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Friday, March 2, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Faculty Records Given Protection
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
The Faculty Council approved Thursday a policy that will establish the confidentiality of faculty personnel records. The policy also requires the Faculty Senate Rules and Regulations.
The Council also approved changes in University policy on promotion, tenure and pay. The Council also approved changes clarify the language in the present policy, especially concerning deadlines for notification of nonrep appointment and step-by-step procedures for deciding promotion, tenure and pay.
The University has had a policy concurring the privacy of student records, but it does not have a policy on how to deal with
received protection from invasion of their files.
As a general policy, the files and dossiers on individual faculty members will be maintained in the office of the faculty members themselves, administrators or other persons making decisions on tenure, promotion, salary or reappointment. These decisions are based upon law to look at the files.
Bargaining Continues On Clinton Recreation
FOR OTHERS to gain access to personal files, the consent of the faculty member or a court order is necessary. The faculty member may request that copies of file materials be made available to persons he or she knows. It should be clear that the University would not bear the costs of photocopying file materials, however.
The use of recreational facilities at Clinton Reservoir remained undisclosed after a closed-door meeting Thursday of a citizens' coalition steering committee at which a decision on the subject was expected.
The committee chairman, Dan Palimquist, 2424 Princeton road, said after the meeting Thursday night that he was not prepared to make any statement at that
News Briefs By the Associated Press Martha Hushed
WASHINGTON—The FBI wanted to interview Martha Mitchell about the Watergate bugging case but was denied permission by her husband, John, the former attorney general and campaign leader, David Nixon, L. Patrick Grew III said Thursday.
Gray also told senators that Robert Mardan, a top aide in the Nixon reelection committee, refused to be interviewed by the campaign team. He said he'd documents at the republican headquarters.
Irish Elections
DUBLIN—Prime Minister Jack Lynch's ruling party sank toward what he admitted looked like defeat in Irish parliamentary elections, and the new seats to the opposition coalition. Counting of the votes for the 144 seats in the lower house was adjourned early with 10 seats vacant. In a snap election, won 64 seats to 68 for the coalition headed by Liam Cosgrove. Independents held two.
Hospital Strike
LONDON- nurses and doctors struggled to cope Thursday with a strike that left their patients short of food, clean laundry and services in more than 250 British hospitals.
Doctors accepted emergency cases only and thousands of patients were sent home. Prime Minister Edward Health stressed before the intention of giving in to union pressure.
Syphilis Study
WASHINGTON—A draft report from a citizens panel investigating a controversial federal syphilis experiment has concluded that penicillin therapy should have been given the black participants in the test. The study, is known as the Tuskegee Study. It ended after public disclosure last summer, involves more than 430 black men from 17 states to receive treatment for the disease so the U.S. Public Health Service Directors could determine through eventual autopsy what damage untreated syphilis does to the human body.
time, and that it would be "a day or two before such a statement could be released.
Palmquist said that the committee was finding it difficult to reach a decision because the opposing groups seemed evenly divided.
He said that he hoped to be able to work out a compromise arrangement that would satisfy the demands being made by the different groups, and that he expected the steering committee to come up with something over the weekend.
In a meeting of local citizens Wednesday, various groups and individuals made known that they have joined an effort.
Some said they wished the lake should be preserved as a natural setting, and asked them to follow their recommendations.
Others called for the zoning of Clinton Reservoir into separate areas for motorized boats.
A third group said that it felt the lake should be used without any restrictions, for the lake.
A number of alternative suggestions were voiced at the time, such as restricting of motorboats on the lake for an initial 5-year period. They may be used to motorboats with 10 or 15 horsepower.
After the steering committee has made public its statement on the future use of Clinton Reservoir, the final decision still needs to be made by county planning boards. Palmquist said.
files to which even the faculty member does not have access because they contain materials, such as letters of recommendation, or other records in a condition that they would remain confidential.
The purpose of the steering committee was to provide a gauge of the general public feeling regarding what it considered appropriate recreational use of the lake.
The original proposal under consideration suggested that the faculty member be provided upon request a list of the file's materials, identified only by date, category of source and category of materials they were destroyed after they have served their immediate purposes or after the matter in question has been resolved. If the materials ceased to be confidential, they would be transferred to an open file. Upon the request the faculty member, the confidential material must remain in the file and not be destroyed.
The crux of the disagreement centered on whether the files could continue in confidential status only at the request of the individual or whether the departmental or school officials who make staff decisions also maintain the file's confidential status.
A REPRESENTATIVE from the Committee on Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities, which played a large part in drafting the original policy, said that the intent of the committee was to protect the students. The committee decided that the file should not be destroyed.
A council member objected to the automatic destruction of files on the ground that departments often desired to have access to negative comments made about a faculty member in reviews for promotion or tenure. A department committee that did not believe faculty members may need to know the sources of unfavorable past recommendations, he said.
The committee representative said faculty members would be more apt to be zealous about teaching and research if they were not held against them. He said that files should be kept up-to-date so that if a department chairman really desired that a teacher not receive a promotion, he would have to be told of negative comments about the teacher.
Attempts to amend the proposal so that persons other than the faculty member could determine the confidentiality of files provided for protection for the faculty member prevailed.
THE PROPOSAL was amended so that the keeper of files would take the initiative and notify the faculty member of the existence of confidential files.
One faculty member expressed concern that some confidential files might not be concerned with matters of a limited time period, and the students destroyed, he said. Others said, however,
that such occasions would not arise.
