University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 8, 1973
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Committee Trims Back Number Of Faculty Tenure Appointments
By KAREN HILKER
Kansan Staff Writer
Of 37 faculty members recommended for tenure this spring, nine have been granted tenure, according to Francis Heller, former chairman of the University Committee on Promotions and Tenure and professor of law and political science.
Ambrose Saricks, vice chancellor for academic affairs and current chairman of the committee, has referred questions to Chancellor Dawniments to Chancellor Baymond Nebels.
Nichols said Monday that Saricks had the last of ten appointments and declined to comment.
Some schools and departments consider the percentage of faculty granted tenure, this year significantly smaller than it has been in the past.
Students and administrators in the School of Social Welfare have expressed dissatisfaction with a denial of tenure for three faculty members.
THOSE PROTESTING the denials say that an effort has been made to reduce the number of tenured faculty. Nichols warned in his State of the University address that the University faced "the danger of becoming tenured in."
Meanwhile, students of an assistant professor of occupational therapy who was denied tenure have submitted to the university to seek reconsideration of the professor's case.
Presently, 67 to 70 per cent of the University of Kansas faculty are tenured, according to Saricks. He said that most university studies on the issue of tenure recommended a level of tenured faculty no higher than 66 per cent.
"There are entirely too many variables involved to give a comparable figure," he huffed.
GUIDELINES FOR tenure are provided by the American Association of University Professors (AUP). The criteria for granting tenure are teaching performance, research activity and productivity, and service.
After a tenure award has been made, faculty members are assured a formal offer.
Recommendations for tenure are made to the University Committee on Promotions and Tenure by schools and departments at UTEP, as well as faculty member's sixth year of teaching at KU.
According to Grant Goodman, president of the KU chapter of the AAUP, the burden of proof in such a hearing would lie with the institution.
The School of Social Welfare committee on promotions and tenure met Monday morning with Saricks to review what it termed "the serious educational and ethical problems arising from the blanket refusal of milk" that dates from the School of Social Welfare."
"THESE PROBLEMS affect not only this school but the total University," the committee said in a statement released Monday.
Jayhawks Win SDX Awards
Carl G. Dava, Jr., Fort Leavenworth sophomore, won first place in both the best news photo and best feature photo photo M. Maw won first place in radio reporting for a production by three former KU students, Jack Nixon, Jack Alden and Bill Redin.
The University Daily Kansas placed second behind the Daily Iowan of the University of Iowa in the student newspaper competition. Ed Lallo, Topeka senior, was named the most highly placed second place award in best news photo and a third place award in best feature photo.
The winners in the regional competition are eligible for the national contest, the result of which will be announced next fall at a Sigma Delta Chi convention in Buffalo, N.Y.
According to Brad Sheafar, associate dean and assistant professor of social welfare, all three candidates from the University of Social Welfare were denied tenure.
"Three of our best people in Social Welfare were turned down," Sheaf said.
The committee will release a position statement today after it meets with Nichols; Saricks; William J. Argersinger Jr., vicecancellor for research and graduate studies; and Charles Oldfather, University attorney.
Student opinion and opposition concerning the recent tenure decisions has
"There is a general feeling that these tenure decisions are a direct attack against this specific school," said Rick Aumann, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student. "How else can we read the firing of this number of qualified professors from our school?"
"WE'RE GETTING RID of extremely qualified people, in hopes of replacing them with other qualification people," said Joan Bennett, Prairie Village graduate student.
"Those who know these people best, students and faculty, make their best considered decision," said Harvey Hillin, Lawrence graduate student. "They had the unqualified recommendation of students and faculty of the School of Social Welfare, who do not understand the decision made by committee who does not know them is abused."
Students of Joyce Jones, assistant professor of occupational therapy, who also recently was denied tenure, have presented Nichols a petition bearing more than 100 signatures asking reconsideration of her tenure. The department of the occupational therapy department
Wyrick used occupational therapy seniors were planning to meet with Nicholas at 2 o'clock. He and his team
"The idea of tenure is to protect academic freedom," Wyrick said. "It also keeps public workers safe."
WRYKICK SAID SHE favored a contract
that would renew teaching contracts ex-
cept for a specific program.
Saricks said that on the whole contracts were not very popular with university professors, as reported in the Keast Commission Report.
"With no growth in enrollment and no new positions, we are in kind of a spot," Saricks said. "We're going to have to have a curriculum with more flexibility in the future."
Recent results of an enrollment study by the Master Planning Commission predicte an enrollment depression in post secondary Kansas schools over the next 13 years.
Surfaces attributed the reduction in faculty positions to the predicted enrollment
Two faculty members in the department of English were denied tenure according to a study by the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
"It was not a part of the official notification," Worth said. "but I think that the possibility that the University was insured in definitely influenced the decisions."
"THEY SHOULD HAVE been granted tenure. They're good people. We recommended them and still do recommend them very highly."
Helmut Huelsbergen, chairman of the department of German, said that in the last five years his department had recommended three faculty members for tenure. Of those three, two were recommended this spring and both were denied tenure.
He said there was no reference to too much tenure in the University. The denials were made on the basis of not meeting the traditional criteria for tenure, he said.
When contacted about tenure of faculty, the School of Fine Arts said that only two students had tenure.
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