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Tuesday, March 27,1973
University Daily Kansan
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budget request is still in the Kansas Legislature awaiting approval.
Max Bickford, executive secretary of the Board of Regents, said there was a lump sum in the KU budget allocation for salaries and wages for personnel. He said all salaries for all positions must come from that fund.
The problem of hiring a provost has been discussed many times at KU. Last year Chalmers eliminated the position even though a task force he commissioned had recommended that the position not be eliminated.
THE FORCE, with Edward Sessman, professor of medicinal chemistry as chairman and Kleinberg, now chairman of the search committee, as a member recommended to Chalmers that the position of provest be retained after the position of vice chancellor for research and graduate universities was created, according to Kleinberg.
Sessiman refused to comment on the details of the report of the task force to Coyote.
Arrgersinger, who was named vice chancellor last year under the administrative revamping, he said thought Chalmers rejected the concept of maintaining the provost because "there just room in the budget for another person."
Argersinger said Chalmer was hesitant to introduce one more high official into the budget at the cost of hiring another academic official, such as a professor.
Kleinberg said many task force members thought that under the Chalmers regime a one-man attack would be better.
ANOTHER GROUP studied the title of provost during the 1969-70 academic year. The group, a three-man subcommittee of the University Council's Organization and Administration Committee, sent the report to Chalmers.
Members of the committee were Nichols,
the Roy Laird, professor of political science.
Nichols said the subcommittee recommended that the title of provost be eliminated and a new title replace it. The group thought that the title "provost" wasn't descriptive of the position, Nichols said.
"In the dictionary, the word 'provost' means the operating head of one of two campuses," Nichols said. "And at that time, the head of the Medical Center, the other KU campus, was the vice chancellor for health affairs."
Nichols said the subcommittee then reported to Chalmers that a different title, such as vice chancellor for administration, should replace the title "proovost."
Under Chancellor Frank Strong, the provost was known as the vice president, and at the end of Strong's administration and into Chancellor Ernest Lindley's administration, the title was changed to dean of administration.
HELLER SAID that Lindsey didn't have a "helper" for several years but that in 1930 Lindley again changed the title to vice president of the University.
Chancellor D. W. Malot again changed the title to dean of the university. The title of dean of the university was maintained under the administration of Franklin Murphy.
When W. Clarke Wereke became chancellor, the position of provost was vacant for a few years. The post was filled.
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After several years the title was enlarged to deputy chancellor.
Heller said that if the new chancellor for KU comes from a University at which he has had a provost, the new chancellor might want a provost at KU.
"ON THE OTHER hand, he might have felt that the position of provost was all too close. He would have been hurt."
"The new chancellor will have to determine his own administrative style, but if a candidate has to commit himself as to what type of administration he wants at KU, if hired, then he is definitely the wrong man as chancellor."
Former Chancellor Franklin Murphy said in a recent interview here that "just like in business as with the University, there is an 'office' of the chancellor."
"If another person was hired, such as a provost, then someone would have to be cut on the administrative side," Blackford said. "The number of positions have been updated."
Heller, the last provost at KU, said the Chancellor's problem was that he had five groups of people who believed they should have a higher degree. The five groups are the students, faculty, alumni, Kansas legislators, and the "responsibility to the higher education system."
Bickford said that if a new chancellor for KU deemed it necessary to have a provost, then that type of request would have to be an internal recommendation from the present chancellor of the University and not from the Board of Regents.
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"IF THE UNIVERSITY proposes changes in the internal organization, such as the hiring of a proverb, then the Board of Education might okay the proposal." Bickford said.
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"Every chancellor has found that he needs someone to help him in his administrative role," Heller said. "The chancellor needs someone to assist him in the coordination of all the groups on campus."
MURPHY SAID that in the 1920s and 1930s the University president or chancellor was the chief administrator and education officer of the institution, known as the "education secretary."
At the end of World War II, there was an increase in the number of students at universities, and the federal government awarding research grants, Murphy said.
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Nichols said, "At a University as complex and as large as ours, it is necessary for the Chancellor to have someone with him at all times.
"The Chancellor needs a number two man who can be in charge when he is away from home."
"The office of the chancellor definitely needs to have more than one person in it," he said.
He compared the duties of a chancellor to those of the President and his aides.
"So a university president began to "soave time to administration duties rather than educational duties," Murphy said. "There was a growing demand to communicate with the state, and there were also the continual demands of the alumni and in later years the growing demands of students to be heard by the chancellor."
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Murphy said the next chancellor for KU had a tough job ahead of him. He said the new chancellor's primary concern should be to establish confidence of the people of the state in KU.
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