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TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006
State budgets faculty raises
BY ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Judging from the provisions of
the N.C. General Assembly’s lat
est budget, it’s a good year to be a
UNC-system professor.
The legislature’s budget includes
$90.6 million for academic salary
increases, plus $5 million targeted
toward retention of faculty who
have received competitive offers.
It is heartening to see increased
support from the General Assembly,
UNC-Chapel Hill faculty chairman
Joseph Templeton said.
“Faculty are delighted with the
significant action taken by the state
of North Carolina," he said.
Funding for salary increases is
important to UNC-system schools
because it enables chancellors to
recognize good work, said Jeff
Davies, chief of staff to system
President Erskine Bowles.
“I think everyone generally is very
pleased that the General Assembly
had the capacity and was willing to
be so generous,” Davies said.
Each UNC-system school
received funds equal to 6 percent
of its total salary budget from
last year. Consequently, UNC-CH
gained $12.5 million in legislative
appropriations.
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received $3 million in funding from
campus-based tuition increases.
All UNC-CH faculty will not
receive a flat 6 percent raise;
instead, the $15.5 million in total
funding will be distributed accord
ing to a merit system.
“We’re not spreading peanut
butter it’s not 6 percent every
where,” Templeton said.
Executive Associate Provost
Steve Allred said deans have broad
discretion to determine how salary
increases are distributed within
their schools.
Merit is the driving force in
making decisions, he said, adding
that deans also must seek to keep
salaries competitive with peer insti
tutions and maintain salary equity
within each department.
The funding available for salary
increases this year is much greater
than has been provided in the past
five years, Allred said.
As opposed to previous years
when there was not enough money
to go around, Templeton said this
year’s pay increase is generous
enough that it is worth taking the
time to decide how best to allocate
funding.
“The good news is that we have
enough money to make decisions,”
he said.
Bernadette Gray-Little, execu
tive vice chancellor and provost,
said the salary increases are a relief
after years of budget cuts.
“In past years at the time of bud
get submissions, academic units
have been warned that they should
prepare for a cut of a certain level
and how they should make those
cuts. This year it was possible to
send out that notice without say
ing that,” she said.
The money will enable the
University to reward excellent fac
ulty, and the pay increases should
help UNC-CH stay competitive
with peer institutions in the areas
of faculty recruitment and reten
tion, Templeton said.
“It will help in recruitment in
terms that the general salary levels
will be higher, especially if we con
tinue to get good increases in the
next few years. It could do a lot to
our average salaries in a way that
compares better with our peers,”
Gray-Little said.
Beyond increasing retention of
faculty, Templeton said the pay
increase will raise job satisfaction.
“It’s a financial boost, but equally
important, it’s a morale boost.”
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CONSTRUCTION
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becoming more noticeable.
“I think you’ll start to see more
and more activity evolving on
South Campus,” Runberg said.
What's left
Construction soon will begin on
CLUB CLOSINGS
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ensuring that patrons causing a stir
aren’t just moved into the street.
“They’re concentrating on the
inside of the club and don’t seem to
be as concerned with what’s happen
ing outside the club,” Jarvies said.
Jarvies said many incidents hap
pen as people leave the clubs, which
can be harder to control than at a
bar because the crowds are bigger,
and there’s more space to loiter.
Avalon, unlike many bars down
town, has its own lot. And people
frequenting Chi Hi often would
park in two nearby parking decks.
“People don’t just leave the club
and go home,” Jarvies said. “They
have a tendency to just stay and
congregate.”
Representatives of Avalon did not
return calls for comment last week.
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Swann’s murder should con
tact either the Chapel Hill Police
Department at (919) 968-2760 or
Crime Stoppers at (919) 942-7515.
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
Club crime
Major incidents from Jan. 29-July 29
at Avalon, 306 W. Rosemary St.,
Players, 159 1/2 E. Franklin St., and
Chi Hi, 136 E. Rosemary St.
AVALON 17
WAVERS 8
Major incidents include assaults,
weapons violations, armed
robberies, shootings and homicide
by club patrons in and around the
three downtown clubs.
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the Arts Common project. The plan
includes space for a concert hall,
classrooms and office space. Work
will begin this fall on the music
instructional facility.
The University’s top three con
struction priorities this year are
an expansion to the dental school,
the Genetic Medicine Building and
UNC’s proposed satellite campus,
Carolina North, Runberg said.
GOVERNMENT
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Allred said he hopes to use some
of his remaining time in office to
improve community relations,
address environmental issues and
broaden access to undergraduate
research.
Demographics of undergradu
ate researchers should reflect
those of the campus community,
Allred said.
“We’ve seen a real rise, I think,
nationally, in the importance of
undergraduate research,” he said.
“We want to empower that pro
cess.”
He said he will release a sum
mer report by the first day of class.
The briefing will detail executive
branch activities and examine
progress on campaign initiatives.
Judicial branch members also
put in time this summer, hear
ing about half a dozen cases each
week, including one in which a
student was expelled.
Honor Court Chairman Mark
Ihnat said he anticipated “business
as usual” this semester.
Student Congress met twice
during summer break, address
ing finance- and agenda-related
legislation.
CAMPUS HEALTH
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through,” Covington said.
Campus outreach efforts will
be bumped up in locations such as
residence halls and Greek housing.
A satellite office will be located in
the Student Recreation Center,
and students can choose from pro
grams such as fitness consultation
and stress management.
UNC officials announced in
December that student health,
counseling and health outreach
services would be combined into
Campus Health Services. The
changes were sparked by a review
of student health operations last
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During the N.C. General
Assembly’s summer session, about
$3 million was awarded for dental
school planning and S2B million to
fund planning and some site work
for the genetic building.
“It was really all that we had
hoped for,” Runberg said.
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Some campus leaders have
voiced concerns about possible
continued partisan squabbling
among representatives.
“Hopefully they took summer
to, ironically enough, cool off,”
Speaker Pro Tern Dustin Ingalls
said of members of the body.
One issue likely to land on
Congress’ plate is a set of revisions
to Title VI of the Student Code, the
section that governs student elec
tions.
The Board of Elections recently
announced the formation of a com
mission to study election laws. The
move comes in the wake of a series
of election snafus last year.
Problems included software that
permitted double voting, instabil
ity of the election server and ques
tions about election laws.
Along with Title VI reform,
anew online voting system has
been in development under the
leadership of board Chairman Jim
Brewer and is receiving finishing
touches.
The system, which is part of the
effort to shore up elections proce
dures, should be in place for elec
tions this fall.
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year by the American College
Health Association.
Covington’s role was created in
an effort to increase communica
tion about student health. She will
serve as a member of the provost’s
executive committee.
Other changes include a
merger between Counseling and
Psychological Services and the
Center for Healthy Student Behavior
now known as Counseling and
Wellness Services.
Kathy Hotelling will head the
services. Her appointment was
announced in June.
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