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Todd proposes changes to faculty and staff raises

As state budget faces final hurdle, Todd reduces controversial “catch-up" boost for faculty while increasing raise for staff

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2.5 percent “catch-up” boost to compete with
salaries at UK’s 19 benchmarks — and a 3 per-
cent raise for staff The plan also included a $5
million staff benefits pool, which has now
been moved to the 200708 fiscal year. .
The changes follow the near-completion o
the state budget — “a tale of two budgets,”
Todd said in an e-mail to all faculty and staff
yesterday. UK is almost fully funded for the

fund money than what it asked for to cover
the 2006-07 school year: That meant shuffling
proposed pay raises and moving more costs
— such as staff benefits and the “catch-up” to
benchmark faculty salaries — to 2007 and
2008 in order to follow the formula of Top-20
Business Plan, Todd said. The plan is a
framework for how UK will fulfill its man-
date of reaching top20 status among public

“That's the best we
could do, considering
the money we have
possible."

In a change from his original and consis-
tently defended proposal, UK President Lee
’Ibdd is now recommending larger faculty and
staff salary pool raises — but is also shrinking
and postponing a faculty “catch-up” raise at
the same time.

For most of the semester, ’Ibdd advocated a

salary pool increase proposal that called for a
5.5 percent pool raise for faculty — including a

Faculty

I Original Proposal: A 3 percent salary pool raise with

an additional 2.5 percent “catch-up" boost for a total raise

of 5.5 percent in 2006-07

I New Proposal: A 3.5 percent salary pool raise for 2006-07
with a i.5 percent “catch-up" boost that will begin in January

2007; total raise of 5 percent

President Todd: “i would certainly hope no one sees this as

we're backing up on differential raises."

I Original Proposal: A 3 percent salary pool increase for 2006-
07 school year and $5 million for staff benefits

I New Proposal: A 3.5 percent salary pool increase for 2006-07;
benefits pool delayed until 2007-0&05cal year

President Todd: ”In order to try and keep the staff up to labor
markets we went with the 3.5 percent increase."

2007-08 school year, but the university is receiv-
ing $12.1 million less in additional general

Staff

See Salaries on page 3

Lee Todd

UK President

 

Tuition

I Original Proposal: A i2 percent tuition increase
I New Proposal: No change

President Todd: “Our students and their families have shoul-
dered double‘digit increases for five years so we can sustain
our progress. We dare not increase their burden by one more
dollar than is absolutely necessary."

 

 

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For Iraqi students, history ends
when Saddam’s story begins

By Jonathan finer
THE WASHINGTON POST

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The two-year-old
modern history textbook used at Baghdad’s
Mansour High School for Boys doesn't men-
tion the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Sad-
dam Hussein from power in Iraq in 2003.

There's not a word about Iraq’s annexa-
tion of — and subsequent expulsion from
— Kuwait in 1990 and 1991, or its grinding
eight-year war with Iran in the 19805 that
took the lives of a generation of young
men.

Perhaps most conspicuously absent
from the book, earlier versions of which
were packed with florid praise for Saddam,
is any reference to the former dictator. For
the purposes of instruction at Mansour
High, and most schools across Iraq, history
ends in 1968, before the bloodless coup that
swept the Baath Party to power.

U.S.-sponsored reconstruction efforts
have renovated or rebuilt nearly 3,000 Iraqi
schools, retrained 55,000 teachers and ad-
ministrators and — under the supervision
of the government's deBaathification com-
mission —- revised or redacted millions of
textbooks that glorified 35 years of tyranni-
cal rule. Dozens of schools named for Sad-
dam were reflagged, and oncemandatory
courses in nationalism and Baathist ideolo-
gy were scrapped
But Iraq‘s updated history books now
contain no information on the pivotal
eventsof thepastthmedecadesandmore,
a fact some teachers and politicians say will
handicap students and delay Iraqi society
in coming to terms with a long period of

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uninterrupted trauma.

Education officials said they decided
soon after Saddam fell from power that the
wounds of his rule were so fresh — and the
potential for retaliatory violence so great —
that the subject was best omitted from
school texts, at least for now. This year. a
committee of experts selected by the Educa-
tion Ministry will launch an ambitious
overhaul of school curricula. The goal is to
produce the first broadly accepted history
of Iraq’s troubled recent past, a formidable
challenge in a country split along ethnic
and sectarian lines.

“It will be very. very: very hard to repre

sent all the viewpoints. It cannot be viewed
as something imposed by the strongest."
said an Education Ministry official who
will head the new curricular development
committee and is already reviewing nomi-
nations for roughly 40 other positions. “The
former regime used the curriculum as a
mouthpiece for its own political interests,"
he continued. “We have to be careful. We
have to be tactful.“

“This is a part of Iraq that we are deny-
ing. Saddam Hussein is in the people‘s
minds, even if he is removed from the
book," said Yahia Abbas. 53. a history
teacher at Mansour High in Baghdad.

