ND Struggling to Raise Salar1es

----------------------------- Logan Center battles budget by Rosemary Mills effect on Nov. 1, the cut would this project. He mentioned busing Senior Staff Reporter eliminate aU summer programming students to lobby in Indianapolis as for school-age children, greatly a possible measure. Bender indi Notre Dame Student Govern reduce the number of clients, and cated that the main leverage of the ment will fight the Logan Center discontinue all or most recreation students lies in the number· of budget cut, Student Body Presi services. voters on campus registered in dent Dave Bender announced According to Bender, Student Indiana. yesterday. Bender met with Government will take a £rm stand Another step in the plan is to representatives from t~ ND-SMC on the cutback. Letter writing cam contact the two congressmen from community to discuss proposed paigns to aU members of the this region and Governor ·.Otis action. Budget Committee will be Bowen. Third District Congress Notre Dame and St. Mary's initiated. The main targets of this man John Brademas has already will coordinate their action with campaign are State Senator John been contacted. According to his the Council for the Retarded of Mutz (-R-) of Indianapolis, State chief aide, Brademas is against the St. Joseph County, according to Representative William Long (-R-) cut, although he noted that the Bender who has contacted the of Lafayette, and John Huie, action is a state affair. council's Executive Director, AI appointed director of the budget Notre Dame alumni who live in Soenneker. committee. Bender specifically Indiana will be contacted for The state budget committee plans to state that the students support. Bender feels that polit recently voted 3-2 to cut ten million are actively working against the ically active alumni may be of help. dollars from funds appropriated for cut. Local politicians and media will services to the developmentaUy Bender said that Student be asked to back the student gov- disabled. Scheduled to go into Government may commit money to lcontinued on page 2] How to keep an off-campus student busy • The daily routine of an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's the student becomes more complex when faced with the necessity of self survival. Above, a lawn mower gets a hand Vol. XII, No. 21 Tuesday, September 27, 1977 from one Notre Dame homesteader. [Photo by Leo Hansen] Peer/eve/sought • ND struggling to raise salar1es . by Drew John Bauer raised $250 this summer, according Associate Professor Irwin Press salary increase of at least $1000 stre~sed that ~otre ~~me couldn t Senior Staff Reporter to a letter written by University said that although Notre Dame has over and above any normal raise," conh~ue to raise tuition because President Fr. Theodore Hesburgh given "good raises the last three proposed Press. "I don't care the mcreases would cut off a Despite a seven percent increase to the parents of undergraduate years that are above the national where the administration gets the significant number of students in average faculty compensation students. average," the faculty has still lost money from, but they have to make who woul~ be unable to afford a this year, faculty leaders are stress "One of our primary goals is to ground to comparable institutions. this move. This university is moderate mcrease. ing that additional raises will be increase faculty salaries to a more "Wh t happened was that the nothing without its faculty. Take Although both the Admini- necessary soon before Notre Dame competitive level," said Thomas J. th .. U~i ersitie received raises away the buildings, take away stration and faculty members agree salaries are comparable to those at Mason, vice-president for Business ~ t r ~00 If we were $1600 everything. But you can't take that salaries are low compared to other "peer institutions." Affairs. "But we are restricted in ts yea median saiary) behind the away the faculty. We are the some schools, each side can not The demands are bringing in the size of the raise by ~he amount ~;e~~~elast year, although we backbone of the whole University·'' ~gr~e ~n w.