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Caption: Book - Four-Year Report of UI President (1950)
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To house the mw students on a campus when- student h ;) not been adequate for half as many students, To house the new staff members who were being a ' i to into community where rental housing was almost non< at. To take rare of the special educational needs and ljustment problems of veterans. To take care of the health, counseling, and orientation needs of all students in a University grown large and complex. To revise and expand courses and curricula in order to mc< postwar conditions. the new Staff Salaries and Wages The young men and women of Illinois are entitled to look to their State University for as good an education as they can get anywhere. That kind of education requires an excellent staff, working under the best possible conditions in all divisions and types of services. It was, therefore, essential to revise salaries, wa and employment attractions. Even before the war, the rising cost of living had drastically cut the real income of the teaching and service staffs. In aver; e salaries, the University of Illinois was below the leading public and private universities. With heartening support from the General Assembly, an acrossthe-board adjustment in salaries and wages was made during 194749. The formula called for a 30 per cent increase on the first $4,000, a 20 per cent increase on the next $1,000 and a 10 per cent increase on the next $1,000. First proposed by the local chapter of the American A< xiation of University Professors, it was cited Over the country as a model way of adjusting to the cost-of-living index However, a cost-of-living adjustment creates inequities by failing to give recognition to merit and exceptional achievement, Here again, with the support of the General Assembly, selective adjustments have been made to reward excellent teaching ind io develop large ar is of work. '1 he University now compares favorably in salaries with tl)< I; land-grant institutions .w\d with mosl of the private univen ities- 17
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