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Wednesday. November 1, 1972
Officials Discuss Graduate School Changes
By MYLA STARR
Kansan Staff Writer
Few students are aware of any changes in the graduate program at the University of Kansas, but decentralization of graduate studies is a topic of discussion for administrators in every department on which that offers a post-baccalaureate degree.
It will be several months before a new program is implemented, but a few steps toward decentralization already have been taken. For example, graduate records from the graduate office to the individual schools, the creation of a new vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and the adoption last May that the institution will undergo decentralization of graduate studies at KU.
THE EXECUTIVE committee of the graduate council has been assigned the task of making recommendations to the graduate school, including Robert Force II proposal, according to Robert Ellermeier, associate dean of the graduate school and a member of the executive council.
"Task Force II is a recommendation for the structure of all graduate studies programs the University and to be used as a basis for continuing discussion," he
"OUR TASK THIS semester is to define the extent of decentralization and degree of autonomy of the graduate programs," he said. "It is our first order of business."
Ellermeier said the executive committee had received feedback from all of the schools involved about the Task Force II proposal.
Discussion this semester will center on the "specifics of implementation" of Task Force II, according to Ellermeir, and will be concerned with such questions as how these and dissertations will be handled and who will be responsible for approval of graduate level courses when decentralization is completed.
A REVISED PROPOSAL for decentralization will ultimately go to members of the graduate faculty for ratification by the first of next semester, Elmerleer said.
"These changes will not affect the students," he said. "Decentralization is
more of an administrative, mechanistic change, students themselves are
"WE HANDLED the records for 4,000 graduate students," he said, "and the office was burdened with clerical work as well as policy work. Decentralization will free this office to give more attention to the quality of graduate studies."
Reorganization of the graduate program at KU is not a new proposal, according to Howard Baugartmeyer, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a member of the College Interim Committee on Graduate Studies.
Discussion of graduate study decentralization began more than seven years ago when Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe proposed a graduate school reorganization plan in May of 1968, he said. No action was taken at that time, but in the summer of 1967, four area committees were created to directly with and graduate study problems.
These four committees represented the humanities and fine arts; the behavioral and social sciences, education, business and commerce; the physical sciences and engineering.
In the spring of 1971, a proposal for reorganization of graduate studies was approved by Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., the executive committee of the graduate council and the graduate council, Baumatzert said.
It was during this period that Task Force I was written.
"TASK FORCE I was concerned with defining the specific duties of the vice chancellor for academic affairs and described the responsibilities of a new chancellor for research and graduate studies," he said.
A second task force was appointed to propose revised organization of graduate studies in the spring of 1972, according to an agreement with the University of Force II, was approved by the executive committee of the graduate council as an interim structure for presentation this fall to faculty members.
DECENTRALIZATION OF graduate records began last semester, Baugarttel said, when the records of graduate students in the professional schools were transferred
from the graduate school office to the individual schools.
In July the new vice chancellorship for research and graduate studies was established, and arts and sciences graduate records were decentralized. Personnel from the old graduate school office were also transferred to the College Office during the summer; further training in associate deanships were established in each school to deal with graduate studies.
THE COLLEGE Interim Committee on Graduate Studies sent their suggested modifications of the Task Force II report to the graduate council on Oct. 2, Baugmentie
Included in the in "revisions and additions":
the *Trial Report* on *problematic* matters that designates in arts
and sciences be free to develop graduate curricula in consultation with colleagues within broad policy guidelines established by the university, decisions be made by "responsible agencies" within the schools and the college within all-University guidelines; awarding of degrees be delegated to the schools and colleges; rules of the graduate assembly lie within the schools and the college; and the graduate school catalog be eliminated by incorporation of arts and sciences graduation in the general arts and sciences catalog.
"OUR MAIN CONCERN is that KU have a vigorous graduate program," said Baumgartel. "We are recommending a more open system to achieve high quality
Stephenson Hall, which now houses men, has been chosen by ASHC to house 30 men and 22 women. Women will occupy the third floor, where they will first the first and second floors of the hall.
