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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1966)
According to AAUP National Faculty Salaries 7.3 Per Cent Higher Now (CPS)—The normally gloomy report of the American Associa tion of University Professors Com mittee Z—the committee on the economic status of the profession —sounded a happy note this' year as it announced that the salaries of the nation's college teachers are higher than ever before—up 7.3 per cent over last year. The report, which was released Friday at the association’s annual meeting, noted that the percen tage rise was the highest of any year this decade and that for the first time since 1957 faculty pay has risen at a rate considered essential to meet the goals of the President’s Committee on Edu cation Beyond High School. That advisory body, reporting to former President Eisenhower, set as a national target the dou bling of faculty salaries before 1970. The southern states have been important beneficiaries of the increased salaries, the report said, and thus the gap between the South and the rest of the na tion has narrowed. Three in South Notably, of the five schools said to have increased salaries by the greatest percentage in the current year, three are in the South—the University of Ken tucky, Tuskegee Institute in Ala bama. and Pan American College in Texas. The other two were Parsons College (Fairfield, Iowa) and Wheelock College (Boston, Mass.). The average salary for a full professor at a university in the South was reported to be $13, 206, compared with $15,602 for the rest of the country. In church-, related liberal arts colleges, the full professor’s average salary was $10,554. “Over the past two years the acceleration in compensations for all ranks has been quite steady and quite remarkable,” the report said. I William Baumol, a Princeton faculty member, chairman of the committee, said that this year's increases had been most sub stantial at the top ranks. In fact, he said, this is a pattern seen in past reports—the higher the rank, the more rapid the percen ; tage increase in pay. Average Salary $9,816 During 1965 (16, the report said that the average for all faculty members reached $9,816. While the average dollar increase at the lowest level, the instructor, i was only $445, it was $1,035 for i full professors. The average pay for full pro fessors in the top pay category of “AA” stood at $23,290. In the lowest category—-an “F" ranking —the same academic rank aver- J aged only $7,160, thus underlin ing the great differences between institutions. While the nationwide average salary for full professors is $13, 500 and for instructors, $6,740, one church-related liberal arts college reported that it pays full professors only $6,300 and in structors only $4,300. The report noted that, for its purpose, all academic salaries are figured on a nine-month ba sis. This means that actual sal- j aries tend to be considerably higher with the addition of either summer session teaching pay, re search grants, or consulting ap-! pointments. Not Part-time On the other hand, none of the statistics include part-time fac ulty members and teaching as- j sistants. In many universities ; these assistants carry much of the burden of undergraduate in- j struction. The report noted they , are entrusted with major teach- ! ing assignments, are paid on a much lower scale, and are gen erally referred to as “academic slave labor.” In terms of average compen University Receives New Education Grant An award of $106,510 from the U.S. Office of Education will en able the University to participate in the Educational Opportunity Grants Program. Under the pro gram, authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965, needy stu dents will receive grants to aid in financing their education. The $106,510 award is for the 1966-67 academic year. Grants will be available to entering freshmen as well as to current students. First-year grants will range from $200 to $800, with an equal amount provided from the Uni versity’s scholarship or loan funds, including National Defense Education Act loans, or state or private financial aid programs (excluding work-study funds). These amounts could be in creased by $200 for the last three years of college for a student ranking in the upper half of his class the preceding year. Once awarded, a grant would last for the duration of under graduate study, provided the stu dent continues to qualify for as- j sistance. Need will determine the amount of each student’s grant, which may not exceed what he needs to meet his normal college expenses. Howard Ramey, director of fi- ] nancial aids at the University, j v/ill administer the program. Ramey has indicated that exact details of the program have not yet been worked out, and that it is difficult to estimate the aver age amount of the grants. Finance Committee To Discuss Budget The Committee on Finance and Business Affairs of the State Board of Higher Education will meet at 9 a.m. today in Salem to consider its operating budget plan for 1967-69. The budget for all schools of the State System of Higher Edu cation will have to be passed by the full State Board and will be presented to the state legislature at its meeting beginning in Janu ary. Want to really get results?