Staff gets lower raise than faculty
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
Despite a recommendation by an
ad-hoc chancellor’s committee that
UNL staff receive a higher salary
increase than faculty this year, only
half of the staff will get it.
Herb Howe, associate to the chan
cellor, said the managerial/professional
half of the staff will receive a raise
equal to the 4.25 percent raise the
faculty will get at UNL.
Office/services staff will receive
only a 4 percent raise, he said.
In the past few years, Howe said,
office/services personnel received
greater raises than management in
order to bring their salaries up to a
more competitive level.
“This year would be for (manage
ment),” he said.
Howe said he wished the staff could
have received more, but that the money
“just wasn’t there.”
According to Randy Haack, NU
director of budget and analysis, staff
salaries would have had to increase
11 percent to equal the average of the
local market in Lincoln and Omaha.
Faculty salaries at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln would need to
increase 8.2 percent to equal the
average faculty salaries of the group
of universities to which UNL com
pares itself.
At the regents meeting a week ago
Monday to divvy up salary increases,
UNL Interim Chancellor Jack Goebel
expressed reservations about the higher
increase for faculty than for staff. The
staff was supposed to get the higher
increase this year, Goebel said.
The regents approved a plan to
give staff at all campuses a 4 percent
raise.
Academic Senate President George
Tuck said he did not foresee any
problems resulting from the salary
increase differences between faculty
and staff.
“I would hope not,” he said, “but
the staff is still going to be under
paid.”
Lorraine Moon, University of
Nebraska Office Personnel Associa
tion salary issue chairperson, said that
as long as staff members feel they are
getting their fair share, there proba
bly won’t be any problems.
But, she said, it depends on each
staff member’s situation whether or
not he or she feels the raise is fair.
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Astronaut Helms to take part in UNL program
NASA astronaut Susan Helms
will be at the University of Ne
braska-Lincoln today to partici
pate in the Women Investigating
Sciences and the Environments
program.
Helms, who has flown 30 types
of U.S. and Canadian military air
craft, will encourage the 90 pro
gram participants to pursue careers in
math and science and help them de
velop career awareness.
The WISE program is financed by
the National Science Foundation and
is designed to attract young women to
math, science and engineering stud
ies, to support them in their research
and studies and to encourage them
to pursue careers in these fields.
This is the second summer that
brings junior high girls from rural
Nebraska to UNL for a 15-day ses
sion during which time they de
velop a research project and learn
to use a personal computer.
Government seminar for teachers at UNL
The 16th annual Taft Seminar
for Teachers is happening at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
through June 21.
The two-week workshop-semi
nar in practical politics and gov
ernment, which started Monday,
is designed to improve the civic edu
cation programs in schools by help
ing teachers better understand gov
ernment and the political process in
the United States.
The program will provide partici
pants the opportunity to meet and talk
with leaders such as Gov. Ben
Nelson, slate and national legisla
tors, Nebraska Supreme Court
justices, political party officials at
all levels of government and citi
zens actively involved in the po
litical process.
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Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska President Andy
Massey, a student regent, said he
doesn’t think students should have to
pay for the salary increase.
“We’re paying lor something I think
the state should pay for,” he said.
“(The slate) knew someone was going
to have to pay.”
Massey said that since 1984, stale
funding for higher education in Ne
braska has increased 0.8 percent.
Tuition at UNL since 1984 has
increased 40 percent, he said.
“What’s picking up the slack is
tuition,” Massey said.
“We need to readjust our commit
ment to higher education. Everyone
benefits.”
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