COMPASS To Research Wastewater The Civil Engineering Department has received a $9,000 research grant from the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, Illinois. The project, part of continuing involvement with the laboratory, will develop an engineering management decision-making matrix to identify alternative wastewater treatment strategies for U.S . Army installations. Stephen Shelton is principal investigator, with Suzanne McGivney and Fernando Silva as graduate and undergraduate research assistants. Dean Robert Grieves and Department Chairman Wayne Echelberger are also involved with the study. •
Five Become Translators Five students in May became the first to successfully complete a four-course Translation Program and to pass a special professionallevel cornp;tency examination in translation from English to Spanish. The translation program is one of very few in the United States, according to its director, Donna Mellen. She carne to UTEP in 1982 to develop both the program and the professional-level test for certification by the University. The program was developed in response to requests from area businesses for training of skilled translators. The successful students are Rosa Maria Boadella, Arnada Diaz de Leon , Herlinda Licon, Elena Navarro and Ernestina Potkar. •
Angelo State Joins UTEP Angelo State University and UT El Paso have established a "!1-2" program under which a student may earn a Bachelor of Science in Physics degree at ASU and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at UTEP upon completing a five year program. The first three years are spent at ASU as a physics major/mathematics minor. The last two are at UTEP where work in electrical engineering is completed. •
Two Former Officials, Professor Die Steele Jones, 59, former assistant to the president of UT El Paso, died suddenly May 6 at his horne in Las Cruces. Since 1972 he had been vice president for development at New Mexico State University. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, he received a Master's degree in history from UTEP. He was director of information services and was in charge of develop-
rnent while on the UTEP staff and was the originator of the Matrix Society. He was past president of the American College Public Relations Association. Survivors include his wife Rita, three sons and a daughter.
• Tomas Rivera, 48, chancellor of the University of California at
Hans Mark Named Chancellor Hans Mark, former deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and before that, Secretary of the Air Force, on September 1 became the sixth Chancellor of The University of Texas System. He succeeds E. Don Walker, the Chancellor since 1978, who resigned to become Executive Director of the Hermann Hospital Estate in Houston. At the time the Board of Regents announced his selection last May, Dr. Mark observed that he had never lived in Texas but had been a visitor many times during his service with the U.S. Air Force and in work related to NASA's
Johnson Space Center in Houston. "During these visits," he said, "I became aware of the many activities of The University of Texas and of its place among the great educational institutions in this country. I also became convinced that there is a clear potential that The University of Texas System can become the best public university system in the country during the corning decade." Dr. Mark was born in Mannheirn, Germany, on June 17, 1929. He carne to the United States with his parents in 1940 and became a naturalized citizen in 1945. He received his B.A. in physics from UC-Berkeley in 1951 and his Ph.D., also in physics, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. He chaired the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Berkeley from 1964-69 .•
Riverside and former executive vice president of UT El Paso, died May 16 in Fontana, California. Before corning to UTEP in 1978, he had been vice president of administration for UT San Antonio. He was an internationally renowned poet and in 1970-71 won the Quinto Sol Award for "The Earth Did Not Part." He served on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and President Carter's Commission for a National Agenda for the 80s. He is survived by his wife and three children.
Curtis E. Eklund, professor of biological sciences, died May 22 at his horne, the day before his 5!\rd birthday. A faculty member since 1966, he was the recipient of two faculty development awards and was principal investigator for the Minorities Biomedical Support Program. He was author or co-author of numerous laboratory manuals and was co-author of Microorganisms and Man. He was a member of the American Society for Microbiology and its Texas and New Mexico branches and of Beta Beta Beta. Burial was in Austin. He survived by his mother and a brother. •
Average Faculty Salaries In UT System Listed A study of faculty salaries in Texas public colleges and universities shows UT El Paso ranking fifth among the seven UT System academic components in the top three faculty ranks and fourth in the instructor level. The highest professor's salary in
the state, according to the study, is $126,000 at UT Austin. The lowest salary for a full professor is $18,846 at Texas A&M. UTEP lecturers, numbering 12 .57 FTE, averaged $10,195, compared to the statewide average of $18,129. Teaching
assistants, numbering 96.4!1, averaged $10,400 at UTEP, cornpared to the statewide average of $11,128. The statewide average for all in public universities ranks was $26,497; among public community colleges, it was $26,870. •
AVERAGE BUDGETED FACULTY SALARIES 1983-84 (nine months) FTE Faculty (1st 4 ranks) 624.52 1916.04 218.!12 447.04 68.06 278.00 111.79
UT Arlington UT Austin UT Dallas UT El Paso UT Permian Basin UT San Antonio UT Tyler Statewide average, public colleges, universities
Professor
Assoc. Prof
Asst. Prof.
Instr.
$!18,994 43,988 4!1,100 35,888 33,205 37,549 33,686
$29,996 !10,6!19 31,143 29,486 27,451 29,767 26,753
$24,109 26,15!1 24,984 23,786 23,821 23,541 22,540
$18,711 15,345 17,010 22,737 2!1,079 19 ,102
Average (1st 4 ranks) $!10,192 !1!1,711 !11,771 28,377 27,6!18 28,011 26,176
39,121
30,063
24,732
18,567
30,278
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