Tuesday,January 10, 2006 News 2 Dems grill Alito as confirmation hearings begin 'WEDDING CRASHERS' BUBBLES ON TO DVD ... ARTS, PAGE 5 Opinion 4 Sports 8 Rajiv Prabhakar on racism Venegoni: Young caps off terrific season One-hundredfifteen years ofedforzndfreedom www.mic/ngandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXVI, No. 51 62006 The Michigan Daily State restores last year's 'U' The Big Eight in University of Michigan salaries Robert Kelch Executive VP for Medical Affairs $637,777 t n~xUp $19,177 Last year's rank: 1 Faculty pay can't compete budget cuts with Ivies While University administrators welcome the reimbursement, they maintain it's not enough By Justin Miller Daily Staff Reporter The state will return $2.5 million it cut from the University last spring. Coupled with the $3.1 million it has already given back, the state now has restored the $5.6 million in cuts the state made in the middle of 2005. Despite the restoration, don't expect your tuition bill to shrink. Instead, the money will be used to finish reimbursing a rainy-day savings account the University used to bridge the shortfall created by the cut. The original state allocation to the University in 2005 was $320.6, but the state cut that amount to $315 million midyear. With the latest restoration, the University has in effect received the original $320.6-million allocation. The state plans to allocate $316.3 million dollars for 2006 - a decrease that University officials say led to the large 12.3 percent in-state and 6.9 per- cent out-of-state tutition increases. The University welcomed the res- toration, but maintains the state needs to put more money toward higher education. University spokeswoman Kelly Cuinningham said the University is pleased to receive the $2.5 million, but added that it's not enough. "The one lump restoration is not new money," she said in an e-mail. l ka tllreiair far below its previous coimiiment levels to higher "The state still remains far below its previous commitment levels to higher education funding" - Kelly Cunnigham, University spokeswoman education funding." The money will come from a $318 million unexpected windfall of tax revenue from 2005. It is still unclear whether more money in the state's coffers means a stop to higher education cuts. It is too soon to tell, said Greg Bird, spokesman for the State Budget Office. Bird called the surplus a one-titme shot of revenue due to unexpected gains in tax revenue last year. Bird said $120 million of the gen- eral fund's surplus will be used to pay for tax cuts passed by the Legislature. How the remaining money will be spent has not yet been determined, Bird said. More insight into the state's budget priorities will come next month when Gov. Jennifer Granholm presents her budget to the Legislature. Bird said the state would still have to be cautious on how it proceeds with the budget because of economic uncer- tainties like layoffs in the automotive -'sector and how much Michigan w.ill, receive from the next federal budget. Mary Sue Coleman v xUniversity President $501,458 ni t ..;,,. r Up $16,958 Last year's rank: 3 University faculty were given an average salary increase of 3.7 percent, the highest in four years By Michael Kan Daily News Editor ': '.'k. V, ,k,. .+n N r . 2k $f : x f xi} "+ O'j ? u$:fi$k . :£ {.;:'{. nf;M1s +. Allen Lichter Medical School Dean $402,022 Up $11,709 Last years rank: 5 Robert Dolan Dean, Business School $390,000 Up$41,006 Last year's rank: 7 Douglas Strong th Systems Interim Director $348,974 Up $13,422 Last year's rank: 9 li ::S ,t,: Bill Martin Athletic Director $346,080 Up $57,680 Last year's rank: 28 Harvard, Stanford, Yale - versity competes academically the best schools in the country But when the Universityc faculty salary increases, it con down to a bracket where publi competitors and faculty salari Medical School Prof. Charles "It's like driving a Merced of an economy car" said the Senate Advisory Committee o the executive arm of Unive nance. "If you don't look at the istrators, faculty salaries are i This year the University ga staff a modest salary increase state funding cuts. Universit aged a 3.7-percent increase in for the 2006 fiscal year. Tha highest in the past four years a likely outpace the 2005 inflat Administrators say the Un offering competitive salary in par with the country's best col according to Koopman, who s SACUA chair from 2002-200 all faculty salaries and ben- efits don't measure up with the top schools the Univer- sity compares itself to. According to the Ameri- can Association for Univer- sity Professors, in 2004-05 the highest paid full-time professors at the Univer- sity earned an average of $120,200. Faculty salaries at other public schools hovered near the same; for example, the highest paid professors at the University of Califor- nia at Los Angeles average $123,300. But salaries at private schools are in a league of their own. At Princeton University the highest paid full-time pro fessors earned $151,100, abou 25 percent higher than at th - whenever the Uni- y, it compares itself to y. competes at offering veniently brings itself c schools are the only ies are far lower, said Koopmann. es Benz ... at the cost former chair of the A list of the salaries of all the University's employees is available at michigandaly.com. University. With the quality of University faculty compa- rable to top private colleges like Harvard, Koop- mann said the University should be compensating its instructors with a salary equivalent to those schools. "We are going to compete academically with the elite private schools. But we are going to compete salary-wise with public schools. That's what I call cherry-picking," he said. 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