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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 22.196
Low Salaries Cited As Reason For Teacher Loss in Kansas
Low Kansas salaries may be responsible for loss of qualified teachers to other states.
Herold G. Regier, director of KU's Teachers Appointment Bureau, said elementary and secondary teaching contracts being signed by this year's graduates average around $4,650. The figure is about $250 higher than last year's average, but it is well below salaries being offered by some out-of-state schools this year. Out-of-state salaries are as high as $5,100 and $5,400.
The lowest salaries being offered by Kansas schools range from $3,800 to $4,200. Some men beginning a first assignment in Kansas have signed contracts around $5,000 and $5,100, Mr. Regier said.
"SALARY differences suggest Kansas schools also suffer a loss of experienced teachers and of those with advanced degrees," he said. For example, last year's average Kansas salary for teachers with
Lindsey Wins First On Technical Paper
Marvin Lindsey, La Cygne senior and civil engineering student, won first place Friday at the Midcontinent Conference of Civil Engineers for his technical paper on the correlation of test data.
The title of his winning paper was "The Correlation of Test Data from Concrete Test Prisms, Cylinders and Cubes."
Eleven KU delegates attended the six school district convention in Omaha. Other schools represented at the convention included: Kansas State, Missouri School of Engineering and Mining at Rolla, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska and Oklahoma State University.
CALIFORNIA was second in the number of administrators interviewing on the campus last year, Mr. Regier reported. Of 70 interviewers, 23 were from Kansas; 20 from California and 8 from Missouri. The others were scattered among 13 states.
Mr. Regier said the placement office urges candidates to consider travel expenses, cost of living differences, working conditions and the nature of the assignment, as well as "the obligation to the state of Kansas which has helped in providing their education."
The figure is not altogether representative, since administrators of school systems near KU usually expect candidates to come to the school's administrative offices for interviews, rather than conducting interviews on campus.
The critical need in Kansas, California and elsewhere is in elementary and certain secondary fields. The high school level has a distribution problem-an oversupply
The strongest competition for prospective teachers comes from states in which population growth is the most rapid and the resultant need is greatest. California, which is Kansas' main competitor, last year topped Kansas in the number of openings listed with the KU bureau. The West Coast state listed 2,576 vacancies, compared with Kansas' 2,457.
master's degrees placed through the bureau was $5,039, almost $1,000 lower than the average for all other states.
The total number of vacancies listed with the bureau was 12,830, a figure Mr. Regier thinks will be exceeded this year. Even 12,830 is conservative, he said, since many large school systems do not specify each vacancy within the schools.
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in social studies and men's physical education, but a definite shortage in most other fields.
THE NATION'S total elementary and secondary need this year was listed by the National Education Association at 155,000 to replace positions and to staff new classes as a result of increasing enrollment.
"If we are to take care of overcrowding, unprepared teachers and new curricula needs, we should have 85,000 new teachers," Mr. Regier said. "This makes a total need of 240,000 teachers." He said only 102,000 of 140,000 graduates in teaching last year actually took positions.
Specialists in such areas as speech correction and teaching of the retarded and orthopedically handicapped constitute a second need, he said.
The number of KU students who are prospective teachers is increasing, Mr. Regier reported, but the supply here, as in most states, is not keeping up proportionally with the mushrooming demand.
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Librarians to Increase Skills
Two KU librarians will spend June studying library techniques for handling archival material and applying a computer's "brain" to library problems.
George H. Caldwell, chief reference librarian at Watson Library, has received a grant from the Harvard Business School to study acquisition and handling of archival material, manuscripts and books in economic and business history at Harvard's George F. Baker Library in Cambridge.
Earl Farley, head of the preparations department dealing with cataloging and classification, will attend the Summer Computer Science Conference at the University of Oklahoma, where he will continue studies of computers and their application to library problems. His project is part of Watson Library's effort to adapt information retrieval equipment to general library operations.
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Golf pro George Bayer, who averages 275 yards on drives, once hit a drive 500 yards in Sydney, Australia. Bayer admits the hole was downhill, the turf was hard, and there was a following wind.
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