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Volume X, Number 11
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April 23, 1987
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Staff Photo—Adam Brooks
Sophia Zourzoukis provides a free windshield wash as part of
Alpha Delta Pi’s attempt to establish good relations with the
UNCA community.
Altimus takes over
management position
By Bill Vickery
Staff Writer
The UNCA management department
has new leadership coming aboard
July 1 as Dr. Cyrus Altimus takes
over as chairman.
Dr. Altimus is a native of Youngs
town, Ohio. He is currently the
Dean of College of Business at the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
He previously taught management
courses at Old Dominion University
and at Penn. State.
Altimus was very impressive at his
interview, according to Dr. Jeffrey
Rackham, acting vice chancellor of
academic affairs.
"Most impressive to me was his
desire to, in his words, ’build
Please See MANAGEMENT
Page 12
Female teachers
earn lower wages
By Julia Coward
Staff Writer
A recent Education Department
study shows that women faculty
members at colleges and imiversities
nationwide earn lower salaries and
hold lower ranking jobs than their
male colleagues, according to College
Press Service reports.
These findings seem to apply to
UNCA, in light of figures from
UNCA’s Affirmative Action Plan,
published in December, 1986.
The plan states that the average
yearly salary of women faculty mem
bers at UNCA is $27,653, compared
to $30,940 for male faculty members.
However, average salaries for men
and women faculty within each aca
demic ranking (from lowest to high
est — lecturer, instructor, assistant
professor, associate professor and
professor) are very similar, accord
ing to the AAP, "except at the full
professor level, where there are no
women."
Although women comprise 27.8
percent of the faculty at UNCA,
there are no female full professors.
Dr. Tom Cochran, associate vice
chancellor for academic affairs and
UNCA’s affirmative action officer,
said that since the retirement two
years ago of Dr. Verna Bergamann,
full professor and chair of the edu
cation department, "We just don’t
have any other women who have
been here long enough to have mov
ed up to full professor rank.
"There will be several (women)
coming up for full professorship in
the next few years," Cochran added.
"It’s like the baby boom —that’s
kind of what this process is."
"When I came here there were
very few women faculty," said Dr.
Ileana Grams, who joined the philo
sophy department faculty 12 years
ago. "I have seen a huge growth in
their ranks."
Many departments at UNCA had
an all-male faculty when she began
teaching here, said Grams.
"There was a kind of tacit discri
mination against women in educa
tion" at that time, she said, "as
there was in so many other profes
sions. You tended to find women
faculty more in all-women’s schools
than you did in coed or male
schools. At the college level it was
virtually all-male."
Cochran suggested two reasons for
the lack of women as full professors
at UNCA today.
Fifteen years ago, when some of
Please See WAGES page 12
Leslie Knable hits a fore
hand during the Lady
Bulldog’s Big South Confer
ence tournament. See related
story page 7.