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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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of all other state institutions of higher education, and to staff members of related organizations. Each participant contributes to the System, and the University's share of the cost is included regularly in its biennial appropriations.

B3. SALARY ADJUSTMENTS $19 954 992

T h e University's staff is classified into two categories: academic (faculty members and certain groups of administrative and technical personnel) and nonacademic. The salary-increase funds requested for these two groups, by fiscal year and in total biennial amounts, are as follows: Annual Increases 1967-68 1968-69 Academic Staff Formula Amount " C a t c h - u p " Addition Subtotal, Academic Nonacademic Staff Formula Amount Additional for Nurses Subtotal, Nonacademic Total $4 241 238 313 753 ($4 554 991) 1 887 50 ($1 937 $6 492 622 199 821) 812 $4 558 527 361 867 ($4 920 384) 1 993 55 ($2 048 $6 969 356 628 984) 368 Biennial Total $13 041 003 989 363 ($14 030 366) 5 768 156 ($ 5 924 $19 954 600 026 626 992

T h e items described by the term "Formula Amount" were derived from calculations made in accordance with the recommendations of the staff of the Board of Higher Education in consultation with its Budget Formula Committee — as already noted. Although these sums would provide most of the funds estimated by the University to be needed for salary-rate increases in 1967-69, supplemental amounts are requested for both academic and nonacademic salary increases— for the reasons given below. Academic Salary Increases. T h e amounts calculated under the formula should provide salary increases roughly comparable to those prevailing on the average for college faculties throughout the country in 1965-66. As reported by the American Association of University Professors, average faculty compensation in 1965-66 was 7.3 per cent higher than in the preceding year. T h e funds provided under the formula would permit an average increase in University salaries of approximately 7.5 per cent for 1967-68 above the average for 1966-67. In addition to the "keep-up" increment that would be provided by the formula, the University needs to have a "catch-up" addition to faculty salaries if it is to make any progress toward its objective of bringing its salary levels into closer relationship to its national standing among universities in this country. This general objective is substantially identical with the policy stated in Recommendation 15 of the Master Plan adopted by the Illinois Board of Higher Education, which reads as follows: "15. Salaries and perquisites of faculty members at the several statesupported colleges and universities be kept high enough to compete for staff with other institutions having educational, service, and research programs of similar breadth, level, and quality. The salaries and fringe benefits offered by industry to persons also qualified for college teaching or research be taken into consideration in arriving at competitive salary levels." As a step towards achieving these general goals defined by the Master Plan, the University of Illinois has selected a comparison group of eight other institutions: University of California, Cornell University, Indiana University, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Stanford University, and the University of Wisconsin. In the preparation of its salaryincrease request for the 1965-67 biennial budget, the University's average salary for regular faculty members at each of the four regular academic ranks was compared with those of these eight institutions. As shown in Schedule C on the following page, it was found that in 1964-65 the University's standing among the nine institutions (including the University of Illinois) was as follows: full professor, seventh; associate professor, eighth; assistant professor, eighth; instructor, eighth. Its stated goal for 1965-67 faculty salaries was to increase the University's average for each rank to the median for the group of nine institutions.