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Employment Proc USC Poli BY FRANK DELOACH First in a series The University of South Carolina .employs approximately 3000 people to assure the continuance of higher education in the classrooms of the main and regional cam puses. These people must be picked--some promoted, some fired. A great deal of rules and regulations govern this process. t THE EMPLOYMENT and E management of university E academic and administrative ( personnel resembles a typical c corporation according to Mr. M. D. j Tavenner, director of personnel e and institutional research. University employees are divided into two categories-- t classified and unclassified. g Classified personnel include ad ministrative staff who support the I academic structure of the c university. Administrative staff directly responsible to the ' president or holding a position d Exchange Program USC Studen BY CONNIE ERDMAN Each year USC participates in an exchange program with the University of Warwick in Coventry (Warwickshire) England. Under this program, six students from each university are selected to exchange places for one semester, during which time they may earn 15 credits of history. In England, the Carolina students study British and European History, while the English students take American History courses here. The program is now entering its eighth year, and Shou The E The Volu Needc Volunteers i State' Hospita for the re IT'SA ( Psycholog y or educ4 Midlands C< FRE) Bus leaves Russed State Hospital--Or in the I For more informa tic Volm? Sices :ies Resei !quivalent to vice president are inclassified. Any university mployee who teaches is un lassified also, Tavenner said. inally, athletic coaches are not lassified. All classified personnel are ubject to policies of the State ersonnel Board. According to teve Garris, director of special Projects, classified employees are ntitled to privileges similar to hose enjoyed by Civil Service mployees. Applicants are valuated according to the same riteria. People serving the same apacity, from secretaries and anitors to department directors Lre paid comparable. salaries. TAVENNER SAID unclassified ersonnel are employed according o more general, informal uidelines. According to the 'Faculty Manual", when a 'aculty position is vacant, the epartment head decides the ossible candidates for filling the acancy. He submits his list to the ean for consideration. If there is ts Swappec having received positive ap praisals from both English and Carolina participants, has been proclaimed a success. This op portunity is open only to History majors at this time. The USC students are selected on a personal and academic basis. A screening process is used to determine those applicants best suited to go. A committee of fiv professors and two students wh have previously participated in the program makes the final selection. Preference is given to rising juniors, but in the past some first semester seniors have been chosen. ld You Be ftate Hospi tary Action ( Your Help I ire needed to worn 1 and at the Midla: tarded this semest IREAT EXPERIENCI ttion majors who neec mter--Mon.-Thurs. 5:2 0 TRA NSPOR TA TIOP I House Parking Lot ientation, Mon., Feb. ~urns Bldg. conferenc< n, call John Elkins or iteer Services 777-27 nble Cor no department head, the dean is responsible for designating can didates.. Candidates' names with records are then submitted to the vice provost who then makes his recommendation to the provost and president. All decisions are subject to approval of the Board of Trustees. Each university president' can appoint high echelon ad ministrative administrators with the approval of the Board of Trustees, said Barry Rosen, assistant to the provost. Tavenner said, "I don't think you can clamp down the selection method for higher administrators. They come from all walks of life with different backgrounds. These jobs lend themselves more to promotions From outside the university )rganization." CURRENT UNCLASSIFIED ad ninistrators are Harold Brunton, ,ice president for business af airs; Charles Witten, vice )resident for student affairs; Paul iddler, assistant vice president 'To England Each USC participant pays the regular tuition and dormitory fee here, plus a small sum to cover laundry and health insurance which is used to take care of a student from Warwick. In return, each Carolina student will find his tuition and room fees provided at Warwick. Travel expenses will be the student's responsibility, but some funding will be provided to defray costs. Dr. Henry Lumpkin, selection committee chairman, said the deadline for applications this year is February 22. At ;al? at the Tids Center er. For a course project 0-8 p.m. at 5.30 p.m. 1, 2-4 p.m. room Ray Edwards )Orations for student affairs; C. Wallace Martin, vice president for development; Jane Knauss, in formation services director; Jack Cooper, computer services director and presidential assistants. Pay scales for classified per sonnel are established by the State Budget and Control Board (SBCB). Each position is given