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Monday, December 10, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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year. We carve out of the year with the yokes
from which Chancellor Dykes has imbued.
Nichols compared the students and faculty of 50 years ago with those of today and concluded that there had been a significant improvement in both.
NICHOLS GREW serious as he speculated on the future of KU.
"In fact, I'm not sure I could have made it as a student here had I come today," said Nichols, secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa charter, here for 42 years.
"A decline in the birth rate is going to affect our enrollment in the coming years," he said. "Also, the growth of the community colleges will affect our enrollment. They're going to take a higher percentage of freshmen because it costs so much to go to college. Think these persons who are applying pressure for increased tuition are wrong."
Nichols said the public was questioning the value of higher education.
"The thinking it is more that education should be career oriented and
The former chancellor said the challenge facing the University w new ways to maintain the enrollm
less simply learning how to live Nichols.
"Our enrollment will decline us to the growing need or despic to continue education b education to the public. We must door of education to the housewife professional man," he said.
"We must expand our present phe he said. "Otherwise, we'll have to our staff."
Asked what she thought was the her husband's success, Clyffe replied, "He's not a frustrated phera has a very neat mind and a v memory. He's got great vitality ability to be objective."
Nichols cited a business admin course to be offered in Topek example of the University's goin public.
THE NICHOLSES said they plan some traveling after retirement. They were going to visit their son, 1
Pachacamac
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secret societies. He added that most Greeks weren't involved in Pach and that they probably didn't know of it or its activities until the last few weeks.
In recent years Pach has paid for a number of advertisements in the Jayhawk yearbook. In these ads, the Jayhawk pamphac has stated its aims and purposes.
"The Society of Pachacamac, although unknown to most persons on campus, plays an active, positive role in student life and is the university's best-selling book ... "an aid in the 1987 daybaker report.
"Pachacamac isn't an organization that exerts its power through coercion or force, but instead is a society which, because of the quality of its members, believes its aims can be realized through influence and persuasion.
However, according to Dennis Mullen, Shawnee senior and president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Pachacamac does have a great opportunity especially in the Interfraternity Council.
"There is today no affiliation or undue concern with campus politics; the society is a community."
"SOME MEMBERS of the Interfraternity Council are involved in Pachacamac from the top level on down," he said, "and they have great influence on fraternity affairs."
Mullen said Pacachamac was a detriment in the fraternity - stem.
Another past member of the IFC said the first time he heard of Pachacamac, secret societies and their activities was when he attended IFC meetings.
"Secret societies are a thing of the past," he said, "and I see no need for an underground group to accomplish social and political objectives.
Rhoads Stevens, Garnett sophomore and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said Pachacama was a potentially dangerous situation that should be brought out into the open.
“Pach is an organization that seemingly wants to take care of us,” Stevens said, “but I consider this an insult to the intelligence of the people, especially when an organization thinks it knows how to take care of us better than we ourselves.
On Oct. 26, 1912, the Society of the Inner Circle of Pachacamac was founded as a student political party supporting William Howard Taft for the presidency of the United States. Taft was the Republican candidate.
SOME PEOPLE expressed the opinion that Pach was only an elusive ghost being chased by a bunch of witch hunters, but others were aware of the realities they were matters of historical record.
The next year, Pach turned to campus politics and started to build a dynasty of political power and influence that was to last for the next 42 years.
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Other semi-secret societies and parties were founded in prolific during the first three decades of tury.
Pachacamac was a fraternity party that participated openly in the dance. They always had a number of members "Inner Circle" who remained unkempt secret from the public. The menmember Inner Circle were often referred to as "the punk."
Pachacamacai was opposed by fraternity political parties such as Mask in the 1920s and the Prec Student Government League in the 1930s. In 1937, KuKU, Pachacamacai failed only fivefold the upper hand in campus
In a March, 1964, issue of the Norman Capps, a student at that institute said as saying, "The idea for a law should be to create an All Student Council became dis because they didn't feel they had fright of how to rule—they felt they had control."
There was also a Pacachamac-
political party composed of Gree-
and, under the wing of the Pache-
gan independence it party called F.O.R.
HOWEVER, IN 1954, many frs and sororites had become with the Pachacamac party and deform a new political party.
In 1984, 12 fraternities and a bolt from the Pacachaean part themselves with the independent formed the Allied Greek-Independent Committee, which had been accused of dirty, undere politics. It was alleged to have eng ball blocking, ghost voting and peeking to maintain its power.
