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2 Monday, November 25, 2002 EDWARDS From Page 1 said. “It’s a worthy investment.” But some officials questioned the program’s feasibility because of its esti mated $3 billion annual cost. “North Carolina would love to go to a program like this, but our problem is money,” said BOG Vice Chairwoman Teena Little. “We raised tuition for students, so a program like this is not a possibility.” Some states have programs in place resembling Edwards’ plan but fund them through other sources, Little said. “Georgia uses lottery money to pay for the HOPE scholarship, a scholarship sim ilar to the plans suggested by Edwards." Edwards’ speech also outlined the cre ation of a four-year scholarship for stu dents who commit to five years of work in a field addressing the United States’ homeland security needs after college. Other sections of Edwards’ proposal include expanded training opportunities for students interested in vocational jobs. “All of our childr en deserve the same chance to make the most of their gifts, to rise as high and as far as their talents and work will take them,” Edwards said. “That’s the great promise of America. Our job is to make sure we keep it.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. j fUBI | Cheap Eats! This month's special... $3.99 6" Steak Combo (eat in or take out only) Valid at Franklin St. location only. Limit one coupon per offer per person per visit. \ This coupon not valid with any other offer or special. Expires 12/31/02. 9296551 Now open til 3:3oam on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday J uniquities Holiday Gifts chapel hill • 452 w. franklin st. • 933-4007 raleigh • 450 daniels st. • 832-1234 FOR THE I'tOm firilAiillJraV BSMylaaSailSiSUL Summer School Abroad Registration Continues Through March 7 Spaces available in 2-5 week programs in 13 areas of study and in 14 different locations Need-based scholarships available Summer School *134 East Franklin Street • 2nd floor 919-966-4364 www.unc.edu/summer SAURIES From Page 1 hikes, and the arguments are no differ ent. A task force has examined UNC CH’s needs and determined that almost sll million is needed to close the salary gap between the University’s faculty and those of peer institutions. The group is expected to vote Dec. 19 on a proposal that will go before the UNC Board of Trustees in January. During the same time the University has raised money for faculty salaries, tuition has steadily increased at UNC CH’s peer institutions. With the first two rounds of campus tuition increases, UNC-CH was trying to keep pace with its peers - peers such as the University of Michigan, which has increased steadily its tuition in a fashion similar to UNC-CH. The same can be said for this period of tuition planning. But those involved in the process now must tackle a difficult question - whether long-term planning really will get UNC-CH’s faculty salaries up to par with those of other schools or whether the University already is too far behind ever to be competitive. “It comes as no surprise to me that there still is a significant gap,” said chemistry Professor Ed Samulski, who served on the Chancellor’s Committee From Page One on Faculty Salaries and Benefits in 1999. The group submitted several proposals for campus-based tuition increases to the BOT that intended to increase faculty pay. Samulski said that although his com mittee’s work helped make significant immediate progress toward helping salary disparities, it had little long-term impact. To him, it is unlikely this year’s task force will be able to do more, with UNC-CH’s peers consistendy raising the bar. “We were unable to solve it in 1999,” Samulski said. “It is a real catch-up situ ation, and I must say the end isn’t in sight. ... It’s a problem that’s not going to go away if we want to be a top-rate university.” But Student Body President Jen Daum, co-chairwoman of this year’s Tuition Task Force, is confident that the coming years’ tuition increases will deter mine whether UNC-CH will establish a competitive faculty salary landscape. Daum said she hopes that once the needs oudined by the task force - name ly faculty salaries - are met, students won’t see any increases other than adjustments for inflation, but she under stands that peer institutions probably will continue to increase tuition. The task force even based its calcula tions assuming that would be the case, Daum said. “Every school is facing the same problem,” she said. “It will always be an issue.” SALARY GAP From Page 1 salaries will be altered next year. Individual departments or divisions, depending on their sizes, now will break down the study’s results within their sec tions. This deeper analysis will provide information as to where discrepancies he. But Shelton made it clear in an inter view Sunday that UNC might not have any discrepancies between men and women once other factors were con trolled. The original study could not explain 15 percent to 25 percent of the pay dis crepancy. Shelton said he hoped it would be explained by the