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Wednesday, August 18, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Educators discuss adjunct colleagues
The Associated Press
Quality of education at Kansas' 19 community colleges may suffer if they continue to use more and more part-time faculty to teach their classes, spokesmen for Kansas-National Education Association said yesterday.
However, an official of one of the colleges said that using adjunct faculty members is both a benefit and economic necessity for the two-year schools. He said the issue is what constitutes a proper balance between full-time and part-time faculty, and only the schools themselves can decide that.
Both sides agreed in testimony before the Legislative Educational Planning Committee that using part-time teachers is a fact of life, but the state needs to monitor the situation to determine the extent of the problem.
The committee heard from Craig Grant, lobbyist for the education association; Keyin Belt, a full-time
instructor at Butler County Community College; Janice McIntyre, full-time teacher at Kansas City Kansas Community College; and Ken Gibson, dean of instruction at Johnson County Community College.
Belt was chairman and McIntyre a member of a higher education task force created by education association, which represents the full-time faculty at 16 of the 19 community colleges.
At a previous planning committee meeting, Grant said that the state's six four-year universities are concerned about the quality of courses taught at the community colleges, and there is a suspicion that programs are created that use adjunct faculty just to increase enrollments and gain greater reimbursement from the state.
John Gamble/KANSAN
Joseph Sands, Omaha, Neb., freshman, helps his grandfather, Gus Underhill and mother, Sherry Wupper, move a cart load of his possessions into Hassinger Hall. Students were allowed to move into University housing beginning yesterday.
Campus emergency phone service expanded
By Scott J. Anderson Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas will add 20 emergency phones across campus this year to increase access for people needing quick assistance.
The expansion of emergency phone access began a year ago when the University received about $21,000 from the state for the project, said KU police Lt John Mullens.
Thirteen phones inside campus buildings and one exterior phone already have been installed. Mullens said the phones were located in areas without access to regular phones, campus-only phones or pay phones.
"We're not as concerned with staff in their offices as we are the student in Wescoe who has some medical emergency," he said.
gency, he said.
The new phones will not be tradinational headset units, Mullens said. The phones are activated by pushing a button that activates a speaker, which is dispatched directly into the KU police dispatch center.
The microphone stays open for 3 minutes to allow dispatchers to hear what is happening. Officers will be sent to the site of the phone in all instances.
After the 13 interior phones were installed last year, little money was eft for this year's project, Mullens said.
Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, which is handling the accounting for the phone project, said, "We still have a little over $10,000 left in that part of the account. That money will go toward purchasing more phones for this year."
Construction on one exteriorphone is nearly complete at the southwest
corner of Fraser Hall.
Mullens said facilities operations and the Telecommunications Department had agreed to provide free installation services for the rest of the phones as long as the work was completed at their convenience. Because services were donated, the only remaining expenses are the cost of materials.
In October 1989, a proposal was made to expand the emergency phone service to between 100 and 150 interior phones and 20 to 25 exterior phones. Mullens said. At that time the projected costs were $1,000 for each interior phone and $3,000 for each exterior phone—including labor and installation. Mullens said the cost was running one-third to one-half less because of the donated services.
When installation is completed, 19 interior and 30 exterior phones will be operating, primarily in the central campus area. The budget will cover only the cost of keeping the phones on line.
Mullens said the four departments involved in the project would seek more money from the University to install phones in other areas.
Mullens said the money for the project would be spent after this year.
James Modig, director of facilities planning, said his office had earmarked $20,000 from its repair and rehabilitation budget for the emergency phones. That money will be used to install new phones and replace existing units, he said.
Mullens said the goal of the KU police was to cover campus so that students would not have to travel more than a block to have access to an emergency phone.
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