On the evening of Feb. 25, 1954, rp of the "Inner Circle" of the St Pachacamaycán decided that the role as a student political party had end. The party was disbanded, political dynasty broken.
A University Daily Kanan Edit an article in 1984 on Pachacamacu quotation: "Is Pachy really dead?" Perhaps we don't know? Perhaps in a smoke-follower somewhere on the campus the Socio Inner Circle of Pachacamacu, or in the same, still exists. ... All we knnw is that he was a child by Pachy men over the death of their
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KU 'Steady State' No Respite
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In California schools they call it the "steady state." It means that because of population trends during the past 15 years, the enrollment boom at universities around the country is over and enrollment at many schools is expected to begin a period of no growth or even to decline.
The University of Kansas is one of those schools. Because of a decline across the state in annual births already under way and a drop in 12th grade enrollment expected to begin in 1975, KU's enrollment is stabilizing and may begin to decline after 1978.
A steady state situation at KU means one thing: more emphasis on "master planning," a term that is somewhat nebulous and means different things to different administrators.
Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols includes five emphases when discussing master planning. It involves, says Nichols, long-term building of buildings and facilities with the aim of reallocating resources to where demand is greatest, predicting new academic needs and areas of interest and developing programs to meet new needs.
At KU, it was recommended that 19 programs be estimated and 22 more be placed in provisional status.
Rise of Wescoe Hall Marks New Planning Era
The first emphasis, long-term planning of building needs, is nothing new to KU. Just last month, a status report that analyzed KU's physical development through 1880 was submitted to the Board of Regents.
The report says KU's "most critical need of all is new buildings." The University, the report says, lacks by about 1.6 million square feet the amount of space required by the '1971 level of activity," which is derived from a formula that considers students, credit hours, research and emulates.
Realizeaching resources to meet demands, Nichols says, means basically that money and other resources will be taken from areas where enrollment is down and given to more popular areas of study.
An example of realization is a report, "Guidelines for Increasing Academic Efficiency at the State Colleges and Universities," made last year to the Council of Chief Academic Officers (COCAO).
Eliminating graduate programs is risky, however. Robert Aangenbrug, director of institutional research and planning, says, "The best undergraduate programs are those that tend to be strongly
By 1898, 500,000 square feet of new space that has already been authorized will have been built, but 170,000 additional square feet will be needed. Unless more building commitments are made by the legislature, the deficit will have shrunk only to 1.27 million square feet.
Keith Lawton, director of facilities, planning and operation, points out, however, that although KU's enrollment may be stabilizing, its building needs, as the report indicates, won't disappear.
"The University has needs a long time into the future. If we didn't enroll one new student we have 10 to 15 years of modernization to catch up on to our current work and whole ... at the rate resources are coming to us now."
"What we're interested in is keeping people from drawing a deep breath and saying, 'Enrollment is leveling off, we don't need anything more,'" he says. "The hell we don't."
integrated with the graduate level. They include faculty with the highest possible level of expertise."
If a department leaves a graduate program, it may also lose a faculty member, thus jeopardizing undergraduate programs.
An extension of the COCAO report would be a similar study on the undergraduate level. Such a study hasn't been authorized, but as master planning gains impetus, it might
But although the COCAO report was aimed at eliminating duplication of graduate programs of minor interest at the state schools, the chances of matching the same to undergraduate programs appear less.
PIONEER'
Included in the bill was a provision called section 1202 that required any state seeking funds for several of the 27 programs to establish a state post-secondary education commission.
"There are some general educational needs at each institution that must be met," says Aangene-brug. "This necessitates duplication (of courses) like in high school."
Although the 1202 commissions were never funded, they did have an effect on master planning in Kingland.
Federal efforts to initiate master planning on a statewide basis were embodied in the Educational Amendments of 1973, a 282-piece page of legislation that included state and federal expenditures of $18.5 billion, over three
Last December, the state Master Planning Commission submitted to the Kansas Legislature a report that was a long-term look at education in Kansas and recommendations for postsecondary educational planning.
With an eye on the 1202 commissions, which were expected to be funded soon after the report announcement, the commission included a commendation that a "partnership" State Planning Agency charged with the continuing responsibility of research and planning for a comprehensive system of postsecondary education.
