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The Tarleton Texan Weekly News
Volume 153 Number 2
A part of the Texas A&M System.
January 30,1997
By Justin Wayne Beam
and Kim Wade
Inequities in faculty salaries
when compared to administrative
salaries and the salaries of faculty
at Tarleton's peer state institutions
have been an ongoing topic of dis-
cussion on campus.
According to a department head,
Tarleton ranks last in faculty
salaries in comparison to its peer
institutions in Texas. Sul Ross State
University in Alpine was ranked the
lowest, but its faculty recently
received raises and now Tarleton is
believed to be in last place, the
spokesperson said.
According to Dr. B.J. Alexander,
provost and vice president of
Academic Affairs, there are sever-
al reasons for low faculty salaries at,
TSU.
"Faculty salaries are driven by
semester credit hours generated,"
said Alexander. "It also depends on
what is called 'the mix.'"
'The mix' is how classes are
arranged by type—i.e. nursing vs.
literature—and level;—graduate
versus undergraduate. According
to Alexander, the first mix is com-
posed of graduate and undergradu-
ate institutions.
"Doctoral granting institutions
generate more money per semester
credit hour than master level insti-
tutions," said Alexander. Master
level courses get more money than
undergraduate programs. Even
some undergraduate courses vary in
price. -
"Liberal arts courses are cheap,"
said Alexander. "Education cours-
es are cheap. Engineering and
nursing courses are high."
Alexander also attributed the
discrepancies in faculty salaries to
something called 'the formula,'an
arbitrary way of putting a price tag
on what teachers are paid to teach
various courses.
"Medical school courses cost-
more than freshman English." The
number of semester credit hours
generated also forms a part of the
formula as well as a part of the mix.
"What happens at Tarleton,"
Alexander said, "is that most of the
courses are undergraduate. We
don't have a large graduate pro-
gram here, and most of our hours
are in areas like education and lib-
eral arts, which are the lowest paid
items on the formula. I don't agree
with it, but that is the way it is."
According to the 1996-1997
budget for Tarleton State
University, a wide range of salaries
exist within departments, between
departments and between faculty
and administration.
It is important to note that
administrative salaries are based on
a 12-month pay rate while most
faculty salaries are based on a nine-
month pay rate.
The highest salary listed in the
budget is $121,035 which belongs
to the president of the university, as
written on page one of part four in
the 1996-97 budget.
In addition to this salary is an
$8,400 auto allowance and a
$12,000-a-year housing allowance.
The vice president of Academic
Affairs earns a $90,000 salary,
according to the budget on page
two of part four.
The vice president of Finance
and Administration receives
$80,000, according to page three of
part four of the budget.
According to page 295 of part
four of the budget, the vice presi-
dent for Student Services receives
$82,305 and the dean of students
receives $40,686.
The associate vice president of
Business Affairs receives $74,821,
according to page 295 of part four
of the budget.
The vice president of
Institutional Advancement receives
$82,302, according to page 42 of
part four of the budget.
Faculty salaries are listed from
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Science sleuths settle in new, old digs
By Robert Benton
Associate editor
Future DNA code breakers can
be found every day, plying their
trade and preparing for biological
science in the 21st century in the
antiquated facilities of TSU's
Science Building.
However, as the demand for
biotechnological backgrounds in
science and medicine increases,
Tarleton is rising to meet the chal-
lenge through additional lab space,
equipment, classes and faculty
needed for the success of Tarleton's
biological sciences program.
"That is where the jobs are going
to be: molecular biotechnology and
genetic engineering," said Dr. John
Calahan, head of the Biological
Sciences department. The recent
addition of three faculty members,
due to attrition, will enable the
department to meet future needs.
The three faculty members, Dr.
Harold Rathburn, Dr. Alesia
Reinisch, and Dr. Phillip Sudman,
who are serving in dual teaching
and future research roles and,
according to Dr. Calahan, "have
some molecular biology, biotech-
nology types of backgrounds."
Dr. Rathburn, a graduate of
coming to Tarleton one year ago.
"Most recently, I have done genet-
ics research working on the cotton
genome mapping project at Texas
A&M," said Dr. Reinisch. She said
she really enjoys teaching genetics
and freshman biology.
Dr. Sudman is a graduate of
Midwestern and Kansas State
Universities with post-doctoral
work with the USDA in Maryland
came to Tarleton in January of 1996
from the University of Oklahoma.
"My main field of study is in
recombinant DNA and biochem-
istry," said Rathburn.
Dr. Reinisch
received her
Bachelor of Science
and Master of
Science degrees
from West Texas
State University.
She did her Ph.D.
course work in
medical microbiol-
ogy at the
University of Texas
Health Science
Center at San
Antonio and
received her doctor-
ate from Texas Tech
University where
she did research in
molecular virology.
She did post-doc-
torate work at
USDA Plant Stress
Lab in Lubbock and , , , .
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f. . eXHS . . Harold Rathburn, and Dr. Phillip Sudman. (Photo
University prior to by Robert Benton)
Central College, Iowa and Fort
Hays State University, Kansas, and
received a Ph.D. from Texas A&M.
He has worked at Oak Ridge
National Lab, Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
Louisiana State University, and also
had an assistant professorship at the
University of South Dakota. "My
main field of study is the mam-
malian genetics, using genes to
lqok at differences between species
of mammals," said Sudman.
