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Wednesday, May 4, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Grad assistants' salaries, fees, hiring varv
By MARY MITCHELL LILLY
Staff Renorter
Besides the normal problems experienced by University of Kansas graduate students -long research hours, comprehensive exams and writing a thesis-the are differences in graduate assistants' salaries.
*money or stipends for graduate*
*students and from department to department at KU.*
Arnold Weiss, assistant dean of the graduate school, said recently that such differences were normal for large universities.
But the average salaries of graduate assistants at KU don't compare favorably with those of peer institutions, Weiss said. KU HAD THE lowest stipends among Western universities surveyed recently by the Association of American Universities.
Sharyn injuries were based upon half-time teaching and research assistantships. Teaching assistants (TAs) and research assistants (RAs) at KAU normally work on 10-hour basis. KAU also has quarter-time assistants who work about 10 hours a week.
TAs are 'responsible for grades. They usually grade papers and supervise labs. RAs do research for professors or departments.
ONE REASON stipends are higher at Oregon and Wisconsin is that the graduate salary is lower.
The average stipend at KU for half-time Tas is $3,550 for a nine-month period, and at KU for the entire University of Illinois and the University of Indiana have salaries slightly above the KU figures. The University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin have average stipends at KU.
Graduate Assistant Stipends
At Representative Universities
| | | Average Sibspend (half-time 9 months) | Amount of Tution Waved | Nonresident Pay Tution |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas | TA | 8,254 | None | X |
| Illinois | TA | 8,351 | 8,351 | All Tution * |
| Indiana | TA | 1,064 | All Tution | X |
| Iowa | TA | 1,086 | None | X |
| Iowa State | TA | 8,206 | ½ | X |
| Michigan State | TA | 8,206 | None | X |
| Nebraska | TA | 8,203 | None | X |
| Ohio State | TA | 8,124 | All Tution and Fees | X |
| Oregon | TA | 8,415 | All Tution * | X |
| Wisconsin | TA | 8,506 | All Tution * | X |
| Wisconsin | TA | 8,506 | None | X |
| Wisconsin | TA | 8,537 | None | X |
- Tuition is waived, but student pays fees for health services, student utilizes privileges and building assessments
* TA Training Assistance
* B Research assistance
IFC proposes increased black participation in frats
Representatives of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) yesterday presented to the University Senate Human Relations Committee a four-part plan designed to increase black participation in IFC fraternities at the University of Kansas.
Robert Turvey, assistant to the Dean of Men and adviser to the fraternities, said the plan proposed increased interaction between black and white students at KU and an increased number of blacks participating in rush.
"Judging from past history, the IFC feels that blacks aren't really aware that this option is truly open to them," he said. "Not only that, but black people rush, although the number is increasing."
Other parts of the IFC plan propose to educate IFC advisers, officers and house members about black participation in IFC fraternities. The plan also recommends inhouse discussions about past and present black membership.
Turvey said the IFC developed the plan to
treat possible member ship problems and to
the IFC's perception of those problems.
"We all understand that there is de facto segregation, but most of it isn't intentional," Turvey said. "There are only two houses with black men and white women on the same pass. Other houses have bid for black memoirs, but they haven't accented."
He said the blacks' reluctance to join IFC tratarites might be due to the presence of a Christian community.
Survey said about one-third of the IFC fraternities had bad habits in rush because house members had thought black members would be an asset to their chapters.
The Human Relations Committee will begin a series of closed hearings this week.
The hearings follow recent allegations that a KU student was denied membership at the university.
The Oregon Labor Board ruled earlier this year that graduate assistants had a right to collective bargaining and fulfilled their training under the state's collective bargaining law.
The committee recently concluded closed hearings with Panhellenic sororites.
Kenyon Blunt, Topica graduate student and a member of the Task Force on Graduate Student Concerns, said, "I don't think unionization holds much future here. uniform rules and guidelines were developed, don't think they would apply equitably."
