Tenure Based on Teaching, Research and Service
By DIANE ARMSTRONG
Kansan Staff Writer
Performance of an individual at the university level can be reflected in several ways. For a student, it is generally a grade at the end of a semester's work. For a faculty member, it is generally attainment of promotion or tenure.
The sum of grade points marks the conclusion of a course for the student. The faculty member cannot be rated in such an objective manner.
The University recognizes the contributions of its faculty members on an annual basis through promotion and tenure. Promotion is the advancement of a student in research or ranks of instructor to assistant professor to associate professor to full professor
Attainment of continuous tenure involves the automatic renewal of apperence and the right according to state law, all appointments not within the State Civil Service expire June 30.
THE DECISION whether a candidate is to be granted tenure follows the conclusion of a probationary period, established at the time of his appointment. The
probationary period may last for a maximum of seven years, according to the tenure regulations approved by the Board of Regents in 1947. These regulations follow a 1940 statement by the Association of American University Professors.
PROMOTION AND TENURE are the results of an elaborate system of committee meetings, recommendations, dossier reports and decisions at the departmental, administrative and executive levels.
Although the final decision to grant promotion and tenure is made by the chancellor, recommendations from the department influence the ranking of candidates by the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure, Francis Heller, chairman of the Senate affairs and chairman of the Promotion and Tenure Committee, said recently.
The announcement of promotion and tenure marks the conclusion of months of background work within a department in collecting material for dossiers and in meeting informally with the Promotion and Tenure Committee to determine general characteristics and abilities of the prospective candidate, according to
IF A DEPARTMENT is divided into separate curricula, like the department of speech is, recommendations are made by William A. Conboy, chairman of the William A. Conboy, chairman of the
Heller
ministrative level. The University committee reads the dossiers, meets for discussion and achieves a rank order of the candidates, according to Heller.
The ranking is then presented to the chancellor with several cut-off points all
department of speech and drama. He said that, in this way, evaluation was not made by the person under whom the candidate worked.
candidates above the lines achieving promotion, all those below not achieving
Recommendations are then presented to a departmental committee, which issues candidates' contributions and offers opportunities for Promotion and Tenure Committee at the ad-
The decisions for candidates at the order areas are the most difficult to achieve.
Heller said that criteria within the basic framework of teaching, service and research are essential.
ment. He emphasized the importance of measuring the contributions of candidates within the context of achievements by their fellow faculty members.
"THE IDEAL TEACHER will regard teaching as his purpose in life. At the university level it is more than regurgitating the textbook," Heller said, in an attempt to define the qualities of a good teacher.
Coboy said that a teacher must contribute, adding to the routine standard.
"A good teacher will satisfy student expectations through creativity in the classroom."
Difficulties arise in determining who is a good teacher. Heller said that the judgment of former students could be helpful in deciding which teachers enrich their students intellectually and were remembered for it.
The present student also plays an important role, according to George J. Worth, chairman of the English department.
"We look at student evaluations seriously," Worth said.
He said that faculty members were sent to observe classes taught by other instructors within the department "in an effort to make careful judgments and provide more than abstract feelings that a teacher is reaching his students."
CONBoy LINKS research in teaching to addition of new dimensions to the field. He said that achievement of research was the net gain for others to refer to and use.
In the analytical field of engineering, high level research for the public and research in methods of education are important criteria for advancement, according to William P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering.
In the department of mathematics, a teacher must be a first-class mathematician, according to Paul S. Mostert, chairman of the department.
The professor must be capable of working out his own ideas and producing his own research and scholarship, Mostert said.
Research is not judged on quantity but on quality, according to Worth. He said that research was weighed in relation to the importance and importance to the profession.
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Tuesday, October 19, 1971
Price Freeze May Affect Rents
Kansan Photo by TOM THIRONE
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Visitation Curtailment Explained
... Colette Mattéar to讲声 floor
Attack Halts Ellsworth Visitation
By LYNNE MALM
Kansan Staff Writer
Admission to Ellsworth, the memorandum said, will be regulated by
The action was taken by Donald Alderson, dean of men, Emily Taylor, dean of women, and J. J. Wilson, director of housing, after an assault on three hall employees early Monday mornng. A memorandum from the three to all hall residents said need to reevaluate Ellsworth's procedure for receiving and registering guests.
Fred Ellsworth Hall was closed to non-residents at 7 p.m. Monday for an indefinite period of time. The announcement will be posted on the residence hall assistants Monday night.