~at consti~utes a ''peer creasing pressure on the University of funds we have avatlable each received a 7 percent increase this . mshtution. Accordmg to Press, to increase faculty salary sub year." year' so did they' and now we are Peer Institutions the Faculty Senate .suggested two stantiaiiy in order to continue Mason called Notre Dame a further behind,,, explained Press. years ago that the Big T~? b~ used attracting quality professors to du "labor-intensive operation" and Press, who last year was chair- "The University could probably as a comparable base. Th!s was Lac. Several Faculty Senate mem said that 60 percent of all un- man of the Committee on Faculty get the money it needs either by because these .schools are m the bers state that the relatively low restricted and operation funds goes Affairs of the Faculty Senate, said increasing tuition, diverting money same geographic area as us . an~ compensation level has "certainly for salaries and benefits. He also that there has to be drastic action from maintenance and construe- because they are of top academ1c hurt'' Notre Dame in attracting said that although tuition was one taken by the University concerning tion, or soliciting gifts specifically quality," said Press. , good associate and assistant pro of the main sources of funds for the salaries if there was any hope of for salaries. However, after the senate s fessors. University • "there is a limiting catching the peer institutions. Press stated that former Provost action, Burtchaell . proposed his A total salary increase of be point when it comes to how much "There has to be a substantial James T. Burtchaell always [continued on ..-ge 2] tween $1000 to $1800 would be we can raise tuition." necessary to bring the faculty up to "We are very conscious of the the level of comparable institu burden our tuition is on the 1976-77 Average Compensation tions, stated the faculty sources. parents and students," Mason The uncertainty about the exact added. figure is due to the uncertainty Mason said that the increases in University Professors Associated Professors Assistant Professors among the faculty and the admin salaries over the last three years istration on what is a "comparable enabled Notre Dame to move up a $28,700 (2) 521,800 (2) $17,100 (3) peer institution." "notch" among institutions. He Notre Dame also said that although the Univer However, while University of 33,800 (1) 22,800 (2) 18,200 (2) ficials admit that faculty salaries sity and an informal plan to make Cornell are below those of other ''peer faculty salaries more competitive, 33,000 (1) 24,200 (l) 19,800 (1) institutions," they argue that they the University really has to ••take it U. of Mich. have to conduct a "balancing act" one year at a time," due to 29,900 (2) 22,400 (2) 18,400 (2) between faculty demands for inflation. Mason cited a 35 percent Indiana increase last year in health insur higher salaries and student con 30t000 (2) 23,100 (2) 19,000 (1) cerns with the increasing costs of ance costs, which are included with Iowa an education. salary and other benefits as total 31,500 (1) 23,100 (2) 19,300 (1) A few faculty members also state faculty compensation. "It is really usc difficult to forecast salary increases that they are subsidizing low 31;300 (1) 22,400 (2) 17,700 (3) tuition at Notre Dame with their far in advance when you have all Pittsburgh salaries, stating that tuition at these unexpected expenses due to 35,600 (1) 21,900 (2) 16,200 (4) other private schools of the same inflation,'' Mason said. Yale academic caliber exceeds Notre Harvard 38,500 (1•) 23,000 (2) 18,000 (2) Dame's by hundreds of doiiars. Narrow the gap However, some faculty said that Vanderbilt 30,800 (2) 22,400 (2) 16,900 (4) there are alternatives to raising Acting Provost Fr. Ferdinard L. I tuition. "Tuition has risen before Brown, whose office allocates 35,300 (1) 24,600 (1) 19,800 (1) while faculty salaries stayed the funds for total faculty expenses and Stanford same," one professor said. research, said that increasing fac 30,500 (2) 21,500 (3) 18,100 (2) The pressure for salary hikes ulty salaries was one of his op lllinois almost guarantees continuing priorities. He said that he would 29,100 (2) 22,900 (2) 19,200 (1) tuition increases if the University like to have the Notre Dame MSU has to finance the raises out of salaries competitive with other money raised by tuition, stated one "peer schools." ( ) denotes percentage bracket: (1 ~) 95 percent or better (2) 60 to 79.9 percent administrator. This years compen We are trying as fast as we can (1) 80 to 94.9 percent (3) 40 to 59.9 percent sation increase, totaling over $1 to narrow the ·gap, and I think our million, was one of the main faculty is realizing that," Brown Fl.gures taken from the AAUP Summer Bulletin, 1977 reasons undergraduate tuition was remarked. ----------~--~------~--~----------------~----------~------------- 2 the observer Tuesday, September 27, 1977- •• ~On Campus Today _ __......_. Meyers addresses students 12:45 p.m. wsnd, "thought you'd never ask: human & 11:45 p.m. sexuality" by fr. william toohey 640 am. by Bob Varettonl said, ''and they were more pre Later in the day, the students Senior Staff Reporter judiced than I was; and it showed." attended workshops on topics re 4:30p.m.

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