Students now living in a scholarship hall will be given preference for positions in the hall. Former scholarship hall residents will be considered in the event that the coed hall is not filled. Applications are now available and must be returned by Nov. 4.
A preliminary selection of applications will be made by a student committee composed of one representative from each of the scholarship halls and two representatives from the offices of the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women.
Coed Scholarship Hall Planned for Fall 1973
Although four coed dormitories now exist at KU, this will be the first time that coed living will be tried in a small university cooperative living group.
Cood living will be incorporated into the University of Kansas Scholarship Hall system next fall according to plans now being made in the All-Scholarship Hall (ASHC)
from the preliminary group.
The current proposal for a coed scholarship hall stems from several years of negotiation by ASHC with the cooperation of the Women and university housing officials.
MEMBERS of the committee will be chosen from students who are living in scholarship lives now but have expressed no desire to live in a coed hall, according to the board. Park sophomore and chairman of the subcommittee considering the coed hall.
Although quite a few students have shown interest in living in a coed hall, Stephenson will probably be the only one to go coed, Glisher said. He said endowments of other scholarship halls specifically stated that either men or women would live in that hall but Stephenson's was ambiguous enough to allow both.
Stephenson will employ the cooperative living system that is presently used by all scholarship halls. Each member of the hall is expected to do a certain amount of work connected with the hall in exchange for reduced housing rates.
ACCORDING to the Coed Hall Task Force Report of 1979-71, the purpose of the hall will be "to provide an atmosphere where men can relax and enjoy each other outside of a dating relationship."
To Glish, the breakdown of traditional sex roles will be the primary goal of the new hall. He said he feels that a lot of people will be treated in the hall with preconceived conceptual roles.
Baungartier admitted that decentralization presented a problem for the college, which is not used to be responsible for graduate programs.
graduate work through more freedom for individual departments."
"The most important task of the college now is to develop a responsible internal committee structure to deal with graduate problems," he said.
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Lack of Quorum Delays Decision on Homecoming
Lack of a quorum at a special session of the homecoming committee Tuesday delayed a decision on an appeal of the quorum to the national homecoming decorations competition.
Five of the 18 committee members attended the meeting and discussed the appeal. Dick Wintermite, executive director of the Alumni Association and committee chairman, said that the presence of nine members was necessary for a quorum.
Wintermorte said he had called for the special meeting to consider the appeal late Monday and had been unable to contact many of the committee members.
Duncan had made the appeal Sunday on behalf of his fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, the third place winner in the two-dimensional division.
The appeal was made by Tuck Duncan, Wilmette, III, senior, after the decorations judges awarded first- and second-place entries in a local high school entries with moving parts. The homecoming committee had earlier defined two-dimensional displays as having no miling
Adams said the judges discussed the problems for 45 minutes before going out to judge the displays. The judges then reclassified certain displays contrary to the definitions set by the homecoming committee.
Bill Adams, Lenexa senior and decorations chairman, told the committee he had informed the six judges of the displays of the problems concerning the two-and three-dimensional displays before the judging Friday.
Duncan said that he had made the appeal because he though he had an obligation to his fraternity and because he thought that two-dimensional displays would become梨形 if questions concerning the classification of displays was not resolved this year.
Five of six judges indicated that the displays in question were two-dimensional rather than three-dimensional in nature, Adams said.
According to Adams, the judges had said that under the committee's definitions, groups were being penalized for being inventive.
Absentee Ballot Deadline Near
"It is optimistic to bank on the mail service this close to the election," Mathia said. "It is doubtful that voters would be required to vote by mail, unless they were very close."
Delbert Mathia, Douglas County clerk,
said that persons using the absentee ballot
must have their applications in his office by
pam, or ballots in his office by 7 pm.
on election day.
Wintermorte said a possible solution might be to give special awards to the two displays in question and to move up the other two-dimensional displays.
Matiaa said that people still could obtain a ballet either by mail or by coming to the company.
To obtain ballots by mail voters must write two letters, Mathia said. They must request to write the absent voter affidavit, a letter of acknowledgment, that voter receives a ballot. Then the ballot itself must be completed and returned by 7 p.m. November 7.
The next committee meeting is planned for Nov. 7.
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