The sun., 1919-07-20
YALE ALUMNI PLAN
TO PAY PROFESSORS
Salaries Of Teaching Staff Too
Low to Meet Living Prices,
Say Many.
COST TO BE 100000
University Stokers Get No
Raise, So Wages Will Not
Exceed Instructors,
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New HAvRS. Conn.,. July ia plan
whereby the Yale alumni may assume
next year tho payment OF the salaries
OF tho teaching SIAN OF the undergrad
uate departments Is under consideration,
according to . statement made to-day
by a graduate in discussing Yale's sal-
airy problem. II such 4 programme Is
adopted Ynla will be, as far as known,
tho hrs. ana only university In the
world where the graduate body pays
the bills OF the teachers OF It's alma
mater. in the event OF the Yale alumni
Association assuming this obligation Il
would mean that instead OF q quarter of
a million dollars being subscribed each
year, which was the high water mark
Before the war, II would be necessary
TO more :hxn quadruple this amount, for
considerably moro than n million dollars
will probably be required to pay Yales
teachers during 1890.
This salary question has been one OF
The problems that have been bothering Of
tcials and graduates alike ever since an
oftcial stated that the university had
refused to raise the wages OF its stokers
when they asked for an increase on the
ground that Yale could not be placed in
che position OF paying her firemen more
than she was paying some OF her in
structora Graduates from Maine to
California began to take notice and
queries began to pour into the treas
urers once inquiring what was the mat
ter with Yale that she was not paying
her faculty a living wage. One grad
uate even went so far as to send a
check on learning what member OF
the faculty had pledged In order to
make a certain addition to the univer-
sity's collections In the letter acorn
pany!ng the check the writer said Il
certainly do not know what the hell a
Moropus II, but II one OF our poorly
paid prots thinks It important enough
to put in one-tenth of his salary I
want to be in TO the extent Of $780,"
When several weeks ago Yale's recon-
struction plans began to be the subject
/ Of discussion one Of the first matters
that came up was the question Of ade-
ouate salaries for the teaching stan.
Salaries Prove inadequate.
Certain members Of the faculty. en-
\ courag ed b, the statement Of Treasurer
George Parmly Day that no change had
been made in the faculty salary scale
since 1910, come out boldly and showed
an increase of from so to 90 per cent in
1.-THE cost of living for the family OF the
leverage wage Garner In uno United
States since the outbreak Of the war In
July, 1914, and that salaried men. espe-
lcially those dependent on university sal
laries, were relatively worse of than the
Leverage wage Garner. Facts were
brought to the attention of the officials
showing that unless Yale boosted up her
salaries she was in grave danger OF not
ionlss losing her men. who would be forced
70 go to other places to- teach, but that
4 university trained men would not go
into teaching to starve on college pro-
4 fessor's salary.
The result is that during the coming
year at Yale instructors instead of re-
ceiying $1,000 as a start and hnaliy
struggling up to $500 will start in
with $3.50 the first year and with a
$3.50 a year increase will reach $4,000
/ the fourth year An assistant profess
aors first appointment will mean sal
AIRY OF Sa5O0 second appointment.
$4,000. and third appointment. $500.
The minimum salary to be paid TO a pro-
fessor at Yale will be $4,000 during
lola-l92O, and the increase in salaries
of some OF the professors now receiving
that amount will be taken up later.
Although exact figures are not as yet
available, 1t is estimated that in normal
years Yale pays out between ss2oooo
and $3.50 900 in salaries to her teach
ing staff. The increase OF 20 per
cent. which the corporation has au-
thorized In the salaries of instructors
and assistant professors together with q
probable increase OF perhaps 20 per
cent. to professors will bring faie''
salary budget up TO considerably more
than 100000.
The question that is now botherinf