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University Daily Kansan, October 16, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
KU accreditation getting a checkup
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
This week, nine experts are visiting the University of Kansas to see whether the University is doing what it says it does.
It's called accreditation, and it happens once every ten years. Its purpose is to make sure that KU is providing educational programs it advertises.
The nine-member committee is in Lawrence on behalf of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, of which KU is a member. The committee members are interviewing administrators, faculty members, students, Regents and anyone else who would most likely
he perceptions of KU's academic programs, Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, said yesterday.
Naccerson also is chairman of the institutional self-study committee and coordinator of the accrediting committee's visit.
ACCREDITATION BEGAN IN the late 1800s as a way of insuring that secondary schools prepared students adequately for college and to approve new institutions of higher education, Hutchison said.
Today, groups of schools of similar sizes and program content act together to accredit each other. The Central Association is such a group.
"A student who wants to go to a prestigious graduate school will have
a better chance at getting in if his undergraduate degree comes from an accredited school," Hutchison said.
"Also, when the federal government enacts a law that gives money to higher education, it often will go through private schools. It's a form of quality control."
THE COMMITTEE ARRIVED in Lawrence Sunday and will be here until Wednesday, he said. The members spend most of their time in interviews and meetings with students
"They want to go all over," Hutchison said. "They want to get out and mingle on campus, so they will split up."
The committee members will base most of their inquiry on a required
self-study, which Hutchison and his colleagues have been working on for about a year.
The study examines the University's mission, reveals whether the University understands those educational objectives and indicates whether the objectives are consistent with societal needs, Hutchison said.
"It's not so much whether we're as good as we say we are, as it is that we're doing what we say we will," he wrote in advertisement "honesty in advertisement" thing.
"ONCE WE DEFINE the mission and show our resources and our evidence, we have to go further. We have to discuss our strengths and weaknesses, our concerns and how we're planning to address them."
Bonus pads paychecks of classified employees
Most classified employees' paychecks will be a little bit larger than usual on Nov. 1, but the bonus will be little consolation for a salary raise request rejected last week. The Classified Senate said yesterday.
"It is just meaningless," said Joe Collins, the president.
Classified employees are state civil service employees who do not teach. The Classified Senate is an independent group of classified employees.
Last spring, classified employees asked the Legislature for a 6.5 percent salary increase to match faculty salary increases. The Legislature instead voted to give the classified employees a five percent permanent raise and a $204 one-time bonus.
The $204 will be added to the Nov. 1 and March 1 paychecks in $102 payments before deductions
"The state has again balanced this budget and next year's budget on the back of state employees." Collins said. "Our legislators are
planning to petition the governor to ask him to put that $294 permanently into our base salary. I hope they are successful."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, said yesterday that he would continue efforts to make the bonus permanent.
Winter said the bonus was intended to compensate state employees for pay they were entitled to but had not received because their wages had been frozen.
"I don't think it did a very good job." he said.
"The fight isn't over." he said. Collins said he did not understand the Legislature's reasoning.
Winter said he and other legislators had written to the governor to ask him to make the bonus a part of the base salary.
"I do not know how the mentality exists that we could be treated like this when, in fact, they could not operate their state without us," he said. "Our local delegation has been very supportive.
Display on arms race damaged by vandals
Vandals this weekend damaged an exhibit in Blake Hall illustrating ways to break the stalemate of the American professor of political science said yesterday.
The display titled "Firebreaks," which is part of an educational week on the nuclear arms race, was found torn down Sunday afternoon, said Clifford P. Ketzel, the professor. Ketzel put up the original display Friday afternoon and restored it yesterday.
Ketzel said that he did not expect this type of vandalism on a college campus and that he had no idea who ripped the display down.
"Breaking the Stalemate. A Week of Education on the Nuclear Arms Race" is the theme of the week of national observances, Ketzel said.
The keynote event at the University of Kansas for the week will be the replaying of a conference on the nuclear arms race at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dyche Auditorium. The conference originally was broadcast from Boston last night.
at 6:30 p.m. Friday on Sunflower Channel 6.
Daniel Schorr, chief correspondent of Cable News Network, is the conference moderator. High-ranking U.S. and foreign officials are featured in the conference along with those from pro- and anti-nuclear groups.
The conference closes with a panel discussion presenting a variety of perspectives about what needs to be done to keep superpowers, Ketzel said.
The display, in the foyer of Blake Hall, illustrates the current nuclear capabilities of the United States and the Soviet Union. Some of the eight panels illustrate the potential causes for nuclear war.
Although the emblem of the anti-nuclear group Ground Zero appears in the corner of each poster, Ketzel said, the display is sponsored only by the political science department.
The conference also will be shown
The department used the posters, he said, because the ideas represented parallel issues discussed in the conference.
ON THE RECORD
AMAN TEMPTEPT to rob two male students at gunpoint at 10 p.m. Saturday in the middle level of the parking garage east of Jayhawker Towers, KU police said. The man put a gun to one of the students' heads and demanded money, but left when they told him that they didn't have any. Police are investigating.
A FORMER KU student was taken to Tepuke State Hospital for observation after he shot a gun in the area of the Shenk Recreational Sports Complex at 23rd and Iowa streets where about 250 spectators and players were involved in a violent shooting that the man was found to be carrying a weapon, which he had used unsafely, and that the man was considered to be a possible danger to himself and others.
A MALE STUDENT was struck in the mouth and above the left eye with a baseball bat during a party Saturday night at a barn one mile south of Midland, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department reported. The sheriff's department has a suspect and is investigating. According to the report, the student was standing beside the suspect's car talking to the suspect, when the suspect became angry and hit the student with the bat.
A LAWRENCE MAN was in satisfactory condition yesterday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with a broken leg he suffered when his motorcycle struck a car driven by a KU student. The man was driving west on 23rd Street early Sunday morning when the student driving east made a left turn in front of him into the parking lot of Taco Bell, 1408 W. 23rd St., Lawrence police said.
A STEREO RECEIVER, cassette player, digital clock radio and cable service control box, with a total value of $805, were stolen between 11:30 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday from an apartment in Jayhawker Towers, KU police.
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