University Dally Kansan, April 16, 1981
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Regents consider tenure, tuition proposals
By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents will consider proposals that pacified legislators' concerns over tenure policies at the Regents schools during their meetings at Emporia State University today and tomorrow.
The proposals, which outline procedures for tenure approval and a system for filing complaints against the universities and their employees, grew out of two bills that were considered during this legislative session.
Introduced by State Rep. Joseph Hoagland, R-Overland Park, the bill would have required the Regents to approve all tenure promotions and disciplining faculty to the Regents, away from the individual schools.
The bills raised concern among Regents and university officials who feared that a precedent would be set by the legislation on the formation of Regents policy.
However, when the Regents outlined the proposals last month, Hoagland said he was satisfied with the changes they would accomplish, and he called off efforts to get the bills passed this session.
JOHN CONARD, executive officer for the REGENS, said yesterday that the Council of Presidents, a committee comprising Acting Chancellor Del Shankel and the presidents of the five other Regents schools, would consider the recommendations during their meeting this morning.
One of the recommendations would amend the tenure policy of the Regengs by adding a section to its Policies and Documents. The Regengs instructs to submit a list of Regengs institutes to submit a list of
individuals recommended for tenure promotion for consideration by the Regents at its April meeting.
Conard said that the amendment did not change the procedure for tenure approval drastically. This is because the Regents already approved an employee professor to associate professor, in which most tenure promotions are included.
The new amendment would clarify Regents action taken in tenure, Conard said, and would allow the senate to appoint an official role in tenure approval.
"The Regents have not been expressing themselves formally in the tenure lists." he said.
CONARD SAID THE amendment had "no intention" of infringing on the tenure policies of the individual schools.
"They will not extensively review each individual case of tenure," he said. "That will continue to be done by member's peers at his school."
The other change the Council of Presidents will consider is a recommendation that would create an office at each Regents school to receive and evaluate complaints directed toward the University and its employees.
Conard said this office would allow citizens who were not members of the university community to act if they had a complaint.
THE PROPOSAL ESTABLISHES an office at the vice chancellor or vice president level at each institution to hear complaints.
The designated official would investigate the complaint, and, if it was found to have merit, the case would be referred to the proper official for resolution. If the issue was not resolved through administrative channels, it
would then be referred to the chief executive officer of the university, who would present the case to a committee for a formal hearing.
After that committee had considered the case, it would make a recommendation to the chief executive officer of the company, and inform the Regents of that action.
Conard said this policy did not make a major change in the way complaints were handled except for the situation which designated solely to accept complaints.
HE SAID THAT members of the Legislature had been concerned that individuals not associated with the universities were unaware of methods for submitting complaints, and that these procedures, if approved, would clarify the channels to which an individual had access.
"This will put some procedure down in writing so the citizens will know how to go about filing a complaint," Conard said.
The Regents office normally received about one complaint a month concerning each of the Regents schools, Conard said. Complaints normally came from students' parents who were concerned about an incident in a residence hall, a professor's activity or a student of a faculty member.
ALSO AT THE EMPOIRA meeting, the Regents Budget and Finance Committee will discuss tuition increases for the Regents schools.
At last month's meeting, the Regents tentatively approved a 15 percent increase in tuition costs for Regents schools.
Conard said the committee would discuss alternatives and would meet with student representatives before deciding on the final rate of increase.
The Regents considered the fee increase at last month's meeting after the Legislature called for the increase. Legislators were interested in bringing the amount that a student pays for his education to 25 percent, a figure that has been an unofficial policy of the Regents and Legislature in the past.
Conard said the final amount could be higher or lower than the 15 percent proposal.
The 15 percent proposal would increase the tuition portion of student fees to about $30, which would pay for half or more of the student's education expenses.
CURRENTLY, KU'S $280-in- student state tuition represents 19.3 percent of the school's education cost rate of any of the Regents schools.
the budget and Finance Committee also will consider proposed changes in the comprehensive fee schedule for KU, and the student activity and health fees.
Washington, D.C., is proving to be a hazardous city for presidents of any status.
Coleman, 2 alumni robbed in Washington
Last weekend, three armed men robbed Bole Cleman, student body president, and two KU alumni at a Georgian apartment at 4 a.m.
former student body president.
Coleman said the three had gotten into an argument about gun control legislation, which Coleman opposes,
which still arguing loudly as they walked the six blocks to Webb's apartment.
Coleman, who was in Washington to attend a United States Student Association convention, said that he and Mike Webb, United States Department of Agriculture employee and KU alumnus, and Jim West, a KU alumnus, were robbed as they walked to Webb's apartment.
The three men were leaving the apartment of Margaret Berlin,
"Suddenly this guy ran in front of us and put a gun to Webb's head," Coleman said.
GREEN'S CAN DO IT!
Two other men ran up and held guns to Coleman's back and to West's ribs. Coleman said.
The robbers took the victims' wallets and Coleman's watch, but Coleman said they did not get his money because he only had traveler's checks, which were in another pocket.
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