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Committee Cites Progress
Of UNO's Female Faculty
Interim Chancellor Bill
McCoy updated the Faculty
Council about the tuition
increase proposal.
By Jason Arthurs
Staff Writer
Female fatuity members have shown
marked improvements in the academic
arena, show an annual report presented
to the Faculty Council at Friday’s meet
ing-
The Committee on the Status of
Women, whose goal is to address obsta
cles faced by female faculty and propose
steps to overcome any barriers, studied
indicators of the status of UNC female
faculty such as hiring, national doctoral
degree rates and proportions of women
in each department
Ihe report, written by committee
Chairwoman Abigail Panter, showed
that the percentage of women hired in
1998-1999 for academic and health
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The Yearbook of UNC
affairs was the highest in 14 years.
It also illustrated how the percentage
of women on the tenure track and the
number of women earning doctorates
had increased relative to numbers at
peer institutions.
Much of the faculty discussion was
about the University’s growth as a
research institution during the next sev
eral years.
Four University deans, including Risa
Palm, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, Jeffrey Haupt, the dean of the
School of Medicine, Madeleine Grumet,
dean of the School of Education and
William Roper, dean of the School of
Public Health encouraged faculty to bol
ster research at UNC.
Palm said she hoped UNC faculty
could focus on becoming more active in
research while still having research fac
ulty engaged in undergraduate teaching.
“We need to avoid getting caught up in
fickle national rating games and make
our own rules to define Chapel Hill.”
“This is an exciting time for Chapel
Hill. In some ways we are at a cross
roads; we can improve dramatically, but
only if we make the right choices.”
Grumet agreed that research was an
area that needed a boost in the future.
“What we have here is great innova
tion with very little research,” she said.
“The situation is truly a crisis.”
Interim Chancellor Bill McCoy also
updated faculty about the status of the
proposal to raise tuition, just after the
Board of Governors completed its dis
cussion of the proposal in Wilmington
last weekend.
McCoy presented the Faculty
Council with a brief summary of the
board’s discussion of UNC-system
President Molly Broad’s tuition propos
al.
Broad’s plan would raise UNC-
Chapel Hill’s tuition by $475 over three
years. “(The BOG) reviewed the tuition
policy guidelines, but there can still be a
situation which calls for a tuition
increase,” McCoy said.
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Pundit Blasts UNC Spending Policies
By Alex Kaplun
Staff Writer
As the UNC system faces a state
financial crunch and urgent capital
needs, one agency has criticized the uni
versities for using funds on low-priority
projects instead of financing the real
needs of the system.
Jon Sanders, director of publications
at the conservative Pope Center for
Higher Education Policy, said the UNC
system misallocated nearly $1 billion in
the 19905.
He said tuition increases or more
funding from the state legislature would
not be necessary if the UNC system
spent its money more wisely and effi
ciently.
Sanders said the universities should
have spent their money on building ren
ovations and other necessary projects
instead of low-priority projects.
Some expenses that were previously
criticized by the Pope Center included
$9.75 million for an Appalachian State
Convocation Center, $7.1 million for the
UNC-TV transmitter tower at UNC-
Chapel Hill and $7 million for an ath
letics stadium expansion at East
Carolina University.
But Sanders could not provide a list
of expenses that added up to the
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claimed $1 billion.
He said that, in these times of finan
cial belt-tightening in North Carolina,
the UNC system would do well to cut
back on some of its less necessary pro
grams.
“Any organization is going to have
superfluous spending in times of crisis,”
Sanders said.
But Sen. James Forrester, R-Gaston,
said he was supportive of the way the
UNC system spent its money.
“My experience is that UNC has han
dled its money fairly wisely,” Forrester
said.
He said his one concern was that in
the UNC system there was a tendency
to build new buildings instead of spend
ing money maintaining existing facili
ties.
Likewise, Sen. David Hoyle, D-
Cleveland, said he had trouble under
standing Sander’s accusations of mis
spending by UNC and where he came
up with the total figure of $1 billion for
misappropriated funds.
“You can pull any number out of the
air,” he said.
Hoyle said he was tired of all the crit
icism the government received for mis
spending tax payer funds.
He said for any government program
there was always some group or agency
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that would claim the program was a
waste of money.
But Sanders said UNC officials were
unwilling or did not see the need to cut
back on some of their programs.
Rather, he said, they were looking to
raise student tuition or receive more
money from the state.
Sanders did say that tuition should be
raised, but only if education costs
remained the same and the taxpayer’s
burden was reduced.
He said he would be somewhat sup
portive of the original proposal by the
UNC-CH Board of Trustees to raise
tuition $1,500 over five years if it led to
an overall reduction of education
expenses by the government.
“I think it’s a step in the right direc
tion, only if it is a way to put more bur
den on the students instead of the state,”
Sanders said.
But he w as more critical of UNC-sys
tem President Molly Broad’s recent
tuition increase proposal, which would
raise student fees by $275 over three
years.
“I’m actually troubled by the use of
fees on top of tuition,” he said.
“It masks the cost”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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