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Regents want deleted requests
TOPEKA - At the Kansas Board of Regents hearing yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee was asked to reinstate those requests deleted from Gov. Robert-Docking's budget recommendations.
The Governor's recommended figure is 2.2 per cent less than the $27,232,560 KU operating budget sought by the Regents.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, in a budget summary, told the committee the University "has never been adequately supported."
Wescoe asked the committee to reconsider requests for faculty, staff and student salary increases.
He cited a 1957 Survey of Education which showed Kansas universities 20 per cent behind the national average in faculty salaries. Wescoe said, "now we are even further behind the average."
The Regents requested a 7.5 per cent faculty salary increase, however, Docking allotted 6 per cent.
Wescoe said the extra money for faculty salaries would be "money most wisely spent," because it "multiplies its own effects." The 7.5 per cent would allow KU to compete adequately with other state-supported universities for first-class educators, he said.
The chancellor also re-emphasized the need for the Regents request of 36 new civil service positions, and for funds to increase student wages to meet the proposed state minimum of $1.30.
Wescow restated the need for requested operating expenses and capital improvements to cover the increasing cost of books and scientific equipment, growth of the state corrspondence study center and necessary remodeling.
George Wolf, provost and dean of the University of Kansas Medical Center, also appealed to the Ways and Means Committee for reinstatement of $1 million deleted from that school's budget.
Wolf said the Governor's recommendation of $18.7 million budget is actually only a 4 per cent increase for the educational and research functions of the institution.
"This increase represents only more responsibility and more service, instead of support for the existing program." Wolf explained.
"We cannot remain competitive with other hospitals with the resources earmarked for use." he said.
Wolf named several areas where the Medical Center is far behind other hospitals.
"In at least two departments, we have a 100 per cent turnover each year," Wolf said.
He said the Medical Center has 507 maintenance employees receiving less than $300 per month.
"We are $30 to $50 per month behind the other hospitals in our salaries for nurses and other technical people. We can't compete for good people with those wages," Wolf said.
He cited a $100,000
Bob Bird, a 1964 KU graduate, will become manager of Naismith Hall March 1, Troy Williams, manager of student housing operations, announced today.
appropriation for improvements to the hospital building and another $150,000 for purchase of land east of the hospital.
KU grad manages hall
Wescoe supported Wolf's appeal saying the University of Missouri last year completed a
Bird currently manages Pierport House at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
$16 million capital improvement project at its medical center in Columbia.
Bird received his master's degree in Guidance and Counseling at KU in 1967.
"This is more than has been appropriated for the KU Medical Center in the last 64 years," the Chancellor said.
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TOPEKA — After the Kansas Board of Regents hearing before the Kansas legislature Ways and Means Committee yesterday, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced that reinstatement of the $40,000 request for establishing an Upward Bound program would be included on the priorities list to be reviewed by the committee.
He said he was reading from the wrong page and realized it as soon as he had done it.
The national program under the Department of Health,
Wescoe did not mention the Upward Bound program during the hearing.
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