University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 5, 1973
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Tenure...
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bureaucratic level to the promotions and tenure process
SenEx thought the additional paperwork and decision-making required by area committees would more than offset the advantages of decentralization. Also, the need for establishment of University-wide networks to be more important, the report said.
The dissenting committee member, Ronald Calgaard, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said an instructor's teaching performance could be judged adequately during the present seven-year period.
SenEx's opposition to a nine-year probationary period was not unique. FRPR also opposed the plan. And one of the members of the committee that recommended lengthening the probationary report in opposition to the longer period.
ALLOWING A faculty member to stay longer, he said, could result in some hesitancy by the University to fire him, because he had been employed by KU for training.
"I (also) cannot support the recommendation that faculty members who have been denied tenure be given the option of serving four additional years beyond the maximum probationary period," Calgaard said in his minority report.
The committee had recommended that up to four, one-year contracts could be offered to faculty members who had been refused employment. The result in a 18-year probationary period.
Calgaard said it would be "dangerous, both legally and ethically."
"You've got to have an 'up or out' system," he said. "I think that if the University employed a person for 13 years that most courts would accept this as reason."
"Up or out," means that a faculty member must either be granted tenure (move "up"), or dismiss it.
"How do you decide who should be selected for the yearly contracts? Are you to appoint everyone who was denied tenure?" he said. "I don't see how the University could administrate this without being arbitrary."
HOWEVER, CALGAARD said lengthening the period to nine years could help prevent KU from becoming "tenured in," but he said he preferred using stricter standards in awarding tenure as the means of gaining a member of faculty members receiving tenure.
He said KU wasn't being as strict as it should.
"If the University continues to 'tenure' people at the rate they did last spring," Calgaard said, "the possibility of becoming 'tenured in' is very real."
"I suggest that a certain category of people should never acquire tenure. These would be the people who are in technical or supportive positions rather than managerial."
Calaigard said the majority of the Committee on the Impact of Tenure endorsed a composite of the contract system and the tenure system.
"We either have a tenure system or a contract system," he said. "A composite system."
Caligaard was one of two committee members to file minority reports. The other was Melody Williams, a student member of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities.
"I DON'T agree with my committee's report when it states that it doesn't intend to question tenure as an institution," her minority report said.
"I question whether it protects freedom any better than the courts could, especially in light of the fact that without the University's collective commitment to the principle of academic freedom, it is inrigured upon even with the tenure system."
She also objected to firing "quality nontenured faculty" in cases of financial exigency, as outlined in the present system, and asked for a nontenured faculty members could be fired.
Williams said nontenured faculty members might fear controversy or exert pressure.
"Affirmative Action goals may require different strategies," she said, "since women and minorities are usually not those who have had tenure in the past."
TENURE HAS been easily granted in the past, she said, and new faculty members who have been refused tenure under today's stricter examinations may actually be better qualified than those who received tenure in the past.
Each fall, every instructor below the rank of professor would have his record reviewed by his department or, if there isn't a department, school.
operate if the proposals of the four committees were adopted;
The dean of the school would recommend certain instructors for promotion or tenure
The dean's requests would go to the University Committee on Promotions and Taste.
Here's how the tenure system would
The chancellor would decide who was finally recommended for promotion or
The chancellor then would forward his recommendations to the Kansas Board of Regents. The regents probably would give rubber-stamp approval to his requests.
UCPT would review the recommendation and make its own recommendations to the client.
Scholarship, not research, was chosen as a criteria because some fields of study don't require advanced education.
The area committee idea comes from the area committees used in the Graduate School. Those areas are biological sciences, humanities, social sciences and physical sciences. The area committee was proposed by the graduate committee not used by the Graduate School was proposed for tenure purposes.
The criteria for the awarding of tenure would be teaching, service and scholarship.
IF THE PROPOSALS for area committees were approved, an intermediate level between UCPT and the deans would be established.
More than 100 people will walk from South Park to the Douglas County state lake tomorrow to raise money for an emergency food relief fund, according to Terry Bryan, assistant pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church.
There would be four or five area committees, each composed of representatives from related departments and schools. Theoretically, each tenure or promotion candidate would have his academic work completed, who understood the candidate's field.
Service generally means patriotism and community service, particularly to the
Sponsors negotiate with a walker over payment for his effort and the money is received.
church World Service, Bryan said, gives emergency food for famiines and helps with community development, family planning and agriculture advice.
Church Groups Schedule Walk For Food Relief
interdenominational group, the Church World Service.
The walk is sponsored by about a dozen Lawrence churches and an international
"A multitude of walkers is nice," Bryan said, "but what we really need is a
multitude of sponsors."
Traditionally the Church World Service has had door-to-door campaigns, Bryan said. For the past two years, the walks have been to either Lone Star or Perry lakes.
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