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By The Associated Press
USC Interim President Arthur Smith said he would
revise salaries if he is selected as permanent
president.
"I do believe the next president should reorganize
the administration, change a number of titles, reporting
relationships and position descriptions," Smith
said. "I also believe that once that reorganization is
carried out, the next permanent president should invite
the state personnel division to carry out another
management review of position responsibilities and
salary ranges."
Smith discussed university salaries during a 20-minute
speech to about 250 faculty members Wednesday
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versity administrators, eliminate extra compensation
and be more judicious with salary supplements from
private sources.
Smith called earlier media reports about the salaries,
"university bashing" that "have propagated a variety
of misinformation and I believe this ... ought to
be exposed as such."
"I don't think he was referring to any specific report,"
spokesman Christopher Simpson said of
Smith's reference to misinformation. Simpson said
that Smith was discussing general reporting about administration
salaries.
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By CHRISTOPHER DAVIS
Staff Writer
As many as 300,000 college students might be denied
loans because of a $1.7 billion cut in the most
popular federal student loan program.
inis cut is a result ot tne tive-year federal deticit
reduction package passed by Congress in late October,
which has forced Congress to greatly reduce
expenditures.
The cut in loans will affect about 50,000 students
attending community colleges and four-year campuses
whose loan default rates are more than 35 percent.
The majority of students affected, however, will be
those attending technical and trade schools.
Students who rely on federal loans to attend USC
have little to worry about, according to Bob Godfrey,
the associate director of financial aid at USC.
"Our default rate is excellent," Godfrey said. "Because
our student loan default rate is very low, our
students should not be affected by the change in
policy."
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nistration, top assistants were able to earn between
$5,000 and $ 16,000 in extra pay through supplements
provided by university foundations. When Smith was
hired as provost in 1988, he was offered supplements
as an enticement to take a job he said paid less than
what he could have made as a professor at the State
University of New York.
"I have somewhat mixed emotions about salary
supplements, and I think we need that flexibility, and
our foundations can help us when that flexibility must
be called into play," he said.
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colleges, the state Commission on Higher Education
and a university-sponsored committee show the university's
administrative salaries are in line with what
other state institutions pay their executives.
On the other hand, Smith said salaries of most faculty
members are below national and regional
averages.
More than 300 faculty members have signed a petition
calling on the university's leadership to freeze
administrative salaries indefinitely until professors'
average pay increases to regional averages.
Smith said faculty salaries "should be augmented."
Smith said "the solution described in that petition
... is not the way to deal with those frustrations.
That solution is clearly not in the university's best interest.
In all honesty, I can neither support nor accept
this kind of prescription."
feet student loans
In addition to limiting federal loan funding to
schools with high loan default rates, Congress has taken
another step to keep people from using loans for
personal reasons. First-time borrowers will be required
to wait 30 days after classes have started before
they will be allowed to receive their student
loans.
"Too many people had taken loans out who
shouldn't have," Snead State Junior College aid officer
Betty Perry said.
Godfrey said the 30 day rule would have a greater
affect on USC students seeking loans than the loan
cuts.
Normally after USC students apply, the loan check
is sent to the school, and they can pay their fees if
they meet the deadline, Godfrey said.
"Now we won't be able to give them to students
until 30 days into classes," he said.
The new laws might affect some students in the
spring semester, but probably will not affect most students
until the fall of next school year, according to
Godfrey.
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cling awareness program for a future
date. "There is a need to publicize
the importance of recycling,"
Newman said. "Though we
have had very good response so
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legitimate press assignment.
The Senate meeting on Wednesday
and the Parking Committee
meeting on Thursday ended the
fall semester for the two groups.
They will not meet again until the
beginning of January.
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