— Use Emerald Classified Ads— Phone 342-1411, Ext. 1818. COSMO CLUB presents LATIN AMERICA NIGHT ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND SEVEN COMMITTEEMEN TONIGHT WESLEY FOUNDATION 7:30 Free Refreshments! sation, including fringe benefits, of all full-time faculty members, Harvard University led the as sociation’s list. Harvard was the only university listed in the "$17, 500 and above” category. The University of Chicago and Parsons College were in the next category of $16,000 to $16,49!) Parsons, formerly a church-re lated institution, has stressed management efficiency combined with a curriculum of relatively few courses as a means of rais ing faculty salaries. Next Ten The next ten institutions on the list are the California Institute of Technology. Stanford Univer sity, Amherst College, the Clare mont Graduate School in Califor nia. Cornell University, the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technol ogy, Northwestern University, Princeton University, the Univer sity of Rochester, and Union The ological Seminary. In a different listing which takes minimum salary scales into account as well as average pay, the top two institutions were bake Forest College in Illinois and Par sons. They were followed by Am herst College; Brooklyn, City, and Hunter Colleges of the City Uni versity of New York; California Institute of Technology; the Uni versity of Chicago; Columbia Uni versity; Duke University; Har vard; Johns Hopkins; Knox Col lege; MIT; the State University of New York; the University of Pennsylvania; Princeton; Roches ter; Swarthmore College; Wes leyan University; and Yale. Cosmopolitan Club To Hold Elections The Cosmopolitan Club will hold elections -for seven com mitteemen, including president, at 7:30 p.m. today, in Wesley Foundation. Outgoing President Peter Maync hopes the club will have "very energetic persons” who hold an interest in many activities, rang ing from a discussion meeting to the International Festival. The club has actively participated in the festival, and sponsored many international gatherings in the past year. Entertainment and refresh ments prepared by Latin Ameri can students will be provided af ter the elections. Civic Club Approves Millrace Preservation The Metropolitan Civic Club voted Wednesday to accept a com mittee report culling for the pres ervation of Eugene's 110-year-old Millraee. The committee last February called the millraee "a natural, unique and potentially beautiful attraction.” and said the water way provides the necessary frame work for creating open space pedestrian walkways betw e e n downtown Eugene and the Uni versity campus. Committee m e m her Robert Thomas said Wednesday that ac quisition of necessary right-of way for preserving the millraee and constructing an adjacent walkway is a matter of "great necessity." Thomas warned that the temp tation by adjacent property own ers to till in the millrace is be coming: (treater. lie estimated it would cost about $300,000 to pur chase the necessary right-of-way, to make improvements and con struct walkways. Thomas said it would be feasi ble to finance part of the cost under the government’* "open space" or “urban beautification" program. Water flow in the millrace ran be accomplished In a number of ways, Thomas explained One would be to narrow the width, possibly to ten feet, while an other would t»e to connect the millrace to an existing 30 inch cul vert running under 11th Avenue. DIAMOND BRIDAL PAIRS: from the StL-\JJEt'l(h'ST collection "To carry into effect, as an inten tion ... to bring to pass, as a design ...to realize or manifest com pletely" is the definition of to "ful fill." Zalecrest fulfills the highest ideals of fine jewelry craftsmanship. ZALECREST H*u»«k of Excellence j Phone 343 7746 $400 |!lu%tr*tior-ft en!*ritc! to fthow d«t#H. PrkcM plot U*. JEWELERS 110 \V. Broadway Shop Monday and Friday till 9 p m. CAMPUS TERRORIZED BY DU BLITZKRIEG Thursday night left the campus in a state of confusion and raw terror as many women’s living organizations were raided by the much-feared DU Storm Troopers. Sadistic Oberleutnant Herzbruch of the S.S. led opera tion DU Blitzkrieg, arresting many of the campus’ most beautiful women. The victims of this fiendish plot include Frauleins Mary Lou Sievers, Helen Keller, Claudia Salstrom, Liz Callison, lisa Grossnase, Nancy Richmond, Sue Wems, Cathy Koski, Kris Pomblad, Nancy Todd, Hilda Mann, Suzanne Hueman, Jane Farrel, Patti Gehrman, Pat Brown, Sally Beeve, Martha Clift, Mary Walsh, Elizabeth Casy, Virginia Meyer, Sara Chaney, Clella Winger, Nanette Green, Kathy Schiffman, Betty Bachs, Charlotte Phillips, Sue Sherman, Carol Wood, Cheri DeChaine, Barb Jones, Linda Erz, Juliet Ray, Pam Sansone, Ima Ferry, Connie Mason, Rae Thrasher, Michael Leaver, Kathy Lerer, Susan Jenkins, Jan Coleman, Teddy Bear Koreraar, Kathy Rogers, Marci Ray, June Allgood, Sue Beard, Nancy Matott, and Tia White. Some of the above Women, while not formally arrested last night by the brutal Storm Troopers, may be snatched by the vicious S.S. men at any moment. The arrested women will be shipped to the notorious concentration camp, infamous Auschwitz DU, Saturday, for fiendish torture at the hands of the brutal DU Gestapo.