additional analysis. Faculty Council Chairwoman Sue Estroff urged a quick remedy to this problem. “There is a sense of unease and understandable concern on the part of the faculty about what will happen next,” she said. But Estroff also said she knew this was not a decision that could be rushed. Shelton said he hopes members from the departments or divisions will be able to provide general profiles for professors with varying qualifications before the end of this semester. They will determine a standard of how much they think a professor should earn in each case and then look at where individuals who have those qualifica tions actually fall. Slip Dailq Sar Hrrl P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Kim Minugh, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2002 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved shag# Southern Village %pjjj| a SI,OOO shopping spree at ||[lp)® \W' f The Streets of Southpoint Ll<njlLfiZa33^sZZ-JJwi YOUR BOYFRIEND KNOWS YOU HONESTLY CARE ABOUT HIS HAPPINESS. SO TELL HIM ABOUT THE CAROLINA MEAL PLAN. YOUR CAROLINA MEAL CARD IS YOUR TICKET TO GREAT FOOD AND DISCOUNTS. WE’VE HOOKED UP WITH THE BEST RESTAURANTS AROUND CHAPEL HILL. ONCE YOU LET HIM KNOW, YOU’LL DEFINITELY BE HIS BEST FRIEND. Task force Co-chaiiman Provost Robert Shelton isn’t sure that another task force will be established a few years from now to examine the same problems because declining state appropriations make it harder for UNC-CH to give faculty raises. Shelton is confident, however, that planning increases now eventually will take the responsibility of hiking tuition for salaries out of the campus’s hands and place it into the state’s. “It’s pretty hard to predict one year in advance, let alone three or five years down the road,” he said. “I think the broader view is that tuition will continue to go up every year ... (but) if we can over a three-year period close that gap, that removes the need for campus-based tuition increases.” Sue Estroff, chairwoman of the Faculty Council, agreed that making fac ulty salaries competitive is a complex problem. And having UNC-CH’s base budget cut by the state year after year does not help the situation, she said. State appropriations to UNC-CH have seen a consistent decline since 1999, according to data compiled by the University’s Office of Finance and Administration. The University already has cut per manently nearly 5 percent from its oper ating expenses this fiscal year, much of that money allotted for faculty positions that have yet to be filled. “People haven’t gotten raises in a long time,” Estroff said. These general profiles will eliminate race and gender variables, Shelton said. Estroff agreed with this part of the process, saying there needs to be agree ment among all faculty on salary criteria. Large divisions such as the College of Arts and Sciences already have begun examinations. Beginning next semester, deans will work with department chairmen to identify any individual whose salary stands out as falling behind the majority and cannot be explained legitimately. Those cases, as well as other recom mendations, will be reported to the provost for appeals and for discussion. Shelton said he is confident that deans will complete this task by March, and a decision for future action will be made by the end of the academic year. Any approved changes in salary could be put into effect as early as July 1 - the start of the next fiscal year. But Shelton hesitated to address where additional money will come from if unfair discrepancies are found among faculty salaries. “If there are discrepancies, the bot tom line is that we have to change them,” he said. “I’m not sure where the money will come from ... but if salaries reveal to be unfair, the money will have to come from somewhere.” Estroff said that there are three steps that must be taken - recognition, rem edy and prevention -and that right now, UNC is in the middle of step one. The senior administrative positions of chancellor, dean, vice chancellor, provost, associate provost and directors of major centers or institutes are not a part of the examination. Staff Writer Meredith Craig contributed to this article. The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. www.carolinamealplan.co m The Carolina Meal Plan is not affiliated with UNC or the UNC One Card. “Can we make it up in three years?” It also doesn’t help that the BOG, which approves all tuition increases pro posed by system universities before going to the state, knocked down last year’s campus based tuition proposal from UNC-CH by SIOO. Estroff said that action essentially took dollars away from faculty and that if the same thing happens again, it is not likely the faculty salary disparity will be fixed. “I hope that we don’t see a repeat of last year,” she said. “I’m still angry about that” Estroff represents the faculty popula tion that continues to be frustrated that its salary needs are not being met. But students, who have been told that it is necessary for their tuition to increase for the benefit of faculty, are