Mcintyre: honeymoon is over by Emerson Schwartzkopf
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For Donald Mcintyre, president of Metropolitan State College, the honeymoon is over. After one year of relative peace and. a minimum of controversy, Mcintyre - plus certain key members of his administration _ now face an .organizing faculty over concerns about salaries, administrative policies, and affirma路 tive action hiring questions. And, in an action unrelated to the internal controversy, Mcintyre could possibly leave MSC for the presidency of Colorado State University. The questioning of the Meintyre administration - and the emergence of a dissatisfied faculty - became public at a meeting of the college's governing board in late June, when a MSC Faculty Senate representative called for an investigative task force of the intution 's management. The issue leading to the investigatory call, however, came up this. spring during summer semester planning. Ed Karnes, MSC psychology department chairman said the . issue of salary proratio~ - basing summer faculty pay on class size
began during spring semester when MSC Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael Howe set a guideline of "30 students per class" for summer semester courses. Howe's enrollment guideline Karnes said, failed to include "if this was an average per school, or whatever.'' The idea of salary proration paying faculty on the percentag~ equivalent of how close enrollment comes to a set standard, came out of a meetng between Karnes and two other department chairmen from the S~hdool of Liberal Arts, Karnes sat 路 "The objective," Karnes noted, "was to allow individual faculty members to choose. If only 25 students enrolled in路 a class, for example, the faculty member could get at least 25/30ths of a salary - rather than nothing.'' The original proration proposal, developed a week before summer semester, 路called for a 20per-class guideline, Karnes said. After the proposal went to Howe, however, Karnes said the proposal ''changed disatrously'' -
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