Page 14 Universitv Daliv Kansan. April 30. 1982 口 Tacha's energy, optimism extend to education By ANNE CALOVICH Staff Reporter In her 6-year-old son's eyes, Deanell Tacha is the vice chancellor for the United States. And if the University of Kansas is as important as the United States to David Tacha, then that is probably true. The enthusiastic, ever-smiling vice chancellor for academic affairs uses the budget priorities she helps form as her platform and spreads the word of her undergraduate education reform plan all over the University of Kansas. It sprouts from her birthplace, in Scandia, and from the fact that her grandmother was in the first class of KU's school of nursing. It started when But education isn't politics for Tacha, it's her bell-hem commitment. she came to KU and got her undergraduate degree in American Studies in 1968. It continued when she came to KU as a law professor in 1974. IT'S SOMETHING that now steals her nights and weekends as well as her days, and she's finding in her first year what is often a difficult access is balancing care and family. She has a husband, John, who owns a business that books and sells educational entertainment. And they are children: John, 7; David, 6; and Sarah, 2. "The timing of this particular job is just not particularly good for me," Tacha said. "There are times when I really have to say, 'You have got to step back and take a more balanced perspective.'" "There are those who will say I fall into the category of evangelist because I am so optimistic about this University and the people that are here and get so troubled with some of the problems that I perseudm myself for zealous ountism. Tacha must smile in her sleep. Administrators schedule meetings starting sometimes at 6 a.m., meetings that roll into the early evening and are followed by KU social events she must attend to ensure the airbriefcase is there to do before the children have gone to bed. HER OWN undergraduate career at KU has caused her to be concerned about undergraduate education now. She has spurred on the Report of the Commission on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education which was passed in 2015, and which calls such things as a University-wide core curriculum. She meets with deans, administrators and faculty members regularly. David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he enjoyed working with Tacha. "She's done an exceptional job in her first year," he said. "We will see a lot of improvement in our overall academic program particularly at the undergraduate level in that she has taken a personal interest in the commission's report and the achievements are empowered by the emphasis and leadership she has provided for it." But getting around to the day-to-day problems of faculty and working toward the big goals also are a problem for Tacha. "One of the frustrations this year is that I ask for as open and candid answers to questions, but the problem is the physical accomplishment of that task. There is so **THIS MEANS she is so booked up it scares even her. When someone called and wanted her to speak in September, I thought sure she'd be free. She wasn't.** I'm sending you one, so please send me back one that tells me more about you cause I never knew you very much. Forget. Erase. Exclamation point. much I want to think through with other people," she said. Ambler said, "You don't get in administration of higher education if you're a low-energy person who wants a quiet life, to be able to go home at 5, kick off your shoes and play with the students." She has one of the most important jobs in the University. She has the lion's share of the University's programs and "And when the telephone rings for her, I just go, 'Help my years!' " "I made a choice early on that I would not be happy unless I had both a very active family life and a very active professional life," Tacha said. Tacha laughs at her son. But she knows there are trade-offs when a woman has both a family and career. She learns that half the work of raising the children. Deanell Tacha 'I've been so identified with this institution, it's just hard for me to see anything but being a faculty member.' —Deanell Tacha resources. She is responsible for all the academic part, probably 75 percent of the University in the budget." So life has become a juggling act: how to fit all those with serious problems into the schedule that's already full, and how to get her son to tumbling and make it to an honors banquet in the evening. Moments at home are special; the Tachas don't talk shop at home. BUT THE CHILDREN know mommy's very busy; they're used to frequent phone calls when she's home, but not when her dictating letters late into the night. "Every night she always wakes me up," John, the elder son, said. "To Jim: I'd really like to know what your letter's about. That's why "But my children and my husband are largely responsible for the amount of energy I have to do other things. "It's been very gratifying to me to have a personal life that's very separate from my University life." The most time Tacha has taken off work has been three weeks, when she had her youngest child. Otherwise, there was the time she passed out one week and then worked at Old Green Hall in front of her law class when she was nine months pregnant. However, she managed to teach the remainder of the course, with an extra class a week to finish it more quickly, giving the final before the baby was born. perhaps did not give the same amount of time to their family as they did to their professional lives. TACHA SAID her family helped her job and she worried about the men in higher education she worked with who m many ways it's the only way I can maintain some perspective on the kinds of problems that develop day by day here and it gives me quite a commitment to the future of higher education or real personal commitment," she said. TACHA IS IDEALISTIC. She sits in front of the Student Senate committee and tears well in her eyes as she, still smiling, describes her excitement upon discovering that many professors teach freshman and sophomore classes. She sits in her family room, enjoying a rare night at home, tears of fatigue showing in her eyes, and she still looks up with admiration words "commitment" and "essential." "I am so optimistic about what I'm doing right now at the University," she says, explaining her hectic life. "The energy level just builds." She intends to keep on with her job. After her first year, she finds the faculty to be the biggest reward in the quest for excellence in education. "This faculty is absolutely remarkable in my mind," she said. "I enjoy the administrative side of it, but I enjoy it because I see myself trying to facilitate faculty and students," she said. "I've been so identified with this institution, it's just hard for me to see anything but being a faculty member." For that reason, she'll take up one old job along with the other two next semester. She'll go back to teaching. "There's nothing like teaching," she "There's nothing like teaching," she said. 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