University Daily Kansan, October 21, 1983
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Goodman said the ideal way to handle program review recommendations would be for the Regents to formally announce the recommendations, give the public time to discuss the issue, then make final recommendations.
Bill Scott, professor of English, said that program changes in one discipline might include programs in the University and that faculty should other programs should be allowed to respond.
James Carothers, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, also said he had hoped the Regents would give the university some support for recommendations before they became final.
"I WISH THAT THE recommendations had been returned to the campus for reaction," he said. "Not having a program discontinuance would have contributed to the Regents strategies."
Carothers said the Regents decision to eliminate four programs at the University would have no affect on no faculty members and few students.
But, he said, problems could arise from
future recommendations that called for significant changes.
Neither the Regents nor KU has a policy that spells out specific provisions for faculty members and students who are affected by programs that are eliminated or merged, he
"Until or unless we have agreed on our own policy and procedure for program discontinuance we are seriously vulnerable," he said. "The precedent has been set."
McFarland said the Regents had specifically reviewed strong programs. Therefore, procedures to eliminate programs could be prepared before a permanent decisions are made.
The Regents Academic Affairs and Special Programs Committee yesterday approved recommendations to drop or merge programs that had been reviewed at the seven Regents meetings. The final approval will be presented to the Regents for formal adoption at its full meeting tomorrow.
TEMPORARY RECOMMENDATIONS were sent to each of the Regents schools in September. At that time, administrators and faculty members involved in the programs were given the chance to respond.
not have much effect because few students pursued that degree.
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Progam
John Davidson, chairman of the department of physics and astronomy, said that fewer than 7 percent of all B.G.S. degree candidates were physical science majors.
IN A PREPARED STATEMENT, Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that no faculty would be affected by the proposed changes.
Mefarland said that individual schools would decide how to manage the program changes, but that after this academic year, no additional programs will be allowed to enter a discontinued program.
Students already enrolled in the discontinued degree programs would be allowed to
The recommendations made yesterday stem from program reviews conducted this summer in the schools or departments of the school system and in library sciences and engineering technology.
The committee recommended that 34 of the 150 programs reviewed this summer be discontinued, and that a first round of the program with a fiveyear program be reviewed all programs at Regents institutions.
Along with recommendations for program
Archie Dykes, regent and former KU chancellor, said that equipment maintenance, faculty salaries and graduate programs were in areas of concern identified by the Regents.
discontinuance and mergers, the Regents recognized the strengths and needs of other members of the board.
"WE WERE REALLY dismayed to see the quality of equipment," he said. "We are nowhere near the state of the art."
"There is a point at which people cannot afford to stay at our institutions," he said.
Dykes said that although faculty salaries could not be competitive with private industry, compensation must be higher than it was now.
Low salaries and few benefits also hurt the universities' ability to attract graduate students.
But Dykes said that huge increases would not be needed to rectify the situation because there was a lack of equipment.
"We're not talking about millions and millions of dollars," he said.
Regent Wendell Lady said that Regent actions to eliminate unnecessary programs will be a priority.
help convince legislators that requests for additional financing were needed.
"We're indicating to the Legislature that we're making an effort," he said.
HOWEVER, LADY SAID that the program reviews were not designed as cost saving measures. The reviews are designed to help users understand how to allocate resources most efficiently.
Program recommendations at the other Regent schools include:
- Elimination of associated degree programs in all physical science areas at Regents schools. KU does not have such programs.
- Elimination of the master of science degree program in chemistry at Fort Hays State University.
- examination of the associate degree program in solar technology at the Kansas University
- Elimination of the bachelor in engineering technology degree program at Wichita State University.
Grenada
- Elimination of associate of science in manufacturing tool technology, design and drafting technology and plastics manufactures at Pittsburgh State University
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RADIO FREE GREENAID said Bishop and his supporters had seized weapons from an army base and killed two soldiers. The radio report included Bishop and his supporters were shot in self-defense.
But witnesses said soldiers executed Bishop, Education Minister Jacule Creft, with whom Bishop had two children out of wedlock, Foreign Minister Unison Whiteman, Housing Minister Norris Bain, union official Vicent Noel and Bishop, union official the agricultural and general workers union.
A U.S. Embassy official in Barbados said that someone had called his office and had seen Bishop "with his hands up" just before the shootings.
Bain's wife, who was near the scene of the
shooting, said witnesses told her the victims were separated from the rest of the crowd and shot. "They executed them," a sobbing Mrs. Bain said during a telephone interview.
IN WASHINGTON, a senior U.S. official said the administration was concerned that the Cuban government may have been behind the bombing of Havana and that much of Cuban involvement, the senior official said.
On Capitol Hill, Secretary of State George Shultz met privately with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss events in Grenada.
The young nation of 110,000 gained its independence from Britain in 1974. The violence was the latest tragic twist in the difficult political life of Grenada.
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Palos credited Grabow's remarks with stirring renewed interest in the 700 and 800 block project.
Later, Grabow told the City Commission that most urban redevelopment in the country was poorly designed. He said he would give most of the plans a failing grade, and he gave Palos's work a B-.
Grabbow said the real question was not how Town Center looked, but where it was located.
But he said the Town Center plan would earn a higher grade.
The city's comprehensive plan for downtown requires shopping center development in the 700 and 800 blocks because that is the center of downtown. Town Center's plan will pull the nucleus of the downtown to the north.
"It's always better to build in the area in need of the greatest repair, and the 600 block fits that," Grabaw said.
GRABOW ALSO MENTIONED an urban design theory that supported an eccentric, or off-center, nucleus for downtown. The theory states that having the center of activity on the edge of the downtown creates smoother
pedestrian traffic flow.
bruee Heckman, a city consultant for downtown from Robert B. Teska Associates, Evanston, Ill., said the Town Center plan could create a "cement cocoon" where shoppers go without circulating in the rest of the downtown.
Grabow dismissed the cocoon as being an "idiosyncrasic thing."
"An investment of $40 million is bound to improve downtown activity." Grabow said. "Development anywhere downtown will improve the economy. The real danger to the downtown is a suburban mail."
He said the downtown mall would have a ripple effect that would spur additional downtown development just as many suburban malls have done.
THE INVESTMENT in downstream trophoblast development will give the area stability, he said, and make it favorable to additional development.
Many people have complained that the Town Center project would create a wall between the downtown and the river. Grabow said that the problem could easily be avoided, and that a mall with the right design could have the opposite effect.
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