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Tuesday, March 28.1972
University Daily Kansan
Chalmers Fosters Broad Administrative Reorganization
Editors Note: This is the first story in a three part series dealing with the reorganization of the company. Chalmers became chancellor.
By JEROME ESSINGER Kansan Staff Writer
Although quiet moods and little revolutionary activity have been reported on U.S. campuses for years, the university has "quiet revolution" at a level of the University that is not usually associated with rapid or violent change, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. said in a recent interview.
At the University of Kansas, visible and perhaps revolutionary changes are being implemented by University administrators in a process University reorganization."
The goals of the reorganization that KU is planning and developing are far more broad than the reorganization goals of any other university or college. Students, teachers and other administration
KU reorganization involves three concepts; decentralization of the Graduate School's operative functions, which include student admissions and recordkeeping; a formulated budget system; and a complex, data-driven a-b-s e d information system.
Francis Heller's resignation as vice chancellor of academic affairs and the creation of an additional vice chancellor office
have been the two most visible indications of KU reorganization, most KU administrators said.
The two new vice chancellors who will fill helter position and support the chancellor for research and graduate studies, were appointed
AMBROSE SARICKS, dean of graduate studies at Wichita State University, will succeed Heller as chancellor for academic affairs.
William Argersinger, dean of research administration at KU, will be the University's first vice president for research and graduate studies.
The new office of vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, was created to offer opportunities of his present office with those formerly and presently held by the dean of the Graduate School. William P. Albrecht, graduate dean, will retire June 1 from the department and students and a professorship in English.
The main functions of
the forwarding present office
are the forwarding present
faculty and some student,
preparatory for research grants
and programs.
Argersinger, in an interview three days before his visit to Israel, said that in line with decentralization, he expected the schools and departments to respond appropriately to negotiations and applications
Docking Speech Tonight
Gov. Robert Docking will speak at 8 tonight in the Kansas Union Hall. His room is the third in the Student Volunteer series and covers this on Tuesday.
County G.O.P. Meeting
'Making of the President'
"The Making of the President, 1968," will be shown at 7:30 tonight in 308 Dyche. The film is based on a book written by Theodore White. There will be no admission and it is open to the public.
It is speculated that Docking will either seek an unprecedented fourth term as governor of Kansas or oppose Sen. James Pearson.
Reorganization Progress
The Douglas County Republicans will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Ramada Inn to choose delegates to the district and state conventions. Students who are registered Republicans in Douglas county are eligible to vote for the delegates and run for delegate positions. Anyone who is registered to vote in Douglas County is a Democrat. They should register as a King, President, County chairman. "We want all the Republicans to come to the meeting including students, faculty and all the townpeople," he said.
"ITS HIGHLY improbable that I would have directed Wade Stinson said Monday referring to whether the $160,000 would be available in the form of a grant."
Even if the $160,000 were made available, Stinson said he was leery of adding $80,000 to the $355,000 borrowed from the Association in 1966 which was the idea behind the referendum.
THE 1966 LOAN was obtained to pay for the expansion to the team, and will not be completely repaid until 1981. The loan is being repaid with the $5 and $4 each season, and student season football and basketball ticket, and was arranged so that the annual payments would be increased over the 15-year period.
Before either party can consider the $80,000 proposal that the other party would make $180,000 to finance the surfacing of the other two-thirds of the field
Simpson said drastic increases in operating costs had placed the company on a budget where any excess money was spent on operations instead of capital improvement.
that had been done by his present office and the Graduate School.
By HAL RITTER Kansan Staff Writer
Although 62 per cent of the voters said yes to the referendum issue in the spring elections two weeks ago, it is possible none of them would be KU when an artificial surface is installed in Allen Field House.
Since the organization of any university is constantly changing, there are no abrupt, single events that mark a reorganization process, said Nina Cormier, director of system development.
MOST OPERATING Functions
of the Graduate School, except
the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Liberal Arts and Sciences, have
been decentralized to the various
institutions.