Kosygin Unhurt by Attack Near Canada's Parliament
OTTAWA (AP)—A man shouting "freedom for Hungary!" grabbed Alexei N. Kosynyi his suit coat and nearly broke his arm. He found Monday outside Canada's Parliament.
KU Traffic and Security officers, who will be on duty at the main entrance of the hall 24 hours a day. These officers will challenge all who attempt to enter the hall. The two side entrances, formerly open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., have been closed
Neonsiders, with the exception of parents of students living in Ellsworth Hall and authorized University personnel, will not be allowed to enter the hall at any time. Students must present an assistant that they must have their photo-ID cards with them at all times and present on request to police when entering the hall. Several persons were identified as about ID's Monday night after they were identified as residents by hall employees.
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, walking alongside, stopped the 67-year-old premier from falling. Security police on the assault and laughed him away.
Kosygin's attacker said his name was Geza Matrai. The Royal Canadian Mounted police refused to confirm the identification.
In Toronto, however, a spokesman for the rightwing Edmund Burke Society said Matrai was a 27-year-old native Hungarian who was a member of the society and of the Fighters Association. The Fighters Association. The spokesman said the society was "very proud" of Matrai.
Trudeau said later he didn't think
An unidentified youth who carried a banner reading "Let my people go" was removed from the Commons gallery before he could unfurl it.
AS THE ATTACKER leaped over a police barricade at Kosygin, another man in the crowd shouted: "Go home, Soviet pig!"
Kosygin was "as upset as I am ashamed." He called the incident "a严 humiliation."
Kosigin's hair was mussed but he was not hurt. He walked with Trudeau to a doorway of Parliament. He boarded a limosine that was and taken to his hotel.
A Jewish organization also protested a claim that Jews are muscled in the Soviet Union.
THE FORMER Ellsworth Hall policy of 24-hour open house has been curtailed by the memorandum. Residents are still able to enter and leave the hall at any time, as long as each student has his ID and uses the main entrance.
No women residents will be allowed on the men's wings, and no men residents will be allowed on the women's wings the memorandum said. Lobbies and the dining room are open to all residents. Previously, of the hall were open to all residents.
"I apologized immediately," Prudence told reporters. He said Koygin did not resign.
Violators of the guidelines will be subject to immediate removal from the ball.
Mike Sundermeyer, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said early this morning that AURH would meet with the deans at 11 a.m. today to discuss AURH and hall government involvement in institutions like the one that closed Elsworth.
Alderson said he had become aware of trouble with the guest registration policy when he was called to Ellsworth at 3 a.m. Monday. At that time, he said, the resident director of Ellsworth, Mrs. Ellen Hansen, and two residents who were employed at Ellsworth had been assaulted by a group of black men who were thought to be non-residents.
MRS. HANSEN, Toni Cramer, Larry Dreyfus City, Kan. freshman, and Larry Dreyfus, Galveston, Tex. freshman, were taken to the treatment of head brains that they received. Mrs. Hanson was treated and released. Miss Kramer and Dreyfuss were hospitalized and reported in satisfactory condition. Both both been released on Monday evening
KU Traffic and Security are now investigating the complaints signed by the three, Mike Thomas, director of Traffic and Security, said Monday evening. The proceedings, but no one has been arrested or charged as yet, Thomas said.
U.S., Albania Give Sides As China Debate Opens
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) — The United States made an impassioned plea Monday to keep Nationalist China in the United Nations despite warnings that this might delay solution to the 22-year-old controversy over Chinese representation. U.S. Ambassador George Bush admonished the United States after Alainia's foreign minister, Neeth Nase, had opened the crucial debate with a declaration that Peking would have nothing to do with the world organization as long as the Nationalists remained.
Nase charged that the U.S.-backed "dual representation" plan was aimed at creating a deadlock and preventing Red China from taking a seat, even though a substantial majority has gone on record as favoring Peking's participation.
THE DEBATE is expected to continue through the remainder of this week, with a vote coming early next week. The intense interest in the discussion was reflected in
Bush said, "No one knows for sure how Peking will react" to the adoption of the proposal for seating the mainland government in the assembly and the Security Council, while preserving the membership of the Nationalist delegation.
The Albanian foreign minister and other pro-Peking diplomats, however, quoted from the Aug. 20 statement by the Peking government barring participation under any sort of two China or one-China, one Taiwan plan. The pro-Peking group also had the Peking policy statement circulated in full as a U.N. document.
WASHINGTON (AP)—With antwarfare forces gaining strength, administration leaders debated Monday whether to risk a six-month deadline to get out of Indochina.
Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, the House Republican leader, said he was confident he has enough votes to turn back a Senate pullout amendment—but not confident enough to commit himself to a showdown.
