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M2ss Tommeraasen, vice chsnceZor
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Ron Gierhan, acting vice chancellor
for student affairs.
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A&rn ErcckesErsJge, vice chancellor
for academic affairs.
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By George Mder
The rule of the market place seems to determine the
salaries of NU administrators, but improvement still is
needed in salaries, according to some of those administra
tors. "We ought to look at demands nationally for positions
we are trying to fin ": said Steven Sample, NU executive
vice president for academic affairs. "You look at the
national demands (for administrators) and the national
salaries paid."
Yet both Miles Tommeraasen, UNLvice chancellor for
business and finance, and Ron Gierhan, interim vice
chancellor for student affairs, said salaries in their depart
ments at UNL do not compare favorably with salaries in
similar departments in other Big 8 Conference schools.
Tommeraasen said administrative salaries in his depart
ment are "either at the bottom or next to the bottom" in
the Big 8 and are "rarely in the upper half"
Gierhan said a study of other student affairs admin
istrators salaries in Big 8 and Big 10 schools comparable
to UNL show that salaries at Nebraska are "average or
below average."
Competition mixed
He said salaries of the NU vice chancellor for student
affairs and of deans in the department are "fairly competi
tive" with other schools. However, "middle management
salaries" (salaries of persons in the student affairs depart
ment who report to the deans and directors) rank in the
lower half of the Big 8.
"When people say that administrators are overpaid,""
Gierhan said, "they often only look at the top positions.
They don't look at the middle management level."
He said he did not believe NU administrators are
overpaid.
"They (salaries) certainly don't stand out compared to
other schools," Gierhan said.
Gierhan said the only way administrators and faculty
could get more money for salaries was if the Unicameral
voted more money for them or if university programs
were cut and this money diverted to salaries.
"But I don't think there are any other programs we'd
want to cut back," he said. - .
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the administrators said that the difference between
salaries for administrators and salaries for teachers is a
difference in qualifications, backgrounds and jobs.
Ned Hedges, assistant vice chancellor for academic
affairs, said if a position pays more than another position,
it might be because of different duties that go along with
the job.
Tommeraasen said it is a common complaint of faculty
members that administrators are paid too much.
"No faculty can tell why they have to have administra
tors at all," he said.
Gierhan agreed, saying "there's always this type of
banter between the faculty area and administrators.
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