Faculty helped plan the budge" MRS F~E:RI\J I E SVi I TH OFFICE QF SEC OF FAC EAST 'IJ!I\JG LIl3RARY 003 01(') By GENE RIETFORS Editor, Faculty News Faculty involvement in preparing the University's current budget was more extensive than ever before, even though indications of there are misunderstanding - even dissatisfaction - over 1970-71 faculty pay increases. The new budget, passed at last month's Board of Trustees meeting, faculty salary calls increase of 7.5 per cent - 7.8 per cent for teaching faculty and 5.9 per cent for administrative faculty. for an average A July 24 stat" ..• cnt by the MSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors said that "both the general public and the MSU faculty have been misled by statements issued by the Office of the Provost . . . to the effect that faculty salaries would be increased on the average of 7.8 per cent. the basis of an admittedly incomplete survey of colleges and departments, that many it appears departments and colleges are to receive increases averaging well below 7.8 per cent, and they have raised some doubts about the accuracy of the reported figure." "On AC meeting dates are set The year's 1970-71 first Academic Council meeting will be held on Oct. 6, according to the schedule Df academic meetings released recently. in All regular meetings are scheduled to begin at 3:15 p.m. the Con-Con Room of the International Center. Other Council meetings dates are Nov. 3 and Dec. 2 in 1970; and Jan. 12, Feb. 2, March 2, April 6, May 4 and June 1, all in 1971. Academic Senate meetings are scheduled for Nov. 18, 1970, in Fairchild Auditorium and May 19, 1971, in Anthony Auditorium. Both meetings will begin at 4 p.m. Meetings for the Faculty Steering Committee are scheduled as follows (all at 4 p.m. in Room 443~, Administration Building): Sept. 28, Oct. 26, Nov. 9 and 23, Jan. 4 and 25, Feb. 22, March 29, April 26, and May 10 and 24. of and Chapter President Sigmund Nosow, professor industrial labor relations, said the statement was based not on dissatisfaction with salary increase amounts, but on concern about confusion over the distribution of money within the system. He said that administrators could be put in untenable positions if they have no rationale for how the increases were distributed. trustees did increases for "We know that the administration and their best ,to get the equitable the faculty," Nosow added, "but we are concerned that people are not getting an accurate picture of how raises were distributed. " the AAUP Secretary Frank Blatt, professor and chairman of physics, said many persons had tied faculty salary increases to the student tuition hike - "a regrettable connection." He said that responsibility for higher tuition should be placed with the legislature and not at the doorstep offaculty. * * * PROVOST JOHN E. Cantlon, while information release declining detailing the distribution of raises, emphasized that this year's increases at MSU were the highest among Big Ten universities. to "We checked," he said, "and found that we're substantially above every other school." The only exception is Northwestern University (partially private), which does not share its salary information, Cantlon said. in He that said faculty some departments received above - average raises to offset some long - standing inequities. In addition, a number of faculty on 12-month appointments received disproportionate increases to - bring their salaries into line with those of some persons on 1O-month status. M§1U Faculty N[l)W§ Cantlon pointed out the legislature appropriated funds to MSU that (Continued on page 4) Vol. 1, No. 34 Aug. 11, 1970 Some offices will stay open 12 to 1 In an attempt to provide expanded several service beginning University offices will in operation during the lunch hour, from noon until 1 p.m. daily. remain this fall, A newly constructed information window in the lobby of the Student Services Building will handle questions relating to student affairs. The Office of Financial Aids will remain open, and the Counseling Center will provide some form of service through the lunch hour this fall. The Office of the Provost will telephone coverage of all maintain offices, and Room 443 in the Hannah Administration Building will remain open for messages and material drop-off. Building will be a point of information, referral and appointment - scheduling for the offices of the registrar, and admissions and scholarships. include: - in remain open. These * * * AS PREVIOUSLY announced, divisions the comptroller's office directly serving the public and students will Student fees and scholarship payments; student, faculty and staff identification cards; accounts staff uenefits; payroll; bookkeeping; and voucher audit. The cashier's division will remain open from 8:15 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. - The