Withdrawal Vote Debated By GOP
An Associated Press check found at least nine House members who helped reject a similar amendment 219 to 176 last June and another four who said they were $845,000.
"It's close enough to be serious," Ford acknowledged. "We'll have to check into the parliamentary situation to be sure of the proper result."
while conceding he has lost votes since June. Ford said he also has won some but not all races in the last five years.
Republicans have the parliamentary right to block the six-month deadline from coming to a vote. Ford said House acceptance of the Senate amendment "would tend to undercut the President's efforts in Moscow and Peking."
Only one vote is permitted on instructing House confections Tuesday when the House sends a $21-billion military weapons bill containing the six-month war pillow amendment to a House-Senate compromise conference.
the presence of all but four or five delegations in the assembly chamber as the debate got under way. The public gallery was nearly full.
Chow, speaking at the afternoon session, said it would be "a tragic and irreparable mistake" if the assembly should replace his delegation with one from Peking
Among those present, besides ambassadors and their aides, were Chow Shukai, the Chinese Nationalist foreign minister; Kichi Aichi, former foreign minister; Akihiko Inoue, former Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Masahira Ashraf, who heads her country's delegation.
The Albanian foreign minister appealed for support of the so-called Albanian resolution calling for the expulsion of the delegation and the seating of Peking.
"There is only one Chinese state in the world today," Nase said. "There is no place for the Chiang Kai-shek clique." Nase described the U.S. policy as "hostile to the People's Republic of China."
"Any attempt to block the restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China," he asserted, "is doomed to defeat."
BUSH CONTENDED the only fair solution was to keep Taiwan in the United Nations. In this way, he said, "all the people of China would thus be represented by the United Nations by the governments which over the years have actually governed them."
Noting that the world organization had never in its history expelled a member, he
"Let us remember with realism that, once expelled, the likelihood of the Republic of China being admitted to the U.N. as a separate member, under preferer name or label, would be approved in accordance with that under the charter a prophecy for its admission could be vetoed by the People's Republic of China."
Bush said that in his view a vote for the Australian reintroduction is a vote against the Australian ban.
Fall Student Elections To Start Wednesday
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
Student government fall general elections will be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 23. Students will attend Hall, the lobby of the Kansas Union on and the second floor of Summerfield Hall. Students may vote in any of these places, Monday through Wednesday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday.
Three residence halls will serve as polling places Wednesday night. Students may vote from 6:30 to 9 in Oliver Hall, Hashinator Hall and G.S.P.
The election will feature the fee option poll, David Miller, student body president, initiated the poll and got Student Senate approval to take the issue to the students.
Students will mark their preference on a ballot mailed to them last week. Miller would enable the student to give serious consideration to the alternatives.
Included in the mailing were the ballot, a history of the student activity fee, an explanation of each option and a record of all contributions of the fees within the last three years.
The options are
This is the present fee which is allocated by the Student Senate to any recognized student activity. Allocations are subject to his "candidate's" and Board of Regents' approval.
A. CONTINUATION of the present $24-a-year student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for: Student Senate, Kansas subsitions, athletic admissions subsidies, University Theatre, Concert intramurals and student organizations.
B. AN $18-A-VEAR student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for: Student Senate, Kansan subscriptions, athletic admissions subsidies, University Film Course, University Film Series and intramurals, but not student organizations.
This option is the same as the present system with the exception that student organizations and clubs would not be funded, and sources of revenue would be to be found.
This is identical to the present system with the exception of no athletic allocations. Because the athletic department receives a substantial portion of the activity fee now, this option would allow the activity fee to be cut in half. It would, however, bring about an increase in fuel costs and equipment concern has been expressed that students may also lose their preferential seating at these events.
A $12-A-YEAR student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for: Student Senate, Kansan subscriptions, student organizations, University Theatre, Concert Course, University Film Series, educational public admissions subsidies are not included.
D. A $6-A-YEAR student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for:
Student Senate and Kansan subscriptions.
It does not include athletic admission fees.
Uncertaintely, Uncertaintely, Uncertaintely Course, University film series,
intramurals or student organizations.
This provides funds for only student government and the Kansan. All organizations, clubs and admission events will find new ways of financing their programs.
E. A $3.50-A-YEAR student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for: Student Senate, but does not include Kansan subscriptions, athletic admission and discount. University Concert Course, University Film Series, intramurals or student organizations.
E. THIS OPTION is the same as D with the exception that no fees would be allocated for Kansan subscriptions. Only the government would be funded by this option.
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