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Pay increases help UNL keep faculty, official says Increase in base UNL professors 89-90 Source: Coordinating Commission tor Postsecondary Education Brian SheilitO'Daily Nebraskan ‘^— B‘ Shelley Miller Staff Reporter Increases in base pay for UNL professors over the last nine years have helped the university become more competitive with peer institu tions, the Academic Senate president said. James McShanc said the $23,000 average increase over nine years is impressive, but doesn’t tell the whole story. “We were, on the average, 20 percent below our peers when we went into the salary initiative three years ago,” he said. Three years ago, the Nebraska Legislature began increasing Univer sity of Nebraska salaries in an at tempt to bring them closer to salaries — at a group of peer institutions. Professors’ salaries at the Un „r sity of Nebraska-Lincoln went trom an average of $30,337 in 1980-81 to $53,303 in 1989-90, according to a recent report by the Nebraska Coor dinating Commission for Postsecon dary Education. The report compared pay increases to cost-of-living increases. If the Consumer Price Index had been the only factor considered, the average salary would have been $44,472. McShane said the change in pay scale has helped the university be come better able to compete for the faculty members it needs. McShane said he was not sure where UNL stood in relation to its peer uni versities, but he said it was important to maintain parity. “If we fall back, we will have to play catch-up ball again,” he said. According to the report, UNL full professor salaries met or exceeded cost-of-living increases in seven of nine years of the study. McShanc said he hadn’t gone over the report yet, but he would guess that the years UNL did not match infla tion were during the farm crisis of the mid-’80s. Of the 26 Nebraska postsecondary schools, both public and private, in cluded in the report, UNL was second only to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in professor salaries. “The increases look impressive, and they are,” McShane said. “They represent a stalwart effort on the part of the state.” The solution to your New Year’s Resolution. You promised yourself, "This year I'm going to get in shape." But you don't want to pay high priced facility fees. The Lincoln YMCA has the answer You can swim, run, play basketball, lift weights, play rac quctball, enjoy classes and much more. $19.00 a month Nautilus facility now included Plus $35.00 initiation fee Note: Student Membership excludes the hours of 11 a.m. * 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. * 7 p.m. weekdays 2 Blocks from campus * I Downtown Shaping the Student body. 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