.
Edited by Erin Wiley
Rain, rain, go away
Marin Hoffman, Salina junior, and Jesse Kangas, Lenexa freshman, try to stay dry during Thursday's downpour. The rain lasted most of the day and could continue through the weekend.
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Tim Flattery, Onaga freshman, goes against the grain by doing what no man at the University or in the Big 12 Conference has done before.
PROFILE
DANCER MAKES HISTORY
Freshman earns spot as first male on Rock Chalk Dance Team
BY C.J. MOORE
When Kansas plays South Florida on Saturday, fans will see a new face on gameday in Memorial Stadium. But instead of wearing shoulder pads, a helmet and making crunching tackles, Tim Flattery will be decked out in a crimson and blue top and black jazz pants displaying his graceful athleticism with the once all-female Rock Chalk Dance Team.
Flattery, an Onaga freshman, is the first male dancer in the history of the dance team, known
until recently as the Crimson Girls. This Saturday marks his KU debut in front of a stadium full of football fans who have never seen him dance. Tim's mom, Vicki Flattery, realizes fans that are there to see bone-crunching football may react to her son's appearance in a girls dance troupe by asking. "What the hell is that dumb kid doing out there?"
But mom says she knows from past experience that after the male dancer jokes subside and crowds see what Tim can do, they often come away declaring, "That's
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Patrick Swayze out there."
And now, Tim is on campus as a dance major and is ready to show the
When Tim heard the Crimson Girls had changed their name to a more gender inclusive Rock Chalk Dance team a couple of years ago, he decided to make history.
Tim is used to dropping jaws. He played high school basketball and danced during the halftime entertainment. Tim insisted on taking dance lessons as a 9-year-old after years of dancing to the beat of the oldies music his father blasted through the Flattery house.
world that guys who dance can be artists and athletes, too.
Not your average family
So where can you find the kind of guy who would try out for an all-women dance team?
Meet the Flattervs.
Tim dances. Dad used to be a lawyer, but decided in 1991 he wanted to build a golf course. Now, instead of dad practicing law, both mom and dad are on the road with the family-owned carnival.
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