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Show 106. the Board of Regents and the Faculty should be at all times free, frank, and most cordial in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the University, the members of the Faculty take the liberty of communicating to your honorable body its view in regard to your recent action in the appointment ‘ We assume of an Assistant Secretary and Purchasing Agent. that we all agree that the primary purpose and highest functiu: of the University is the proper instruction of the young " If the institution, people who come under its tuition. through the Faculty, succeeds in instructing its students intelligently and prOperly, it has accomplished the purpose for which the State maintains it. In order, however, to do the work in the manner indicated, it must have instructors of long years of training and experience. You, yourselfes, as an official body, have recognized this important feature by requiring of the instructors of the institution high In order to meet the requirements standards of scholarship. which you have made for the work, most of the professors have Spent years either in home or foreign study, or in both, . and in many instances, at an expense that amounts to a small fortune, In compensation for the skilled services of a ' professor in charge of a department, you have paid a maximum salary of three thousand dollars a year. We are informed that the recently appointed assistant' secretary and purchasing agent is to receive thirty-six hundred dollars a year. If we are correctly advised, this ' is an advance-of at least 50% fiver his present salary and is a salary equal to that of t e Senior Dean in the UniversiayY: Six Hundred Dollars more than that of a professor at the L head of a department, and nine hundred dollars more than that of a professor not at the head of a department. We recognizah the importance of the office the new appointee is to fill; and had a man with a university training in finance and of practical experience in the administration of the business. affairs of a university been selected, he might have been entitled to a professor's salary. But in view of the present ; financial condition of the institution, we cannot perceive . justification for so great an advance in salary, nor can we " conceive that the position is of more importance to a unia" versity than that of a professor. If the education, trainingjfi experience, and responsibility of the incoming officer be _H compared with the qualifications demanded of a full professor;% ‘we feel that the foregoing conclusion can not be gainsaid. Taking into consideration the comparative training required,er and the investment necessary to the adequate education of a g7 professor, together with long years of indispensable pro- . T fessional experience, we do not feel that we would be just 9" to the institution nor to the proper standards of ., scholarship if we did not solemnly protest against the payneti of the sa-ary, indicated above, to the assistant secretary Q and purchasing agent as long as the scale of salaries of the: University staff cannot be raised above the present level. |