dealing with frustrations of their own. Three straight years of tuition increas es -and another possible three to five on the horizon - pose the question of how long students will accept the argument Daum said most students understand the importance of hiking tuition to help faculty. For proof, just find the students who are upset over losing their favorite professors to other schools, she said. According to figures presented to the task force this year, quite a few of those professors have been lost. During the 2001-02 academic year, UNC-CH lost 61 faculty to other institutions, with an aver age salary gap of $43,322. It cost the University an average $32,353 the same EHRINGHAUS From Page 1 Moeser’s decision, Shelton said he stands behind it. “Continuing to cover Ehringhaus’ salary is very much in everyone’s inter est,” he said. “She has been an extraordinary leader and worker for the University for three decades. It may be hard for people to understand this, but with the salary we’ve given her, we’ve pretty much had a bargain for the past 30 years.” Ehringhaus, who has been teaching at the law school during spring semes ters, will return to teach full time after her eight months in Washington. SENATE From Page 1 Republicans’ predictions that defecting Democrats will help vote him out. “This is the same group that said they were going to win the Senate,” he said. “Their record of piedictions is pretty sour.” Basnight first was elected president pro tem in 1993. There was an unsuc cessful movernent in 1994 to vote him out of the position, he said. The fact that Basnight held on to his position in 1994 despite a coalition’s attempt to vote him out strengthens his chances for retaining the position Jan. 29, when legislators will elect leaders for the new session, said Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC’s Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life. “It will be harder to get him voted out because he’s been the majority leader since then- he’s got experience dealing with the different players involved,” Guillory said. Basnight said his experience has (Fh? Daily (Tar Bprl year to retain another 42 faculty members. There are many reasons why faculty leave UNC-CH, including location, family or personal reasons, but “there is no doubt that faculty salaries are a key or definitive factor,” Shelton said. Without long-term tuition planning, some think UNC-CH will have to give up more faculty. “When we are losing that many people now, this is nothing compared to what’s coming,” Estroff said. Because UNC-CH will see a cer tain number of faculty retire in the com ing years, the tuition money needs to be there not only to keep professors but also to bring in new ones. That’s something Estroff thinks - or hopes - students who will shoulder the financial burden will understand. “I think most students on campus know they are getting a hell of a deal.... I think most students are pragmatic in that way.” And perhaps students will have to be just as understanding after this tuition increase cycle. BOT member Richard Stevens, who serves on this year’s task force and sat on a similar board last year, believes that because other schools also are increasing tuition, faculty salaries will continue to be addressed years from now. “The other campuses aren’t going to wait for us.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. “It’s very common for someone who shifts back into a faculty position and changes their venue to have time to retool and regroup,” Shelton said. “You often give them a year sabbati cal so they can update what they know with the latest literature, prepare their class and get back into the cutting-edge knowledge of being a faculty member.” Shelton said critics of Moeser’s deci sion need to understand Ehringhaus’ sit uation. “You can’t expect to win a research grant if you’ve been away from teaching for so long.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. allowed him to create a good relationship with Republican senators. He said two Republicans have committed to vote for him, but he would not give their names. The slim majority actually could work in Basnight’s favor, Guillory said, because Democrats could vote together in order to maintain their power in the Senate. Democrats have not been receptive to Republican attempts at a deal, said Amy Fulk, Basnight’s press secretary. “Democrats call here and say ‘Guess who called me today?’ and laugh,” she said. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange, said she has been approached multiple times, beginning at the end of the last session. “I’m certainly not interested in that kind of agreement,” she said. But Shubert said legislators on both sides of the aisle might be making claims only to see if there is potential for a real coup. “It may be marketing,” she said. “It’s like saying ‘Hey, if you are willing to have negotiations, then we’re open.’” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. * Dissertation & Thesis Special 100% Cotton 140 C.O. 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