Research Contract Office and the Office of Vice President for Business are studying the possibility of remaining open. The Graduate Studies Office is open receivable; Room 250 in the Administration through the lunch hour. Creating an environment in chemistry Despite being tagged with such labels as "disadvantaged" and "marginal" a group of undergraduate's was able this year to bring its collective classroom work in MSU's regular introductory chemistry courses up to a satisfactory level. The chief reason is a new program caned T AC - Tutorial Assistance in Chemistry - which provided favorable outcomes not only for the students receiving help, but for their graduate tutors as well. Six graduate students provided tutoring for freshmen and sophomores whose total ranged from a high of 88 in the winter to a 56 in the spring. James B. Hamilton, assistant professor of chemistry, conceived and directed the program. Mrs. Barbara Gunnings joined TAC in January as program coordinator. About 80 per cent of the participants were either black or female. Few were chemistry majors, although most aspired toward careers science or in engineering. And nearly all had chemical life placement scores that classified them as "high-risk" students. Samplings of the group during fall and winter terms indicated that students were able to raise their grades after a term of T AC participation. * * * THE PROGRAM offered separate, expanded recitation sessions to help T AC students sharpen such skills as studying, note - taking and note - organizing and exam - taking. They met in groups of six with a tutor for two hours a week, sandWiching tlie Project TAC: Graduate student David Morris gives help for chemistry undergraduates - ··Experimental programs must feed ideas into the regular prognim." tutoring sessions among their regular chemistry courses. The program had no remedial it, Hamilton emphasizes. aspects to TAC was conducted during the day, Mrs. Gunnings says, because "that is when the students are here. We need to tutor them before they get back to their dormitories, since they would be less likely to come back at nights for this work." Computer outputs were posted weekly so that students could trace their standings in the regular courses. * * * JACK B. KINSINGER, professor and chairman of chemistry, points to a major strength of TAC: "We are n<.>t operating any special courses or courses that aren't up to full standards. We have a program that helps students reach the level of Our courses. And this program shows that they can do it, even though it may take them ,more than one term." The reason TAe is so important now, Hamilton points out, is that there are many students who, with some help and support, can make it in regular college courses. But without such help, he says: "we're consigning them to defeat." Many co-called "disadvantaged" students seem to opt for study in the social sciences, but Hamilton says that there is relevancy to chemistry, too. "If we can help produce three or four doctors, or. some nurses, or food technologists, then this program has paid for itself. , "These students have been turned off J~~uec:l9n page 2) MS~ ~aclllnr News, Aug.lI, 1970 To avoid discrimination F acuity women offer their ideas By BEVERLY TWITCHELL and AUDREY SHANE One reason for the difficulty in measuring the extent of discrimination against women faculty on this campus may be the fact that t~e women themselves offer varied definitions of discrimination. Some say they can cite concrete examples of !liscrimination; others say the problem is hard to pin down because it is attitudinal. Discrimination at the University is psychological, more in ideas and values than in practice, says Rose Hayden, instructor in romance languages and assistant to the director of the Latin American Studies Center. She describes the men here as more "cerebral than psycical," and she says critics here are "brilliantly sarcastic and can use verbal demoralization tactics." But Mrs. :' Hayden, like many of her female colleagues, places the resposibility for some discrimination squarely on the woman: "If you don't want to be treated as a woman, you have to become a person." . "Women are the quickest to censor me ," she said, "because I deviate from their norm. Women are their own worst enemies." But men are solicitous toward women, she said. "They don't believe separate means equal." She saysshe has not been patronized,"but then again, I'm pretty tough. "You always encounter people who do not take you seriously. But you can make a situation work for you. I am reacted to as a woman because I act like a woman, without using it." Women will not have legal and moral security until they can control their own biological fates, Mrs. Hayden said, and so she supports birth control and abortion reform. She calls for remOving the notion