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Wednesday, July 31, 1974
Unniversity Daily Kansan
Financial Exigency Study Released
Defines Prevention, Determination Faculty Rights
By MIKE MEESKE Kanean Staff Reporter
A report on financial exigency at the University of Kansas prepared by a group of concerned faculty members in 1983.
The report defined the steps to be taken for preventive planning, the procedure for determination and declaration of financial exigency and the rights of faculty members affected by financial exigency.
Grant Goodman, professor of East Asian studies and history and a member of the group that prepared the report, said the report was a product of members of the University Senate.
The report said, "Financial exigency is the fiscal situation in which the University's viability would be clearly and substantially impaired unless faculty positions are eliminated to the point where one or more tenured faculty members had to be laid off or dismissed other than for cause."
The report also said that financial exigency should be declared for the University as a whole and not for any particular school or department within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The faculty and administration should do everything within their power to prevent financial exigency, the report said.
The following steps should be taken for preventive planning, the report said.
Since systematic and long-range planning is required to prevent financial exigency, the chancellor should provide updated and regular forecasts whenever severe reductions of financial support for the University are indicated. The appropriate vice chancellor and dean should provide periodic estimates of support for future fiscal years.
Immediate steps should be taken by the chancellor to revise the present faculty-student ratio as a basis of funding at KU. He should also seek a wealth of funding that would take into account the wealth of the state and the mission of KU.
He should develop a professionally and financially attractive system of optional early retirement or partial retirement and implement this as soon as possible. The leave system should be amended to grant special leaves of absence for one or more semesters at half-pay and without replacement.
The requirement that faculty on sabbatical return to full-time service should be suspended. The four per cent University-wide limitation of granting sabbaticals should be suspended.
The report said the University should develop innovative course offerings and develop close ties with Kansas community colleges.
Only after all possible alternatives have been studied and eliminated should a tenured faculty member be dismissed,
A state of financial exigency could be declared by the chancellor only after adequate data are obtained to substantiate financial exigency. A hearing before the University Senate Executive Committee and consultation with the University Council Committee on Planning and would also be necessary before exigency could be declared.
If exigency is declared, the report said, the faculty member who is laid off has the following rights:
—Those affected could challenge the declaration of exigency.
- Faculty should have the opportunity to relocate within the University. Age and years of service should be given on request.
- Faculty must be committed to the mission of the university.
—Faculty should be laid off, but not fired, so that fringe benefits could continue.
—If additional staff were sought by the University, the first obligation would be to reinstate tenured faculty who have been laid off. The faculty member would be reinstated in his original position or in an alternate position.
—Tenured faculty must be notified of layoff one year before the date of layoff.
Goodman said copies of the report would be made available to faculty members during the August enrollment
3 KU Buildings On Register
Three buildings on the University of Kansas campus have been designated as structures of national architectural and cultural importance in the National Resistor of Historic Places.
The buildings are Dyce Hall, which houses the Museum of Natural History; Green Hall, which houses the School of Law; and Spooner Hall, which houses the
The National Register of Historic Places is an official schedule of structures, areas and objects that should be preserved for national historic or architectural archology and culture.
Dyche Hall, completed in 1902, was named for Lewis Lindsey Dyche, a KU faculty member and prominent natural historian.
Green Hall, dedicated in 1905, was named for James Green, dean of the School of Law.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes was notified of the distinction last week by Richard Pankratz of the Kansas State Historical Society.
Spooner Hall, completed in 1894, was the gift of Boston industrialist William Spooner. It was the first library building on campus. The building opened in 1926 when Watson Library was completed.
"Certainly these halls have played an important part in the development of Kansas, and therefore, in the development of the district," they quote, "will join this list of distinction." Dykes said.
Horseback Riding May Be Offered
If financial problems are solved, University of Kansas students may be able to enroll next spring in a horseback riding course.
KU's department of physical education wants to offer a horsemanship class, according to Wayne Osmess, chairman of the department. The department is seeking a riding school to provide an introductory course at a reduced rate, Osness said recently.
