DOCUMENT RESUME ED 392 319 HE 028 907 AUTHOR Wenninger, Mary Dee, Ed. TITLE Women in Higher Education, 1995. REPORT NO ISSN-1060-8303 PUB DATE 95 yOTE 204p.; Numbers 7 and 8 have been combined into one issue. AVAILABLE FROMWomen in Higher Education, 1934 Monroe St., Madison WI 53711-2027 (yearly subscription, $73; $83 Canadian). PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CFI Women in Higher Education; v4 nI-12 1995 EDRS PRICE MFOI/PC09 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Affirmative Action; Athletic Coaches; College Administration; College Faculty; Comparable Worth; Court Litigation; Dual Career 7amily; Educational Envi:onment; *Females; Feminism; *Higher Education; Leadership; Newsletters; Organizational Change; Presidents; Sex Bias; Sex Discrimination; *Women Administrators; *Women Faculty; *Womens Athletics IDENTIFIERS Brown University RI; Citadel Military College of South Carolina; University of Minnesota; University of Pennsylvania ABSTRACT This document consists of the 11 issues of a newsletter on women students, teachers, and administrators in higher education. Each issue includes features articles, news on higher education, profiles of significant people in the field, and job announcements. The issues' main article topics are:(1) pay equity for c,)aches, particularly a case at the University of Minnesota; (2) the importance of the process within which a campus climate study is conducted;(3) campuses where women from faculty and administration unite for equity;(4) continued support for affirmative action among education leaders;(5) bias in women's athletic programs following a recent court ruling against Brown University (Rhode Island); (6) campus leaders explain why colleges and universities must take risk.; and adapt in today's competitive higher eaucation;(7) the personal impact of organizational restructuring and institutionai change; (8) issues in the aftermath of Shannon Faulkner's withdrawal from the Citadel (South Carolina);(9) how using neg(.tiation, rather than court battles, can successfully settle athletic program 4ex bias disputes;(10) new styies of leadership among women executives and managers; and (11) how colleges can recruit and support dual career couples.(JB) **********************************1:*****1...***********:.A.kA*.i...,.,".. Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from th? original document. * rr t I I; 14 NT rn(Inuct. i .t.A. Ili, ' c, ,,A:. :if I,PAN I! I) ,( I: liot, 64. ,., .:1,11 I I. Itty0,e tle o . a, )1, Mary Dee Wenniger _ t. Women in HigherEaic. _ _ litINV./. I.ONAl RE SOUPCi ( III ,.I ,I:MA I ION CE N HI JANUARY 1995 Volume 4, No.1 Pay Equity for Minnesota Coaches: You Know It Won't ComeEasy Athletics, a fishbowl for gender equity, is a public Salary Equity for Coaches arena where the line gets drawn in the dirt: between the The Minnesota controversy reflects a national trend men and women, the revenue and non-revenue sports, in re-evaluating coaches salaries in light of recent the highly paid and less highly paid coaching positions. gender equity court cases. At the University of Minnesota, the melodrama is Georgia State University recently had openings for unfolding day by day. In this case, Snidely Whiplash is coaches of both the women's and men's basketball played by a woman, athletic director for women Chris teams. In response to a lawsuit, the University raised the salary for the women's coach by $20,000 and Voelz, and the Damsels in Distress are women's basket- lowered that for the men's team by about the same ball coach Linda Hill-MacDonald and recently fired amount, offering each $65,000. women's volleyball coach Stephanie Schleuder. Dudley In California, USC women's basketball coach Do-right is their Philadelphia attorney, Tim Stoner. Marianne Stanley was replaced as coach last fall, after The issue is salary equity between coaches of suing the university for $8 million for sex bias. A Minnesota's women's and men's varsity teams, an issue federal appellate court ruled that !the men's coach had a more demanding job and could paid more. Her that coaches Hill-MacDonald and Schleuder raised over case is scheduled for trial in January a year ago. At Howard University DC, women's basketball With a 273-163 win-loss record over 13 years as coach Sanya Tyler was awarded $1.1 million for gender head volleyball coach at Minnesota, Schleuder says, "I bias in salary and retaliation. made a decision a couple of years ago to challenge the Attorney Tim Stoner, who represents both coaches status quo and knew there were risks." Schleuder and Hill-MacDonald and was involved in the Women's athletic director Chris Voelz, long known Howard University and the USC case, is the brother of Vivian Stringer, University of Iowa women's basketball for advocating pay equity for women in athletics, coach. responded by breaking off negotiations with