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University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 98
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, March 26, 1974
Faculty, staff will get 5% general pay raise
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BY PETER WONG
Editor
Faculty and staff members will get an across-the-board salary- increase of 57c for 1974-75.
An additional increase of 1%, to be generated from resources of individual schools, has been recommended for distribution as merit increases.
The general increase of 57r was made possible through an appropriation of $2.2 million by the administration and the Board of Trustees.
It is an apparent deviation from a long-standing university policy that says increases in salaries are to be granted primarily on the basis of merit, with other factors to be given secondary consideration.
It is not immediately clear whether the policy has been changed formally, or which university officials were responsible for the move.
President John R. Hubbard did meet recently with the ex-
ecutive board of the Faculty Senate to discuss a senate resolution about faculty pay scales.
The resolution urged the administration to place high priority in the achievement of minimum salary levels for associate and full professors.
Data supplied by the Office of Institutional Studies has showed that it would cost the university $33,500 to bring the salaries of 44 associate professors to a nine-month minimum of $14,000. and $42,100 to bring the salaries of 37 full professors to a nine-month minimum of$17.500.
However, the announced increase would not necessarily correct any inequities in pay along the lines recommended by the Faculty Senate.
Nor would it eliminate inequities that might exist because of sexual or racial discrimination.
A memorandum from Z.A. Kaprielian. vice-president for academic administration and
Funds allocated at closed board session
The Student Programming Board allocated $2,249.40 to three student organizations in a closed session Thursday.
The budget decisions were made after members of the public, including the Daily Trojan representative, were asked to leave.
The board approved $1,100 for the University Recreation Association to pay for referees for intramural sports. The board also allocated $50 for women’s sports, which had not been requested.
Also approved unanimously was a request by Cafe Figueroa for $664.40. The board added $200 for publicity, bringing the total allocation to $864.40.
Quiet Storm, a group that performed Friday night at “An Evening of Soul,” was allotted $235 of a request for $325. The board will consider a request Thursday for an additional $1,800 for a show in April.
The board chose not to reimburse School of Library’ Science students for $98.50 in travel expenses. It delayed until Thursday a request to raise the rebate received by School of Library Science students over the 50% of programming fees they currently receive.
The board voted to rehear a request by the Graduate Students Organization for $6,400 at its next meeting. The board had
previously voted to allocate only $615 of the request. The remainder of the request was to be used for several cocktail parties.
A request by the Men’s Halls Association for funds to pay for several activities, including the Spittoon, a finals center, Songfest and four dances, was tabled until more detailed information could be obtained by the board.
The board went into closed session on its own authority after hearing presentations for funding. The votes on the budget were held in secret.
James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, said Friday that the board was set up generally on the model of the 1972-73 Student Programming Board’s charter, with the exception of the specific composition of the board.
Included in the 1972 charter was a rule that all business and voting be conducted in public.
Paul Moore, director of the Student Activities Office, said that the provision for open meet-ings written into the 1972-73 charter was made to insure the credibility of the board with students.
Peter Wong, editor of the Daily Trojan, said. ‘‘Public access to public business is vital, and since the business ofthe Student Programming Board is public, all business should be conducted publicly.”
Registration envelopes for fall available
Registration envelopes for the fall semester are available this week in the lobby of the Student Union.
The Registrar’s Office will have an information table in the lobby until Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration envelopes will be distributed and accepted there for this week only.
Stamps will also be available at the table.
research, merely advises deans to give highest priority to corrective action.
“Exceptions to the across-the-board increases and to equitable adjustment to the minimum levels in a given academic unit must be documented; delay in complying with this expectation will result in delaying contracts in that unit,” Frances Feldman, Faculty Senate president, said in the March Faculty Neivsletter.
“Faculty will wish to remain alert to what is happening in their respective schools and divisions.”
In addition, the Kaprielian memorandum says that an additional increase of 1% should be allocated for merit increases.