that a woman holding a job means that job is taken away from some man. But women must be as mobile and committed to a job as a man would be, she said. ' ' And she pOints out the. situationwheie a woman is considered-"pushy the . same situation is . considered and aggressive" while a man in "upcoming, promising." * * * IF DISCRlMINATION does exist on 'the campus, what should be done? Dorothy Arata, professor of human development and aSSoci~te~ dire.ctor . ~ o..f .t;h~. !:f~no~ ~o!lege, pomteq: out < what 'she Galled £he danger of~the 'violently opposed to women's liberation movement, because she is separatism" as a solution to the pro\:llem. DOROTHY ARATA RITAZEMACH She did suggest ''visibility and vocalness" for and by women - placing women in ' visible posts, not only because they are females, but also because they have competencies. The problemof socialization was addressed: Ellen Mickiewiq, associate professor of political science, said that individuals, boy or girl, ought to be allowed to develop all potential, and'Vera Borosage, associate professor of , family and child sciences, said an attitude of equality must be stressed in child - rearing. * * * IN TERMS of Michigan State, the women offered suggestions in three general categories: Solutions for the departments, for the classroom and for the University in general. Jane Smith, professor and director of advisement in Lyman Briggs College, said that being conspicuous is not suitable - women shouldn't make scenes, or force men into positions where they feel threatened or coerced. / 1 :'The greatest contribution 1 can make as a woman," said Mary G;udner, associate professor of journalism, "is to do a good job and have some impact on the generations coming out of here." Edna Rogers, instructor in social science, said that self - awareness is a way to make the system different. She suggested making the analogy in classrooms between the women's and the civil rights movements. In the departments, a systematic examination should reveal promotion practices and pay scales, Lou Alonso, associate professor of elementary and special education, said. ........................ PinaI in the·s~fi.es , ........ ~U ........ II. . taken on the socia(defmitions that have been handed down t6 ~e.' " .....,- . - . - - ~ . - . . . " To refuse the majority defmition (like "black is ugly," she said) is one of the larger weapons of minorities. "On college campuses we are touching only a small proportion of people," she said, "but the more we talk about it, the less willing women will be to accept the social defmition." * * * THERE WAS A suggestion for data collection by the University, asking where graduates.go ,in professional fields, how long they stay, how they are promoted (by sex?) Mrs. Alonso, said MSU should examine the rank of women faculty all across the University, utilizing the same kind of "crash program" as directed at evaluation of admission requirements for members of racial minorities. Rita Zemach, assistant professor of electrical engineering and systems science, said the University should have some way to "monitor the system," to keep' track of data, but to use more than data, to look into situations. The recently established Committee Against Discrimination (of which Mrs. Zemach is a member) be that body. Rose Hayden suggested that if the University wanted to remove one aid to discrimination, all application forms., whether for admissions, hiring, promotion, salary raises or tenure, should have no references to sex, either by designation, picture, or by first name. She suggested only the surname and social security number be used. Project TAC . . . (Continued from page 1) up to now. TAC is an attempt to turn them back on~" He describes the program as an attempt to create a new environment for the participants. "So far," Hamilton says, "It has has a positive impact on these students. It has made them aware of chemistry, and they now view it differently." * * * T AC has turned on the tutors, too. involve graduate to "We're able students who wouldn't otherwise have a these kids," chance Kinsinger says. "Many of them will go on this to become experience will have been most helpful." to work with teachers, and it will be department and anticipated assistance from the ' Office of Equal Opportunity Programs. And further enhanced with the remodeling of two rooms the Chemistry Building reserved for TAC, a small library of paperback texts, and the acquisition of some projectors and single - concept films. in Additionally work in the program will be regular chemistry (esponsibilities, insuring more and closer faculty contact with TAC students. incorporated teaching into "The challenge in an experimental program is what you do with it," Hamilton says. "It must feed ideas and innovations into existing programs. It is no good if the ideas it