University Daily Kansan, December 8, 1980
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New research grant proposal criticized
By CINDI CUBRIE
Staff Reporter
A new grant proposal that will allocate up to $100,000 in general research grant funds for individual research programs and is designed to strengthen those programs at the university has upset some humanities instructors.
The current grant allocation allows individual professors to apply for research grants. Individual grants averaged $3,500 a year last year.
The new proposal will give from $10,000 to $100,000 to a group of individuals with common research interests or group research projects over a three-year period. No more than 10 students are allocated in one year for each program.
George Worth, University Faculty executive committee chairman and professor of English, said at the FacEx meeting Friday that he had received a letter from several humanities professors who thought the grants would favor large research projects in science departments.
But those fears are caused by a misunderstanding of the proposal written by the Faculty Senate Research Committee, Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, told FacEx.
She said there was no guarantee that the large awards would be given at all, or that they would be given to departments doing group research.
FACULTY WITH COMMON interests, wishing to do research also could apply for the grant, she said.
Horwitz said the grant would allow specialized research that would improve the research standing of the University.
"We thought we could do something for faculty research that we couldn't do otherwise," she said.
Horowitz said the advantages of the program were its long-term effects.
"In the long run the grant will improve our posture in respect to outside
program were its long-term effects.
BUT THE FACULTY members objecting to the program see it as eliminating the 10 smaller grants, each grant, to 18 individual professors doing research, Worth said.
During fiscal 1979 the University spent more than $1 million on general research grants. Individual instructors received the majority of the grants.
For fiscal 1982, the Kansas Legislature has appropriated more than $1 million for the general research fund, Horowitz said.
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Ernest Angio, FacEx member and professor of geology, said the three-year program sounded similar to National Science Foundation grants, which poured money into a program and then after three years stopped the funding, leaving the program to find money on its own.
He suggested that the Faculty Senate Research Committee develop an example that would show how in-depth information could be applied that they would "develop an area of excellence."
Gerhard Zuther, professor of English and FacEx member, said that the people who were concerned about the grant change were not concerned because their own proposals were endangered.
"Nothing that has happened this year has had more of an effect on faculty morale than this announcement," Worth said.
"They've gotten a grant whenever the wait is long," she said. "The wall of the loggers. It is a matter of patience."
WORTH SAID THAT the an-
nouncement had so
happened effected female mortals
Angino said, "We're competing against ourselves."
Worth said, "The tone of the meeting will depend on whether people hear it as an accomplished fact being defended or nothing that there can be some input."
Horwitz said that the committee decided to sponsor a meeting Dec. 18 so faculty could ask questions about the new proposal.
AT THE UNIVERSITY Senate
EXECUTIVE committee meeting after FaxEcX, Worth read a letter from Acting Chancellor Del Shankel endorsing the efforts of the Blue Bribon Committee on Freedom of Expression appointed by
In the letter addressed to SenEx and University Council, Shankel said, "I share with you the view expressed in the Blue Ribbon Committee's report that '...the fewer rules about free expression that exist, the better' and that '...state university has a double publication requirement that publicly promote those rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.'"
Shankel also said to ensure a speaker's right to speak and the audience's right to hear, the committee had recommended the University set rules as to time, place and manner of discussion or assembly which serve only to "facilitate orderly use of the rostrum."
former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes last year.
TO BEGIN TO develop a set of proposed guidelines that will be sent to the Board of Regents as the University's free speech policy, Shankel said
"We look forward to working with the University governance system to establish guidelines, policies and measures to enhance the freedom of expression on our campus so that all of our citizens may have the right to hear views they choose to hear in an appropriate forum or opportunity for rebuttal," Shankel wrote.
he wanted SenEx and Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, to form a committee.
Worth said the committee would consist of three faculty members, one graduate and one undergraduate student, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, Deanell Tacha, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and Vickie Thomas, University general counsel.
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A major issue at the convention will be whether to lower the number of sports NCAA Division I-A schools must sponsor.
convention," Susanne Shaw, athletic board chairman, said yesterday.
KU is at the minimum of eight men's sports, but the Missouri Valley Conference has proposed lowering to its six.
A year-end evaluation of the football program will top the agenda at the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board meeting today.
Football tops KUAC agenda
According to Susan Wachter, athletic business manager, it will include a review of the head football coach's salary.
Also on the agenda will be a discussion of proposed legislation for the National Collegiate Athletic Association convention in January.
"They will probably go into executive session for that," Wachter said. "They usually do when they discuss things like salaries."
"Del Brinkman (NCAA faculty representative) and Bob Marcum (athletic director) will discuss their position on any issues at the NCAA
If the proposal passes, it would allow Division I-A schools to drop two sports and still be in Division I. A team that gave KU's position on the proposal.
The athletic board also will discuss the charges of its four committees—Financial, Academic, Tickets and Facilities, Shaw said.
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