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Who's in Charge Here? Just Look
Saricks Says Focus Is Finances, Support for Dykes
The chart does not pretend to be complete. It does not include the many essential non-administrative departments, offices, organizations and associations that perform vital services to and for the University community.
Stories on this page and on the pages that follow in this section set forth in some detail an explanation of the components of the chart and give a glimpse of the personalities associated with the various positions discussed.
Again, questions of access to "the right office" for resolution of a particular administrative matter are best approached with the system so, read on.
this presentation is limited to the administrative decision-making hierarchy because most other questions that can be resolved with a telephone book, the newly-added book of Pages of Lawrence, Kansas" or through the Information University Center.
By LIZ EVERITT
Kansan Staff Writer
For esthetic considerations, at least, the Kansan generally eschews such visual clutter as organization charts, flow charts, order-of-battle charts and the like. We believe, however, that sometimes such charts may actually fulfill a desirable purpose.
Ambrose Sarices, vice chancellor for academic affairs, says he thinks the two most important matters for his office to concentrate on this school year are the classification of the University's financial support for the new chancellor, Archie Dykes.
Accordingly, the Kansas provides the accompanying chart, in hopes that it will aid understanding how and why "the system" works as it does.
"We have to make a clear picture of our financial needs for the people of the state. We have to make known just what the University is doing here. We need to improve our rapport with the larger constituency in the state." Saricks said.
Saricks said he thought Dykes would be
able to do a great deal to improve the state's view of the University.
"He's quite a man. I don't know how he'll bear up with the strain of all the complications."
Saricks said he thought Dykes was extremely well qualified to handle the problems of the University, but the University community must remember to back him up as he met with the people of the state.
SARICKS was appointed vice chancellor of academic affairs July 1, 1973, exactly one year after his appointment.
Whether one considers the University's bureaucracy friend or foe, a grasp of its structure is necessary to deal with it effectively and to appraise news of its operation.
"I've had the interesting experience of serving under three chancellors in one department."
Saricks, who got his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, has been teaching while holding the job of vice chancellor. He will teach one section of History 3A this fall.
was chancellor when Sarika was appointed, and botvins and Dykes have also been named.
Saricks said one of the disadvantages of the job of vice chancellor was that he was unable to meet as many students as he would like to. Most of the people he sees through his office are the deans of the schools on campus.
AS VICE CHANCELOR academic affairs Saricks receives reports from all of the dees concerning the academic programs.
BUDGET responsibilities of the office include the general coordination of all of the
Suririca said he acted as an adviser in cases of academic program difficulties at the University of California.
"I support the decision of the constituted unit."
He also meets with the director of continuing education, the director of libraries and the director of schools.
Saricke said that despite budget difficulties he was looking forward to the results.
"We have to make some decisions on the international programs and the visual arts
and physical therapy programs,but those are things we just have to work Out," he said.
THE MAJOR budget problems are due to federal spending cutbacks and failure to meet enrollment projections. The number of new faculty hired is based on the enrollment projection, and when the budget requirements are cut from the next year's budget.
This year the University has lost 23$ _{1/2}$ positions.
Saricks proposed several explanations for the failure to meet enrollment projection. He said that more students seemed to be attending college on a part-time basis,
including many older students who were part of the expanding field of continuing education. He also said that the drop in full-time employment would be part of a general nationwide trend.
ENROLMENT projection figures for
pursuit purposes are based on full-time
enrollment.
Saricks serves on the Council of Chief Academic Officers, which is made up of the following:
He is ex-officio chairman of the chancellor's Committee on Promotion and Tenure. He also serves on the Council of University Affairs and the Committee of Minority Affairs and other committees.
Students Apathetic But a Few Hang in There as Nucleus of University's Student Government
By LYDIA BEEBE Kansan Staff Writer
Government at the University of Kansas suffers from a persistent and age-old problem—spaopathy. Last spring only 2,356 students in the university body voted in the presidential elections.
But then KU students had less of a presidential choice than did Americans as a child.
If the University government fails to evoke emotion or thought from much of the student, this is counterbalanced by the enthusiasm and involvement of the nucleus
STUDENT SENATORS tolerate near-overnight sessions as they iron out allocations from the student activity fee each spring.
