Columbia Raises Faculty Salaries With Ford Grant

Another Ivy League school yesterday announced its plans for allocating December's Ford Foundation grant. Columbia University stated that it will give its faculty a ten per cent salary increase.

Earlier, Yale had decided to spend its share of the grant to increase faculty salaries and enlarge retirement and insurance benefits.

At Harvard, meanwhile, the Committee on Compensation, headed by Dean Bundy, has recently reported to President Pusey. On the basis of its findings, Pusey will shortly make his recommendations to the Corporation concerning distribution of Harvard's $4.5 million grant.

In making the grants, the Foundation stipulated only that the money must be used to increase the salaries of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Under the Columbia plan, this means that teachers from full-time instructors to professors will receive the ten per cent increases. Some will also receive additional increments for merit.

According to Columbia President Grayson Kirk, the general increase will affect all teachers whose present incomes are less than $12,000 annually. The merit increases will apply to selected teachers in all academic grades.

But the increases are not all due to the Foundation's grant. Kirk announced that tuition fees will be raised $150 a year, beginning next September, to cover the additional expenses.