a grade or degree of difficulty. The grade of job and the time a employee has been working at that job determine within strict guidelines what the salary will be. Salaries of unclassified per sonnel are determined according to the qualifications of the in dividual. The president makes salary recommendations, but the SBCB has the final say. Rosen said,"You don't have to worry about excessive salaries. They (the SBCB) usually cut the proposed salaries down." Tavenner said, "There are many built-in safeguards limiting the salaries of unclassified personnel. These salaries are not made public because of the individual's right to keep his salary private. The SBCB and Commission on Higher Education are watchful of these salaries." PROMOTIONAL METHODS of classified and unclassified em ployees differ in many ways. According to "University of South Carolina Policies and Procedure", employees seeking a promotion or transfer must notify the personnel department by filling out appropriate forms. The university's "Dial-A-Job" service through telephone cassette recordings detail job vacanices, minimum qualifications, grade and starting salary for each vacancy location and interviewing hours of the personnel department and the procedures in requesting a transfer or promotion. Anyone who calls the service can receive this information. APPLICATIONS are evaiuated by the personnel department and the department with the vacancy. Candidates are notified of the acceptance or rejection of their ap plications. The promoted em ployee has six months probation to determine his ability to handle the job. According to university policy , an employee can be dismissed for insufficient work, negligence, absenteeism, tar diness, inefficiency, dishonesty, misconduct, fraudulence, legal offenses or other reasons not so described. Employees wishing to contest administrative employment decisions may carry complaints* through a grievance system even tually leaamng to the president or the State Grievance Committee. UNCLASSIFIED, academic per sonnel operate under the tenure system. According to university policy, once an in dividual is accepted on the faculty, he enters a probation period when he is judged according to the following criteria: teaching ef fectiveness; pertinent publications papers presented; relevant ex perience elsewhere; experience at USC; creativity or performance in the arts where applicable; work on university committees , student advisement, lecture presentations professional societies and Dublic service; and personal attributes Probation periods for assistant, associate and full professors can not last more than six years, Rosen said. At that time the teacher is James L. Gibbs Enthologist Visits USC A specialist in African ethnology will be at the University of South Carolina today as speaker for the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecture series. "Chiefs and Constituents" will be presented by Dr. James L. Gibbs Jr., dean of undergraduate studies and professor of an thropology at Stanford University. His talk will be at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of the Business Ad ministration building and is open to the public. The evening's program will also include a screening of the prize-winning documentary, "The Cows of Dolo Ken Paye: Resolving Conflict Among the Kpelle of Liberia," which Gibbs co-produced and co-directed. A question and answer period and a reception will follow the lecture. Gibbs edited "Peoples of Africa," a widely-used collection of African cultural profiles. He has produced educational television series on "The African Character" and "Faces of Africa." He is also a specialist in psychological an thropology and the anthropology of law. Gibbs has received the University of Minnesota's Distinguished Teacher Award and was a 1970 recipient of the Dan forth Foundation's Harbison Prize for Gifted Teachers. Gibbs, who holds his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University, is one of the scholars visiting 86 university campuses in the 1973-74 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program. The 18-year-old program enables undergraduates to meet and talk with established scholars in diverse disciplines. DialI-A -Job 21,507 calls -- that's the total received in the first six months of operation of the University of South Carolina's unique 24-hour telephone employment service, D)ial-A-Job. Since its initiation on July 1, 1973, Dial-A-Job has attracted almost i,000 applicants for classified positions at the University ranging from $2 an hour to $19,000 a year for trades, labor, clerical and ad ministrative jobs. Ap proximately one in three ap plicants is hired, including current University employees who are encouraged to use Dial A-Job to learn of advancement opportunities on campus through transfers and/6r promotions. Each Monday, the listings change, with seven to nine new positions listed on 777-6900, the clerical-administrative number and on 777-6000, trade-labor. D)ial-A-Job information includes minimum qualifications, grade, starting saar ando to -apl.