They agreed, however, that the phase of reorganization was not a matter of course. These are some of the important events in the current phase of reorganization.
Stinson Doubts Effect of Poll
The problem behind the referendum, which called for the endowment of the Endowment Association to loan the athletic department $80,000 to cover the north end of the field in synthetic surface, likes in funding.
—The initial plan for decentralization of the Graduate School dates to 1968 when the graduate school was established. W. Clarke Wescoe a proposal for reuniting research administration with graduate schools for decentralizing most operational functions such as recordkeeping and admissions and for retaining a dean of the graduate council to set policies.
Besides the time and money spent watering the dirt, Stinson said the field house was useless in the heat because of the muddy surface.
Stinson said the annual payments were based on expected enrollment increases and subsequent increases in the number of customers. However, he said enrollment increases had been below predictions causing fewer tickets to be sold than expected, and an addition of $80,000 to the loan account would make repayment more difficult.
AS FOR ANY action resulting from the referendum, Dave would be elected president, and petition would soon be sent to both the athletic department and the finance department supporting the 80,000 loan.
He said he believed the vote, which signified approval of the resurfacing issue, indicated his agreement to recognize a need for more recreational facilities, but he was not sure the vote expressed the method of funding or technical aspects" behind the proposal.
"It's a shame it hasn't been utilized more." said Stinson.
He said because of the dirt floor the surface had to be watered down each morning or it would be too hard. He suggested a football practice in the afternoons.
UNTIL THE surfacing project is complete the use of Allen Field House will continue to be limited, Stinson said.
—No action was taken by Weseco's administration and, in 1968, the proposal was recalled. In its place the graduate faculty voted to extend an area of study which has been in effect since fall, 1968.
Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment would have to be approved by the Athletic Board, the University administration and the governing body before the loan could be made.
"From there really it's out of our hands." Dillon said.
A NEW University code went into effect March, 1989. The code created a new governmental department designed to provide greater student faculty representation in the university's decision-making processes. Its basic organs were Student and Senate Executive Officers, Faculty, University Libraries, Faculty, and Student Seniors and a University Council.
—E. Laurence Chaimers Jr. we are pleased as U.S. chancellor of the University to install address, "Academic Freedom is Respect for Truth," Chaimers stressed a hope for the U.S. government to plan" for university organization which would be characterized by research and evidence updating and evaluation.
After a short time as chancellor, Chalmers told he favored teaching in the University reorganization, Chalmers then assigned an ad hoc committee on the arts at the university to the sciences at KU, to consider the reorganization of graduate studies and the colleges-within-the-college. The committee was appointed by the dean, Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who appointed themselves cochair-
Complete decentralization of all graduate student admissions and records is expected to be achieved by Fall 2013, said in a March 21 interview.
A SUBCOMMITTEE of a University Senate committee on organization recommended the establishment of its administrative structure in spring, 1970. The recommendation used outlines of the organizing chairmen for chancellorship.
-Reorganization was approved by the Kansas Board of Regents in June, 1970.
The ahedo committee on organization of the arts and sciences reports to the report of one of its two subcommittees on April 12, 1971. Three main principles of reorganization were recorded. One that graduate studies and research administration be combined under one ad-hoc committee and chancellor for research and dean of graduate studies. Two, that the operational functions such as enrollment and records of the faculty are handled to the various schools and the college. Three, that the graduate council be continued for establishing overall policy and moving and appraising programs.
On Jan. 17, Graduate students reported to their areas of study time in recent University history. Most graduate records had been decentralized from the Graduate School to separate schools and universities.
A seven-member task force, in a confidential report of which on behalf of the public, recommended functions of Argersinger's new office on
One of the 11 functions described was that "divisions not directly related to instruction" be moved to the new office of vice chancellor from offices such as the Office of chancellor for academic affairs.
