Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-02
GAN I KEEP TEACHERS
Ames College Must Have More
Money for Instructors or Lose
Best of Force
$4,000 ADDITIONAL IS NEEDED
Other institutions Look to Iowa to
School to Provide Efficient Experts
in Various Branches-state Univer-
sity Patronized Largely by Iowa
Students.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

Ames, Dec. 2.-The retention of
members Of the Institutional force at
the Iowa State college has during the
past two years been most serious. Dur
ing the biennial period ending June
80, last, more than forty professors
and instructors rendered their resigna-
tons to the board of trustees because
of additional compensation offered
elsewhere or because of greater oppor-
in other lines. In their biennial report
the trustees say:
",rhe question of salaries in an In
stitution such as this is perpleNing
one. While it is to be expected that
occur within a given period and transit
tons from one institution to another
which Iowa State college has suffered
within the last two or three years have
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NAL standard. The fact seems to be
that other institutions are in the habit
of looking to us for we'll trained men.
They are paying better salaries than
we do and we have been unable to
prevent the withdrawal from Iowa of
some Of her most valuable men be-
cause we could not advance a few
hundred dollars in salary"
The report of the trustees then cites
the loss OF Professor Bissell, who ac-
cepted a better position in Michigan;
of Professor Mckay, the head of the
dairy department, who went to Chit
cago, and DR.. Mcneil, who went to
the university at Columbus. 0. 1--WE
have lost" says the report, "three as
sociate professors from the division Of
engineering, and but for their attach
ment to the state and loyalty to the
institution we should have lost the
present dean Of the division Of engin-
eering and the present vice dean. We
have lost a large number Of our most
experienced and capable and efficient
assistant professors whom we could in
most cases have retained to the great
advantage Of the college with but a
comparative slight advance in salary"
The report Of the trustees further
cites the fact that during the past
few months every man in certain de-
partment of the college, with one pos
sible exception, received offers from
other colleges and from commercial
lines of work to take up work else
where at salaries ranging from $500
to 1000 in advance Of the salaries now
being paid.
The trustees further say: IF the col
lege is to maintain its standing and
prestige it must maintain its efficiency
and this can only be done by a much
more adequate provision for our teach
ing force. Among the sixty-six institu-
lions for higher learning in this coun-
try classified by the Trustees of the
Carnegie Foundation con the basis of
salaries paid their professors, Iowa
State college does not, appear in the
list, because the salaries paid are less
than in any of these sixty-six insti-
tutio6s. We do not believe that the
state of Iowa can afford or wishes to
lose it's men to other states no better
able to compensate for their services
than Iowa and needing them no more
than Iowa.
The management of the state college
keenly appreciates the situation, and
believes that it can only be met by
providing additional compensation. The
$4,000 asked for additional support