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              The Loyola MAROON Volume 71 No. 6 - - - ' • ■ Mniwpfsitv New Orleans Louisiana 70116 October 2,1992 Danahar to hire assistant AVP from current Loyola employees By Charles Lussler Managing Editor Dr. David Danahar, vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of Faculties, has decided to appoint an assistant academic vice president to help him in his duties. Danahar said an internal search has been announced to Loyola faculty and staff. Applications are due OcL 5. He said he decided to make the search internal because of the immediacy of the need and the quality of applicants Loyola already has to offer, but he said he didn't know how soon the position would be filled. That, he said, depends on the number of applicants and the earliest available starting date for the chosen applicant "I would have liked the person to start last week," he joked, "but that person will start as soon as reasonably possible." Danahar said he reopened the old position because "the workload in this office" and the upcoming reaccTeditation of Loyola in 1993 by the Southern Association of Colleges. The ieaccreditation will take approximately a year to complete and will require extensive attention. "All academic planning will be the primary duty of the assistant AVP," he said. Academic planning, he said, will include all facets of planning for the university's academic future from outcomes assessment to budget formulation. The new assistant AVP, he said, will also assume some of Danahar's 16 present university committee posts, as well as other subcommittee posts Danahar holds. Loyola has not had an assistant AVP, or executive assistant to the vice president as it was called, since 1986 when the Rev. George Lundy, S.J., former AVP, eliminated the position and instead created the office of Administration to handle such duties as admissions, financial aid and student records that were previously done by the office of Academic Affairs under then president Dr. Robert Preston as well as by the office of Student Affairs. Dr. Norman Roussell was appointed vice president for Administration when the office was created after serving as Preston's executive assistant since 1977. * The lack of an assistant AVP was a continuing complaint of Lundy's, who was criticized for being overwhelmed by his duties as AVP. Danahar said he will pay for the new position out of his internal budget, but is not sure how he will pay for it. He said he was perturbed by speculation from faculty and staff that the position would be paid for by the salary of Herb Nickles, director of Academic Computing, who will be vacating his present position to become executive director for information systems at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts, in early November. "It's really inappropriate for people to speculate on that," Danahar said. He said he wasn't certain whether he would replace Nickles, but he said there would be "some consolidation of responsibilities" because of the assistant AVP. In general, faculty responded favorably to the move. Dr. Lloyd Brandt, CPA, associate professor of business administration, said the new position would alleviate some of the AVP's workload. "My personal feeling is that in the long run the potential of the person [new assistant AVP] will offset the cost of the position.' Dr. John Clark, professor of City College, agreed, saying that he thinks the new position is a good idea. "I think it would be a serious mistake to allow the AVP to get overburdened by responsibilities to the point that that person loses touch with faculty and other departments, as well as his or her vision for the university," Clark said. "Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener"— Hot dog vendor Michael Regan gets ready to serve up a New Jersey Sabrett Smoked Beef frankfurter. hot dog cart has been a regular fixture on the comer of St Charles Ave. and Calhoun St since the beginning of the semester ./Photo by Ashley L. Levy Imbalance in salary angers A&S faculty By William Patrick Mountain Staff writer A recent report confirms the suspicions of many Arts and Sciences faculty members who have long held that they are underpayed when compared to the rest of the university and the nation. The Faculty Salary Committee of the Arts and Sciences Council of Chairpersons released their Report on Salary Distribution this week. The committee concluded that faculty salaries for all professors in the College of Arts and Sciences are gravely below average when compared both nationally with other "peer" institutions as well as in comparison to salaries of professors at (he law school and business school. Loyola's faculty salaries are compared to 38 peer institutions that are categorized as "2A" (Comprehensive Institutions with limited graduate programs) and "very competitive" in admissions.Robert Dewell, a professor in the Modern Foreign Languages department, and member of the Faculty Salary Committee, said, "The key point has to do with faculty salaries here generally." Loyola has picked 38 peer institutions and compared them and their salaries and believes Loyola lies in the 47th percentile. Dewell stated, "The report took the whole average salary and compared them even with schools that don't have law schools and business schools. It's a veiy misleading number." When this is considered, the actual figure drops below $40,000 and ends up at the 18th percentile including the current year with no raises to speak ot. The average faculty salaries of each school are: A&S-$39,767, Business-$53,644, City College-539,276, Law-$67,213, and Music-$38,025. At Loyola, the Law school wants to compare itself with other Law schools and the Business school with other accredited Business schools. Yet, the College of Arts and Sciences is not compared to the same standards of these other schools, Dewell said. The administration at Loyola seems to treat the concept of the "liberal education" in a rather lax manner, he said. "The A&S faculty feel like they are treated on the periphery of minds that make decisions at Loyola," Dewell said. "We feel that liberal education isn't considered in their decisions and the salaries reflect that." Arts & Sciences is big and diverse with so many problems addressed by only one dean. His voice has the same impact as the voice of the deans of the other cohesive schools, of which the faculty is one-sixth or smaller in size, Dewell said. Dr. David Danahar, vice president of Academic Affairs and dean of Faculties, has sent a memo to the respective dean of each of the colleges at Loyola. In it, he has left the process of determining salary guidelines and criteria up to the colleges. At one point, Danahar requests the colleges to, "[d]evelop...a comprehensive set of guidelines and criteria, acceptable to your faculty, and submit this set of guidelines and criteria to me by Nov. 1, at the latest" Danahar also said in a Maroon interview that he would expedite the issue as soon as possible, but that he was more concerned with the equity of the procedure than the speed. "It's not going to be a rapid process, but it's a process that's underway," Danahar said. Dewell substantiated this comment by disclosing the requests of the Faculty Salary Committee of Arts & Sciences since 1982, all of which, for the most part, were not implemented Inside {this week... 1 Loyola atl M Play ,■****&& ;•*-**'' if ► See page 11. .*';. l 1