CSU Music Dept. performs computer generated music
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March 13, 1990 Vol. 88, No. 42
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Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Waivers disbursed unequally By Ann Hamilton
Graph 1
Staff Writer
Tuition Fee Waiver Distribution Administration—All Other
Student Senate
$2,400
.4%
$8,000
1.2%
College of Business
$28,000
4.2%
College of Math & Science
$16,000
2.4%
Cheerleaders
Administration University Scholarship Committee
Athletics $64,000
$24,800
College of Education College of Liberal Arts—All Other
$51,200
10%
3.8% 8%
College of Liberal Arts—Music $86,400 13.3% Performing Arts $12,800 2% SOURCE: Central State University's regents fee waiver scholarship report, 1989.
Graph 2 Percentage of Tuition Fee Waivers NOT Awarded 100%
Graphs by April Pedersen
-42°k School: CSU
-43% ECU NESU NWOSU SEOSU SWOSU (Ada) (Tahlequah) (Alva) (Durant) (Weatherford)
SOURCE: State Regents' Fee Waiver Scholarship Summary (1988)
Faculty incentive debated By Debbie Blossom Staff Writer A financial incentive to motivate faculty to attain higher professional standards was outlined at the March 8 meeting of the Central State University Faculty Senate, but proposal 89-13 met with opposition from several senators who suggested pay increment by rank is hindered by the present quota system. The proposal, Professor Differential Pay, states the associate professor salary increase shall be 50 percent higher than the assistant professor's, and the full professor salary increase shall be 100 percent higher than the associate's, said Senator Joann DeVries. The proposal also suggests the $573,200 request from CSU's budget for faculty salaries be phased in
over a three-year period, at about $200,000 a year, to help minimize the increase. Some senate members maintain that CSU's quota system, in which only a certain percent of all teachers can be full professors or associate professors, keeps qualified people out of upper-level positions simply because there is not room for them. "Many teachers have been qualified to be professors for years," said Senator Ben Duncan, "but they can't get in due to these requirements." Duncan said regardless of what teachers accom. plish academically, with a quota system they must wait for other professors to retire before they can be promoted. "Sometimes you're talking about a very long Please see FACULTY on page 8.
Discrepancies in the amount of tuition fee waivers awarded to Central State University departments are as much as 10,000 percent, according to documents provided by the administration. Bilingual education, geography, and journalism departments received $800 each, while the music department received $86,400 through April 12 (graph 1). CSU awarded less than 59 percent of the tuition fee waivers allowed by Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in 1988 (graph 2). Regents in September increased the amount colleges and universities can award from 2 percent of the previous year educational and general budget to 3 percent of the current year budget, said Jeanie Edney, public information director for the regents. Regents approved $468,000 more than CSU awarded through April 12 of this year, according to documents supplied by administration. "Once they (regents) extended it up to 3 percent, then you have to get into the business of guessing what your income is going to be for next year, and estimating what 3 percent is going to be," said Joyce Mounce, administrative vice president. "Since the state regents have now said that they may not go ahead with the tuition increases unless the state appropriations increase, then I have no idea what our budget is going to be," she said. "After they (regents) had done that (increased the allocation), budgets had already been set for that year. It would be a matter of taking that much out of somebody's operating budget in order to fund those (tuition fee waivers)," she said. However, Mounce said tuition fee waivers don't actually appear in the budget. "What we do is budget according to our estimated income so we just take that off the top. In other words, you've got this many stu-
dents but you're going to give this much in fee waivers. Therefore, your total amount is reduced," Mounce said. "Every year, since 1985, we have increased that percentage. We plan to increase for next year, but like I said, we're in a real funny planning situation," Mounce said. Figures from administration reports indicate, however, the 1989 percentage is 1 percent lower than 1988. In 1985-86, CSU awarded 55 percent less in fee waivers than regents allowed. In 1987-88, the awards were 41 percent under the maximum, and in 1989-90, using the current educational and general budget and administration's report to regents covering awards given through April 12, the percentage is 42 percent below the allowable maximum. CSU's waiver appropriation represents a smaller percentage of the allowable limit than all except one of the other regional universities (graph 2). "I had already authorized an initial increase of about $160,000 for next year in fee waivers. Now I'm beginning to get nervous and think that I have overdone it," she said. "If we got into a situation where we had no additional state appropriations, then here I am increasing the number of fee waivers while we have almost $1 million in additional expenses that are going to increase and we're talking about cut-back departments. So we're going to keep our fingers crossed that we are going to have extra money," Mounce said. A wide margin separates the amounts of tuition fee waivers awarded to individual departments and activities at CSU (graph 1). "Letters are sent to the departments, and a lot of it is set ahead of time. In other words, certain departments have always gotten some fee waivers and it's usually to promote certain programs or activities, such as the band, the symphony, dancers, athletic scholarships, and debate scholarships," Mounce said. Please see WAIVERS on page 8.
