Not all four state-related universities are eager to comply with Gov. Robert P. Casey's request for support of state House Bill 1075 and disclosure of fiscal information, including faculty salaries.

Bill 1075 would enact "right-to-know" laws and force Penn State and the other state-related universities -- Lincoln University, Temple University and Pitt -- to disclose detailed fiscal information, including individual employee salaries.

"Our policy has been for individual salaries to be kept confidential," said Dennis McManus, director of Commonwealth Relations for the University of Pittsburgh.

In a March 12 letter, Casey asked administrators at the state's public universities to open their fiscal records, which includes disclosing faculty salaries. The letter also specified that benefits, travel expenses and other personal costs, faculty sabbatical cost, tuition waiver and remission policies and equipment and service acquisition costs should be publicly accessible.

Pitt makes almost all fiscal information available, including salaries of the chancellor, vice chancellor, secretary of the board of trustees and the top five paid employees, McManus said.

Pitt does not make any other individual salaries public, McManus said, citing historical precedence as a reason.

The eight available salaries must be obtained through the controller's office, he added.

But unlike Pitt, Penn State doesn't make any individual salaries available. However, President Joab Thomas did release his salary of $200,000 to the public last summer.

Thomas said he will send all the requested information in some form to Casey, including salary information. He said he is unsure when the information will be sent.

Penn State officials have said they will support a reformed bill, including such provisions as keeping salaries private. Total disclosure would cost the University thousands of dollars, Thomas said.

"We'd rather spend that money on educational business," he said.

McManus said Pitt officials support the bill if exceptions are added to ensure privacy of social security numbers, private donors and individual salaries.

Pitt officials also plan to respond, McManus said, but added that he didn't know what that response would include because the process is ongoing.

Eli Shorak, financial analyst in the Pitt budget office, said they are still trying to decide how to reply because of the vague wording of Casey's letter.

"The letter's a little confusing to us," Shorak said.

Temple University has already responded to Casey, said George Ingram, director of the news bureau at Temple University, but refused to say what the response included.

"We agree with the governor that every dollar of public funds should be fully accountable by any university that receives state funding," said Temple President Peter J. Liacouras in a written statement released March 12. "When the General Assembly enacts pertinent legislation, Temple University will be the first to comply."

Officials from Lincoln University could not be reached for comment.