Committee chairmen make weekly reports of their activities that range from telephone surveys and legal negotiations to briefings on policy issues or listening to someone else's complaints.
The head of KU's student government, Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president, estimates he works for the student body for about 25 cents an hour.
"Few universities in the country have the degree of student participation and representation that are defined in the KU Senate Code, Code of Student Rights, and Regulations of the University Senate," said Joseph Amphlet prepared for freshman orientation.
PART OF WHAT makes these student officials tick as what they consider to be a unique situation at KU in terms of self-governance and student rights.
FOUR MAJOR COMPONENTS comprise the University's government; the Student Senate, the Faculty Senate, the University Senate and the University Council.
The four groups, prescribed in the Senate Code adopted in 1969, are very interdependent. Students elect representatives who form the Student Senate as well as the student portion of the University Senate.
All faculty members who are assistant professor or higher and all administrators are members of the Faculty Senate. They are also the faculty portion of the University Senate. Thirteen students and 39 faculty members are elected to the University Council.
"The all-University Senate has the power to formulate rules for the control and government of affairs that directly affect the entire University community (both Lawrence and Kansas City campuses)" reads the code.
NONE OF THE groups has complete control in any area. The 1973 Senate Code prefaces the powers of each body with the phrase "subject to and in accordance with the control of the Chancellor and the Board of Regents as provided by law."
THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL is a subsystem of the University Senate. Its members are representatives of the Senate and it does most of the Senate's work, according to Gerhard Zuther, University Council Chairman.
After this restriction, however, wide latitude is granted to the groups by the CAYENN.
The Faculty Senate has much the same powers as the University Senate for affairs that directly and primarily affect the faculty of the University.
These include faculty rights, privileges and responsibilities, research, scholarly publications, admission and transfer requirements, credit for resident and non-
resident study and cooperation with other institutions.
The Student Senate oversees things that directly and primarily affect the students such as student rights, privileges and responsibilities, non-academic conduct of students, student organizations and accrual of student applications and student housing and health.
THE UNIVERSITY SENATE has a potential membership of 180 student senators and over 1000 faculty and ad-hoc members. The Senate Code to meet at least three times yearly.
Zuther, a professor of English, said he
thinks the University Senate is an extremely vital element of KU government.
"Their power applies to any of the internal operations of the University. They don't make up the budget or conduct the top they do run the University," he said.
Making up the school year calendar, superviseing scholarly publications and deciding upon the grading system were also central to the later gave of University Senate functions.
"BUT ITS ALL based on a complex committee structure," he explained.
At the top of that committee structure is the University Council.
Student members of the Council are, however, elected nearly, he said.
Faculty members of the Council are elected for three-year terms on a staggered basis in order to guarantee some continuity of faculty. The 98 faculty Council members, Zuther said.
"The Council is empowered to conduct business in behalf of the (University) Senate," Zuther said. "But if any 50 (University Senate) members decide the Council act on something it shouldn't have, they can call for a meeting."
DIRECTLY UNDER the Council is the Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) composed of six faculty and three student representatives elected from the University
"SenEx is kind of a steering committee for the Council," Zuther said. "They generate business for the Council, sorting through ideas and preparing (Council) meeting agendas.
"Nothing SenEx does can by itself become a rule of the University. It has to be learned."
Zuther acknowledged that SenEx had made policy decisions in times of very great crisis, but they generally did not make such decisions. They were only short-term emergency measures.
SenEx is by no means the end of the committee structure of the University Senate. The Senate has four major committees, two to two students, human relations and libraries.
Three University Boards that devise their authority from the University Senate are Parking and Traffic, University Judiciary and Law, and University Judiciary Appollite Division.
In addition, there are three University Council committees: Academic Policies and Procedures, Organization and Administration, and Planning and Resource.
"The committees, as well as the boards, are quite autonomous," Zuther said. "Their rules and regulations have been approved, they have a code and a reporting duty. But they generally work outside the larger body."
Committee and board membership is restricted to members of the University
THE FACULTY SENATE is the
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