Tuesday, April 6, 1973
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University Dally Kansan
Profs choose own office hours
Bv BECCI BREINING
Staff Writer
Critics of bureaucratic rules and regulations at the University of Kansas might be glad to know there is at least one district that is not bound by administrative codes.
There is no written requirement concerning professors' office hours.
"Obviously it is assumed that professors will be in their offices when they are needed to advise students." Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Friday. "There is no formal, written regulation concerning that."
Several professors said yesterday that their departments had no written codes concerning office hours, but that they had unwritten agreements.
"THESE IS a gentleman's understanding in our department that they (professors) will visit the office hours, and they will post their office hours." Robert Burton, chairman of the department of Library and Information.
But a professor usually has responsibilities to the University, and it becomes impossible for him to be in his office at all times, he said.
Burton mentioned research and committee meetings as two responsibilities that
often prevent a professor from being in his office during designated hours. He said that Saturday, Sunday and evening meetings are more likely to considerably his number of working hours.
Burtson said that in some cases it was a legitimate complaint that professors were involved with students.
"I would readily concede that some professors probably abuse their office hours," he said. "But keep in mind they have many other obligations."
DONALD RICHARDSON, assistant dean of the School of Education, said that the school didn't have any formal recorded meetings and negotiated pact concerning office hours.
"We have several informal understandings," he said, "One of which is that each professor hands in a schedule to us and posts it for his students.
"A student who complains because he can't get hold of a professor often has only 30 days to tell him."
If professors aren't in their offices,
they're said, it doesn't mean they
need to work.
"The research that they've done in Kansas indicates that professors across the
Senate still requests discrimination report
Tedde Tasheff, student body president, said yesterday that she would continue to seek the release of a Title IX steering committee report.
After talking with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, Tasheff said she would write a letter to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes today requesting release of the report, which lists areas of possible sex discrimination at the University of Kansas.
She said she would include a copy of a Student Senate resolution, passed last week, asking that the committee's findings be made public.
Shankel had said last week that the report might not be released if the steering committee decided to use the document only for internal study.
TASHEF SAID Shankel told her releasing the report now might hurt the effectiveness of further investigations. He said groups responsible only to the chancellor often were assigned to study problems.
Tasheff said that she understood the administration's position, but that the Senate resolution made her responsible for seeking release of the report.
GEORGE HUGHES, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, said the hours he spent with students during office hours were often too short because he advised many foreign students.
"Many foreign students require a great deal of individual help and that takes a lot of time," Hughes said. "Others might think that a lot of that time is wasted, but I don't."
If Dykes decides not to release the committee's findings after reading the
Cark said he thought at least half of all professors' meetings with students were by appointment. He said that he wouldn't like to see formal codes established for office
"WE EXPECT everybody to post office hours, preferably directly before or directly after a class, and we simply insist that they meet them." Clark said.
The department of history has unwritten agreements concerning office hours, said John Clark, acting chairman of the department of history.
state are putting in, oftentimes, an excess of 60 hours a week."
Senate resolution, Tasheff said, she will assign the matter to a Senate committee.
Dykes was unavailable for comment last night.
"I am charged and will proceed to get that information made public," she said.
Shankel said yesterday that he and Mike Davis, University general counsel, were still working on a summary of the committee's findings to give Dykes. That summary should be completed this week, he said.
SHANKEL HAD said last week that the administration would probably issue a statement suggesting possible areas of interest in the formation of Dykes of the committee's findings.
Ed Rolfs, student senator who sponsored the resolution calling for release of the steering committee's report, said he hoped the committee report would be made public to show what areas needed further study to comply with Title IX regulations.
"The fewer the regulations the better," he said.
"I don't know if they're bound legally to raise it," he said. "Morally, there is some reason."
Tasheff said Shankel told her the report hadn't been released because the committee was directing its findings only to the chancellor.
Students skip meals
Students at the University of Kansas will
study at the University of Day on Thursday with
a faculty of science.
Mike Pendergast, president of Ellsworth Hall, said Sunday that every residence hall would participate in the World Food Day activities.
RTA GATLIN, Colby junior, said Miller Scholarship Hall would sponsor a child in a foreign country for a year with small homes from each resident as its Food Day activity.
Half of the proceeds will go to GOARC, pondragon.org, Penn
Penrith local charitable organization.
He said that interested students could sign up to skip dinner Thursday, and that the cost of that meal would be donated to charity.
Some men at Battenfeld Scholarship Hall will fast for the whole day in observation of World Food Day, according to David Parris, Manhattan freshman. He said the fast was voluntary and about 30 men had signed up.
Alpha Phi sorority is having a soup dinner
and a canned food collection, Melissa Steinger, president, said. Steinger said the money saved from having a soup dinner donated to Ballard Community Center.
The department of computer science has an unwritten regulation that requires professors to announce at least three office hours a week, said Floyd Horowitz, chairman of the department of computer science.
CONNIE HUME, president of Delta Gamma sorority, said her house was engaging in a "right-to-food" letter campaign to mobilize people throughout the community for the right-to-food support of the right-to-food resolution which is now before the U.S. Congress.
A panel of University professors, farmers and state legislators will discuss the University's role in the problem of world hunger after the dinner.
The World Hunger Awareness Coalition (WHAC) is sponsoring a special meal at 6 p.m. Thursday in the United Ministries and to dramatize world food disparities.
WHAC is also conducting an information fair Thursday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. The fair will present information films and films on world food problems.
DON SCHEDI, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts, said that there was no regulation on office hours in the school and that he thought regulations weren't
Yeong-Chung Lien, assistant professor of computer science whose office hours are from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day, said his office hours are long because he advises research students and is needed when computers malfunction.
the teacher's office is often his teaching
anyway, and he's always there
away.
Although most of the 15 students interviewed said they didn't have any complaints about finding professors, either because of their bad attitude or two students said they had had difficulty.
"Twenty of our applied music teachers spend about 30 hours a week in their offices, which is where they teach, or very close to it," he said.
For this reason, Schaid said, students usually don't have trouble finding
"THEERE are definitely not enough office hours," said Pat Zakre, Lenexa senior. "Professors are so wound up in their own thing such as research, that you have to catch them on the run to talk to them. A student doesn't have time to do that."
Paul Hadel, Shawne junior, said he often had trouble getting an appointment with a professor because some of his classes were "too technical" that the professors could talk to everyone.
"Lots of times I end up talking with a teaching assistant," he said.
Calgaard said that there had been no discussion about regulating office hours.
"If it becomes a widespread agreement that something should be done, we would certainly want to be alerted to the fact," he said.
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ROBERT COBEN, deh of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he would like to see his colleague
"Office hours vary considerably from department to department and professor to professor," he said. "Some keep extensive office hours and others don't."
Everyone who ordered their senior announcements last February should pick them up in the Kansas Union Bookstore Thursday or Friday, April 8 or 9. [Delivery subject to settlement of Truckers' Strike.]
The professors in each department can work it out among themselves, Cobb said.
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