University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1983
Minority
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Hogan said that support groups and mentors among faculty members' peers were valuable but underused resources to retain minorities and underserved students. He is more likely to leave the University, he said.
The administration is committed to increasing the ranks of minorities and women on the faculty. Hogan said, but that will not happen in integration among the entire University community.
BOTH RECRUITMENT AND retention of minorities and women are complicated by budget reductions, he said.
But Marshall Jackson, assistant director of admissions, said that budget reductions could not justify the low percentage of women and minorities at KU. He said that the University had been inconsistent in its efforts to increase faculty, faculty, and that it had not done enough recently.
"I think there could be more done," Jackson said, "realizing that with the budget problems, it's more difficult. But that just means that more creative efforts have to be made, as opposed to saying that because of the cuts, we'll have to stop trying."
Advertisements in minority publications, faculty exchange programs and campus support groups, such as the Black Alumni Board and the Black Faculty and Staff Committee, are some of
the ways Jackson said that more minorities could be drawn to KU.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT cited the University last year for not adequately promoting equal employment opportunities. Most of the 10 trouble areas examined and later listed in a conciliation agreement between the U.S. Department of Labor and KU involved the lack of minorities and women, especially on the faculty.
Before the federal review last spring, Tacha appointed a minority recruitment committee, which is still in operation. She said that its purpose is to recruit both women and minorities and to recruit them to KU.
The University has taken a number of steps to improve the recruitment of women and minorities since the signing of the concliliation agreement in September, Tacha said.
The workshops started last fall and are still continuing.
One step that has been taken is to make the office of affirmative action and its director, Roberta Ferron, more visible. In a series of workshops for supervisors and managers, KU's affirmative action plan is being explained to Vietnam veterans and tundraced persons.
ALSO, ACADEMIC DEANS and chairmen must include specific plans for recruiting women and minorities in their general recruitment plans.
Where to find such pools or groups of candidates varies among disciplines, she said. Some departments have mini-caucuses of women's groups or minority faculty groups that can provide the names of qualified candidates. Other departments rely on national organizations, such as the American Council on Education, for their information.
"When women and minorities are under-utilized, we're asking the departments to identify pools of candidates for recruitment," Tacha said.
TACHA SAID THAT deans and department chairmen were also encouraged to recruit more minority and women graduate students as a source of future faculty.
That tactic, however, has both positive and negative aspects, and Gerry Williams, assistant director of the program, said.
Williams said that his office's purpose was to encourage minorities to get a good education, and that recruiting both minority students and faculty created a richer educational environ-
FACULTY ARE USUALLY hired from outside the University, he said, and graduate students usually seek faculty posts at institutions other than where they did their graduate studies.
In effect, minority student recruitment provides other universities with minority Ph.D.s, Williams said. But the payoff is that other universities also have minority graduate
students who may be sources of future KU faculty
He said that KU was one of more than 50 universities that belonged to a clearhouse for exchanging the names of minorities who hold doctoral degrees as openings occurred.
Vernell Spearman, director of the office of minority affairs, disagreed.
Jackson said that convincing minority faculty to stay at KU was the hardest part of recruitment. Although KU might be academically attractive, Jackson said, the living situation in a small community such as Lawrence might be a drawback.
"I THINK IT'S A myth that the small minority professional community in Lawrence detracts from the University's appeal," she said. "The fact is that in Lawrence there are good schools and cheap living, and we are close to Kansas City, for anything that Lawrence may lack."
The decision to choose KU still resists with each faculty candidate, despite recruitment efforts; said Barbara Ballard, coordinator of the Emily Todd Women's Resource Center and associate professor.
But the responsibility for a strong effort to recruit minorities and women rests with the University, she said.
"If the effort really was there and we couldn't attract them, that would be one thing." Ballard said. "But if it's a halfheated effort and we can't find them, then that's another story."
Owens
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Hartman said he thought that part of the reason behind Owens' firing was the emphasis placed on money-making aspects of college football and basketball.
Sid Wilson, former sports information director at KU, said, "I think it a shame. He has a great national reputation. Ted is a classy person — one of the classier persons I worked with."
DEL BRINKMAN, CHARMAN of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board, said, "I hope that the fine record that he has compiled in his 19 years will not be lost in the emotion of this termination.
Owens served as KU coach longer than anyone except Allen, for whom the field house is named.
"His name will be right next to Phog Allen's in the history of KU basketball."