Osness said that Carole Zebas, acting assistant professor of physical education, was to check the facilities at the University Horse and Training Center (UHTC), located 2% miles west of Lawrence. The center isn't affiliated with KU.
At the UHTC's regular charge of $7 an hour, the cost would be about $224 per student for two hours of riding each week for the semester.
"The department would never buy that," Osssa said.
The University offered a horseback riding course in the early 1980s, but the course was cancelled.
Ossen said the department had checked several stables in the area, but had found no evidence of any malicious activity.
The department is looking for an operation that would satisfy several criteria, including the ability to provide quality instruction that could be monitored by the department. A stable
would have to provide rentals and teaching services at a modest price and leave the University in a position of limited liability in case of accident.
Oness said that 12 to 15 students had already requested such a course.
More than half of the Big Eight schools, including Kansas State University, offer beginning horseback riding courses, he said.
The course won't be offered this fall, but Ossess said it might be offered in the spring. In addition to solving the financial problems of such a course, the program will be approved by the physical education department faculty and the University administration.
SenEx Discusses Policy For Extra Faculty Work
Guidelines to establish a policy for outside professional activities for faculty members were discussed yesterday by the members of Senate Executive Committee (SenEx).
William Argersinger, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, met with SenEx at their request after a letter he wrote about outside professional activities he was interested in.
Discussion between the members of
KU Accepted into UCEA
SenEx and Argersinger centered on examples of single outside activities, such as a single lecture or the review of a scholarly manuscript.
The University of Kansas was accepted in June as the 54th member of the National University Council for Educational Administration.
Membership in the UCEA is limited to universities that have doctoral programs in educational administration, Richard Hatley, associate professor of education and the KU representative for the UCEA governing board, said yesterday.
The Argersinger recommendation, if approved by the University administration, should be followed by administrative officers be informed in an informal engagement in outside professional activities. The chief academic officer, dean or professor should be notified, according to the letter.
Hatley said KU had a detailed application and meet specified criteria to be evaluated. The plans will include the development and implementation of long-range plans for solution of problems in education, faculty competence in teaching methods, and faculty skills, and degree productivity, said Hatley.
Three Haskell American Indian Junior College students and the school's athletic director, Wayne Postak, are taking a course offered by one hour academic credit this summer.
KU sent its application to the national UCEA headquarters in the spring, Halley said.
Hatley said the application was reviewed by UCEA's task force and then reviewed by the board of trustees, which made a recommendation.
The final decision on KU's acceptance to the UCEA was made by representatives from each of the three countries.
The purpose of the UCEA is to improve professional preparation of administrative staff.
representatives reviewed the application and then voted.
The proposal isn't intended to limit the outside business activities of any faculty member. However, it would limit the number of activities a faculty member could spend in such activities.
Hatley said that the program benefited KU because it further developed faculty capabilities, it supplied ready access to already prepared educational ada-十助 materials and provided assistance in job placement for doctoral graduates.
The course is being taught at UHTC. The class meets three times a week. The students ride twice a week and are in a theory class one hour a week.
Hatley said in the last three years KU had 58 doctoral graduates in educational administration. He said KU was the only Kansas school in the UCEA.
Some members of SenEx were concerned that the letter could be interpreted as meaning that many activities essential to University relations, such as answering questions or giving advice on the phone, are classified in a category of outside professional activities.
Davall Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said recently that the UCEA was "working very closely" with
Arngersinger asked that SenEx provide additional examples of single activities so that he and the group could work to clarify the proosal.
The cost of the course is probabilistic, and it will probably not be offered by Haskell in the near future.
In other action, SenEx approved a motion to allow the distribution of a financial exigency report written by a group of concerned faculty members. The group submitted this report and was distributed to members of the University Senate before its first meeting Sept. 12.
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Strict controls should be maintained to be sure the cards were not abused, Van Sickle holds them.
Glover said that he had seen such a card issued to a Lawrence resident, but that he had promised not to divulge the name of the card-bearer.
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