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Thursday, September 21, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Faculty to face tenure procedure
By DEB RIECHMANN
Staff Reporter
Tenure and promotion enter the minds of almost all faculty members at the University of Kansas sometime during their teacher careers.
For some of the approximately 20 faculty members who will be recommended for tenure this year, it will be a time of anxiety and for others it will be a mere formality.
The process for being awarded tenure is complicated. Each faculty member's tenure is determined by
A faculty meeting to explain the procedures of being recommended for tenure will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Tennure is important because KU wants to tenure in a high quality faculty, June Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
every faculty member's past performance is reviewed by various committees no later than his sixth year of teaching at KU. He is labeled as a candidate
for tenure or is notified that he is in his last year of teaching at KU and must look for
TENURE ASSURES a faculty member that he could be fired only for adequate cause, age or extraordinary circumstances, such as financial exigency, Michal said.
Financial exigency applies when enrollment has declined to a point where the institution can afford it.
After a candidate for tenure or promotion is endorsed by a school or University division, the application is sent to the office of academic affairs.
The Committee on Promotions and Tenure then evaluates each faculty member on the basis of his past teaching performance, past research or publication activity, and the degree to which he has served the University.
One faculty member said he had been uneasy due to time he was being contended for.
JON S. VINCENT, associate professor of Spanish and Fortuguese, said, "You sort of package up your life and send it forward to see if the rest of the world approves of it. And if not you ought to look into the opportunities of getting into wire bending."
If a teacher is denied tenure by the committee, he has one year to find another job.
Only under the most unusual circumstance would an individual who has received a termination be reevaluation or denied during his last year at KU, Michal said.
Richard DeGeorge, professor of philosophy, said, "The job market is very tight and the number of people coming up here is greater than to be when there were lots of jobs available."
A termination notice represents a final judgment of the University. A recommendation to reconsider termination therefore must be accompanied by a special request that gives evidence of a faculty member's new achievement.
SOME FACULTY MEMBERS said they experienced no anxiety because they were granted tenure early and there was less pressure or early because they were named an associate professor, which automatically brings tenure.
W. Stitt Robinson, professor of history, said, "I really didn't have much tremor about the whole thing because I got tenure early. My recommendation for tenure came along with a recommendation for promotion."
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In any circumstance, however, a person experiences some degree of uncertainty.
This year's absence of a Baby Jayhawk in the football games has broken seven in four.
These programs lead to a commission in the United States Navy or Marine Corps.
"We are certainly not going to let Baby Jay die," Don Baker, sports information director, said yesterday. "It is our opinion that we will become a big tradition at the University."
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"It's bound to make you feel uneasy. People are meeting about you. Your colleagues file out of meetings with folders we've been talking about."
We are now accepting applications for our 2-year scholarship and college program for next fall.
The costume for the Baby Jayhawk, valued at $600, was stolen Sept. 9 from Burk Awning & Canvas Manufacturing Co., 706 Massachusetts St.
Robert Burk, an employee of the company, said two men went inside the store to talk to him and when he turned his back on them they picked up the costume and fled.
But athletic department officials are determined to keep that tradition alive.
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BOTH MASCOT costumes were at the Burk Coin to be re-covered, and the Baby Jay costume had been lying on the counter at the table. The Big Jayhawk in was not stolen.
Baker said the fiberglass costumes were recovered every two years.
Baby Jay missed
"We are going to sit back and hope that the person who took it will return it," he said. "As far as we are concerned, there will be no prosecution. We are hoping it was a prank and that the people who took it have had their fun and will return it."
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costume, but hoped that a KU student was not involved.
"I WOULD like to think a KU student would not do that," he said.
However athletic department officials are not the only people upset about the loss of the costume.
Cathy Stevens, Salina junior, has been wearing the 35-pound Baby Jay costume at games for the past two years, and she said missed portraying the little Jayhawk.
"I didn't believe it was gone," she said. "I thought somebody was joking. I kept thinking it would show up at the game but it didn't. I and I realized the Baby Jay was really no better."
"THE BIG Jayhawk girls miss it terribly. It really kind of made them mad that somebody would go so low as to steal the Baby Jayhawk."
Stevens, who is 5 feet 1 inch tall, said many alumni, faculty and students told her they were concerned about the fate of the smaller mascot and wanted to know where it was and when it would be replaced.
nere are a lot of people who are very concerned about what happened to the Baby Jay," she said. "People who know I am not here, where it is and when it's going to be back."
Stevens said all that could be done was wait, but she said she hoped the costume would show up before KU's 1978 Homecoming festivities, Oct. 28.
the baby Jayhawk, a brainstorm of Amy Hurst, a former KU student, was batched from a blue egg during halftime festivals at KU's 1971 Homecoming.
"There's nothing we can do but sit tight and wait," Stevens said, "but I hope they replace it, because the Baby Jayhawk is on here and it's obviously missed."
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Events
TODAY: MARINE CORPS OFFICER SELECTION OFFICER will be in booth 1 of the Kansas Union 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to interview persons interested in the Marine Corps. The meeting will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union. There will be a discussion of a proposal for an MBA degree in creative writing. The meeting will be at the Sunflower Room of the Union. SOCER MANAGERS MEETING will be at 5:15 p.m. in 280 Robinson Gymnasium.
TONIGHT: SUA BRIDGE CLUB will meet at 7 in the Pine Room of the Union. ANTHROPOLOGY POPULATIONS LECTURE will be at 7 in the Forum Room of the Union. Alan Swedlain will speak about the demography of the people of the Connecticut Valley. A film about the ART OF HERMANN ZAPE will be shown at 7 and 8 on the Council Room of the Union. CONUNIUM WORKS will be at 7 in Cork 2 at the Union. The JAYHAWK ADUBON SOCIETY will meet at 7:30 at the South Park Recreation Center. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS will meet at 7:30 in 2009 Learned.
TOMORROW: FALL PHARMACY CONTINUING EDUCATION SEMINAR will begin at noon in the Union. FRONTIERS OF SPACE SYMPOSIUM will be at 3:30 p.m. in Apollo 17 Room in Nichols Hall. Nance Williams will attend, but the benefits of space exploration. BARRY GIFFORD, an author of "Jack KBook," an oral biography of Jack Kerouac, will discuss "Kerouac's Life and Times," at 4 p.m. in the Regional Room of K-CLU, a departmental furniture will be at 7 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. LAW SOCIETY BOARD OF GOVERNORS will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Watkins Room of the Union.
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