Chancellor speaks to AAUP
BY LINDA STEPHENS Kansan Staff Writer
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. outlined his position on academic tenure, faculty salaries and time spent on teaching versus time spent on research to the KU American Association of University Professors Thursday.
The AAUP dinner and meeting at which he spoke was at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Chalmers said that in the best university, tenure was unnecessary. This was an ideal situation and tenure should therefore not be considered a license to say and to do anything, anywhere, anytime, he added.
"Some words and deeds considered illegal by the state," he said, "are still within faculty freedom."
The conditions governing academic freedom were fuzzy and changeable, Chalmers said. The "gray areas" should be resolved more by collective judgment of the University than by the individual or by a group not attuned to the situation.
Concerning salaries, Chalmers said, "the University of Kansas is one of the ten or twenty best universities in the nation, but the
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Salaries should relate to the competition from other public universities, Chalmers said. He added he endorsed a merit salary increase based on the faculty member's contributions to the University and its students rather than increases based on the rank of the faculty member.
He was opposed, he said, to members who did not share their scholarship with the students or with their colleagues.
Chalmers also said that, although there was an inseparability of research from academic endeavor, the faculty's first responsibility was to the student.
"Presently, it is also important for members of the faculty to assume a service role related to the public relations of the University," he said, "to show that the campus is not overrun by communists, radicals and homosexuals."
Chalmers commented on formulative budgeting and long-range planning in answer to questions he was asked at the meeting.
There was a casual approach to state funds at the University, he said, although the results were sometimes remarkable.
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