Most of the KU basketball players who agreed to speak to reporters said they had been surprised by the move. Owens broke the news to players in a team meeting Sunday afternoon.
Jeff Guoit, freshman guard, said, "If Monte thought it was the right decision, then that is the
decision he made and we have to make the most of it."
GUOT SAID HE might consider transferring to another school after the new coach had been
Greg Dreiling, a 7-footer who transferred from Wichita State, said, "I think he gave us everything we needed to win. He just needed somebody to execute it."
Owens, 53, was the second head coach fired since Johnson took over in December. Head football coach Don Fambrough was fired several weeks after Johnson had been hired
Brian Martin, junior forward, said, "The man's been here for 19 years and considering the job he has done here, I think it's a sad thing for him and it is a sad thing for the University, but it's something that we're going to have to live with."
Because the athletic department will pay the remainder of Owens' and Fambrough's contracts, the two fringes will cost the department more money. Year Owens earned the highest salary of $47,300.
JOHNSON SAID AN increase in alumni
one new basketball coach will face a similar problem to that of new head football coach Mike Gottfried in recruiting. Half of the recruiting season will probably be over when a new coach is
contributions and larger gate revenue from better teams would cover the cost.
Johnson said, "If I'd had my druthers, I certainly wouldn't have faced a football and basketball problem in the first three months on the job."
KU officials could not say whether the high school seniors who had expressed intentions of playing for KU had changed their minds about the school.
Although Owens was not notified of the decision until Sunday, Johnson said he had begun to question the program in the middle of the season.
"IHAD A GENERAL concern that maybe our program just wasn't what it should be," he said. Johnson said that Saturday he met with Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Brinkman to tell them the outlook for the basketball program. He said he did not ask their advice.
Only the athletic director has the authority of hire and fire coaches. He is not required to seek the approval of the chancellor or of any board members.
Budig refused to comment on Owens' firing.
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A search committee is to be formed this week,
and the position will be advertised for 10 days to
two weeks in selected professional journals.
Johnson said he had not yet considered any
specific person for the job.
JOHNSON SAID AT THE NEWS conference that the decision to fire Owens was not due to pressure from alumni contributors to the athletic department. If the decision was a business deal, it was so because attendance had been an average of 3,700 over the past three years.
He said assistant coaches White and Hill would be welcome to apply for the head coach's position but would not be given special consideration.
"If you calculate that on even the lowest ticket price, it doesn't take long for that to become a significant factor," Johnson said.
Fee
From page 1 The alternatives include:
- Setting the fee-cost ratio at 25 percent for the Regents system as a whole. This would raise tuition rates for Kansas residents at all Regents schools from $410 to $452 a semester, beginning in fall 1984.
- Setting the fee-cost ratio at 25 percent for KU, Kansas State University and WSU, the "doctoral universities," which offer more diverse graduate programs than other Regents schools, and setting the fee-cost ratio at 30 percent for the KU campus, would increase tuition and Emproria. This would increase tuition at KU by 2.5 percent, to $420 a semester in 1984.
- *Establishing a $50 differential between full-time undergraduate and graduate tuition and setting the fee-cost ratio at 25 percent for all students in a university that increases KU's tuition to $44 per semester in 1984.
- Setting the fee cost ratio at each Regents school at 25 percent, which would also raise KU's tuition to $420 a semester.
- Each alternative would effect in-state and out-of-state tuition by the same percentage.
- Establishing a $15 semester tuition surcharge at all Regents schools for academic computing and library acquisitions. The surcharge revenue from each school kept up to that of all that校.
Raine said he did not agree with some of the assumptions made in the proposals. He said the proposals assumed that enrollment in the Regents system would be about the same in 1984-85 as next school year, when the first tuition increase is planned.
*Setting the fee-cost ratio for doctoral universities at 30 percent, and 20 percent for regional universities. This would increase tuition at KU to $477 a semester in 1984.
TOM BERGER, EXECUTIVE director of the KU Graduate Student Council, said he thought it was unfair that the Regents discussed options that involved graduate students' tuition without having a graduate student on the committee.
Berner said that although he understood that graduate programs were more expensive than most undergraduate programs, he still disliked the tuition for graduate students would be raised.
"In the state of Kansas, we have to look at the overall situation of where our money goes," he said. "At this point, whether we are graduates or undergraduates, the total amount of money we pay for tuition doesn't go to the University — it goes into the state general fund."
Rawson said that many state universities has higher tuition levels for graduate students
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