Wednesday, April 7, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Oregon daily
Volume 83
Number 125
emerald
Faculty salaries fail to compete
Average Faculty Salary at 76 Major
Public Universities in the USA 1980/81
(50 states represented)
1 California (Berkeley 33 500
? Alaska (Anchorage) 32 700
3 Pennsylvania. 31 400
4 Michigan 31 000
5 UCLA ... . 30 900
6 North Carolina 29 600
7 IHifKM 78900
B Woconsin 28 400
9 ONo State 78 300
SUNY - Albany 28 300
11 Arizona 28 200
Connecticut 28 200
13 Rutgers (MJ) 78 100
14 Michigan State 28 000
'5 Virginia ,27 900
16 Purdue 27 700
SUMY - Stony Brack 2 7 700
18 Waahmgtcn . 2 7 500
19 Minnesota _ 27 300
SUMY - Buffalo 27 300
21 Arizona State . . 27.100
Utah .... 27 100
23 Indiana 26 800
Iowa 26 800
75 Penn Stale 26 700
Source A Of Program Planning Committee
26 Massachusetts 26 600
27 Hawaii . .. 26 500
Wyoming . 26.500
29 Georgia 26.300
30 SUNY - Binghamton 26.200
31 Colorado.. 26 100
32 Florida Slat* ..... 25 900
33 North Carolina State. _ 25 800
Rhode Wand .25 800
35 Nevada Reno 25 700
Teaaa A4M 25 700
37 Loietiana State 25 600
38 Teaas. 25 500
Virginia Polytechnic .25 500
40 Missouri . 25 400
Univ of D C.25 400
42 Colorado State . 25 300
43 Dataware ... ...25.200
Maryland_ ___ 25.200
Sou*i Carolina 25.200
Kentucky. 25.200
47 WashingtonStat* 25.100
Florida . 25.100
49 New Mexico.. 25.000
50 New Mexico State 24 800
51 Neoraska
52 OREGON
Oklahoma...
54 Nevada La* Vegas
55 Tennesse*.
Utah State.
Oklahoma State_
58 Alabama
59 fchseiseippi State .
69
70
6' Arkansas._
kx*a State.
63 Kansas State. . .
64 OREGON STATE
65 Mississippi.
66 New Hampshire...
67 Vermont.
68 west Vagtma
Montana State.
North Dakota ..
72 North Dakota!
73 Maine ..
74 South Dakota ....
South Dakota State
24.400
24.300
24.300
24.200
24.100
24.100
24 100
24,000
23.900
23.900
23.800
23.700
23.600
23.500
22.900
22.800
22.700
22.400
21.700
21.700
21.500
21.400
21.200
21,200
20.100
Graphic by Mas DaRunga
By Debbie Hewlett
Of Of Emmrakj
Average salary levels for University faculty are no longer
competitive with salaries offered by other universities for new,
talented faculty members, according to one University
department head and two deans of schools. As a con
sequence, the University is finding it increasingly difficult to
keep faculty members here
The lessening capacity for the University to compete
nationally has become demoralizing and frustrating, says
James Tattersall, head of the economics department and a
past president of the Association of Oregon Faculties.
"There is a real problem in faculty morale," Tattersall
says
Recently, a senior faculty member resigned and moved
south, "not entirely for monetary reasons but also due to our
general climate of rotten news," he says.
The rotten "climate" seems to be raining on more than
just the economics department. Robert Berdahl, dean of the
arts and science college, related several instances of not
being able to offer competitive salaries and of faculty
members leaving the University for higher pay elsewhere
One mathematics professor — a Ph D. I was offered
$23,400 by the University. "That was our top offer, it was the
best we could do,” Berdahl says. But the University's top offer
was almost $8,000 under what the professor accepted from
another institution.
Berdahl also pointed out two other faculty members that left
the University for at least $10,000 more than they were making
in Eugene.
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Community pitches in at Alton Baker
By Mahan Green
Of tti* Emtmkl
Money for Lane County parks may be
in limited supply, but there's no shortage
of local support as offers of volunteer
help pour in from the community
In Eugene, community effort is most
noticeable at Alton Baker Park, where at
least a half dozen organizations have
donated labor and money and another
100 groups have phoned in offers of
assistance, says parks division spoke
sperson Chuck Schrader
The parks division — like most county
services — had its funding slashed this
year The budget for Alton Baker Park is
$105,000, half the amount needed to run
the 375-acre park, Schrader says
"The budget basically does not
provide sufficient funds to maintain that
park or any other park," he says
So since last year, the parks division
has been circulating pleas throughout
the county for help with the parks,
Schrader says And the community has
responded
Area Rotary Clubs donated $120,000
for the Alton Baker Park amphitheater
The Active 20/30 Club built the chil
dren's play structure Pre s Foundation
and local running clubs have banded
together to maintain Pre s Trail. The
Toastmasters Club has been spreading
the word about park needs
And within the last week, Schrader has
received more than 100 phone calls in
quiring about the Adopt-a-Park program,
in which groups or individuals help
maintain the parks
Age is no barrier to helping out, he
says. "I’ve had a number of parents call
to volunteer their kids. "
"It’s a super idea," he says "Without
those people, things could be worse than
they are now."
With just two park workers to maintain
the 17 metro-district parks, which total
about 600 acres, Schrader says the divi
sion can guarantee only basic health
Photos by BoO Bt*«r
Community invotvomenl at Alton Bakar Park has gon* from us* to fundraising to vofuntoor tabor.
code requirements, such as clean rest
rooms, emptied garbage cans and suf
ficiently mown grass.
That's about all we re going to be
able to do," he says “There’s not going
to be a neatly mown lawn."
Volunteers will pick up where the
county leaves off, clearing overgrowth,
planting shrubs and wildflowers and
removing some blackberry brambles,
Schrader says
What they’re going to be doing is a lot
of work that would not be done at all," he
says.
The value of this volunteerism is ines
timable, Schrader says.
"You can’t put a figure on someone
planting wildflowers."
More than 1.3 million people visited
Alton Baker Park last year, he says.
And that's a conservative estimate
because it accounts only for car visitors,
he says. The county couldn't afford to
hire employees to count pedestrians and
bicyclists this year, he says. The last
count, which was taken in 1974, showed
more than 350,000 bicyclists toured the
park's trails.
Schrader says he hopes the citizen
involvement will lead to better treatment
of park facilities and less toleration of
vandalism.
On April 17, the county commissioners
and parks advisory committee members
are hosting a brown-bag lunch work
party at Alton Baker Park. All Lane
County residents are invited to pull on
heavy work gloves and put their backs
into improving the park, Schrader says.