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! UGA losing faculty
! to higher paying jobs
By DEBORAH Bl.l'M
and JOYIA ANTHONY
One of the most serious problems the
University faces is a steady loss of top
faculty to better paying jobs
The problem is made worse by the fact
that in many schools at the University,
the salary offered is not competitive with
salaries at other institutions
Dean David Anderson of the College of
Veterinary Medicine, who has lost 20 per
cent of his faculty this year, calls the low
salaries "our worst problem." and Joel
Key, division chairman of biological
share of our faculty this year < 14 out of a
total 70. and Anderson estimates another
10 to 12 many leave this summeri.”
The average incrase in salary for
faculty in veterinary medicine who leave
the University is $8000 to $9000 per year,
Anderson said and some faculty have
received as much as $18,000 more per
year
Anderson calculated the school would
need another $295,000 more per year to
bring salaries up to a competitive level
"it s always our best people who are
hired away. !f we find someone of
comparable talent, there’s nothing we
The
financial
crisis
sciences, says the situation is "worse
than anything else" at the University.
Their attitudes reflect the consensus of
school administrators at the University
who are finding it increasingly difficult to
keep good faculty and to bring what they
consider qualified educators to the Uni
versity.
A STUDY by the Southern Regional
Educational Board (SREB), in which 13
states participated, showed Georgia slip
ped from fifth to eleventh place this year
in median faculty salaries.
The study further pointed out that
surrounding states had considerably es
calated their salaries during 1975. Texas
raised pay 14.3 per cent; Louisiana, 10
per cent; Maryland, nine per cent;
Mississippi, nine per cent; and Alabama,
seven per cent.
The state of Georgia froze all contract
ed pay raises and reluctantly granted
them only after the American Association
of University Professors (AAUP) suc
cessfully battled the state in court. The
forced five per cent raises will help but
many faculty and administrators believe
the pay situation is still critical.
Acting Dean Scott Cutlip of the School
of Journalism said with the five per cent
pay raise the journalism school still
ranked 35th out of 43 schools and
departments in a nation wide survey of
colleges and universities.
“Where we hurt the most is in the area
of faculty salary,” Anderson said. "Our
salaries are so low that we lost a good
can do We can't hire them. If we can't
get a commitment for the money, we're
going to have a continual turnover. Five
per cent turnover is healthy, but 20 per
cent starts to be chaotic," he said.
SIMILAR PROBLEMS are occuring in
a growing number of schools at the
University The College of Agriculture
has lost 15 faculty members since last
July and Dean Henry Garren says
agricultural extension service salaries
are 39th in the nation, compared with the
other states.
The pharmacy, law and business
schools are also facing the problem in
competitive salaries and faculty in the
biological sciences are feeling pressure
as well, according to Key.
Kenneth Waters, dean of the School of
Pharmacy, says that according to the
American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy his school is several thousand
below the national average for assistant,
associate and full professors.
"We range from $4000 for full profes
sor, $3000 for associate professor and
$2000 for assistant professor less than
average salary," Waters said. He esti
mates the school would need an addition
al $100,000 per year to be competitive and
at least $50,000 to approach the national
average for salaries
"We've got a couple of people schedul
ed for graduation this year who have
offers from institutions close by for more
than a major professor makes here,”
Waters said.
ACTING DEAN Walter Phillips of the
law school estimates his school would
need an additional $2600-$3500 per year
for each faculty member in order to be
competitive.
"We need slightly less than a 10 per
cent raise." he said "It would put us in a
most enviable position "
The problem also is evident in biologi
cal sciences. Key said.
"For starting salary for assistant
professor we are competitive but we
cannot maintain qualified associate prof
essors They're making little more than
the new faculty. The development is that
we can t hold on to the first class faculty
and what you're left with is all the
tenured faculty that you'd just as soon
go. This problem is more serious than
anything else," he said
Administrators are unanimous in their
opinion that the two and a half per cent
annual merit raise proposed by the state
will be far from adequate in trying to
maintain .a competitive level
Willianf Flewellen. dean of the business
chool. said the school is fairly competi
tive at assistant and associate professor
levels and not competitive at the full
professor level but "two and a half per
cent (merit raisesl will not keep us at
this level. It is not enough."
