The QC, Vol. 83, No. 03 • September 19, 1996

              WHITTIER
^""^ ^~*^ September 19,1996
Quaker Campus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff/QC Photo Editor
► Poets open
with a loss
Sophomore quarterback Russ Bumgarner
threw for 183 yards, one
TD and one interception
in Saturdays season opening 35-17 loss to Red-
lands.
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Elections for positions
on Freshman Class Council a? .Jam-
pus Representative will be
held next Wednesday and
Thursday, Sept. 25 and 26
from 11:00a.m. until 2:00
p.m. in the Mailroom.
Select Departments, Facilities Benefit
from One Million Dollar Allotment
FOLLOW-UP
► The largest sums of one
million alloted dollars went
towardfaculty salary increases,
improvements for the
Wardman library and to the
creation of six new assistant
professor positions. A smaller
portion was used for
administrative purposes.
by PARUL PATEL
QC Asst. News Editor
Last year, the Dean of Faculty approved the distribution of
one million dollars from the College's operating budget into academic programs. Many departments have benefited as a result.
More than half a million dollars, $557,520, was specifically
made available for the 100 members ofthe Whittier faculty. "The
Professional Interest Committee,
P.I.C., recommended faculty get
a ten percent raise across the
board. In general, we tried to
follow that," Richard Millman,
Dean of Faculty said.
This is the largest percentage
increase for faculty in recent
years. In 1994, faculty received
a three percent salary increase
and none in 1993 and 1995.
However, members of administration agree that the present
increases in general are not
enough for many departments.
". ..I believe there were at least
two very significant, maybe even
double digit increases. It's the
relatively new faculty members,
the ones that have been here for
two to four years and therefore
missed those two large increases,
who had increases of zero, three,
and zero percent in 94-96 whose
earning power was weakened by
inflation over the same period,"
Jonathan Meer, Executive Assistant to the President said.
Meer added, "The executive
staff forfeited a three percent (salary) increase to help make the one
million dollars possible. They
were also under a salary freeze
last year. [It has been] now two
years that the top executives have
gone without salary increases. I
think that's a pretty damn noble
[thing to do]."
The Wardman library benefited by receiving $160,000 of
the million dollar sum. The money will be used for various future
improvements.
Of that amount, $ 100,000 will
go toward acquiring more library
materials, $50,000 will be used to
pay a Computer Systems Manager and $10,000 will be directed
toward obtaining new computers.
Phillip O' Brien, the College
Librarian, commented on the expense of maintaining periodicals.
"The cost of periodicals increas-
Where Did The Money Go?
PROFESSIONAL INTEREST FOOL
$525,000   10% Faculty Salary Raise
20,000  Faculty Research and pevelopment
12,520  Professional Colloquia and Training
EDUCATIONAL POLICIES
COMMITTEE
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$282,480   Six Tenure-Track Positions
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
COMMITTEE
$$$$$
$50,000 Computing Systems Manager
50,000 Library Aquisitions
30,000 Periodicals
20,000 Electronic Materials
10,000 New Computers
$1,000,000
es an average of 18 percent a
year" said O' Brien, and he estimated that $30,000 will be used
to augment this area. O' Brien
also added that, "...$20,000 will
go into electronic materials in
two areas...a database called
Search Bank...and buying one
time electronic data."
Anne Dahney/QC' Manuring Editor
The Educational Policies
Committee, E.P.C., recommended, and Millman approved, the
dispersal of $282,480 into the creation of six assistant professorpo-
sitions. "They are earmarked for
Biology, Religious Studies, Soci-
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Please see MILLION, pg^6
Whittier Drops to Fourth Tier in Annual Report
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COLLEGE IN
THE NEWS
► Whittier ranks in the fourth
tier of the U.S. News rating,
despite improved ratings in
several of the categories.
Administrators emphasize
internal improvement for the
good ofthe institution.
by MIKE GARABEDIAN
QC Business Manager
After two years of being
ranked in the third tier of National Liberal Arts Colleges, Whittier College slipped into the fourJh
tier in "America's Best Colleges
1997 Annual Guide" as rated by
U.S. News and World Report in
an issue released Monday, Sept.
16.
This places Whittier between.
120 and 160 out of 160 schools in
the category.
Despite the lower position, a
comparison with last year's ranking reveals no considerable dif
ference, and in fact, the College
has improved in several categories. This fact, according to Executive Assistant to the President
Jonathan Meer and Dean of Students Susan Allen, makes the rank-
tention, value added, and alumni
giving.
Whittier improved in the areas of acceptance rates (70 percent lastyear, 66 percentthisyear),
graduation rate (51 percent last
Where Whittier College Ranks
SAT/ACT    Freshmen                  Education
25th -75th      in top       Accep-    expend,
pereen-       10% of       tance         per       rete.r'cr
tile         HS class      rate       student
Graduation
rate
Alumni
giving
Academic
reputation
September 11,1995 (third tier)
810-1080        31%          70%     $13,135        78'
51%
26%
90
September 16, 1996 (fourth tier?
930-1160         24%          66%     $12,732         76%
58%
27%
91
Sourest U.S. News and World Report
ing process suspect.
"The indication is that maybe
U.S. News and World Report is
batty," Meer said. "We've improved in nearly every category,
yet we've moved downward."
The rankings within each category are based on six weighted
factors: selectivity, faculty resources, financial resources, re-
Mike Garabedian/QC Business Manager
year, 58 percent this year) and
alumni giving rate ("the two-year
average percent of a school's
alumni who contributed to its
1994 and/or 1995 fund drive"),
which rose one percent from 26
to 27.
Whittier's academic reputation, determined by a survey of
2,730 "college presidents, deans
and admissions directors," remained the same, from 90 out of
161 last year to this year's 90 out
of 160.
Meerpoints out, however, that
Whittier's academic reputation is
rated the highest in the fourth tiex
and higher than half of those
schools listed in the third tier.
As was the case last year, the
percent value for retention remained high at 20 percent, and
this is a category in which, according to an article from the September 14, 1995 issue ofthe QC,
"Whittier has traditionally had a
low score."
The figure is based "on the
average percent of students in a
school's 1986-to-1989 freshmen
classes who graduated from that
school within six years and the
average percent of freshman entering in 1991 to 1994 who returned in the following fall."
Whittier's freshman retention
rate dropped from 78 percent last
Please see RANK, pg. 5
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