creates remain only within the experimental program." "The boys may get upset," she said, "but it makes girls aware, and that is sort of upsetting. Girls are saying, 'I never realized how much I have The program resumes this fall, with the chemistry from continued help U-College group awaits ruling By DEBORAH KRELL Interim Associate Editor Within the debate of whether or not to organize the MSU faculty lies another question: How? As faculty across the campus weigh the advantages of organizing or not organizing, some who favor collective the negotiations have advanced reality of choosing a bargaining unit. to Among the pro - bargaining faculty, the "how to" question seems, at this point, to have two answers: Organize the whole faculty, regardless of field, or divide up into natural groupings, such as colleges. Mary Tomkins, associate professor of American Thought and Language and president of the University College chapter of the Michigan Association for Higher Education (MAHE) , said she believes the University College is ' an appropriate bargaining unit, and MAHE its agent. The decision of whether to recognize the chapter as an appropriate bargaining unit for University College faculty is to be made before this fall by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC). * * * MRS. TOMKINS, silky - voiced with short - cropped hair and tomboyish exhuberance, spoke of when the Idea of organizing the - University ,College faculty got rolling. "Last year, there were five or six meetings of people who were interested in a union," she said. "It was mostly the lower - paid faculty, from the liberal and fme arts. . "Then, it, kind -of h!mped along i..: it FacultY bargaining, page'4 was kind of footless, really," she continued. Marvin Solomon, professor of natural science, put out a questionnaire to the faculty of the University College - "It was a last attempt to see if there were really any interest in a union," Mrs. Tomkins said. And, to her astonishment; she said, (NEA) "The returns were very. favorable quite a few came back." * * * IN FEBRUARY, University College faculty interested in organizing met to explore the possibilities and talked to people from the Michig~ Education its Association . MAHE affiliate. ,"After a couple of meetings, we put out cards asking for authorization to represent the University College faculty for collective bargaining purposes. The cards didn't commit anyone to the MEA it was just a call for interest ~ having - University College organized into a union," Mrs. Tomkins said. representing In order to be recognized by the MERC as a possible bargaining agent for the UniverSity College, MAHE had to seCllfe - and did get - signatures from 30 per cent of the University College faculty. MAHE then submitted a petition for an election to MERC, and an election M§llJ Faculty New§ . Editor: Gene Rietfors Inteiiffi Associate Editor: Deborah Krell Editorial Office: 296-G Hannah Administration Building, Michigan State University, East L.nsing 48823, Phone 355-2285. Published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Information Services. Second-class postage paid at East Lansing, Mich. 48823. Mary Tomkins,: "Times do change." . . - Photo by William Mitcham judge certified the accumulated facuIty signatures in early May. * * * ON MAY 27, MERC held a hearing on the issue and, Mrs. Tomkins said, "The AAUP showed up. They had gotten signatures from 10 per cent of the faculty and that qualified them to be there as an intervenor. . "Soine people must have Signed two theirs and ours - which just cards - they want a union," Mrs. means Tomkins said. "Now the whole thing is in the hands of the commission (MERC)," she said. "I think it's a toss-up (on whether MERC decides the University College is an appropriated bargaining unit) - the decision has never had to be made before. "In the event they (MERC) do decide in our favor, then the AAUP will be included in the election to decide who will be the bargaining agent for the University College," Mrs. Tomkins added. Although she said she really doesn't the union care who wins the election - is what is important - Mary Tomkins hada few words for the AAUP. . _ "lkfore- the AAUP came . along_ in . 1915., the faculty had nO o~ga,nization to represent it and they had to take what they got - the faculty had little to say except in class and even then they could-be -bounced,'" ~he said. in "But," she added, qualifying, "times do . change. Now the- faculty needs an organiza1jon considerably tougher than the AAUP this age of mass education." said considers higher education faculty to be parasitic: "What th~ Ja_cuJty~oes get is based on the uniOri : ·QargirinUig of secondary and elementary school teachers."