—the seven-member task force was appointed by Chalmers on Oct. 19, 1971, to make recommendations to him on the development of a position of vice chancellor for research and graduate studies.
—The University formally announced the Heller, vice chancellor for academic affairs, would "give up his position" at the start of the semester.
A few weeks after that report was received by Chalmers, it was announced that Heller was "giving up" his position.
—A task force, called Task Force II, was appointed by the graduate council Feb. 4 to define the faculty of the new vice chancellor for research and graduate study, the graduate faculty, the graduate council and the faculty of the liberal Arts and Sciences, the schools and the professional schools. The group delayed most the new vice chancellor was chosen.
—These three points were approved "in principle" by the executive committee of the graduate council on May 10, 1971.
THE GRADUATE council, in a May 21, 1971, meeting, approved in principle the same bill as the one passed but only after much debate.
Chalmers said on March 15 these divisions would interact little with undergraduate education and teach wholly to faculty research, statewide services and graduate instruction and research. However other areas not directly related to academic instruction would have no office of research and graduate studies. The Kansas Geological
The search committee was composed of both students and faculty, Chalmers said, in keeping with the policy of equal student representation in the department, he said. Process, David Miller, student body president, was one of the committee's student members.
Survey and the Computation center are included in such areas
A 16-MEMBER search committee, appointed by Chalmers to recommend to him the candidate for office in chancellor offices, suggested both Argersinger and Saricks in its Feb. 28 report to the chancellor. Chalmers, however, said on March 22 that he had received the search committee's notice within the past week or 10 days."
Chalmers stressed that each was familiar with the personnel, structure and goals of KU and highly respected by the faculty.
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Beginning July 1, KU will have five vice chancellors for the first time in its history. Argersinger is one of the administrative ranks of three other vice chancellors in the KU administrative hierarchy. KU will also have a vice chancellor of student affairs at the Lawrence campus, Keith Nitcher is vice chancellor of business affairs and William Hakee is vice chancellor of health the charge of the KU Medical Center.
Preceding them was Stuff, a new group looking for a record company whose electronic rock 'n' roll and psychedelic music were the talents of talent hunters **IARTRACHER**
BITTER END, NEW YORK
Brewer & Shipley
committee followed, said
Chalmer, was for persons
knowledgeable about KU history
BITTER END, NYC-11 is still taller than Tiffany. The ballerina is a live performance and it does not bet on height as on records. Browner will play a role in helping the ballerina to combine beautifully with ballers such as “People Love It” gave her more life at Life Theater. Gave her new stage life at Tiffany.
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The most enthusiastic response was to the overall of the cuts from 'Worst of the Worst', which they lovingly debated in my witness, who they lovedingly recited. 'One Take Over The Unit' were the two words that had been cut.
Opening the bill was Chef Michel Ternes, who came from Kansas City. Proposals because of the good Kansas City air, heat and humidity conditions of being the warmup act in being warmed and winning the competition. Chef Michel Ternes delivered a fine and inventive dish.
"IT IS OF extreme importance." he said. "that the
Chet Nichols
Chalmers said he conferred with the search committee about finding candidates who would "work on moving the University to a more marketed and greater decision-making the level where funds are spent
This is a group that was overloaded once. But that was a long time ago. It the vibrations that were left at the club when he shot it. The Brewer & Browner have made it.
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He said he was much in favor of the new computer data-based information system that is a goal of many organizations' reorganization plan.
Argsinger, before his appointment as vice chancellor, said that most of the obscure details of University reorganization would "depend on the talents and concerns of people who are to be made a chancellor positions and their interactions with the chancellor."
two persons I appoint work well together."
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Chaimers gave the committee members no directives regarding the sex, age, race or area of residence. But he nevertheless However, he said he thought the KU women’s organizations had been created in the creation of new offices for women and were not still demanding that a woman be installed as one of the chairs.
In announcing his choices among the candidates for the two positions, Chalmers said he was "delighted that these two educators have agreed to serve as vice chancellors."
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