University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 14, 1977
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Council endorses compromise sabbatical proposal
BY JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Writer
The Faculty Council yesterday gave its uncertain approval to a compromise of the budget.
The council voted 12-10 to endure the general direction of the compromise plan while instructing FaxEx to work further on the exact language of the proposal.
After the vote, several council members were unsure of the meaning of the motto on the floor.
"What did we just vote on?" asked one council member.
By then, however, the meeting was adjourned and most council members were present.
"This body has a propensity for doing nothing after hours and hours of discussion," Carl Leban, associate director of East Asia, said as the council members rose to leave.
The council discussed a compromise plan that had been prepared by Mike Davis, University general counsel, at a meeting between FaceEx and administrators two weeks ago. The council decision to endorse only the general direction of Davis' plan will leave FaceEx to negotiate the exact language of the plan.
THE COMPROMISE plan would allow each of the 11 members of the University Committee on Sabbatical Leaves (USCL) to yes vote for each sabbatical leave吼叭
Each proposal that received six votes or more would qualify for further committee approval.
William Westerbeke, FacEx chairman, told the council that unless there was complete agreement among the committee members, the compromise plan would expand the pool from which sabbatical leaves were granted.
However, many council members agreed yesterday for a plan that would allow UCSI committee members to vote on罢 an appointment or proposals, thus expanding the pool even more.
MARGARET SCHUTZ, professor of social
welfare, agreed that the Davis plan was too restrictive.
"If I'm on the sabbatical committee and I think there are 50 people worthy of a reward, but there are fewer positions than that available, then I'm restricted in choosing the best looked at," she said. Davis said he thought the decision is boiled down to two choices.
"Do we make the pool approximately the size of the number of sabbaticals available so we can apply a small number of secondary criteria," Davis said, "or do we take an uncharted seas, and come up with a pool that could be either very large or very small?"
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, told the council that, according to computer estimates, under the plan, 80 applications were 80 applications for 40 positions would
produce a pool of no less that five applicants for the available sabbaticals and no more
"THE PLAN LEAVES a very wide range of possibilities, depending on the degree of consensus on the committee," Calgaard said.
The need for a compromise plan arose after the administration's rejection of the proposed sabbatical plan. Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, informed Westberke in a letter that the rejected sabbatical was incompatible with the Board of Regents' guidance specify that sabbaticals should be granted strictly on merit.
The faculty plan would have allowed some sabbatical goods to be made on grounds other than merit, such as length of service or length and the length of time without a sabbatical.
Davis' proposal attempts to provide a definition of the Regents' merit-only provisions. According to Davis, any sub-commissioner receives at least six votes is meritorious.
DON MARQUIS, associate professor of philosophy, said if the Davis plan attempted to define strictly meritorious provisions, then it was an incorrect definition.
Regents' policy states that sabbatical leaves cannot be awarded to more than four per cent of the equivalent full-time faculty at the University. A faculty member who receives a sabbatical must wait six years before requesting another one.
That makes it turn out that over the cycle, cycle only 23 per cent of the faculty mounted on the floor.
Marquis said. "That's simply wrong. I don't know what happens to the other 72 per cent of the faculty, but some of them definitely merit a sabbatical."
Shankel told the council that the Davis plan would allow the University to meet the Regents' guidelines without ruling that the rejected proposals were without merit.
IT WOULD BE incorrect to say that 98 per-
cent of our faculty don't merit a sabbatu-
ce.
Shankel also said he was concerned because the council's request for more well-defined guidelines seemed to indicate a lack of professionalism. The tribunal committee to make fair decisions
"My confidence is right at zero. It is ridiculous to think people can make rational judgments on sabbatical requests. To have five or six votes decide merit is ludicrous."
"That hits it right on the head," Paul Mostert, professor of mathematics, said.
"Given your lack of confidence, isn't n't a question of nothing but procedure?" Leah asked in a problem of getting the appropriate level on the system, and that lies in this procedure.
Leban said he thought the Davis proposal made steps to correct the problem.
Frances Horowitz, professor of psychology, said she thought that peer review at the departmental level would help researchers make decisions. She said committee members should make the reviews part of the considerations of those proposals to be placed in the pool.
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