Friday, Sept. 6, 1985
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to hear the Regents' decision and that it was the only logical decision the Regents could have made.
"'As long as we are unable to meet the needs of higher education, it makes no sense, whatsoever, of adding another burden to the system,' he said.
Winter said that adding Washburn would be analogous to a family with six children whom they could not support, being asked to care for their neighbors' children without additional financial support.
"Winter said he also objected to the state putting $4.4 million into the Washburn budget without any control of its spending. He said he could envision a future "hybrid system" that allowed the state to gain some control over Washburn's budget.
"Winter said he thought the board's
decision would be supported by the Legislature.
"I applaud their action," he said.
"I think it's frankly consistent with what the Legislature will say."
Donald Wilson, president of Pittsburg State, said the Council of Presidents of the state universities was against allowing Washburn into the Regents system.
"We are at this point opposed to the affiliation of Washburn University with the Regents system," he said.
The main reason Wilson gave for the opposition was financing. He said he did not think that Kansas could support another Regents school in the long run, considering the state's finances.
Wilson said that if the state could be assured adequate financing in the future, the council would be in favor
of Washburn becoming a Regents university.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said that considering the declining percentage of revenue going to Regents institutions, she thought letting Washburn into the Regents system would be too much.
"It would be almost impossible to take on the Washburn University without major increases in state revenue," Branson said. "To add another one (school) just seems like taking on an impossible burden."
At their meeting, the Regents also decided to recommend that the state study the financing of Kansas higher education. Koplik said the study should go beyond the Regents schools, looking into schools such as Washburn and community colleges.
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Tenure
schoolwide committee. This committee reviews the file and forwards its recommendations to the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure.
This committee is composed of Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs; Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service; and 10 faculty members on three-year terms. The committee then makes its recommendation to Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
After their approval, the recommendations are forwarded to the Board of Regents. The Regents makes a final decision on tenure grants at its April meeting.
Long before April, however, students may help or hinder a teacher's chance of receiving tenure with their comments on evaluations.
Joel J. Gold, professor of English,
said, "I think students take the surveys seriously. In our department we must turn in some sort of evaluation, and I always present it to my students. I explain what they are used for and tell them that this is their opportunity to give some input."
Gold, who has had tenure since 1966, said faculty had access to the comments after students received their grades. Teachers can then submit the evaluations as documentation to the tenure committees.
Nothing stops teachers from removing unfavorable comments from the evaluations before submitting them, Gold said.
Jean Gillogly, Princeton senior, said she took the forms seriously because she knew they were the only input she had in evaluating teachers.
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proposed phase-out of the state's $16 million Sperry Univac mainframe computer. Instead, they called for a summer study and hired a consultant to help sort out the claims.
The changeover to IBM plug compatible equipment — equipment that "speaks the same language" as IBM regardless of manufacturer — was part of Getter and Harder's long-range solution to the state's computer capacity problems. They noted that state-owned IBM computers could not be used to back up the overburdened Sperry.
They contended that more companies made equipment that was compatible with IBM systems than was compatible with Sperry.
However, Sperry lobbyists, and Reed, say DISC really is headed toward a single-vendor policy that effectively shuts out Sperry and other competitors.
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