However, since the deans will control the available funds, instead of department chairmen, it is possible thatonly some of the money designated for merit increases will actually be paid to faculty members.
“These increases, of course, do not match the actual rise in living costs,” Feldman said in the Faculty Newsletter.
“The increases do compare more closely with the 5.45% reported in the press as proposed in the governor’s budget to raise faculty salaries in tax-supported universities and colleges.”
Although the central administration has announced its decision on increases in faculty and staff salaries, it has not yet completed action on other programs in the 1974-75 budget.
Further details about the pay increases have not yet been determined by the central administration.
DEMOCRAT SPEAKS —Jerome Waldie, congressman and candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, spoke Monday at the Law Center. He called for the establishment of campaign disclosure laws and accused some of his Democratic opponents of having big-money interests backing them. (See story on page 2.) DT photo by Bob Chavez.
New dean School of
Steven Knezevich. a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has accepted the position of dean of the School of Education.
Knezevich was selected by President John R. Hubbard last week on the recommendation ofthe School of Education’s search committee.
This summer he will replace John W. Stallings, professor of education, who has been interim dean since the retirement of Irving R. Melbo last year.
Knezevich holds aB.S.from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in secondary education, an M.S. in school administration and a Ph.D in educational ad-
Trustee named as envoy to Belgium
Leonard K. Firestone, USC trustee and director of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of California, was nominated Friday by President Nixon to be U.S. ambassador to Belgium.
If the nomination is confirmed by the Senate, Firestone will succeed Robert Strausz-Hupe, who was named U.S. ambassador to Sweden.
Firestone became a trustee in 1957 and served as board chairman from 1961 to 1964. He also is a member of the board’s personnel, campus planning and development committees.
He has made several large contributions to the university totaling more than $1 million. Among these gifts was a contribution of $500,000 in unrestricted funds.
Also included was $250,000 granted on a matching basis and $420,000 to the School of Religion for a professorship named in his honor.
In addition to his association with the university, Firestone is president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, a tax-exempt corporation formed in 1969 to build a presidential library.
He contributed $15,000 to Nixon’s re-election campaign in 1972.
However. Gerald L. Warren, deputy White House press secretary, was quoted as saying Saturday in the Los Angeles Tirnes that Firestone was nominated as a distinguished American who will serve his country well.
Warren was also quoted as saying he did not think it relevant to the appointment that Firestone had been a contributor to the 1972 campaign.
Firestone joined the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in 1931, the same year he graduated from Princeton University.
He interrupted his tire-company career in 1942 when he enlisted in the Navy. A year later he was placed on inactive duty when he became the president of the Firestone Company in California.
He served as president until 1970, when he retired. He is still a company director.
Firestone is also a member of the board of directors of }he Wells Fargo Bank, owner ofthe Desert Sun newspapers in Palm Springs, and member ofthe board of the National Council on Alcoholism.
named in Education
ministration, with minors in economics (public finance) and political science (public administration), from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
He has had experience in the public schools of Wisconsin as a science and mathematics teacher, coach, principal, and superintendent
Previously he has been associate professor of education at the University of Tulsa, 1951-54; professor-of education at the University of Iowa. 1960-61; and professor and head of the department of administration at Florida State University, 1961-65.
He has had summer appointments at several universities, including ihe University of Colorado, 1965: University of Michigan, 1967; University of Idaho, 1968; and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1970.
He was the first director of the American Association of School Administrators’ National Academy for School Executives, a postgraduate institution dedicated to the in-service education of school administrators, from 1968 to 1970.
Presently, he is a professor of educational administration at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Knezevich was selected from among 100 candidates.
“It’s very exciting to be coming to USC, one of the outstanding universities in the country—certainly in the field of education, and in many other fields, too,” he said in a telephone interview.
“I’m looking forward to helping ;v ke the School of Education even better than it already is.”
Knezevich is also the author of several books, including
Administration in Public Education, Business Management of Local School Systems, and Improving Educational Administration through Manage-nent By Objectives and Results.