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Friday, February 22, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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KU attracts GTAs despite low pay
Fee waivers, faculty are compensation
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Kansan staff writer
Many of KU's graduate teaching assistants chose to come to the University despite comparatively low salaries.
By Eric Nelson
"We get better GTAs here than we deserve, given the stipends we pay them," said Frances Horowitz, dean of the graduate school. "We're not very competitive in terms of salaries."
Horowitz said some schools even offered fellowships to GTAs, something KU does not do.
"We don't have any GTAs getting rich," he said.
He said the office of academic affairs approved all GTA appointments.
She said that the 100 percent fee waiver recently proposed by the Board of Regents would help recruit GTAs.
Riley said that salaries for many GTAs differed from the average salary for full-time faculty members because most GTAs did not teach full time.
She said that criteria used to determine salaries included market rates and the graduate student's level of education and teaching experience.
Shulenburger said that various departments in the University were given an allotment to use for salaries. But she was reluctant in any way the departments wanted.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, said that the criteria used to determine the requirements for faculty salaries
figure is compiled from information given by 950 full-time faculty members, half of whom are full professors.
Shulenburger said the financial opportunities for GTAs obviously were not great.
The average salary for tenure-track faculty is $84,864, she said. The
Horewitz said that because of the low stipends, KU had to rely on other factors to attract quality GTAs, such as the faculty driver and a widely respected faculty.
"Units pay what they need to pay," he said.
Janet Riley, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the average nine-month salary for a full-time GTA was $14.812.
"We want to remain competitive or GTAs." she said.
Fred Eckertson, a GT^A in the math department, said his decision to come to KU was based on the faculty's reputation.
KU was one of three institutions suggested by Eckertson's adviser.
Timothy Rohde, a GTA in the English department, said that no one made a lot of money as a GTA and that other factors led him to KU. The number of articles published by the faculty attracted him, Rohde said.
"The quality of the program, at least in English, is very good," he said.
Barbara Spencer, a computer science GTA, had more personal reasons for coming to KU. With her sister at KU and her mother in Olathe, being close to her family was Spencer's primary concern.
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The Marriage of Figaro
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
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Medical program offers career insight
By Sarah Davis
Kansan staff writer
KU minority students and students from other universities who are interested in the medical field have the opportunity to gain insight into health careers through a summer program offered on campus.
"The program changed my life. It helped me academically, mentally and socially. I don't think I'm going to be stopped. I'm going to be a doctor."
The Health Careers Pathways Program is designed to encourage minors students to enter the medical profession and Helen Gee, program coordinator.
Four programs that coincide with KU's regular summer school session are offered to students. After students submit their applications to the Med Center, a committee determines into which programs they will be placed.
- Tom Bettis Merriam senior
"Medical schools are looking to increase the number of minorities going into the field," she said. "And what is this program trying to do?
The program, which is in its fifth year, is financed through grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of disadvantaged Assistance and the Medical Center. It is free to students.
The first program, the Health Science Enrichment Institute, is primarily for freshmen. These students work in the courses they plan to take the next fall.
"We're trying to give them an overview of what the course is going to be like." Gee said.
The next section is the Pre-Admissions Program, which is designed to help the entry of minority and disadvantaged students into the Med Center. This section is broken into two programs.
The first program involves undergraduate juniors who will take such courses as English, calculus and physics. It also includes reading, testing and test- and note-taking skills.
Jack Porter, professor of mathematics, helped coordinate and teach a math course for the program from 1987 to 1989.
"I felt the math end was very helpful to the students." Porter said. "It helps them if they have weaknesses."
The second part of the admissions program mainly prepares seniors for the Medical College Admissions Test.
"It helps them see what areas they are weak in." Gee said.
are weak in. See said. The fourth program, the Pre-Matriculation Program, involves students who already have been accepted to medical school. It gives students a two-year year as medical students will be like.
Each program lasts eight weeks, and students stay at Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
One day a week, students travel to the Med Center to meet with doctors and nurses. They also will get a chance to take field trips to other medical centers and hear professional and student medical speakers.
Tom Bettis, Merriam senior, said the program helped him gain confidence and motivated him to continue in his medical field — dermatology.
"The program changed my life," he said. "I helped me academically, mentally and socially. I don't think I'm going to be stopped. I'm going to be a doctor."
"I it's really a good program, and I think students like it." Gee said. "It tells them what it's going to be like when the they into medical school."
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