When section 1202 failed to receive funding, the state legislature decided not to act on the Master Planning Commission's recommendation during the 1973 legislative session.
Since the legislative session ended, however, a fear that the legislature will create a new governing proposal for Kansas higher education during the 1974 session resulted in a move in September by state college presidents to draw up their own proposal for a new governing system.
The presidents named a committee of six, including KU's Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, to draw up a proposal favorable to both junior colleges and four-year schools.
Since September, the committee has met but hasn't formed a proposal.
Regardless of how successful master planning becomes at KU and on a statewide base, the arrival of a steady state will probably create problems that will simply have to be lived with.
The controversial tenure issue at KU could become even more of a problem as faculty hiring decreases. If new faculty members are hired only to fill vacancies due to death, retirement and resignation, the percentage of tenured faculty members could rise until KU is "tenured in."
A decrease in enrollment would be even worse.
"If enrollment drops, we'll have to meet the problem and give notice to some faculty," says NICHOLA
A steady state will also make it more difficult to hire racial minority and women faculty.
The best solution to a steady state seems to lie in attracting more students.
Aangeenbrug sees a partial solution in attracting more non-traditional students to KU-students who aren't taking a full load of courses or who don't attend school several semesters consecutively.
Non-traditional students tend to increase costs, however. For example, if more adults enrolled in night courses at KU, it could mean an increase in lighting and security expenses, says Annenbeugn.
A final solution for dealing with a steady state
lain. In better cost accounting to reduce wasteful
sparetime.
A crude formula of one faculty member and so much administration for every 15 students has been used in the past, but Angenbuegin says attempts to develop a more exact formula have failed.
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whether the legislature will accept it. According to Anderson, the changing nature of the student population offers a hope in the face of projected declines in the number of students who dropped out in the 1960s could be induced to return to college, he says.
whether the legislature will accept it
With enrollment on the decline, he says, schools are emphasizing recruitment of new students, cutting back of programs, revision of instructional techniques, continuing education and community service.
The last method is most pragmatic, Anderson says. Recruitment will inevitably be from a decreasing pool, and teaching changes cost money. He recommended curriculum reform, the tapping of nontraditional students and the retention of students that are recruited.
A decline in enrollment won't inexorably lead KU to a decline in educational standards, Nichols says. "If enrollment is declining or
threatening to decline, a university must review all programs and reallocate resources". Nichols says.
He says wise realization shouldn't involve a lot of education. However, he says, if it does, and costly programs with small enrollment aren't cut, then "quality education is more important."
Hutchison says he doesn't agree that enrollment on the Lawrence campus will decline dramatically. At most, there may be a modest decline, he says, but not enough to make major program changes.
He says KU may become more efficient when the enrollment is stable and be better able to communicate its needs to the state.
He argues that for the last 70 years KU has been busy expanding by adding new programs and more faculty. It is also competitive pressures nationally.
Now the opportunity is presented to sit back and examine the University's present strong points, Hutchison says, and "find ways to improve our present mission rather than embark on any new ones."
West, a past president of the Wichita NEA and a candidate for the Kansas presidency, disagrees. And says local property tax increases because they have taken partial credit for the tax relief afforded by the finance law.
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When state aid is cut, Connett says, the unrequired, elective courses are eliminated first because they usually enroll the fewest students. When state aid is continued, he ends, he says, it is difficult to reinstate it in one or two years.
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In addition, he says, many federal programs, such as Title III, depend on enrollment, and if the federal program does not, the state can't assume the cost.
Connett says that fewer than half the students from Kansas public schools begin college in tax-supported schools. This means that college preparatory programs will be the first to be cut in a fund squeeze, he says, because they have low priorities.
However, he says there already have been staff cutbacks. No faculty members or staff are fired, he says, but the district sometimes doesn't replace them if they retire, resign or die.
Schurr says that if enrollment threatens some electives in Salina, certain courses may be offered at only one of the city's two high schools and students at both schools could take them.
Dean Stucky, assistant superintendent of schools in Wichita, says there won't be a radical axing of college preparatory courses despite a rise in the number of rollout in those courses, even the highly technical ones, still is high
He also says there is no sliding scale for inflation and the amount of state aid figured for operating expenses is inadequate.
If costs could be cut in proportion to the enrollment decline, programs wouldn't have to be eliminated, he says. But fixed costs are going up because of more of the budget. With fewer students, he says, "programs are eroded."
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