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Founded 1908 Wednesday
Volume 79, No. 38 University of South Carolina November 19, 1986
#USC grants
for research
up 54 percent
By MARY PEARSON
Senior reporter
Research grants have increased
^ from more than $13 million to
v $30 million dollars in 10 years,
according to figures provided by
USC's office of Sponsored Programs
and Research.
Taking into account the inflation
rate between 1976 and 1986,
the dollar increase is about 54
percent, with the greatest increase
, seen in the past five years.
[; The colleges and departments
ij with the top increases in the last j
, iu years inciuac me psycnoiogy
department with an increase of
W about $1.8 million, the biology
department with an increase of
$1.9 million, the college of math
and science with an $11 million
increase and the college of health
with $1.4 million.
Pete Denton, vice president of
business and finance, said the increases
were due to the quality of
faculty cnort. I he better the
faculty effort, the more research
grants that are going to be had."
Ronald Prinz, psychology pro
fessor, attributes the increases to
the high-quality faculty, the atmosphere
of encouragement
found within the department and
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bring in the grants.
"In 10 years we have added onHolderman
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From staff and wira reports
USC President James Holderman,
along with other state agency
heads, will receive a performance
raise averaging 5 percent
effective Dec. 1.
The increase, approved Tuesday
by the State Budget and Cona
trol Board, comes in addition to a
^ 3 percent general raise all state
employees received effective July
1.
The raises will be taken out of
existing agency budgets and will
not rpniiirf nHrlitinnnl annrnnria
tions, said Rep. Robert
j McLellan, D-Oconee, chairman
of board's Executive Salary and
i Performance Commission. The
commission recommended the increases
to the board.
All state boards and commissions
were asked for performance
^ appraisals of their agency heads,
with USC's board of trustees
! evaluating Holderman, according
to Jennet Robinson,
sDokeswoman for the Budget and
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By JENNIFER STEIB
Photography editor
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Kent Sidel, USC journalism
fessor, is teaching University 101 j
Bates House Area as part of the
Living/Learning Project at USC.
"Some kids literally roll out o
and come to class at two in the
noon," Sidel said.
The Living/Learning Project is
of an idea proposed by Student A
to help integrate new students
I university life.
Sidel said he is very optimistic ;
the project. "I wish 1 had somethin
this in my freshman year in colleg
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said Roger Sawyer,
chairman of the biology
department.
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Control Board.
The 5 percent figure is ai
average of all of the appraisals.
The agency-head increases thi
year are bigger than they will b
in the future, McLellan said
whose commission has beei
working on evaluating the posi
tions and their salary ranges fo
iwo years ana was unanimous 1
its recommendations.
In addition, agency head
whose salaries are below th
minimum range for their pos
tion, as recommended by an oui
side consulting firm, will be rai<
ed to the minimum, he said.
The consultant's report set th
salary ranges to mirror simile
positions in the private sectoi
"It tells what the cost would be t
bring someone into a position
vacated," Robinson said.
Board officials said salaries c
state agency heads are below the
counterparts outside the goveri
ment and have risen less tha
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freshmen are enrolled in I
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establish this to allow intimate c<
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Senior reporter pac
Although a rccent Carnegie study said many the
universities put too much emphasis on research and uni
professors' publications, many USC professors 10
argue that good researchers make better teachers. 4
Researchers who are at the top of their field are fed
not only extremely knowledgeable, according to fac
USC psychology department Chairman Lester Lef- me
ton, but they also know how to communicate that sai
knowledge to colleagues and students. 1
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and they convey that excitement in class, he said. Ed
Lcfton also said the money brought in on federal re.<
funds often purchases equipment to set up labs
where undergraduate and graduate students work tin
with professors to improve the quality of the rcl
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"Top flight institutions with top flight instruction
require top flight researchers who value scholarship be
and creative thinking," Lefton said. sh
Roger Sawyer, chairman of the biology depart- m<
ment, agreed. re
He said in addition to the grants the agencies also "<
provide overhead funds to the university for future m
research projects.
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the faculty in the biology department, he said. gr
USC faculty earn research grants by competing re
with other colleges such as Harvard, Duke and tli
UCLA, Lefton said.
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plete paper on the type of research and experiments ci
he will perform to prove his hypothesis. It
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le two dinners in the USC's School of Medicine gave
historical view of why there is pt
r good faculty tur- pressure in American society.
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airs. All 58 faculty year plan to get more interaction b
asked to attend one ween students and faculty, Pruitt sai
yes. "This kind of plan goes on more
eated about four or smaller colleges than large universities
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jnversation," 1'ruitt win make me university seem noi
big," includes providing students witl
acuity Dinner gives personal development adviser alo
ice to interact social- with an academic adviser.
and the faculty, out- "In the same way the academic i
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:>r the program. "No adviser will chart personal growth a
, or grading them, as development," Pruitt said.
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)ften these papers are lengthy, as mueh as 100
?es long. The grants are competitive, and often
professor competes with other instructors from
versities nationwide. In many cases, only one in
projects is funded, Lefton said.
'That we arc getting this kind of money from
leral agencies on commision bases attest to the
t that professors from the psychology departnt
are among the nation's very best," Lefton
d.
Don Greiner, a USC English professor, said,
1y teaching is stimulated by my research."
Greiner received the 1983 Amoco Foundation
vard for outstanding teaching and the 1984
lucational Foundation Award for outstanding
search.
"I try out my ideas in class. Students respond enusiastically.
They argue and debate my ideas. In
:urn their arguments make me re-think my ideas,"
eincr said.
Peter Becker, history associate professor, said
?th research and teaching were important and both
ould be rewarded equally.
"Clearly, the reputation of the university is prootcd
more by people who publish books and do
search than it is by those who just teach," he said.
Consequently, universities tend to reward research
ore than teaching."
Pete Denton, vice president of business and
lance, said the list of benefits brought by research
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sources to the school and national recognition for
e research funded by the grants.
"The recognition by funded agencies show that
SC is on the move," Denton said.
"It is a benefit to everyone," he said. "It does
eate new knowledge. It does benefit the economy,
does benefit the university."
il Holderman in
list of top 100
college leaders
By MARIA FRATUS
Assistant news editor
USC President James Holderman is one of
the 100 most effective college presidents in the
nation, according to a study conducted by
researchers at Bowling Green State University
in Ohio.
Researchers asked 485 presidents, scholars,
directors and other officials of higher education
associations to nominate five presidents
whom they judged to be the most effective,
according to Marilyn Draatz, a publicrelations
specialist with the college of education
at the university.
The president with the most nominations
was considered to be the most effective,
Braatz said.
The exact rankings of the presidents will
not be released, because they are confidential
information, said Co-director Martha Tack, a
K professor of educational administration and
supervision at the university.
Each of the 412 presidents nominated and
_ 412 who were not nominated were sent a questionnaire
about their background, work style.
I philosophy of education and leadership.
From the questionnaires the researchers
will determine what makes the most effective
presidents different from the others, Bratz
said. The results will be released in a book
of which will be published next fall.
a The characteristics that emerged show the
rer effective college president to be "a strong,
risk-taking loner with a dream," said James
/e- f isher, study co-director, in an article in the
et- Chronicle of Higher Education,
id. "A close analysis show ; that the effective
at president does believe in shared governance,
but he also knows that he is the final authori
ch ty," Fisher said.
so Tack said effective presidents realize they
1 a arc not running a popularity contest, but
ng work instead for people's respect.
"They're caught up in a vision of their intd
stitution, and they personalize their dream,"
ew Tack said.
nd Holderman was one of nine presidents
named in the "doctoral granting 1" category.
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