the two women coaches. She raised their salaries significantly, women's teams earned $332,361, for an average of although they remained far below those for coaches of $36,929. male teams. In track, gymnastics, golf and tennis, women's Divide and Conquer coaches earn 71 to 89% of their male counterparts' Last month, at the conclusion of the volleyball salaries. Only the women's swimming team coach season, Voelz announced that volleyball coach earns more than the male team coach, by 4%. Schleuder's contract would not be renewed. She began Legal Issues negotiating a contract for coach Hill-MacDonald, whose At issue is the concept of equal pay for equal basketball season was just starting. At presstime their work, guaranteed under the Equal Pay Act of 1963, attorney had rejected the last offer of $80,000 and a plus the federal mandates for gender equity under three-year contract. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Women Coaches Earn Less But, are the coaches' jobs really equal? Hill-MacDonald makes $65,000, while her counter- Yes, says the Women's Basketball Coaches part for the men's basketball team, Clem Haskins, Association; men's and women's basketball coaches makes $115,000 plus media contracts and endorsement perform substantially the same job requiring compa- fees. At $80,000, Hill-MacDonald would earn 65.3% of rable skill, effort and responsibility. Haskins' base salary. The association believes coaches should be paid Schleuder made $50,000 in 1994, less than most of based on their win-loss records, conference champi- the men's assistant football coaches. There is no men's onships, NCAA tourney appearances, experience as varsity volleyball team. coach, PR activities, recruiting and academic success Virtually all coaches of Minnesota's women's teams of student-athletes. earn significantly less than their male counterparts. It cautions that the federal Office of Civil Rights Excluding the football coach's base salary of $125,000, "has specified that the revenue factor cannot be in 1993-1994 head coaches of nine male teams earned considered in determining salaries." $487,081 for an average of $54,120. Head coaches of nine In agreement is Sandy Vivas, executive director of the American Volleyball Associafion. "We're disap- Dept by Dept, All Woman Profs Keep Jobs poinced with what's happening in Minnesota," she said. "It shows that when coaches speak out, they get Despite Budget Crisis at Catholic School retaliated against," calling the university's tactics of After the president of St. Bonaventure divide-and-conquer "classic and not unpredictable." University NY announced last May that cutting Vivas mentioned the recent court case in which $6 million from the budget required reducing the Cal State-Fullerton agreed to pay its ex-volleyball faculty by 25%, and all 22 of those laid off would coach Jim Hoffman $1.65 million after he blew the be tenured men, 11 of them eventually filed whistle on gender bias in cutting his women's volley- gender discrimination complaints with the EEOC. ball team and treatment of women athletes. "It's hard to justify retaining untenured "You'd think they'd get the message," she said, women and letting tenured men go, but we felt referring to colleges and universities. Vivas expects Schleuder to sue the university for gender bias. we had no choice," explained President Robert J. A Market Value Plan Wickenheiser. No, they're not the same, says Minnesota Since women comprised only 17% of the 120 Women's Athletic Director Chris Voelz, who has long faculty members, he said, cutting untenured jobs been critical of the male economic sports model that would further reduce the percentage of women considers generating revenue a key part of evaluating faculty. "It's a Catch-22 situation." The Board of a coach. Trustees is 100% in support of his decision. But when push came to shove, the university Of the 11 men filing complaints, eight of them forced Voelz to choose between gender equity for are in all-male departments, he said. coaches or for student athletes. She chose the students: At the school's request, EEOC investigators "I have a finite amount of money in my budget... I came out promptly, Wickenheiser said, because don't want to intentionally dismantle my other sports. "the more we wait, the more we get hurt." We have a broad-based program here, 10 teams with Although the EEOC has not yet announced its many services. Our responsibility is to the student- findings, Wickenheiser said he fully expects a athletes first," she said. ruling in the school's favor. "The EEOC woman "When the day comes that I am told to give the was smiling at me more after I explained that we same job description to the womanfill the seats and went department-by-department, not across the bring in X amount of revenuethen pay may change board, in determining where to make the cuts." as well," she says.