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Tuesday, September 11, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Committee Reports Endorse Tenure
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continuing to subscribe to the maximum probationary period of seven years as prescribed by AAPU," the report says. "The degree of credit should not at present and then suggested by the AAPU with regard to the extent of credit to be allowed for prior service. In each case, the amount of credit should be explicitly negotiated with each appointee at the time of appointment."
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The report also recommends that area tenure committees be established. The area committees would respond to departments and schools and would transmit these recommendations, with comments, to the University of Chicago (UCHC) for final consideration.
An annual review of all tenured faculty members was urged in the report. The report calls for a review of tenured faculty members at least once every five years.
The committee recommended that "representative student evaluation be mandatory for all schools and departments, regardless of curriculum considerations and in the periodic review."
"To assist schools and departments to administer adequate and objective evaluations," the report says, "the means proposed for this purpose are the University administration (possibly the office of the vice chancellor for academic affairs)."
Committee on the Impact of Tenure Decisions
This committee recommended that the maximum probationary period be increased to 12 months.
At the end of the eighth year, a faculty member should be given the option of accepting yearty appointments for up to four years, the committee wrote.
One committee member, Ronald Calgaard, professor of economics, said that he could not support the recommendation that faculty members who had been denied tenure be given the option of serving four more years.
In a minority report, Caligaard wrote, "I believe that a nine-year probationary period is an adequate period in which to make a fair evaluation of a faculty member.
"Second I believe that 'up or out' is a necessary part of a tenure system. If the committee's recommendations are approved, the University of Kansas would either have a 13-year maximum probationary period, or we would somewhat arbitrarily and capriciously violate our own tenure rules whenever it was convenient."
Calgaard said the proposal would present "serious legal and ethical problems."
In the letter accompanying the report, committee chairman Ernest Angina, professor of geology and civil engineering, said that Howard Stettler, professor of business and a member of the committee, recommended that the four committees to discuss endorsement of portions of the tenure-impact committee's report.
Angino said that the meeting had not yet been scheduled.
"We've never been able to house as large a crowd before," Church said.
About 600 KU faculty, Chamber of Commerce members and their spouses attended the annual Faculty-Town Mixer vesterday, in a large tent on W.15th Street.
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Dykes praised the party as "a fine example of the good relations between them."
Ed Church, mixer committee chairman, said that moving the event to the field was crucial.
"Upon all appointments, the conditions under which tenure will or will not be granted should be given in writing," the report says.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Nancy Hambleton, Lawrence mayor, welcomed the crowd, which included spouses for the first time in the mixer's history.
The committee recommended that persons appointed at the associate professor position, three-years old or older, Person appointed as instructor or assistant professor levels would have the option of counting or not counting prior service of up to three years at other positions.
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"Greater use should be made of temporary appointments, e.g. lecturer," the report says, to provide some of the necessary skills to expand into new program areas."
Criteria for recommendation and awarding of tenure should be clearly spelled out at the department, college and faculty levels, according to the committee.
The committee recommended lowering the mandatory retirement age from 70 to 65 and asked for provisions making early retirements possible.
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"The University should be able to reduce program, i.e. staff, in those areas where need, demand and student load no present or recent presence of present staff," the committee wrote.
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Tenure should be restricted to faculty members engaged more than half time in academic research and teaching, the report says.
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"Within the limits of practice, the faculty members should be willing to make hard decisions relating to the termination of these tenured members of the staff who do not contribute to the department's program or are undergoing leave or malfeasance," the committee wrote.
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"Unless the faculty is willing to assume this necessary and unpleasant task," the report concludes, "we stand in danger of some political of other non-aacademic force making decisions which will deprive decisions for us. On this issue, the track record of faculty has not been good."
On the question of becoming "tenured in," the committee said that figures cited last spring tended to "overstate the problem."
"The KU tenure ratio does not appear to be significantly higher than the national average," the committee wrote. "Too much attention has been given to the figure of 70 percent in this regard, which is not possible measures of the University's financial and educational flexibility."
The report says that these figures represented a "danger of establishing
policy on the basis of a simplistic analysis of the problem."
If the percentage of tenured faculty was to increase as rapidly as it has in recent years, the University would experience a brief period of time," the report says.
Committee on Rights and Responsibilities of Individuals, Departments and Schools
This committee proposed a bill of rights and responsibilities for faculty members and tenure-recommending units. The bill requires the possibility in inclusion in the faculty handbook.
"Most of the changes are really procedural," she said yesterday.
The committee recommended that each department or school establish specific criteria for the evaluation of individuals' professional ability and that these criteria be submitted to the chancellor for formal approval.
This committee was the least controversial of the four, according to Joan Handley, instructor of microbiology and chairman of the committees.
"Recognizing that an adequate and well-documented dossier is of prime importance in tenure decisions, the committee felt that there should be some kind of standardization of the contents," the report says.
The committee recommended that the dossier contain an academic affairs promotion and tenure recommendation form, the statement of criteria for promotion and tenure as adopted by the recommending unit, general supporting letters and documentation from people involved in teaching capabilities, service and scholarship, and any additional information desired.
Committee on Structure and Decision Making
"While the committee is aware of the controversial nature of this proposal," the report says, "it was felt that some type of education should be established for tenured faculty."
The recommendations of this committee were embodied in a proposed substitute for Article 6 of the Rules and Regulations of the Faculty Senate.
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The committee recommended that students become more involved in the evaluation of teaching at the departmental level but not in the direct decision-making
A plan for intermediate area committees also was recommended.
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The committee recommended that five area committees, patterned after the four area committees of the Graduate School plus a fifth committee for "clinical research" to review claims of research and scholarship by promotion and tenure candidates.
"The committee ... recognized the frustration that often results when departments, schools and programs with unique definitions and applications of what constitutes scholarship and research feel misunderstood and mistreated when they are not directly represented on UCPT," the report said.
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UCPT would be expanded under the proposal, with one new member represent a team area committee. The present Senate Committee member would be eliminated.
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She was reported to be in good condition Monday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Mary Stini, wife of William Stini,
professor of anthropology at the University
of Kansas, suffered a fractured vertebra
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Professor Stini was treated for minor injuries and released.
Stini and his wife were en route from Kansas City International Airport to Lawrence when the other oncoming car went out of control, crossed a median and struck Stini's car head on. Both cars were demolished.
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