UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 6, 1995
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'96 minority professorship vacant
- By Matthew Friedrichs Special to the Kansan
A prominent minority visiting professorship will remain vacant next spring at the University of Kansas, KU officials said.
The candidate for the Langston Hughes professorship in Spring 1996 backed out at the last minute for personal reasons, said Carol Prentice, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"It is too late to fill the position," Prentice said.
Plans must be made about a year in advance to accommodate the visiting
tation, a Langston Hughes professor will be selected for Spring 1997, Prentice said. The committee is taking nominations now.
professor and the professor's home institution, she said. The professor must arrange for an unpaid leave at the home university, and arrangements must be made at KU as well, she said.
The professorship, which has existed since 1978, has been vacant before, said Arthur Drayton, chairman of African and African-American Studies and KU's first Langston Hughes professor.
Each year, a search committee led by Drayton solicits nominations for the professorship and extends an invitation to a professor. Although this year's nominee declined the invi-
Carol Ann Carter, professor of art and design, is the Spring 1995 Langston Hughes visiting professor.
The Langston Hughes estate granted permission to use his name for the professorship, Prentice said. Hughes lived in Lawrence for part of his life.
Money for the Langston Hughes professorship comes from state funding. Prentice said that next year's funds may be used instead for visiting lectures or strengthening other minority programs at KU.
SCIENCE: Scraping for better equipment
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department budgets is marked specifically for equipment.
But a student fee could help solve the problem.
"It would make a world of difference," Frost-Mason said. "Right now there really is no money for equipment."
Sally Frost-Mason, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that a $3 fee for each credit hour taken in the college would generate about $1 million a year.
If a science department has an equipment emergency, money that would have been used to hire an instructor must be used to purchase the equipment, Frost-Mason said.
Administrators, the Board of Revents and the Kansas Legislature
would have to approve a student fee before it could be imposed.
But Chancellor Del Shankel would like to see the legislature pick up the tab instead of the students.
Clay Lyddane, Topeka junior agreed.
"The state should provide necessary funds," he said.
Curtis Sorenson, chair of geography, said that a fee would solve the problem but that it should not be necessary.
"I think it's a shame we have to keep going to students," Sorenson said. "The state doesn't seem to support higher education to the level it needs to."
"I would think that the University should take care of it since it is a government institution, and we are already paying tuition," Lyddane said.
The science departments often look outside the University for equipment funds. The National Science Foundation offers grants that must be accompanied by 50 percent matching funds from the University. The grants are helpful, but they are competitive, Landgrebe said.
Another resource for the sciences is alumni. Anthony Walton, chairman of geology, said that alumni had been supportive of the sciences.
Partly because of that generosity, Walton said, the geology department had not felt the problem as much as other departments. Also, technology in geology has not changed as rapidly as other fields, he said.
Stetler said he was worried that the lack of equipment in biology was affecting students' education.
"We do well with what we have, but we could do better," Stetler said.
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