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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Role of Research Office Complex. Vital to Change
Kensan Staff Writer
By CONNIE PARISH
"The University of Kansas is an enormous pool of talent and it is adaptive to change. I am grateful for the University in the future. Some think the changes are frustratingly slow, but they are dictated not from the top, but from its larger students, the faculty and its customers."
So says Robert Aanegenbrugh, director of the office of institutional research and planning. His office provides the key for the research process and works with its past in order to look to the future.
AANGENBRUNG SAID the office was primarily a staff office for the chancellor;
Secondly, the office conducts research dealing with KU's future, such as projected enrollment, future academic programs and soils the University sets for itself.
First, any special project of the chancellor's is given top priority, whether it is about the budget, teaching trends or any other project.
The third goal of the office is to study the relationship between available resources and allocations that have to be made. Aangeenbrug said that it was particularly important to keep track of resources in view of tighter budgets.
ACCORDING TO Aangenbeng, when the University was smaller, perhaps five or six persons were aware of its inner workings. As the University grew and became more complex, the information had to be shared, though this had to be selective. Organizing the information so it is useful and easily absorbed is also important, he said.
The information the office compiles is transmitted mainly to the chancellor, the State Board of Regents, the deans of schools and colleges, and the University services, Aangenebrua said.
The office gives them the information so they can make the decisions, he said, and is not itself hampered by having to make daily decisions.
Another example of a current project was a study of the payroll budget systems. Angeneberg said that the state recently decided to change the way money was processed nearly doubled, the number of payrolls handled by the Office of Business Affairs.
SPECIAL NEEDS sometimes arise at the University, he said, such as a recent salary study done by the Affirmative Action Committee.
Leave of Absence Clarified in Policy
These increased payrolls take more time, though automation helps somewhat, he
THE OFFICE ALSO handles federal and state reports. Most of the federal reports go to the Department of Health, Education and Human Services, where they race of persons working at the University.
A recent amendment of the Affirmative Action Committee's policies concerning faculty and unclassified personnel was simply made to clarify ambiguous wording, according to former Chancellor Raymond Nichols.
women are eligible to take as much as one year for a leave of absence without pay for child rearing purposes or other family responsibilities. It formerly said that both men and women were permitted to take as much as one year for a leave of absence without pay for personal reasons, including family responsibilities.
said, and his office helped work out the problems involved.
"Some of the material is in conflict with the disclosure rules of the University, so we are constantly in touch with the University attorney," he said.
The policy now reads that both men and
IN DOING RESEARCH for the University, Anamengbeen said that his office first contacted existing agencies to see what information was already available.
"We also suggest research that needs to be done to other agencies," he said, "so really we act as a clearing house for information."
Other reports frequently go to the State Civil Rights Commission and the Board of Appeals.
Long range plans for the University are particularly important, he said, since future developments will depend on the budget, and may be mainly in terms of projected enrollments.
BECAUSE OF the changing mix of students, drastic changes in budget allocation patterns might have to be made, be said.
"We have to make educated guesses as to trends and raise questions so the University can change with the times," he said.
Enrollment has been down at most colleges and universities, and research has been done on this trend. Three factors are the downward trend, Amengebrug said.
A second factor is the absence of draft requirements, which means the University will have fewer males and fewer "manhunt" females. Angeenbrug said,
FIRST, the available student population is levelling out, and the largest high school district is rising.
THIRDLY, YOUNG adults have been reevaluating the worth of a university education, he said, and they now have more responsibility and freedom to make choices than did earlier students who were guided more by their parents.
"Young people now are often postponing entry into college, but we are beginning to capture those who have had some other experience after high school, as well as the students whose careers have changed so that those who have to make career changes and need more education," says Anne Abengburg.
WHEREST THE UNIVERSITY will respond to the trends by making an all-out effort to recruit students who might not otherwise come to college depends on the overall goals of the University, which are determined by the chancellor and the vice chancellor, he said.
"For example, if we dropped all our required courses, we can attract more students," he said, "but would they be satisfied with the education they received?"
"Certainly we want to be cognizant of trends and keep coordinating and re-examining, but this must be done after goals have been set for the University. We need to focus on how our teachers serve undergraduate, graduate students, or is mainly oriented toward research."
AANGENEBRUG said the research his office conducted, particularly research for the Center on Energy and Climate.
He came to KU in 1968 as an associate professor of geography and later became a professor of anthropology.
vivimentar studies. Last summer he became director of the office of Institutional
A NATIVE - BORN Dutchman,
Aanengbeenrug was educated partially in Holland. An education there is bound by
their knowledge of the language and a student's role is drastically different.
In Holland, it is mainly the leading students who get to go to college, but in the United States, he said, there is a broad base and all students are recognized as having potential. He said he preferred the American concept of education.
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