WATERS AGREES. "I don't sneeze at
two and half per cent but the so-called
merit raises are not sufficient." he said.
"If you don't give merit raises equal to
the cost of living it amounts to a cut.
The faculty of the University has already
been taking a cut in salary because we
have not kept up with the cost of living,"
he said.
Anderson stated flatly that "the two
and a half per cent won t help us "
"If we ever get supplies and salaries
back up to a competitive level, that
system would make it a continuing
problem At two and one-half per cent
we'd be back down in three or four
years," he said.
Key also sees the proposed merit raise
as leading to an inevitable slipping back
in ability to compete with other schools.
"We can maintain ourself as a state
college that way but we can't maintain
ourself as a Univeristy." he said. "The
two and a half per cent raise won't be
adequate It'll mean there’ll always be
some raise but when you're llth out of
the southeast and way down on the
national scale it also means you can't
expect to do any better
"Faculty don't leave here just because
of salary, it's hard to work at a place
that's less than first class "
Ovations for Oregon
I nolo by HOKE CARTER
Oregon played lo a capacity crowd in Memorial Tuesday
night The music is distinctively Oregon's own style, but
comes closest to jazz The audience greeted the group
warmly, applauding .
returned for an encor
Health
says no
Services
fee raise
By CHRIS GUIDE
Assistant news editor
Health Services officials are not plan
ning to request an increase in student
health fees this year, according to Dr
John Curtis, director of Health Services
Last fall quarter. Curtis said, "we had
planned to ask for a six-to-seven dollar
increase in order to fully reinstate
services which were cut back last year."
The increase, which would have been
effective fall quarter 1976, was decided
against by Health Services Board of
Directors after a 10 per cent tuition hike
was approved by the Board of Regents
As an alternate to a fee hike. Health
Services officials may use a reserve fund
which is built into their budget for the
part of general operating expenses w hich
would have been covered by an increase
in student fees
The fund, which comorises five per
cent of Health Services' total budget each
year, is normally used for purchase of
equipment and renovation of the Health
Services building. Curtis said
MILLER PROCLAIMS
New revolution underway
"We haven't gotten this approved yet.
but this year we want to use this reserve
for other things like funding our salary
increases, and save the student fee raise
for another year," he said
If the plan is approved, work on the
third floor of the new addition to Health
Services will be delayed for at least
another year, Curtis said
"We are planning to put in some
specialty clinics up there eventually." lie
added
A gynecology clinic has been proposed
for the now largely unused third floor.
Curtis said
"We don't think this would he a very
good time lo ask for an increase," he
said "We feel like we would probably
have student support if we did. but we
would rather not burden them with
another fee increase, so we re going lo
try to squeeze through with what we've
got
"Bypassing an increase this year will
mean holding the line on reinstating cut
lack services, but I think we can make
do with what we’ve got, Curtis said
With the addition of another physician
hired Indore the freeze on tilling vacant
stall positions began. Health Services
brought its staff of doctors up to pre-cut
back levels, and no cutbacks in present
services are planned as a result of the
decision not io ask lor an increase, lie
said
it the end of the concert until Oregon
e See Hie concert review, page two
Infirmary
attendance
sets record
A record 674 patients were seen, at
University Health Services Monday, ac
cording to Dr. John Curtis, director of
Health Services.
"1 always wondered what it would take
to glut this building." Curtis said "The
number of students we are seeing has
been steadily increasing over the past
two weeks, but Monday the bottom
dropped out "
Waiting time for walk-in patients and
appointments alike averaged two hours
Monday as well as Tuesday, when 550
students were seen by Health Services
personnel.
"We had so many people with the flu —
I think over 200 people we saw Monday
bad the flu or a general viral syndrome."
Curtis said
According to Curtis, the waiting time
was so long "because we had to examine
each flu patient carefully to make sure
none of them had any complications "
A small percentage of flu patients did
have bacterial infections such as bron
chitis or pneumonia, he said.
