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DAILY TITAN
Monday November 7, 2005
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87 teachers receive raises President approves about half of requests for salary increases By MATT BALLINGER Daily Titan Copy Editor
Teacher salaries at Cal State Fullerton are considerably lower than those at comparable schools throughout the nation, studies show. But an effort to boost teacher pay may relieve some of the strain that puts on faculty morale. CSUF President Milton Gordon announced last week the results of a review of 170 faculty membersʼ applications for equity increases – raises meant to bring salaries
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in line with cost of living, with what other faculty members earn, and with pay at so-called comparison institutions, schools such as Arizona State University, USC and the University of Connecticut, that have similar salary characteristics. Eighty-seven of the requests, or about 51 percent, were approved. G. Nanjundappa, president of CSUFʼs faculty union, said more needs to be done. “It is a small step toward bridging a large faculty equity problem,” he said Wednesday. Nanjundappa said heʼs disappointed that more requests werenʼt approved, especially for fulltime professors. Just 12 percent of full professorsʼ requests were
granted, yet according to a study by the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the salary increase needed to equate the pay of full professors at CSU schools and full professors at comparison schools is more than 25 percent. “We had many excellent faculty members who were turned down because their salaries were already in line with newly hired faculty members in their departments,” Gordon said in a news release. “Itʼs important to understand that weʼre looking at equity based on what colleges, and in some cases departments, are paying.” Gordon said that even with money coming from the state budget, when he deals with how to
spend money, he has to weigh competing needs. “As president, I have to keep a balance for everyone at the university,” he said in a telephone interview. “I wish there was more money for everyone,” Gordon added. Ephraim Smith, vice president of academic affairs, said the raises address a problem that has been brewing for some time. The salary equity issue is not new, “but because we have not had raises in three years, itʼs become a bigger issue,” Smith said, referring to a 3.5 percent cost-of-living increase approved for all faculty members in October. Another complaint administra-
tors and union leaders have been hearing is that newly hired teachers were brought in with higher salaries than teachers hired three or four years ago. “Recently, junior faculty members in multiple departments have contacted … [union] leaders regarding emerging discrepancies between their salaries and those offered to incoming faculty,” reads a resolution passed by the board of the teachers union – the California Faculty Association Fullerton Chapter – in May. “Discrepancies exceeding 25 percent have been described.” That resolution encouraged all SALARIES 4
Program offers tips to avoid sex assault
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Speakers will present information at residence halls Wednesday about rape and how to thwart attacks By JENNY STAR LOR Daily Titan Staff
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The CSUF women’s soccer team celebrates winning the Big West Conference Women’s Soccer Tournament on Sunday. The Titans beat UC Riverside, 4-1, to finish the regular season with a 17-3 record. See story Page 8.
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Presses to stop at Cal State Dominguez Hills The Bulletin to be shut down due to budget restrictions By COURTNEY BETH PUGATCH Daily Titan Staff
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Cal State Fullertonʼs Housing and Residence Life will host a Rape and Domestic Abuse Program on Wednesday at the multipurpose room in the residence halls. “Letʼs Talk About All The Good Things and All The Bad Things Sex Can Be” will touch on topics about rape and sexual assault, the role of alcohol, assertiveness and ways to avoid an attack. Event speaker Dawn Foor, a CSUF alumna and supervisor of Community Service Programs Inc. Sexual Assault Victims Services, has spoken on campus about preventing rape before. “This is important because rape is an epidemic,” Foor said. “People are comfortable in denying it until it happens to someone we know.” According to statistics obtained from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, more than 94,600 women and girls nationwide were victims of forcible rape in 2004. The figure has increased 0.8 percent since 2003 and has risen 4.9 percent since 2000. But the cases of forcible and non-forcible sex offenses at CSUF are small. The campus crime statistics on the University Police Web site show that there was one forcible sex offense on campus in 2004. Officer Iris Cortes-Valle of University Police will be one of the speakers Wednesday. Head of the Rape Aggression Defense program at CSUF, Cortes-Valle plans to talk about how the program is an effective tool to teach women how to defend themselves. She said statistics taken from Foor show that Community Service Programs took 3,289 cases of rape in 2004 in Orange County. Of these, only 276 cases were reported to various police departments and agencies as crimes. “The astounding difference in numbers has many reasons,” Cortes-Valle said in an e-mail interview. “Victims choose not to report sometimes due to embarrassment, shame or because they do not want the attacker to not have criminal charges filed against him or her.” The Rape Aggression Defense program is a series of three, free, self-defense clinics that aims to empower
Cal State Dominguez Hills could be the only CSU campus without a student-run newspaper when publishing of the Bulletin is terminated in December. Garry Hart, the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said the paper has “just become too much for the College of Liberal arts to pay for.”
Cal State Fullerton has a Communications Department and requires journalism students to take the Daily Titan class to graduate; Cal State Dominguez Hills only has a liberal arts program that includes journalism classes. The students who work on the Bulletin are volunteers who want to be a part of the student-run paper. “For the last three years the paper has been on the budget, and questions have been raised about whether or not to fund it,” said Cathy Risling, the Cal State Dominguez Hills Bulletin advisor. “In the past, it has been up to the college of liberal arts to pay
for. Without the funding, itʼll be shut down after the last issue and students, faculty and staff wonʼt be getting the news necessary for campus events.” The annual cost of producing the newspaper is about $75,000 – that includes the printing of seven issues each semester and staff salaries. However, the paper only receives about $7,000 each year from its student government. To compensate for the lack of funding, the newspaper uses advertising revenues to pay for supplies, issues, equipment, and salaries, Risling said. Risling also mentioned that she
was surprised that many of the students and faculty members donʼt realize the implications the termination of the paper can bring. “Our paper is a living history and a way to document the progress and events of our campus,” she said. “How will important things like the ASI budget, events on campus and other events be publicized and archived without it? CSU Dominguez Hills is like a community, and the students need a way to make sure theyʼre informed at all times of what happens within our campus community.” Instead of funding the paper, the liberal arts department plans to
create six sections of classes that students have a hard time getting into. “Having these classes so that students could get through the graduation process faster is more important than having a student newspaper,” Hart said. He said Cal State Dominguez Hills is operating on a budget that is $1 million less than previous years. However, Hart also acknowledged the absence of a student newspaper probably wonʼt sit well with students. NEWSPAPER 3