Monday, December 16, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
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By Kent Endacott
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska and the
University of Iowa, both afflicted by the
sagging agricultural economy, have been
forced to "pan down in order to sur
vive," officials from both schools say.
"The situation does not look good,"
says Ken Mall, IU vice president of aca
demic affairs.
Both schools have had mid-year bud
get reductions. In October, the Iowa
Legislature approved reductions of 3.8
percent or about $6 million, in IU's
1985-86 budget. In November, the Nebr
aska Legislature reduced the 1985-86
NU budget by 2 percent or $3.4 million.
NU President Ronald Roskens said
the budget crunch is forcing short-term
and long-term changes in NU's opera
tion. "Once it was established that we
would be required to reduce the budget
by 2 percent, we took the position that
we must maintain the institution as
best we could," he said. First, we have
to consider temporary reductions to
get us through the current fiscal year.
"We will be curbing expenditures on
such items as unfilled teaching posi
tions, travel and maintenance."
More importantly, Roskens said, NU
officials must remove $3.4 million per
manently from the university budget by
July.
Dorsey Elliss, IU vice president of
finance, said IU is coping with its
budget reductions by leaving unfilled
faculty positions vacant and by cutting
maintenance costs.
"We have frozen appointed positions
for the year," he said. "If somebody
quits, then that position goes unfilled."
Elliss said IU also reduced expendi
tures for repairs and research and
adopted energy conservation programs.
Moreover, the leaner budgets at both
schools have prompted top faculty
members to leave for higher-paying
jobs at rival schools. Eighty-five full
time tenured faculty members at IU
have indicated they will not return
after this semester. In 1984, 68 faculty
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"We have few things to look forward
to," said Richard Sjolund, president of
IU's faculty senate. "The main problem
is that the people most likely to leave
are the best people.
"And when they leave, they take
their grants with them," he said. "When
the university can no longer count on
the grants, then it must rely on the
state."
Sjolund said IU, which ranks near
the bottom of the Big 10 in faculty
salaries, hasn't had a faculty pay raise
in four years.
However, he said, the IU Board of
Regents and faculty senate plan to
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Legislature in January, calling for a 5
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At UNL, 52 tenured faculty members
have resigned effective Dec. 31, accord
ing to a university report.
"We're ripe for raiding," Roskens
said. "Right now it's clearly known that
the University of Nebraska and the Uni
versity of Iowa are ripe for raiding
because of all the publicity the agricul
tural economy has received.
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leaving NU for higher paying jobs at
other schools is Lowell Saterlee, dir
ector of the food processing center.
Saterlee announced Dec. 3 he will
leave UNL for a higher-paying job,
directing a similar program at Pennsyl
vania State University.
"I've been given a very good oppor
tunity at Penn State . . . They're pump
ing a lot of money into the biotechron
omy program to get it to No. 1," he said.
Desmond Wheeler, president of the
UNL Faculty Senate, said the "state's
lack of commitment to higher educa
tion" has hurt faculty morale at UNL.
"Many states are going through tough
economic times," he said. "But those
states also are improving their univer
sities at the same time. Here in Ne
braska, all we are talking about is cut
ting." Pejorative predictions about the
future of agriculture have hurt faculty
morale at IU, Sjolund said.
"A lot of the faculty has not had a
raise in four years," he said. "And
there's not a lot to look forward to in
the next four, or five years.
"And when they get recruited by
another place, they have no reason to
stay."
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