Thursday, October 3, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Text of student faculty committee report
This is a report of the recommendations developed by the Student Faculty Committee on University Governance pursuant to the resolution adopted on May 5, 1968, by the All Student Council and endorsed by the Senate Council on the recommendation of the Senate Executive Committee. The resolution stated:
WHEREAS, we are committed to the belief that there should be adequate voting student membership in the University Senate and the Senate Council;
THEREFORE be it resolved
by the Associated Students of the University of Kansas that a committee composed of six members of the University Senate as appointed by the Executive Committee of the Senate Council (SENEX) and six members of the Student Body as appointed jointly by the Student Body President and Vice President be established to develop the mechanisms by which adequate voting student membership in the University Senate and the Senate Council can be instituted.
Legislative Bodies
<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th colspan="2">Present Membership</th><th colspan="2">Recommended Membership</th></tr><tr><th>Faculty</th><th>Students</th><th>Faculty</th><th>Students</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>University Senate</td><td>550*</td><td>0</td><td>550*</td><td>950</td></tr><tr><td>Faculty Senate</td><td>N.A.</td><td>N.A.</td><td>550*</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Student Senate</td><td>0</td><td>35**</td><td>0</td><td>950</td></tr></tbody></table>
Senate Council and Committees
<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th colspan="2">Present Membership</th><th colspan="2">Recommended Membership</th></tr><tr><th>Faculty</th><th>Students</th><th>Faculty</th><th>Students</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Senate Council</td><td>42</td><td>0</td><td>42</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>SENEX</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>6</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Academic Procedures and Policies</td><td>8</td><td>0</td><td>10</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Organization and Administration</td><td>7</td><td>0</td><td>10</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Fiscal Affairs</td><td>10</td><td>0</td><td>10</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Student Affairs</td><td>9</td><td>0</td><td colspan="2">Reconstituted and moved to Student Senate--Student membership plus Dean of Student Affairs</td></tr><tr><td>Faculty Affairs</td><td>9</td><td>0</td><td colspan="2">Moved to Faculty</td></tr></tbody></table>
University Senate Committees
Moved to Faculty Senate- Faculty membership plus Dean of Faculties
<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th colspan="2">Present Membership</th><th colspan="2">Recommended Membership</th></tr><tr><th>Faculty</th><th>Students</th><th>Faculty</th><th>Students</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Human Relations</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Library</td><td>9</td><td>0</td><td>9</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Lectures and Convocations</td><td>6##</td><td>3</td><td>6##</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Pilm Series</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>6</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Foreign Students</td><td>5##</td><td>0</td><td>5##</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Financial Aid to Students</td><td>6##</td><td>0</td><td>6##</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Research</td><td>13##</td><td>0</td><td>13</td><td>0<br>(Moved to Faculty Senate)-- membership unchanged</td></tr><tr><td>Scholarly Publications</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>6</td><td>1<br>(Moved to Faculty Senate)-- graduate student added</td></tr><tr><td>Cooperation with Jr. Colleges</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>(Moved to Faculty Senate)-- membership unchanged</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cooperation Among Institutions of Higher Learning</td><td>9</td><td>0</td><td>(Moved to Faculty Senate)-- membership unchanged</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tenure and Related Problems</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>(Moved to Faculty Senate)-- membership unchanged</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Disciplinary Committee</td><td>5##</td><td>6</td><td>(Moved to Student Senate)-- membership unchanged</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Parking and Traffic</td><td>7##</td><td>4</td><td>Membership unchanged</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
*Approximate only
Plus personnel deans
**Approximate membership of present All Student Council
Includes administrators and faculty
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The following additional resolution was adopted by the Senate Council and endorsed by the All Student Council:
That the Senate Council encourages the 12-member Committee not to limit itself to the implementation of the proposed ASC Resolution, but to explore additional ways by which the student body may participate in University affairs.
The action of the Senate Council was then approved by the University Senate on May 7.
There was general agreement at the first meeting of the Committee that the most effective initial step would be to proceed directly to the question of student participation in the deliberations of the University Senate, rather than to undertake an elaborate study of the basic causes of student discontent and the broad spectrum of possible remedies. It did, however, review several voluminous reports issued by other universities, such as the University of California at Berkeley, on the broader questions and surveyed remedial steps which has been taken. The Committee focused its attention on the specific problems referred to it by the resolutions so that by the start of the fall semester it would have concrete recommendations concerning student representation in the Senate, the Senate Council, and their committees. Its guiding principle—unanimously adopted at one of its early meetings—was that students should have an effective voice in all decisions of the University which directly and substantially affect them.
The Committee then carefully studied the composition and responsibilities of the various committees of the Senate and the Senate Council. It examined the written charges of each, discussed their operations formally and informally with members of those committees, and drew on
the experience of its own members who had served on many of those committees or had had other contact with them. While the entire Committee was doing this, a subcommittee reviewed the structure and operation of student government with a view toward integrating it more closely with the University Senate
RECOMMENDATIONS
The specific recommendations on university governance seek to identify matters which are of primary concern to students, whose which are of primary concern to faculty, and those which may properly be considered of joint concern. They seek to place in the appropriate governing bodies primary responsibility for those areas in which their essential interests lie. While it is recognized that, for the present at least, there is, on the part of many, a desire for the retention of some separate areas for faculty and student discussion and decision, the emphasis is placed upon cooperative and joint decision and action. Many members of the Committee hope that this will expand into a true community of endeavor.
The recommendations are divided into three parts:
1. Specific Recommenda-
1. Specific Recommendations Affecting the University Senate
2. Specific Recommendations Affecting Student Government
5. General Recommendations
1. Specific Recommendations Affecting the University Senate
The chart attached as Appendix II graphically represents the recommended restructuring of the governing bodies of the University into (1) a new Faculty Senate composed of tenured faculty and (2) a new Student Senate (replacing the present All Student Council) composed of elected and ex officio members, both joined together for matters of mutual concern in (3) a reconstituted University Senate consisting of all the members of both the Faculty and Student Senates. Also involved are several changes in nomenclature, the relocation of several committees, and the abolition of one.
Specifically the Committee recommends:
A. The Council Committee on Student Affairs be renamed the Committee on Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities and be made responsible to the new Student Senate. The responsibilities of the Council on Student Affairs (COSA), now a Chancellor's Committee, are given to the reco-
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