 

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Candidates
address key
campus issues

Four running for mayor answer

questions during campus forum

By Sean Rose
THE mrucxv KERNEL

About 80 people sat in the Student Center The-
ater last night listening to Lexington's mayoral can-
didates speaking on the future of the city and UK
over the next four years.

The forum, hosted by Student Government, had
the highest turnout out of any of the 17 that have

occurred in the mayoral race.

All four candidates were in at-
tendance last night: current mayor
Teresa Isaac. Bill Farmer Jr.
Charles Martin Jr. and Jim New-
berry

Campus issues discussed in-
cluded the Lexington Area Party
Plan. Lexington‘s role in UK's 'Ibp
20 Business Plan and safety around
campus.

Martin said the police's attitude

needs to change in regard to the party plan.

“College students like to party." Martin said. “I
remember I did too I just think we need. instead
of the police trying to fine people and arrest people.
they need to be concerned with
safety and getting people home.“

Isaac said she enjoyed her party
days in college as well but that stu-
dents need to realize they‘re still
part of a community

"I know they're going to party
but you still have to be a good
neighbor." Isaac said.

Some candidates proposed
adding more Lexington Police offi-
cers to improve city safety

“I don't think Lexington as a
whole is safe." Newberry said who, like Farmer. fa-
vored hiring more police to bring the numbers
equal with the national average.

Farmer added that more police
officers are also important for
schools to “make sure the learning
environment around schools is just
that."

Isaac said the city was safe for
the most part. commending the re-
lationship between UK and Lexing-
ton.

Martin said more officers were
not needed but a shift in focus was
the right direction.

“I feel like it's a fairly safe city."
said Martin. “I feel like the priority of police should
be protecting property instead of writing tickets
and raising revenue."

As far as Lexington‘s role in the
Top-20 Business Plan. most candi-
dates said Lexington needed to pro
vide an appealing community for
future residents.

“Lexington needs to stay a place
where people want to live. learn
and raise a family," Newberry said.
He proposed a scholarship plan
. that would help Lexington high
Newberry school graduates who major in

math or science.

Isaac said integrating Lexington and UK was
key to improving campus and the city.

86 President Becky Ellingsworth was pleased
with the forum overall.

“I think it went very well," SG President Becky
Ellingsworth said. "I think we had a good turnout
I always hope that there's more (students) but I
think this was a solid number.

"I think it represented a broad number of issues
that was from the faculty. staff and students."

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When Meredith Vieira agreed to host the
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who is one of the most vocal supporters

president had finally taken this issue
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ing to give a 5.5 percent increase to the
faculty for the full year, so we had to
find a way,” Todd said. “By reducing

rally last month to protest the original-
ly proposed gap in pay raises In merit-
based systems such as UK’s faculty and
staff pools, department heads get a

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Todd said he worked closely with
Kyle Dippery, chairman of the Staff
Senate, in deciding to boost the staff
salary pool raise by 0.5 percent.

“In order to try to keep the staff up
to the labor market, we went with the
3.5 percent (for staff),” he said, adding
that the increase is competitive with
current market trends. “Then, we’re go
ing to be using the next year to study
doing further enhancements to the staff
salaries.”

Other parts of the proposal main-
tain the originally suggested 12 percent
tuition increase for next school year,
slated to generate $16.6 million for UK,
as well as commit $00,000 to a “fighting
fund" designed to help retain faculty
who have job offers from other universi-
ties or colleges.

'A step it the light inflow

Last year, both faculty and staff re-
ceived 4 percent salary pool raises. Over
the three previous years, the groups av-
eraged a 1.3 percent boost — including
one year with no additional pool raise.

Dippery sees the current 3.5 percent
salary pool raise proposal not as ideal,
but at least a stronger start than what
Todd had originally suggested.

“It’s a slight concession by the ad-
ministration to acknowledge that they
heard our cries,” Dippery said. ”It’s not
really going to pacify the people who
are really angry, but it’s a step in the
right direction.”

The original proposal called for a 3
percent staff salary pool raise as well as
a $5 million allotment for staff benefits.
That benefits allotment has been moved
tothe200708fiscalyeanandthe$5mil~
lion figure isn't guaranteed, said UK
spokesman Jay Blanton.

“We’re going to have to delay that
pool,” Todd said. “In order to try to keep
the staff up to the labor markets, we
went with the 3.5 percent increase.

“We had to find a way to move out
that staff pool because we just didn’t
have the money,” he said. “We chose to
do the 3.5 percent for the staff in lieu of
that pool to work wi

According to figures from UK’s Of-
fice of Planning, Budget and Policy, the
jump from the 3 percent increase to the
3.5 percent level will cost UK an extra
$823,000 for staff and an extra $750,000
for faculty.

Neither the original plan or the cur-

are working harder than others. The av-
erage salary raise is 3.5 percent.

Gange also didn’t like the idea of
postponing the staff benefits pool.

“If they're going to delay it, I just
hope it doesn’t completely fall off the
radar,” she said.

Dippery believes Todd is doing “the
best he can" under the circumstances,
but knows this solution only works for
this year.