Certain problems—conditions of employment, recruitment practices, evaluation practices and teacher training—that could be mediated through unionization are being considered by the task force, which has agreed to form a team (formed to deal with these matters), he said.
ANOTHER concern of the task force is the establishment of a mediator, he said. Now, there is no committee or person exerting control over the process for a TA or to RA to lead with a problem.
Blunt said that an ambassador would be appointed in June or July for the University as a whole, but that there wouldn't be a graduate assistant, typically with problems of graduate assistants.
Blunt said the task force had worked on a proposal for an ambassador for graduate assistants, who would handle low salaries, hiring policies, evaluations and rehiring.
He said recruitment practices of the various graduate departments and low salaries kept KU from attracting out-going students in students applying to Midwestern schools.
"OUR COMMITTEE is concerned with the competitiveness of KU in the recruitment process."
Weiss said KU could raise a fee waiver and instead could raise stipends by 20 percent or more. This would bring its stipends to $15,000 in contributions outlined in the accompanying chart.
A new fee structure schedule, expected to go into effect this fall, would cost the state an estimated $283,024. Weiss said, but an increase in stipends would cost the state much more.
THE RESTORACTURING proposal is now in Chancellor雅克Dykes office awaiting presentation to the Board of Regents and the Council of Presidents of Regents
Weiss said that Dykes and Shankel had given it top priority for presentation to the Regents when they meet in June to decide on the fiscal 1976 budget.
This proposal, which would affect about 850 students, includes a 6 per cent increase in stipends for half-time TAs and a tree waiver. Weiss said.
He said he thought the Regents wouldn't pass the package because of a lack of
Even with a change in the fee rates, departments and schools still will have different salary ranges and selection processes.
Lynn Bretz, executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council, said her
organization wanted to make fees standard throughout the University.
IN THE SCHOOL of Liberal Arts, according to a survey last fall by the Graduate Student Council, salaries for ball-time TAS varied from $1,372 a semester in the department to $4,650 a semester in the department of Oriental languages to $2,000 in the department of chemistry.
Weiss said that certain areas, especially science, were traditionally better paid and better financed. In such departments, the funding isn't totally dependent on University money he said, because money from government programs comes from directly government programs.
He said the budget of each department was allocated at the discretion of its dean. A dean also had the power to decide how many assistants will be hired, he said.
HE SAID THAT there was a big increase in TAs and RAs between 1950 and 1970 when the University was growing fast. However, the University now isn't growing rapidly and inequities exist because of a lack of planning, he said.
"In a sense TAS and RAs are underpair," Weasel said. "But they benefit from their presence."
Even though salaries vary from department to department, there is one uniform policy throughout the University. June Michal, assistant to Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that departmentments had a minimum salary guideline.
THE LOWEST acceptable salary is set by the Office of Academic Affairs, "Michal Levine."
According to Arthur Briepohl, chairman of the department of electrical engineering, TA salaries there are $2,700 a semester. Dean Dale Scannell of the School of Education said TA salaries in his school averaged $1,750 to $1,800 a semester.
In the School of Architecture, salaries for TAS are $1,874 a semester, according to Linda Sandusky, assistant to the dean. None of these schools employ RAs.
THE SCHOOL OF Journalism has no TAS,
only assistants who come under the broad
category of graduate assistants, John
Bremner, director of graduate studies, said.
Variances also exist in selection and rehiring. Bretz said one of the problems of graduate students was their concern about reappointment the next year.
John Parsons, Berkeley, Calif., graduate student and TA in geography, said departments allocated most appointments to new students.
'THEY KEEP giving the jobs to new people when the old ones are more qualified'
"From the perspective of the students, departments should be more responsible
and help students who have worked there for one year."
Betz said, "Some people believe that graduate assistants must acrifice in their training."
"One Ph.D. candidate was told that if she couldn't take the low salaries she should get out. If we go by these standards, more people will be oppressed than already are."
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