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A report issued Tuesday by the Faculty Senate
confirmed an earlier report of large differences
between teacher salaries at UNL.
The average salary of a full professor in the College
of Arts and Sciences is $16,260 compared to $17,340 for
a full professor in the College of Business Administra
tion. To eliminate these disparities, the committee
proposes a standard salary policy a step system where
salaries are determined by a teacher's merit and
service.
The committee said, "Although setting up such a
system would involve a considerable effort in
classifying staff initially, the actual operation of the
system would simplify the problems of the chairman
and deans in allocating raises."
Promotion must be based on a recommendation
involving a review by colleagues and administrators,
the report said.
The report also shows that salaries of faculty
members at UNL have not kept pace with inflation and
other universities in the nation.
"A university with even a mild pretense towards
excellence should aim.to be at the fiftieth percentile of
institutions in its own category," the committee said.
UNL is now below thefiftieth percentile.
To bring salaries in line with the projections of the
American Association of University Professors, the
committee recommends an overallaverage increase of
ommittee
report:
salaries
below par
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The committee arrived at their recommendations
after looking at what they found to be the two most
critical issues.
"First there i the sticky problem of salary disparities
within UNL. This problem has become the focus of
increasing dissatisfaction among several groups. The
proposed solution woo id make the maintenance of such
disparities more difficult than their ellmlfUttltfrC.... ...
"Second, there is a drsmal picture of deteriorating
faculty salaries. The proposed step system could be the
venicie oy wnicn ine racuny salaries migni ce aajusiea
to competitive levels.
The committee said it had not yet dealt with the
problem of achievement of salary goals but a study is
underway and the results will be reported to the senate
sometime this fall.
The salaies of full professors in colleges: Agriculture
$15,230, Dentistry, $18,550, Engineering, $16,740,
Home Economics, $15,010, Law, $21,810, Teachers,
$16,120, Library $14,870 and Architecture $16,820.
Zumberge goal:
better teacher wages
By Ivy Harper
UNL 'Charier
Faculty Senate
teacher salaries
concerned thai
the rising cost
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asked the Uni
For this rt'. :
' made somewh- -
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cause the "I .
amount of bio
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from 21,1 no n
student crl ? 1
income is .
year.
This is a
expected if v
although ;
credit hours
projected, h
The budget t
continuation r.-t-
requests, he v..
asked UNL
i lor James Zumberge spoke to the
Tuesday and said Improvement of
has top priority this year. He said he is
e tcher salaries are not keeping up with
f living.
d tsachers that Gov. J. James Exon has
rity to live within its 1973-74 budget,
n Zumberge said, cuts will have to be
M the cuts will be made where they
st amount of pain and the smallest
J the total enrollment at UNL is down
1973 to 20,892 this year. The total
..urs. which is one source of teacher
rrom 271,000 in 1973 to 265,000 this
o i omen, he said, because he had
H(i go down more. This means that
is loss money available from student
-o not decreased as much as has been
.j ins with a base budget and goes to a
jot and from that is added new money
d. Zumberge said because Exon has
ocp within the 1973-74 budget, it is
going to bo i-'icult to Improve salaries to the level
needed.
Currently it. legislature and the governor's office is
In the preterm
. 1 - 4 1 ft, it
comparing im eaianei m unl wun
",rrZurriberge"said. " " ."' '"" - '
hjs not given aspeciflc budget figure
auger we are able to wait, the better we
tifying the best figure."
state support went f. om 59 of the
budget five years ago to 65 this year,
jf.oy, he said, has gone to replace the
decline in stucont tuition. He said this is the reason
teachers canno! get the increase.
This year k s iting and resource expenditures exceed
income by 2 :;!iiion, he said.
"We have only one choice," Zumberge said, "to cut
expenditures .We can't raise tuition."
other timvc! .-r,
" He said ho
because "the i
will be in incvr
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total operating
The extra ir
all conference to study ASUN alternatives
By Lynn Silhasek
' started out as Student
C ncil by title, was changed to
AC N in 1966 and has become
wl t one ASUN senator called
"Paying Boys State".
'udent government at UNL
mro be undergoing additional
st; ctural changes as a result of
an October ASUN-sponsored
sc n-state Student Leadership
Cr forence, according to ASUN
e. aitives.
Tue conference, to bo held at
U-" Gci. i-20, is aimed m
im; oving admlnlstrativo skills
of siudent governments to
ims 'ovo overall government op
r. ons, according to David
Holett, ASUN second vice
prrJdent.
' ;f three executives and three
of oven senators polled agree
an SUN constitution revision
rn t precede any improvements
Campus politics have
cli iged," Hewlett said. "Since
tt. late '60s, activism on
ca pus has faded. There's been
a velopment of attitudes since
U, i. Students are drifting away
fr t a commitment to loftier
go. '-. Students are working
the ugh traditional channels."
r;'?cause of lha changa In
stuJcnt body attitutJa, "wo havo
to e'ecsde If ASUN Is doing the
br:, job It can of reflecting
st'.i-fent opinion, Howlelt said.
: iwlett said he hopes an ad
he i .ommittee will bo formed,
as a result of ideas presented at
the conference, to study the
possibility of revising the ASUN
constitution. -
He said he would want the
committee to present definite
alternatives to the ASUN model
of government to the ASUN
Senate by December.
The process of revision has
been tried before, ASUN records
indicate. .
The most recent attempt to
revise the constitution was In
in form of an amendment on
the ASUN election ballot last
spring. As the amendment read,
the existing ASUN constitution
would bo abolished. In Its pise
would bo an Interim ASUN
which would rewrite the consti
tution. The amendment was not
passed becau?3 it lacked tho
15 of the entire student voto
required for adoption. Eleven
per cent of the student popula
tion voted In the elections.
With the election, however,
the United Student Effort (USE)
party won, all ASUN executive
positions and 29 out of 35
Cerate positions. Hewlett said
he felt that with these results,
ASUN would be able to work
closely together in promoting an
amendment to revise the consti
tution. Last year ths Senate killed a
resolution to place tho revision
amendment, on th election
ballot. Student signatures v. are
collected in order to place the
amendment on the ballot.
Senator Mark Hoeger, foi .icr
ASUN first vice president (who
labeled ASUN a Boys Slate
operation), introduced th? a
mendment to establish the
interim ASUN.
The Interim ASUN would have
combined both the legislative
end txscistlf ASUN powers in
its structure, according to the
amendment.
Last year Hoeger was quoted
in the Daily Nebraskanas saying
the constitutional division of the
powers In ASUN "is a real
deterrent to ASUN effective
ness." This year, Hoeger said "We're
concerned with the separation
of powers in ASUN when we (as
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