Along with the faculty, classes
will be added and lab space
assigned in an attempt to meet the
needs of biology students. "More
classes will be added and some of
the current classes will be modified
as well," said Dr. Calahan. "Some
work areas have been designated,"
he said adding that "actually I had
started in this direction in the sum-
mer of 1988. Slowly converting
classrooms, begging, borrowing,
being able to raise the money to buy
some equipment to get started in the
molecular biology area, so 1 had a
nucleus of equipment there," said
Calahan. "It brings to our depart-
ment some new capabilities that we
just have not had before to expand
on this, new area of biology that
looks to be important in the next
century," said Dr. Calahan.
the highest— usually the depart-
ment head —to lowest—instructor.
According to pages 70-71 of
part four in the budget, the faculty
salaries of the department of Social
Sciences range from $60,384 for.
department head to $25,742 for
instructor.
Ten of the 16 faculty in this
department receive under $39,000,
The salaries of the department of
Management, Marketing and
Administrative Systems range from
$70,538 for the department head to
$28,038 for instructors as written
on pages 91-92 of part four of the
budget.
Four of nine faculty members
make $33,000 or below.
According to page 88 of part
four in the budget, salaries in the
department of Computer
Information Systems range from
$79,743 for department head to
$25,380 for instructor.
Five out of 10 faculty members
receive less than $37,500.
Salaries for the division of
Nursing range from $57,390 for
director to $34,380 for instructor
according to page 58 of part four of
the budget. Ten of 13 faculty mem-
bers make $36,123 or less.
In the department of Education
and Psychology salaries range from
$75,078 for professor and dean of
college of Education and Fine Arts
to $22,653 for instructor as listed
on pages 76 78 in part four of the
budget.
Fifteen of 28 faculty members
make $39,536 or below.
According to pages 60 to 62 in
part four of the budget, the salaries
for the department of English and
Languages range from $60,441 for
department head to $23,274 for
instructor.
Twenty-one out of 32 faculty
members make below $29,600.
Through the next few issues of
the J-TAC, articles will focus on
varies aspects of the financial situa-
tion at Tarleton.
Sophomore killed
in one-car accident
By Kisty Hoffman
Staff Writer
, A 19-year-old Tarleton sopho-
more was
killed early
Monday
morning in a
one-car acci-
dent 10
miles south
of
Comanche.
Raymond
Sutherland,
son of Gary
and Patty
Sutherland of
Goldthwaite, is believed to have
fallen asleep while returning to
campus between 1 and 2 a.m.
According to what police told
his mother, Sutherland's truck
missed a curve and careened down
a ditch . His truck then flew 116
feet and rolled five times after land-
ing. He was thrown from the vehi-
cle. Police reported that he was not
wearing a seat belt.
In addition to his parents
Sutherland is survived by maternal
and paternal grandparents and one
great grandmother. Sutherland's
aunt, Lora Slaughter and his
Raymond
Sutherland
cousin, Brent Sutherland both
attend Tarleton.
Sutherland was attending
Tarleton to earn, a bachelor's
degree, in business management,
however, he recently decided to
switch his major to psychology.
"He really wanted to get through
school," said Sutherland's high
school friend and Tarleton student,
Joanna Witty,
In high school, he was active in
FEA and participated in UIL one-
act play. According to Witty,
Sutherland was also very active in
church functions. At Tarleton, he
enjoyed participating in intramural
softball. His favorite pastimes were
hunting and fishing.
He liked to socialize, his mother
said, and he had many friends. "If
there was a social event, Ray was
right in the middle of it," his moth-
er said,
"He loved to spend time with his
friends," said Witty. "He did
everything for us; he made the bad
times better," she added.
Services for Sutherland were
conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the
First Baptist Church in
Goldthwaite. Place of Interment
was the Goldthwaite Memorial
Cemetery,
E-Mail alert
By Kim Wade
Staff writer
E-mail users beware!
If you are or have been using
Tarleton's E-mail to send letters
for&ommercial purposes or polit-
ical lobbying, you may lose your
privilege to commute on the
information super-highway.
According to Dr. B.J.
Alexander, provost and vice pres-
ident of Academic Affairs, the
Tarleton State University
Network Acceptable Use Policy is
still in the proposal stage, but will
be put into use as soon as it is
approved.
The proposed policy states that
'Tarleton State University com-
puter resources support education
and research. Commercial use or
political lobbying using the uni-
versity's electronic resources are
prohibited except for advertising
approved by the administration.
Under certain circumstances,
some resources may be available
to those outside the Tarleton com-
munity, such as (but not limited
to) access to the library'catalog."
According to Alexander the
proposal is very complex because
of the legal issues concerning the
Internet.
The policy must be able to
"stand up" in court, said
Alexander, and once the legal
specialist in the Tarleton system
rules the policy legally sound, the
policy will be sent to the academ-
ic council. After the council has
signed off on the policy, it will be
sent to President Dennis McCabe
for the final signature.
The policy also concentrates
on other aspects of the universi-
ty's electronic media service in
response to the problems with
misuse of internet services in the
library, said Alexander.
The process is slow going, said
Alexander, but Tarleton needs to
have these rules on paper.
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