1999

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Miss. community colleges after .faculty salary boost

public schools, provide an annual one-step salary incre– ment and a m·e percent salary incre~e for all employees, Mu.,e.said The propo ed fiscal year 2001 budget b $50 million more than the fiscal vear 2000 budget • Other parts ofthe proposed budget include: • Mamtenance and upkeep of ~chool facilities, 15million ' • E.,tablishing 171 new poo:itions for technology staffinz $2 4 million • E~tablish a program to letcommunity andjuniorcol- 1~ asmt One-Stop Career center:s ~1 ?million • L<\CJ"C 15 requesting $20.2 million for adequate funding of full-time students and 11 2 million in adequate fundin~ for part-time voca– tional-technical funding. Enrollment nt the commu– rutyandJumorcoUeges f01 the fall199Sterm was 122,770.

BOONEVILLE - Educa– tors and adminb-trators ofthe state's 15 community and junior colleges say the most important part ofa 2001 bud– get request will be an increase in .,alarie:. for faculty mem– ben;. Clyde Muse, chairman of the .Missic;sippi Association of Community and Junior College:-; Legislative Commit– tee, said the $191.1 million 2001 proposed budget includes $15.1 million ear– marked for salary raises and increases. "The only way to provide qualit) teaching and learning is to ha,·e a quality faculty,., Muse satd lao::t week during a regional legislativemeeting at Itawamba Community Col– lege. T he $15.7 million :>alary increase will help keep com– munity and junior college salaries at a midpoint range between univero::ities and

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