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.. -, CLA October 1981 NEWSLETTER College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota U budget cuts to bolster eroding faculty salaries Erosion of faculty salaries has behind, CLA Dean Fred Lukermann employees and state university and them, just as the University will, reached the critical level for the said. community college system faculty according to Keller. University, and the administration is Final decisions on the amount of members are still in process. There are also many things the determined to plow more dollars the salary increase and the amount University of Minnesota employee state agreed to during the last back into paychecks, although it of the retrenchment needed to salary increases will be based on legislative session, but hasn't will mean a $4 million retrenchment meet that increase will not be the amount negotiated by funded, such as money for this fall to raise funds for those made until late this fall, when the comparable groups of state staff changes in the social security salaries. legislature appropriates salary and faculty members. system and the state health plan. The College of Liberal Art's money to the University. It is expected that the amount of Keller said he didn't know if the portion of that retrenchment is Meanwhile, faculty and civil money the legislature has set aside state would pay for "fringe benefits expected to be $464,091 , which is service salaries hang in, what for salary increases will not be on salary increases which are 2.16 percent of the total salary Lukermann calls, "suspended enough to pay increases equal to substantial." base or 2.05 percent of the total animation." those called for in the settlements. So far, all the salary talk is CLA budget. The College has not Salary adjustments usually come State colleges may find speculation. No one really knows determined how it will pay that bill. on July 1, the beginning of the themselves in the same boat. They what the final settlements will be That $4 million is expected to fiscal year, but this year labor may have to come up with the and how much the legislature can subsidize the allocation from the negotiations between the state and difference between the settlements fund. legislature and boost faculty and unions representing state and what the legislature gives "It's a most frustrating thing to civil service salaries around 10 ADJUSTED run a major university by guesses," 31 percent. Adjusted to reflect July 1967 dollars by use Keller said. of the Twin C1t1es Consumer Index During the last decade, faculty 29 The best guess so far and the Startina with 1972- 73 salaries, in terms of real dollars, av!. prof: salariee Prof one the University is moving on is have dropped as much as 20 27 that the money coming from the percent, according to Kenneth 25 legislature will provide about an Keller, vice president for academic eight percent increase in all affairs. No faculty member has lost 23 salaries. less than 15 percent, he said. The University assumes That means that in terms of settlements for civil service staff 1967 dollars, a professor's pay has 19 will require a nine percent increase dropped from $16,840 in 1967-68 Prof retroactive to July, and another one to $12,667 in 1980-81. In other percent in January of 1982. The words, his or her buying power continued on page 2 has fallen considerably. Effects of that drop are being felt at the University as more faculty are attracted away by industry and 11 "' ~ Asst /< ~ richer universities in the Sun Belt. r lnstr ~ Inside It means that "a lot of bright people are not following academic 7 New Russian Dept ... p. 4 •d ' 69 '71 ' 73 ' 75 '77 ' 79 '81 '83 '85 '6~~ · 'JS·=:· ' 77 '79 · ,~1· I •k3 I careers," according to Keller. Sculptor to lecture ... p. 4 Compared to equivalent salaries Nine-month average faculty salaries by rank, adjusted to reflect July 1967 Regents' professors .. p. 5 on the outside, we're dropping way dollars by use of the Twin Cities Consumer Index. Woodcock, Butterfield head CLA China day The Hon. Leonard Woodcock, from leading the fourth University The University of Minnesota Wind will be able to choose two of 14 ambassador to China from 1979 to delegation to China, will open the Ensemble which toured China in 1980 lectures offered on topics such as 1981 , and Fox Butterfield, New York program. will give a concert including the Chinese art, population, literature, Times bureau chief in Beijing (Peking) A Chinese expert on music who American and Chinese music it politics, human rights, women, and from 1979 to 1981 , will headline an can demonstrate Chinese opera will performed on the tour. music. University professors will offer all-day community program on China be among the morning speakers. During the day, those