Volume 122 · No. 57
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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Prior to a 3 percent pay raise in the 2014-15 school year and a 4 percent pay raise in the 201314 school year, faculty members didn’t receive a pay raise for five years, according to the Office of Budget and Planning.
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According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, most of the University’s Flagship 2020 peer institutions exceed the University’s average professor salary by roughly $5,000 to $10,000. Cope said between 2008 and 2014, the University’s faculty size decreased from 1,450 to 1,225, not taking into account faculty members who were replaced.
THE DAILY REVEILLE ARCHIVES
BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano Hopes for a mid-year faculty pay raise may be dimming as Louisiana’s Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne prepares to address the state’s remaining $315 million budget shortfall Friday. The raise would bring a much-needed boost to faculty morale, LSU Faculty
Senate President Kevin Cope said. Many faculty members feel betrayed that faculty compensation hasn’t kept pace with peer institutions, and a raise would show faculty the University is moving in the right direction, Cope said. LSU President F. King Alexander said a faculty raise is a high priority for University administration. Despite this, nothing is imminent until the budget situation is resolved, LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard said. A pay raise may be difficult to institute regardless of the University’s intentions.
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STUDENT LIFE
Construction begins for Kappa Sigma’s new house
Campus Life holds final event of semester, Painting on the Geaux
BY ALLISON BRUHL @albruhl__ Groundbreaking for Kappa Sigma’s new house began at a ceremony Oct. 21 on Dalrymple Drive. After a house inspection in August 2015, the house was deemed unsuitable to live in. The 1930s fraternal abode suffered from foundational and structural damage. Alumni leadership, concerned about the building’s condition and high repair and maintenance costs, formed the House Steering Commission in 2013 to create and carry out a long-term plan for a house on campus. “This will be the first in a new generation, hopefully, of
BY EVAN SAACKS @evansaacks
fraternity houses so we can at least be in the same ballgame as the sororities that have all these great houses along the way for decades,” said House Steering Commission member Roger Ogden. The new 22,000 square foot house will be large enough to house 52 men, with the project estimated to cost more than $7 million. The fraternity raised a total of $6.4 million as of November 2016. Ogden urges for more donations to be made from former Kappa Sigma members to complete their remaining goal of $500,000. Donations ranged from less
LSU Campus Life brought paint, paper and paintbrushes to Free Speech Alley on Tuesday to hold its final event of the semester — Painting on the Geaux. Campus Life is a studentrun organization that brings the student body together through events put on by their six suborganizations. The Student Activities Board sponsored Painting on the Geaux, where all students were welcome to show up and paint. Student Activities Board Adviser Shaquille Lowe said
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Students swipe into the SAB’s painting on the Geaux session on Tuesday at Free Speech Plaza, just in front of the Student Union.