University Daily Kansan / Thursday, December 8.1988
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YEAR 1
Continued from D. 1
*Scientific equipment received*
$12,002 from the Margin after
physical testing.
Although Robert Curry, director of laboratories for physics and astronomy, said that he wouldn't complain about any money he received, he said his laboratories hadn't seen any of the Margin money.
"Even if we had gotten any, I wouldn't have noticed it," he said. "$10,000 doesn't go very far."
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said she understood the problem.
"We have not been able to do very many substantial enhancements of laboratory equipment," she said. "We must conduct a laboratory for that ($10,000)."
A report by the University Senate Planning and Resources Committee said setting aside money for
academic computing — which also received $102,302 — and scientific equipment might not have been a valid application.
Instead, the report says, the money might have been used better if individual schools could decide what to do with it.
"In the short run, distribution to the schools would permit them to use the funds in the most pressing areas, which may not be scientific equipment or academic computing," the report says.
However, the $1.7 million increase in faculty salaries, has been more effective, officials said.
Bob Jerry, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said, "It's clear that the 83 percent who work at the university is the only living that has kept us even in the ballpark as far as competitiveness with other schools."
The estimated average KU faculty salary for this year is $40,400, up
$2,755 from last year. Although that is an increase, it is estimated at only 90.8 percent of the average salary at peer schools. KU was as high as 95.2 percent in 1985 but slipped to 88.5 percent in 1988.
According to a report prepared by the Kansas Legislative Post Audit Division, the $40,400 average this year still can't compete with last year's $43,965, which was $44,300 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
But being pulled out of the 1988 slump has had a noticeable effect on faculty, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said.
"Year one of the Margin of Excellence has given us hope," Budig said. "The infusion of Margin funds improved morale on campus."
Grant Goodman, professor of history and president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Teachers, is to try to tried last year to organize a faculty
union, said that the Margin did improve morale.
"I think there has been a marginal improvement in faculty morale due to the Margin," he said.
But, Goodman said, the salaries still are low.
"That's a very significant consideration in attracting and retaining excellent faculty," he said.
According to an AAUp national salary study, "we still are in the second lowest category among University professors." Goodman said.
Ramaley said that it was hard to quantify the number of people who stayed at KU because of the Margin, but she said the number of staff resignations did not increase this year.
“It’s very evident that the first year of salary enhancement has helped us hold on to faculty that were wavering.” Ramaley said.
YEAR 2
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"All things together are essential," Ramaley said. "It all fits together. I had to choose between one or the other — salaries or mission-related enhancements — I'd be hard pressed."
The Margin proposal is separated into two major components: $2 million for salary increases and $1.5 million for University programs. Which is more important, however, remains debatable.
The Legislature will decide on the budget in April.
The plan would allow for a 7.6 percent increase in faculty salaries, a consistent goal during the three years of the Margin.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said
higher salaries were essential to KU's mission.
"A University is only as strong as its faculty," Budig said. "With better salaries, we recruit and retain better faculty. With excellent faculty, KU will attract and retain excellent students."
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said salary increases were the most important part of the Margin, and rightfully so.
Five percent of the increase would help KU keep pace with peer increases; the other 2.6 percent would bring salaries closer to peer levels.
"You cannot reward certain people or remedy certain problems in one year," Brinkman said. "So the salary that is the top priority, it's got to be."
This year, the average salary for a KU faculty member is about $40,400, or 9.8 percent of peer averages. A KU professor would raise the average to $43,470.
Brinkman said salary increases would help only if KU's peer schools did not increase their salaries significantly. If they did, the 5 percent base salary would keep to keep pace, and the additional 8 percent would not be as effective.
Increases would not be across-the-board; the would be decided on solely by expert.
"We're not really complaining," he said. "It would just slow down our ability to catch up with our peers."
presiding officer of University Council, left KU last spring after eight years, in part because of his salary. He said City University of New York offered him a 100 percent pay increase, and he took it.
The slow reaction has cost the University some of its faculty. Mel Dubinck, former associate professor of public administration and former
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However, faculty also are placing faith in the Margin.
John Tollefson, dean of business, said he knew of eight to 10 faculty members who almost left KU last year. Instead, they turned down or stopped pursuing attractive offers in businesses and other universities.
"The Margin of Excellence was very timely," Tollefson said. "It was instrumental in the retention of faculty. And that's why it's damned important for the continuation of the second and third years of the Margin of Excellence."
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