Brown and White Vol. 92 no. 7

              brown and white lehigh university vol 92 — no 7 bethlehem pa tuesday september 23 1980 861-41k4 lack of minority positions studied by faculty provost by darren maloney a lack of good candidates for faculty positions was the major topic of discussion at thursday's equal opportunity advisory committee eoac meeting university provost and equal op portunity and affirmative action officer arthur humphrey questioned the university's efforts in finding qualified women and minority faculty candidates part of the eoac's function is to see that minorities and women receive equal op portunity to occupy faculty positions at the university humphrey cited the upcoming vacancy in the dean of engineering position as an example of the committee's problems in the area of faculty recruitment we didn't get a single application from a woman for the dean of engineering position out of approximately 70 ap plications humphrey said he suggested that the reason for this shortage is ineffectiveness on the part of the search committees in seeking out candidates and said he feels the eoac should be assisting these search com mittees recently elected chairman sharon friedman said she believes the eoac could do other things in furthering women and minority faculty employment friedman said this belief was one reason for her presentation of an ad to be printed in the brown ami white soliciting public opinion on how to further communication on and understanding of the roles of minority groups and women on campus also discussed at the meeting was a proposal advocating a new tenure granting procedure humphrey described the new more highly defined procedure as a far more open policy than we've always had before under the proposed policy candidates for tenure would have a more informed position on their tenure standing under the present system a tenure candidate is screened by external reviewers as well as the university's representatives these external reviewers are required to present their opinions through letters in the new proposal these letters will be seen by the department in which the candidates work as well as by the tenure candidates if they so choose the new tenure proposal must first be approved by the university personnel committee then by the faculty and must finally be adopted by the university board of trustees if a revision in the tenure granting procedure is to occur pull b&w photo by 808 youngentob the lehigh side was nearly full for saturday's home opener against house colgate the gridders tied the red raiders 17 all see story page 12 faculty compensation judged good by caroline graf the university's faculty compensation program is generally good according to professor of economics jr aronson chairman nf the faculty compensation committee aronson delivered a committee report at the sept 8 faculty meeting which outlined the committee's progress in its work to achieve parity with 14 reference schools with its formation in 1978 the committee was given the three-year task of in vestigating the levels of faculty com pensation and benefits relative to market conditions peer institutions university priorities and faculty need aronson said the committee is working with ad ministration representatives to devise an acceptable policy by the 1981-82 academic year if all goes smoothly in the next year we will reach parity on schedule aronson said the specific goals of the committee as stated in it's report are to raise com pensation levels by rank and field to the average paid by the 14 reference schools with which lehigh competes for students to maintain this equality in the future and to maintain the principle of merit in salary compensation based on teaching research scholarship and service to the university the reference scliools include duk university massachusetts institute of technology princeton university tufts pennsylvania state university university of pennsylvania and carnegie mellon university these institutions were chosen on the basis of the type and number of degrees offered as well as the doctoral programs available achieving parity in salary and benefits with the reference schools depend heavily on obtaining accurate data according to austin gavin executive consultant to the university if we had precise up-to-date in formation from the reference institutions the work of the committee would be much easier gavin said a study of more than 70 colleges and universities prepared by the university of oklahoma has been used to determine the relationships between the average salaries of professors in individual fields data for distinction between fields such as social sciences and engineering is obtained directly from each of the 14 reference schools james tiefenbrunn director of the budget for the university pointed out that since the data received from the reference schools is always a year old the com mittee is always a year behind and must deal carefully with these inaccuracies the faculty committee works closely with the administration and both parties said they are pleased with the advances made so far the committee has provided a formal meaas of communication which has not existed before tiefenbrunn said at the time of the committee's establish ment salary and benefit levels at the see faculty page 6 b&w photo by 808 youngentob crowd reaction to saturday's game was very enthusiastic as this fan lehigh p roves - fund raising hits new mark with 10.3 million in 79-'80 by anne fit/patrick cash gifts to the university in the year 1979-80 totaled 10,329,072 the highest amount ever received in 15 years of fund raising according to paul franz jr vice president for development and university fund-raising campaign coordinator the second highest year was 1977-78 when the total was s7.6 million franz said the amount of money received from bequests and trusts 3.9 million was also a record cash gifts and pledges to the university's annual fund also reached a high the number of asa packer society members alumni who contribute 1,000 or more each year to the university reached i peak at 762 according to franz of the total cash gift figure 6,382,076 were donated by alumni 520,000 was given by parents friends and widows foundations and corporations contributed 3,137,075 and 289,884 was given by the government franz cited three reasons for this record high funding progress of the new century fund the success of the annual fund and the all-time high of bequests and trusts given to the university of the 10.3 million approximately 7.3 million was given for the new century fund the balance was contributed to the annual fund and other projects of the university franz said fifty-two percent of university alumni donated money in the 1979-80 year franz said there are only four universities that surpass the university in alumni giving dartmouth princeton notre dame and vanderbilt in the 1978-79 fiscal year the univer sity's total for cash gifts was 6.1 million in the same year carnegie-mellon received 6.7 million massachusettes institute of technology 37 million and rensselaer polytechnic institute was given 5.9 million inside drinking p 5 running prof p 70 gridders tie p 12