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Show FacultyGroup Requests Salary Raise The Annuities and Salaries Committee Com-mittee of the Faculty Council has recommended a seven per cent overall over-all increase in faculty wages. IN ITS MARCH report, the committee com-mittee said, "In 1962-63 the University Uni-versity qualified for an AAUP (American Association of University Univers-ity 'Professors) "C" rating on its average scale of compensation. This is an improvement from the "D" rating of 1961-62, but 31 per cent of the public universities outside the south still have higher ratings on this scale." The report said, that nothing is more important to a university than its ability to recruit and maintain an excellent faculty. It said that this ability was being jepordized by the University's relatively low salary scale. ACCORDING TO the report, the University's scale is "quite markedly marked-ly below Colorado's and somewhat below the University of Oregon's. The report said, "The situation ise relatively simple: If we are to attract increasingly capable and gifted me nand women to the faculty, facul-ty, we must improve our salary scale." It also expressed fear that the University might begin to lose many of its least despensable faculty fac-ulty members if conditions aren's improved. The recommended 7 percent increase in-crease would bring the University up to the AAUP average. |