· She she And she issued a challenge: "How much self - determination does a group have which cannot even have a voice in its own salaries?" She said the AAUP "has done fIne but "it's being forced to work" - change, or why would they have collected those signatures to qualify as an the University for College?" intervenor 32 elected to Council Thirty - two newly elected members will assume office when the Academic Council opens its 1970-71 session on Oct. 6. The newly elected members include ("R" denotes re-elected): Agriculture and natural resources - James T. Bonnen (R), agricultural economics, David R Dilley, horticulture; Robert K. Ringer, poultry science. Arts and Letters - Thomas H. Falk, German and Russian; PaulO. Harder, music; Sadayoshi Omoto (R), art; Frederick D. Williams, history. Business - Thomas L. Wen ck, accounting and financial administration. Communication arts - Gerald R. Miller (R), communication. Education - W. Henry Kennedy (R), teacher education; Andrew C. Porter, co u n seling, personnel services and educational psychology; Wayne D. Van Huss, health, physical education and Leo V. recreation. Engineering Nothstine (R), civil engineering. Human ecology - Dena C. Cederquist, foods and nutrition. Others newly elected to the Council are: Human medicine - Leif G. Suhrland (R), medicine. James Madison College - Chitra M. Smith (R). Justin Morrill - Paul M. Hurrell. Lyman Briggs - Steven T. Spees Jr. (R). Natural science - James Bath, entomology; Henry G. Blosser, physics; James H. Fisher, geology; Non - college faculty - Jack Breslin (R), executive vice president; Melvin C. Buschman (R), continuing education; Gwendolyn Norrell, Counseling Center. Social science - Gordon J. Aldridge, social work; Alan P. Grimes, political science. University College - Albert E. Levak, social science; Robert L. Wright (R), American Thought and Language. Veterinary medicine - Glenn R. Waxler (R), large animal surgery and medicine. Steering Committee - Thomas H. Greer (R), humanities; Gordon E. Guyer, entomology; Dozier Thornton, psychology . MSU Faculty News, Aug. 11, 1970 Tuesday; Aug. 11 7;30 p.m. (FM) BOOl),BEAT. With LeQnard Slater, author of "The-Ptedge." 8:30 p.m. (FM) BOSTON SYMPHONY. Wednesday, Aug. 12 11 a.m. (AM) BOOKBEAT. With Arthur B. Lewis, author of "Carnival." 1 p.m. Population," Bernard Berelson. 8 p.m. (FM) BBC THEATRE. "The Knight of the Burning Pestle." (AM) LECTURE. "Problems of Friday, Aug. 14 a.m. (AM) CONVERSATIONS AT 10:30 a.m. (FM) THE GOON SHOW. 11 CHICAGO. The Middle East. 1 p.m. (AM) LECTURE. First of five weekly programs from Wake Forest U. Family and Child Development Symposwm. Saturday, Aug. 15 1 p.m. (AM) URBAN CONFRONTATION. Jimmy Breslin. 2 p.m. (FM) OPERA. "Bartered Bride." 7 p.m. (FM) LISTENER'S CHOICE. Sunday, Aug. 16 (AM-FM) 2 p.m. ORCHESTRA. 9 p.m. (FM) CONVERSATION. With pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy. CLEVELAND Monday, Aug. 17 1 p.m. (AM) LECTURE. George Will, "A Republican from Washington Taiks·Back.': 8 p.m. (FM) OPERA. "Ariadne auf Naxos." 10:30 p.m. (FM) MUSIC OF TODAY. Virgil Thompson. Tuesday, Aug. 18 8:30 p.m. BOSTON SYMPHONY. Wednesday, Aug. 19 11 a.m. (AM) BOOKBEAT. James Dickey, author of "Deliverance." 8 p.m. (FM) BBC THEATRE. "Ross." Th ursday , Aug. 10 11 a.m. (AM) SPECIAL. The American Flag. 1 p.m(AM) LECTURE. Paul Goodman on powerlessness. Friday, Aug. 21 10:30 a.m. (AM) GOON SHOW. 1 p.m. (AM) LECTURE. "The Community's Stake in the Child." Saturday, Aug. 22 1 p.m. (AM) URBAN CON,FRONTATION. SJ. Hayakawa. ·2 p.m. (FM) OPERA. "Samson and Delilah." Sunday. Aug; 23 (AM-FM) 2 p·.m. ORCHESTRA. 4 p.m. (AM-FM) FROM THE MIDWAY. "Americanizing the Indian." 7 p.m. (FM) SPECIAL "Organizing the Poor and Oppressed." Saul AlinskY. CLEVELAND Tuesday, Aug. 11 p.m. SILENT HERITAGE: Tl1E 7 AMERICAN INDIAN. The uncertain future of tl}e American ~Ddian. . Thursday, Aug. 13 7 p.m. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. WMSB on location. Friday, Aug. 14 12 noon BLACK JOURNAL. The black athlete. 1 p.m. CONVERSATIONS. Sir Roland Penrose, friend of Picasso. 7 p.m. ON BEING BLACK. "Liberty," a drama focusing on penal life. Saturday, Aug. 15 12:30 p.m. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? A variety - talk show produced by teens. ' ., Sunday, Aug. 16 11 a.m. EVENING AT POPS. American soprano Veronica Tyler. 1 p.m. THE FORSYTE SAGA. 2: 30 p.m. CHICAGOFESTIV AL. Red Garter Banjo Band. 3 p.m. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY. Jonas Salk. 3:30 p.m. NET FESTIVAL. Indian culture and life, Bomtl'ay to Calcutta. 4:30 p.m N~T JOURNAL. Hiroshina Nagasaki bombings. 10 p.m. EVENING AT POPS. Guitarist Chet Atkins. I1 p.m. NET PLAYHOUSE. Sir John Gielgud stars, "The Mayfly and the Frog." Tuesday, Aug. 18 p.m. THE I p.m. PORTRAIT IN ... Filmmaking. 7 McConneU, MSU art department. Wednesday, Aug. 19 SURREALISTS. James 12 noon THE FORSYTE SAGA. Repeat. 1 p.m. MAGGIE AND THE BEAUTIFUL MACHINE. 