who attend most of the lectures along with at the University Oct. 24. experts from the community and other The College of Liberal Arts and its Minnesota colleges. Alumni Society are cosponsoring Charles Bailey, editor of the "Spectrum '81-Ghina: The Minnesota Minneapolis Tribune , who Connection" which includes experts accompanied President Nixon on his on all aspects of China from history historic visit to China, will lead a to advertising, three art exhibits, and panel discussion on "Life in China" Chinese food. The program is following Butterfield's address. Among scheduled for 8:00-5:30, Saturday, others, he will be joined by John October 24, in Coffman Memorial Thomson who has just returned from Union. Beijing after three years as counselor Woodcock, who is the former for cultural affairs at the U.S. president of the United Auto Workers, Embassy. led the negotiations for normalization The first exhibition of art works of relations between the U.S. and from the Institute of Fine Arts in China before becoming ambassador. Beijing to be shown in the United Butterfield served as the Times States will be on display for bureau chief in Hong Kong from 1975 participants during a reception in to 1979, prior to reopening the University Gallery. Two other exhibits bureau in Beijing, and was also with in Coffman Union provided by the the Times bureaus in Tokyo and Midwest China Center offer a look at Saigon. He was a member of the traditional Chinese art and a Times team that wrote the Pentagon collection of artifacts depicting the Papers news stories in 1971 which Missionaries who lived in China around the turn of the century took the Chinese-American experience during won a Pulitzer Prize for the Times in photographs which will be displayed in the Gallery Ill exhibit in Coffman the 19th and 20th centuries. 1972. Union on the american experience in China as part of the Spectrum '81 , The price for the day which President and Mrs. C. Peter " China: The Minnesota Connection" program October 24. The exhibit is Magrath, who will have just returned prepared by the Midwest China Center. continued on page 2 2 College of Liberal Arts The Dean's Ust, column by Dean Fred The a continued from page 1 Lukermann, will not appear in this issue. Dean Sa Ia ries Dean's Lukermann is representing the College as part of administration would like to provide "We ask professors to produce List the University delegation to China. a faculty increase of at least 10 more and work more," Keller said, percent retroactive to July. and yet their salaries go down. "Stress that is a hope," Keller University salaries never rank said. If the legislature comes up high in the Big Ten, Keller said. with a smaller percent, that won't Fringe benefits at Minnesota have Magrath, Lukermann head be possible, he pointed out. always been very good, but even Faculty salaries was the adding fringe and salaries, fourth China delegation University's number one priority Minnesota does not "move to the during the last legislative session top of the heap by any stretch of The fourth University delegation to China returned to Minnesota th~ end when the University asked for a 17 the imagination," Keller said. of September after an 18-day trip to sign new agreements for educational percent increase in faculty salaries The 1980-81 salary across the exchange. for the first year and 14 percent board increase was a cash A report on the trip was available too late for publication, but Will be the second year. Keller said he felt increment. It was called cost-of included in the winter issue of the Newsletter. the University justified the need for living, but was nowhere near the For the first time, President C. Peter Magrath and his wife Diane headed such increases. real inflation rate. In the College of the delegation, accompanied by College of Liberal Arts Dean Fred A 10 percent increase in faculty Liberal Arts, entry-level assistant Lukermann. The 13-member delegation met with officials of the Academy of salaries that the University is professors got 5 percent, associate Sciences, the leading institute for research, and with representatives of the attempting to put together this year professors 4 percent, and full Academy of Social Sciences. is the "absolute minimum" needed, professors 3.5 percent. Keller said. In 1982, the University Across the University, Keller said, is giving serious thought to going administrators said they feel they back to the legislature with its are losing people of very high request for another faculty salary quality. raise, he said. In a joint letter from Keller and Lyle A. French, vice president for health sciences, they broached the possibility of a broader programmatic retrenchment next year to provide a larger pool for faculty salaries as well as programmatic improvements.