The proposals on tenure, promotion and nonrep appointment were revisions of a policy formulated by the Council of Deans two years ago.
The policy on nonreappointment specifies dates of notification of nonreappointment and clarifies the heretofore ambiguous status of faculty members whose appointments are irregular and terminates in the middle of an academic year.
The faculty member must be notified of nonacre appointment no later than March 1 of his first year of service. In cases of an irregular appointment, he must be notified at least three months before the appointment terminates.
The deadline for notification of non-appearance is Dec. 15 if the faculty member is in his second year of service. Non-appearances must be communicated to the second-year faculty member six months after termination of an irregular appointment.
AFTER TWO or more years of service, the faculty member must be notified of nonreappointment at least 12 months before the termination of his appointment.
Recommendations for nonreappointment originate in a departmental committee and are forwarded from the department to the vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Notification of nonappointment may be
written if the faculty member responds to
associative. The normal procedure for determination of promotion begins with consideration by a department committee, or a school committee if the school does not have a departmental structure. In departmentally structured schools, the department committee forwards its recommendation to the school committee.
Recommendations then go to the Office of Academic Affairs for consideration by the University Committee on Promotions and Tenure (UCPT). The UCPT is an advisory board to the chancellor, who then makes recommendations to the Board of Recents.
At each level, the faculty member is informed quickly of the decision so that an unfavorable decision may be appealed to the next level. The reasons for the final decision by the Board of Regents must be communicated to the faculty member. The communication is to be in writing if the faculty member requests it.
NOTIFICATION IN writing was not made mandatory because the majority of council members believe it is not in the faculty member's best interest for a letter that specified reasons for denial of a promotion to be on permanent record.
Review for tenure will go through essentially the same channels as review for
56 Selected for Faculty Elections
Candidates must have informed Rick Von Ende, executive secretary, of the acceptance or rejection of their nominations by Thursday.
The process of nominating faculty members for the Faculty Council and the Athletic Board is complete. Fourteen have been nominated and fourteen have 42 have been nominated to the Council.
Fourteen positions must be filled on the 39-member Faculty Council. Thirteen faculty members will be elected for three terms and one term will be for one year.
Theistic is one vacant position for the
Athletic Board. Board members also serve
these positions.
Mail ballots are being sent to all faculty members and administrators today and must be returned by March 20. Each vote for the Capitol, and one for Athletic Barrel,
New Council members will take office April 1. The new member of the Athletic Board is
Election to the Council normally is in the descending order of the number of votes received. But since there must be at least one delegate, the number of University and from the libraries, the nominee highest in order representing a school that would not otherwise have a member on the Council, would displace the nominee. The nominee have been elected by the normal method.
If that displacement causes another
school to lack representation in the Council, displacement would occur at the lowest possible and still have all schools represented. The Schools of Journalism and Law will not be represented by continuing members.
Nominies for the Athletic Board are:
Bevere Anderson, assistant professor of bushness;
Kenneth Anderson, professor of education;
Adam Becker, professor of education; Lelon Capp,
associate dean of education; Jerry Lewis, associate dean
of education; Karen Drew, associate dean
drama; H. Robert McLittley, assistant director of the
library; Edward McMidtle, professor of medieval
history; Eileen O'Connor, professor of athletics.
Senators to Speak To KU Professors
State Sen. Robert F. Bennett, R-Prairie Village, president of the Kansas Senate, and Speaker of the House Duane S. McGill, R-Iowa, president of the American Kansas chapter of the American Association of University Professors at 7 pm, Thursday in the Forum Room of the
Their topic will be "Challenges of the 1973 Session."
John Glinka, associate director of the library and president of KU-AAUP, said that because of statements made by the legislative leaders in the press after an attack on the U.S. Gov. Robert Docking, the AAAUD decided to offer a forum to the Republican leaders.
The meeting will not be a dinner meeting. Glinka said.
Lee Adams, assistant acting professor of music education; Mal Adams, associate professor of journalism; Samuel Adam, associate professor of journalism; James Adam, associate professor of electrical engineering; Arbort Hebbregt, associate professor of journalism; Robert Causen, associate professor of journalism; Robert Causen, associate professor of journalism; Robert Causen, associate professor of journalism; Marilyn Clark, reference library; Martin Clark, reference library; Richard Cook, reference library.
Nominees to the Faculty Council are:
Daniel Cormier, Latin American bibliographer at the Library of Congress, associate professor of history and languages at the University of California, Calif. Drawns, associate professor of speech and microbiology, George Dinkins, associate professor of history and languages, Grant Goodman, professor of history and development, Grant Goodman, professor of history and development.
cell biology, Richard Kendall-Burcham, director of child psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, officer in charge of international affairs, official in charge of research and art programs, librarian, librarian of art programs.
George Griffith, associate reference librarian, John Hurtley, internist, and professor of science and politics; James Hillshill, associate professor of education; Robert Holm, associate professor of architecture and urban design; Franken professor of architectural and urban design; Jennifer professor of naval science; William A. Kelly, professor of physics; William K. Knopf, professor of physics and astronomy; Anthony Kroger, professor of physics and astronomy;
Donald Marquess, assistant professor of philosophy; Philip McKinnight, assistant professor of education; John Murray, professor of architecture and urban design; Monique Morley, professor of architecture and urban design; Olwen Ober, professor of economics); James Seaver, professor of socialism; Hilldert Schlader, associate professor of socialist welfare; Jeanne Stump, assistant professor of art history; Ralph Steinberg.
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