Veritas, Vol. 20, No. 13, March 17, 1980

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For the Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
Smith named to Stanford Research Chair
The Henry King Stanford Research Chair has been established in the Theodore R. Gibson Institute for Social Change by the Urban League of Greater Miami.
At the same time, Dr. Marzell Smith, associate director of the UM’s Desegregation Center, was chosen to be the first occupant of the Chair.
The announcement was made by T. Willard Fair, president of the Urban League of Greater Miami, at a reception in the DuPont Plaza Hotel honoring both UM President Stanford and Dr. Smith.
Said Fair: "The Institute’s future is related to its ability to establish substantive relationships with institutions of higher learning. Suffice it to say, Henry King Stanford, representing the University of Miami, was the most appropriate choice not only for the excellence for which the university is renowned, but for his history of commitment and concern for Dade’s black community.”
Smith’s mission will be to assist Fair and the board of directors of the Urban League of Greater Miami in developing the programmatic and administrative thrust for the Institute in the 1980s, Fair said.
Co-sponsored by the UM and the Urban League, the Chair was established for the purpose of conducting research and policy analysis on issues relating to the black community. The Chair will be supported by annual fund raising drives. This year, the Chair will be supported jointly by the Institute and through released time from the School of Education and Allied Professions, Fair added.
The Gibson Institute for Social Change, which the Urban League says will eventually be patterned after the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, Ga., is located at 1200 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami.
Good grades pay of £ at IIM
Remember when you might have earned 25C for each A’ on your report card?
Well, the UM used a similar reward system to surprise 114 of its best students with tuition refunds totaling $69,700.
The meritorious grants were given to students with cumulative grade point averages ranging from 3-842 to a perfect 4.0. Twenty students had 4.0 averages.
Students with those grades were informed by letter Feb. 22 that they were selected for the awards. The awards, granted on a one-time basis, ranged from $100 to $1,000 depending upon the amount of financial aid already being received by the student. The average award w as $620.
The University has two other merit scholarship programs: entering freshmen with SAT scores of 1200 who are in the top ten percent of their high school class are eligible for $2,000 Presidential Scholarships, and entering freshmen with SAT scores of 1350 who are in the top five percent of their high school class receive fuli-
tuition University Scholarships. There are 292 Presidential Scholars and 48 University Scholars now enrolled at the University.
However, both University and Presidential Scholars were excluded from this selection process in order to reward those students whose academic accomplishments have not previously been recognized. To be eligible, students had to be full-time undergraduates who had earned at least 30 credits at the UM.
Dr. Howard Pospesel, chairman of the Presidential Scholarship Committee, said that while Presidential and University Scholarships were awarded on the basis of high school performance and promise of accomplishment, the merit grants recognize academic achievement at the UM.
"These are among our best students,” he said. "We want to retain them and show our appreciation for contributing to the quality of the institution and to demonstrate the University’s commitment to academic excellence.”
Salary increase policy recognizes merit and longevity
A salar>r pool of 9.5 percent has been approved for all groups of employees. The increases, effective with the first pay period in June, comply with Federal wage-price guidelines.
The pool is based on the 1979-80 salary budget base and will be allocated to all subdivisions. The amount each employee receives will be determined by the appropriate department head and will be based on merit.
Salary increase policies were approved by the executive committee of the Board of Trustees on Feb. 27.
In addition to the 9-5 percent merit pool, some A03 employees will receive pay increases due to a new job and pay classification system. According to David A. Lieber-man, acting vice president for financial affairs, "The last time the pay ranges were adjusted for A03s was in 1972. The new plan establishes new minimum and maximum ranges and eliminates the steps within classifications.
"Formerly, the pay steps were only in two percent increments, now increases can be anywhere within the pay range for the position. It’s a great step forward for the University’s job classification and pay plan being administered on a professional basis,” said Lieberman.
The A03 salary adjustments are the result of recommendations of a wage and salary study for clerical employees completed in December, 1979- Dr. Roosevelt Thomas, executive director for personnel affairs, said the purpose of the study was to determine
the relationship betw een job duties and pay rates, both internally and externally.
The study showed about 40 percent of the A03s are properly classified, about 40 percent are underclassified, and about 20 percent are overclassified. Adjustments are being made as a result of the report.
All minimum salaries will be increased, said Lieberman, as the minimum hourly pay is increased from $3-10 to $3-36. Higher maximum levels have also been approved.
"For the first time, longevity will be considered in establishing a maximum rate for long-term A03 and A05 employees who are currently being paid at or above the new maximum for their job classification,” said Lieberman. The new policy provides that for any employee who will have completed five years or more of continuous service in a position as of June 6, 1980, the maximum rate for their jobs will be increased by one percent for each year of continuous service.
Dr. Thomas believes the salary increases will help reduce the high turnover rate and improve employee morale. "We’ve brought our pay plan up to date, and we will continue the process on a yearly basis,” he said.
An additional 3-5 percent of the 1979-80 faculty salary budget base will be distributed through the provost’s office to the schools and the College as a supplementary faculty pool. The funds will be used to recognize promotions, to help eliminate inequities, and to increase salary levels of vacant positions in which acute shortages exist to facilitate recruitment of new- faculty.
Study labels equal pay doctrine “costly and disruptíve^
Government efforts over the last 16 years to give women a larger slice of payrolls through an equal-pay-for-equal-work rule have failed. Now a new idea—equal pay for comparable work—is afloat. If it is adopted and enforced its costs will be enormous.
That is the main conclusion of a study just released by the UM’s Law and Economics Center.
According to the author, Cotton Mather Lindsay, w age differences between full-time male and female workers have changed hardly at all since Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 imposed the requirement of equal pay for men and w omen do-
ing the same job.
Dr. Lindsay, an economist who teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at Emory University in Atlanta, says that while the equal pay for equal work requirement results in higher w ages for women who remain employed, it reduces the number of women who would otherwise have jobs in the absence of the requirement.
In fact, he says, the rule encourages discriminatory hiring. If an employer must pay the same wage to men and women, then indulging a prejudice against women costs him nothing.
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Chamber Singers in concert March 21-23
The internationally acclaimed University of Miami Chamber Singers w ill present three Sunshine Celebration benefit concerts at the UM’s Gusman Concert Hall, Mar.
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Lee Kjelson and Larry Lapin w ill conduct the singers Friday and Saturday. Mar. 21-22, at 8 p.m. and on Sunday. Mar. 23, at 3 p.m.
Tickets are S-4 to the public; S2.50 for students 18 or younger and for those w ith L^M identification. They may be purchased through the choral office, 284-4162, or at the door before the performance.
Soloists plus the full orchestra will present choral music of all styles, including renaissance to avant garde, jazz and pop
Funds from the concerts w ill support the Chamber Singers’ eighth international tour to Rumania and Greece. Previous trips have been to Italy, Austria, Rumania, Poland. England and the Soviet Union.