7 p.m. RECITAL HALL. Violinist Jerrie Lucktenberg harpsichordist Goerge Lucktenberg. and - Thursday, Aug. 20 12:30 p.m. MAN IN THE MIDDLE. 7 p.m. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. Sunday, Aug. 23 11 8.m. EVENING AT POPS. Guitarist Chet Atkins. 1 p.m. THE FORSYTE SAGA. 2 p.m. A CONCERT AT THE VINEYARD. The Beaux - Arts String Quartet. 3:30 p.m. NET FESTIVAL. A documentary on Islam. 4:30 p.m. NET JOURNAL. Former Vice President Humphrey and Asian experts explore China's role in the '70s. 10 p.m. EVENING AT POPS. Gershon Kingsley and his musical computers. I1 Wittering & Zigo." p.m. NET PLAYHOUSE. "Unman, 7 p.m. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Monday. Aug. 24 MSU Faculty News, Aug. 11, ~970 Faculty helped • • • (Continued from page 1) salary increase, and this year based on about a 5 per cent faculty that additional funds had to be squeezed from other areas of the University's budget to bring the average figure up to its present level. * * * THE ACTING chairman of the University Faculty Affairs Committee, Donald K. Anderson, (professor of chemical engineering), said that his group spent nearly a year drawing up proposals for faculty compensation and to working with the administration modify those proposals. Initially, the faculty affairs committee proposed an increase of about 20 per cent to cover the rising cost of living, to bring MSU salaries up in Big Ten comparisons, to reward merit and to increase fringe benefits. labor and This figure was later lowered to 14 per cent, according to Thomas H. Patten, professor of industrial relations, and chairman of the F AC's subcommittee on compensation. learned that a 1970-71 faculty salary increase of only 5 per cent was possible, the F AC met with the June Administrative Group to reaffirm that higher increases were necessary. its contention When in it Faculty affairs committee spokesmen also wrote to Board Chairman Don Stevens, urging acceptance of 14 per cent increases and warning that raises in the 5 to 6 per cent area would be insufficient. ANDERSON dismisses some of the concern over this year's salary increases. He said it would be "naive to think that an average raise is an across -the-board raise." He said he could understand the administration's reasoning in dispensing increases this year. "They had to erase some serious inequities in some colleges, and as a result more colleges were probably below the average than were above it." the F AC aware The fact that the University was able to bring the faculty increases up to 7.5 per cent, over the rumored 5 per cent figure, made that someone was trying, Anderson added. Both he and Patten said that problems still exist with faculty salaries. Anderson said that full professors are worse off than assistant professors in comparision with Big Ten salary averages. And he expressed hope that next year's budget would have funds to provide merit raises signif,icantly above the costof living rise. Patten acknowledged unprecedented faculty this year's budget process, but he said the most important consideration is the result. involvement in "We had hoped for more than we got this year," he said, "and we hope to do better next year. If we're going to provide some merit increases in the future, beyond 10 per cent, for instance, we'll have to look for more money from the legislature or from student fees." • Business is good Traffic has been brisk to the swimming pool at the new Faculty Club, with a daily average of about 400 persons using the pool since its opening last month. The pool is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily except Monday. Faculty Club information is available from Howard Zindel, professor and membership chairman of poultry science. Photo by Bob Smith F acuIty bargaining: Some see it corning Apparent confusion surrounding some aspects of the 1970-71 salary increases, plus growing concerns over public support for higher education, may be creating a climate favorable for renewed efforts to establish collective bargaining among MSU faculty. That is the view of some observers here ,who point to several indications of increased faculty interest in organizing. One event many are awaiting is a ruling by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission on a petition from a facuIty group in the University College. The University College group is a chapter of the Michigan Association for Higher Education (MAHE), seeking "appropriate designation as bargaining unit" the college's faculty. an for If that ruling, expected later this month, is favorable, then MAHE will seek to organize other units of the University and combine them into a campus - wide organization, according to Charles L. Belknap, higher education consultant for the Michigan Education Association (of which MAHE is a depaI:tment). University officials are concerned if the