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Brewer, MSCD named in lawsuit over salaries Barry Tobin Assistant Editor
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Seventeen MSCD tenured faculty filed a class action lawsuit April 28 in Denver District Court listing MSCD President Thomas Brewer and MSCD as defendants in a breach of contract involving salary inequities. The Colorado Commission on Higher Education and the • Trustees of the State Colleges of Colorado were also listed as defendants. The suit alleges that defendants have "failed to enforce policies required hy the salary equity and parity provisions," contained in the Handbook for Professional Personnel, Metropolitan State College of Denver. The result is a twotiered salary structure where faculty hired after Sept. l, 1986, are paid more than faculty hired before that date, according to the suit. However, the State Attorney General's office May 18 filed a motion for dismissal. "They should have first exhausted the grievance procedure outlined in their handbook," said Paul Farley, deputy attorney general. "This is clearly a case of overkill." Sample salary comparisons at MSCD as of Oct. l, 1986, show a gap of $3,100-$9,000 between faculty hired before and after Sept. 1, 1986. In the School of Business, a professor with over 1Oyears seniority earns an average of $41 ,725, while an associate professor with less than two years seniority earns an average of$50,800. see BREWER page 3
Tuition by credit hour: A sign of changing times Rod Pfannenstiel Staff Writer Tuition and student fees will increase for full-time students and decrease for parttime students at all state instituions this fall, according to a May 11 report by the Trustee Finance Committee. A full time student carrying 11 credit hours will pay $580.25 for the fall semester while a student enrolled for 12 credit hours will pay $633. Tuition will increase by 3.2%
per credit hour up to 18 credit hours. Students taking 18 credits will pay $753 tuition versus $622 under the old system. This proposal "will somewhat level the playing field," said Ann Steinbeck, chairwoman of the committee. Under the current system, part-time students are subsidizing full-time students by paying proportionately higher fees for their education. Almost 50 percent of MSCD students are classified as part-time, according to the committee report. "We hope to attain equality for all stu-
dents," said Bruce Williams, MSCD Budget Office director. The Trustee Committee said it anticipates fewer students taking 14 or more credit hours . Additionall y, the current window structure that allows students to carry 10 to 18 credit hours at no additional charge, will change and require a $20 increase per credit hour. This will apply to students carrying 13 to 18 credit hours. The board of trustees reserves the right to evaluate the new system after one year, Steinbeck said.
Additionally, student fees and health insurance rates beginning in the fall will increase 5 percent for full-time students and 7 percent for part-time students, the report stated. MSCD is proposing a $40 increase in the health care plan to maintain current coverage. The report ranked MSCD as the lowest in student fee rates and eighth lowest in tuition of the 12 institutions of higher learning in 0 Colorado.
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