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Volume 6 Issue 4
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Metropress . Septemberl 4
"Growing with a growing community."
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Raise, raise
Black studies:
who got a raise?
Endangered but not extinct
MSC faculty have a big beef with how the administration is cutting the pie.
by Lisa Dell'Amore
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The MSC department of Afro-American Studies this week announced an inc re as e in enrollment despite poor registration in the past. The reason for the increase, said Akbarali Thobhani, chairman of the department, is the crosslisting of Afro-American Studies classes with MSO history and political science classes. According to Thobhani, eight students majoring in history enrolled in the course, Readings of African History, this past summer. In addition, twenty-two students majoring in political science registered for the course, South African Politics, also offered over the summer. "Cross-listing does help," Thobhani said. "The classes are offered as AfroAm eri can studies classes but students can also get credit for those classes in history and political science."
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Hard Times Nation-wide College Faculty's Morale hits an All-time low
"We try to,,diversify as much as we can. - Akbarali Thobhani
Through cross-listing, students are able to take different courses through their major or minor departments that ordinarily are not offered. According to Dr. Stephen Leonard, charrman of MSC's history department, crosslisting provides a greater opportunity of increasing class enrollment in Afro-American Studies. "Actually, these courses have a lot of academic importance," he said, "and by broadening their advertising through the catalog, they're able to attract more students who will benefit from these courses." Dr. Jett Conner, MSC political science chairman, explained that cross-listing benefits both his department Continued on page '4
Morale among MSC faculty may be at an all-time low due to a 5.4 percent ceiling on faculty pay raises imposed by the legislature, smaller than expected merit pay increases, and an ·ongoing controversy revolving around large "salary adjustments" for administrative persdnnel. "The problem has fostered a strong sense of outrage among the faculty," said MSC History teacher Brooks Van Everen. MSC President Richard Fontera is currently working on a plan that might mean more equitable pay raises for full-time faculty, but, according to Van Everen, there is skepticism among faculty that the pay raises will be granted. Van Everen said that $150,000 was set aside by the Legislature for the raises, but that an acceptable adjustment plan must be drafted ·continued on page 3
MSC Histo,.Y Professor Brooks Van Everen says salary problems have fostered "a strong sense of outr_ age among the faculty."
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Where will you be . on October 22? page8
A real nighhnare
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Robin Heid takes a dive
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(CPS)- When West Virginia developed the worst unemployment rate in the U.S. and Gov. Jay R6ckefeller cut the state budget tn response, Dr. Donald Menzell figured it was time to make a choice. West Virginia University told him he'd have to forget getting any significant salary increase for the second year in a row. · It was too much for the political science professor, who not only wanted more money but 1,\'.as disrupted by the constant cutbacks and academic compromises .forced by the budget problems. "I cannot function with that much instability," he complains. "If you are at all professionally-minded, you cannot do that." contiJ:med Oil PHY 5
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