commission's ruling is in favor of the MAHE chapter, then it could conceivably open the door to separate bargaining units for every college on the campus. that * * * COMPLICATING THE organizational picture here is the existence of two MAHE afflliates: The 10-member chapter in the University College and an MSU district, which is the original MARE group on the campus and which oorrently claims about 30 members. formal group, the lhofessors' Organizing Committee, has indicated in collective bargaining. The American Association of University Professors so far has sought means other than bargaining to involve faculty in budgetary matters. Another, interest less PHer G. Haines, professor of secondary education and curriculum, and president of MSU's MAHE district, says his group will conduct a membership drive this fall to try and involve more faculty in determining whether collective bargaining is desirable. Haines said he doesn't minimize the importance of salary and benefits to faculty, but he adds: "I hope all of us will see our unit as a vehicle to the improvement of education here, and across the state and nation." Haines wrote to Board of Trustees Chairman Don Stevens last month, underscoring his group's concern that faculty salaries be increased significantly to retention of promising teachers and to restore lost morale and confidence among the faculty. insure * * * MAHE ALREADY represents faculty - " faculty at at Central Michigan University and is trying to organize faculty at Eastern Michigan University. (Elsewhere, the City University of New Yo"rk faculty is affiliated with the National Education Association and the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, has been organized by .the Teamsters.) Belknap said he is disturbed about this year's "treatment of higher education in the legislature." In a recent meeting with MAHE district officers, he suggested that faculty will need to get together to make their voices heard by lawmakers. He reported that membershp in MAHE has grown from a low of 976 four years ago to more than 1,400 this year, and _has become the agent for Central Michigan and for 15 Michigan community colleges. will represent MSU faculty within a few years. * * * EINAR HARDIN, professor of labor and industrial relations who did a salary study earlier this year for the AAUP, admits hearing more talk of collective bargaining, but he says he has mixed feelings toward it. He pointed out that the faculty have in had substantial participation University decision making, participation they might not retain if, for example, the AAUP were to become an agent for b~rgaining. "Faculty are involved in the types of decisions here that do not involve unions in private industry," he said. "I cannot classify myself among those who want collective bargaining." He predicts that some organization - GENE RIETFORS ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • ~ • ! · Faculty honors, projects i • : : DAVID BELL, assistant professor of is a coeditor of political science, the American "Nationalism Revolution: in Politics and Government," published by Houghton Mifflin. Other editors are Karl Deutsch and Seymour Lipset. and Issues HERBERT BERGMAN, associate professor of American Thought and Language, has received a research grant from the Center for Editions of funds are American Authors. The provided by the National Endowment the Humanities, National for Foundation . on the Humanities. the Arts and M. RAY DENNY and STANLEY C. RA TNER, both professors of " psychology, are coauthors of a revised edition of "Comparative Psychology: Research in Animal Behavior" (The Dorsey Press, 1970). A companion work, "Study Guide and Method Manual for Comparative Psychology," is by Ratner and RALPH L. LEVINE, assistant professor of psychology. is ALAN W. FISHER, assistant professor of history, the author of "The Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1772 - 1783," published in April by the Cambridge University Press. LAWRENCE J. GIACOLETTO, professor of electrical engineering, has written "Differential Amplifiers." It was published in April by Wiley - Interscience, a division of John Wiley & Sons. the book, JOHN T. GULLAHORN, professor in sociology and in the Computer Institute for Social Science Research, is president - elect of the Midwestern SOCiety of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. His wife, JEANNE E. GULLAHORN, associate professor of psychology, is secretary - treasurer. TIMOTHY HENNESSEY. assistant professor of political science, is one of 20 faculty members in the U.S. selected for a Ford Foundation Research Fellowship. It provides a leave of absence for 1970-71. ARMAND L. HUNTER, director and professor of continuing education, is the new secretary of the National University Extension Association. He was elected at the group's annual meeting.