“It’ll help for this year, but next year,
it will come up again,” he said. “But
next year, hopefully, we will have a bet-
ter plan to address staff compensation
and faculty. I guess I’m saying it will
buy us more time.”

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Several faculty leaders said they
were “surprised" at yesterday’s policy
change and expressed concerns that
Todd is backing off his previous pro
posal of differential raises.

“I feel a bit let down because I put a
fair amount of effort into defending his
position, but it is certainly his decision
to make and I don’t feel like the staff
are undeserving of the increased
raise,” said Bob Grossman, a chemistry
professor and member of the Universi-
ty Senate Council.

“Next time I see (Todd), I’ll probably
ask him why he changed his mind after
being so firm in his position for such a
long time,” he said. “I’d hesitate to pass
any judgment without hearing his rea-
sons for making the decision that he
did.”

Calls to the home of Ernie Yanarel-
la, chairman of the University Senate,
were not returned last night.

Jeff Dembo, one of two faculty rep-
resentatives on the Board of Trustees,
said the Topzo Business Plan requires
prioritizing that may mean unequal
salary pool raises.

“I think few people would disagree
that you certainly need to support the
staff as well,” said Dembo, a dentistry
professor. “But part of the Top-20 Busi-
ness Plan also involves making difficult
decisions, prioritizing ”

Currently, UK’s average faculty
salary is more than $8,000 below the me
dian for its 19 benchmarks. Todd’s origi-
nal differential proposal pleased many
faculty, but Dembo believes some facul-
ty could see this move as Todd compro
mising his original stance.

“We were delighted to know that the

sents a shift in priorities or preferences.

“It’s not a change in our policy; it’s
just a kind of operational way to find
out how we make the budget dollars fit
thedpicture we have to deal with,” Todd
sa1 .

“I would certainly hope that nobody
sees this as we’re backing up on our po
sition of having differentials...That’s
the best we could do, considering the
money we have possible.”

Faculty trustee and communica-
tions professor Roy Moore said he
agrees with that viewpoint.

“I don’t think he’s backed off the dif-
ferential salaries, because he is allot-
ting an extra catch-up, delaying the
catch-up until January,” Moore said.
“There is a reduction in the delayed
pool for faculty catch-up, but it’ll still be
a substantial increase.”

'Ibdd also has budgeted about
$800,000 for a “fighting fund" that he
said has been successful in helping of-
fer more competitive counteroffers to
retain faculty. He also said he struc-
tured salary raises so that full funding
remained to hire 27 new faculty mem-
bers next year, as planned under the
Top-20 Business Plan.

“If you’re that much short,” Todd
said, referring to UK’s lower-than-antic-
ipated funding for next year, “I’d hope
the faculty would realize you can’t do
everything you wanted to do. We took a
pretty big risk by talking about doing
5.5 percent raises for the next five or six
years, knowing we might not be able to
do that.”

Dembo had a mixed reaction to the

. fighting fund allotment.

“I was happy that the fighting fund
continued, but the fighting fund is still a
last-ditch effort to try to keep faculty
here at the university...I don’t know if
there really is enough in a fighting fund
to keep top faculty in the leading de-
partments of the university”

Grossman said he doesn’t anticipate
broad-based faculty reaction the same
way that the staff rallies did.

“I doubt it, but one never knows,” he
said of a potential response from the
University Senate. “1 think any action is
more likely to be expressed by people
leaving (to go to other schools) rather
than protesting.”

The full budget, including all these
proposals, will go before the Board of
Trustees in June.

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WHAT'STHEDEAL? I Demystifying campus trends

Handle criticism with class,
not retahatory crass

I’ve always adhered to the old
mantra. “Any publicity is good publici—
ty.” One of the coolest moments while
writing for the school newspaper is
getting recognized by
your fellow students.
Now, of course. not
every time does this
recognition come under
the form of an agreeing
applause; sometimes
,writers have to deal
with critical comments
and public humiliation
based on the expressed
opinions and grief of a
dissenting few. or maybe
even a majority:

Regardless. it‘s al-
ways a good sign when people respond.
because it means they're intrigued —
or reading, at the very least.

Reacting to criticism is one of the
most crucial tests of character and
personal growth. You may not realize
it, but all of us are exposed to criticism
each and every day. For clarification. a
critique does not necessarily just come
in the form of a “letter to the editor,“
as I mentioned above. It can also in-
clude feedback and rejection. For in-
stance, more than likely, you‘ve been
turned down by a potential employer.
The day you received a letter express-
ing a sincere “thank you for applying.
but we‘ve decided to consider other
candidates for the position.” you were.
in fact. receiving some not-so-blatant
criticism. The feeling isn‘t encourag-
ing. but, without hesitation. you move
on.

Similarly. feedback is a form of
criticism. But for the most part. it‘s
tagged with advice or a solution to

Kenny
Mayer

KENNEL COLUMNISI

what or whomever is being critiqued.
A good example for here may go back
to the time you were denied by that
cute girl/boy at the bar (or school pic-
nic, if you prefer) the other night. Al-
th