Curtis advised students who are sick to
come to Health Serv ices and wait as long
as necessary.
"Although we do have a doctor on call
at night and on weekends, we re not
really properly staffed to handle the
number ot students who have shown up
at those hours lately," he said
By RICK RICKS
Stale editor
Georgia Lt. Gov. Zell Miller told
students here Tuesday there is a new
revolution underway in America that will
result in a greater concern for justice
and the human aspects of life and less
emphasis on material goods
Miller, speaking to a small crowd
I.T. GOV. ZEI.I. MILLER
Says social revolution alrradv underway
gathered in the Russell lounge, said the
new revolution would not be a violent one
but instead be a "humanistic one."
Citing the book The Greening of
America by Charles Wright. Miller said
the new revolution is a response'to the
sweeping social change that was accom
plished in the sixties within the black
rights and peace movements
"The case of 'Brown vs the Topeka
Board of Education' started this revol
ution and it was furthered by the late
Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr." Miller
said.
"lilt. KING had a dream about black
and white equality and brotherhood of
men, and I share that dream It is not a
version of Utopia...it is just finding out
that we are all of the same human
family," he added
Staiing that youth are the vanguard of
the new revolution. Miller said the
revolution is a sign that people have
recognized the problems of the day such
as pollution and population control and
are doing something about them
Miller said that the revolution, coming
ironically at the time of the nation's
bicentennial, will bring into full focus the
basic message of patriotic documents
such as the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution
"The time has come not for short cuts
but for long term pragmatic change." he
said, adding. "And young people have
become more sophisticated about social
change realizing that the changes neces
sary in our institutions cannot come over
night."
In a question and answer session
tollowing his speech. Miller indicated
that he was concerned a!x>ul emotional
ism on both sides of the current gun
control issue before the legislature
REFERRING to the myriad of gun
control bills before the General Assem
bly. Miller said the one most likely to
pass would require strict regulation of
pistol carrying, but would do little to
regulate gun purchasing
"The problni is you’ve got people on
both sides of the question that refuse to
budge,” Miller said
The lieutenant governor expressed
concern that new laws be enacted lo
provide swift, stiff penalties for violators
without infringing on the first amend
ment to the U S. Constitution
Regarding the Equal Rights Amend
ment to the Constitution Miller reiterated
his support for the measure but said that
its passage is doubtful this year
Miller, who has been touted as a
candidate for the ninth district congres
sional seat currently held by retiring
Rep Phil Landrum, told the group he is
still unsure whether he will enter the
race
"I have a commitment to the people of
the state of Georgia for the next three
years, and I don't know it it would be
right to run for another office during that
time," he said
MILLER DID take the opportunity to
endorse the presidential candidacy of
former Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter
saying, "he is blazing a trail for
southerners eroding the redneck south
ern stereotype "
Addressing a question regarding the
University system. Miller said University
Chancellor George Simpson had been
very effective in representing the Univer
sity System with the legislature up until
recently when state revenue problems
began
However. Miller said, the problem with
all education now is that the state has not
faced its responsibility, tending instead to
blame problems on wastefulness
Miller defended the recent tuition
increase by the University Board of
Regents, dubbing it an "immediate
answer" to the system’s financial prob
lems that could have been foregone it the
stale had faced its responsibility
Capsule news
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27
Women s athletic contests
The women's basketball team will play Ft Valley State College lonight at 7 in
the coliseum Admission is free.
The women's gymnastics meet with Louisiana State University, previously
scheduled for the Coliseum will be held at 10 a m Saturday in women's P E
Davison speech
University President Fred C Davison will address students tonight at 7:30 in
Memorial Ballroom
Kilpatrick to speak
Washington syndicated columnist. James J Kilpatrick, will speak at 11 30 a m
Friday in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education as part of the Georgia
Press Institute program which begins today
Gallery exhibit
"Great American Indies", a gallery exhibit, will be on display in Memorial art
gallery through Feb 19