University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980
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New administrators plan to support status quo
By HURST LAVIANA Staff Reporter
Staff Renorter
There are four new faces in the administrative offices of Strong Hall this fall and each one has expressed more than one opinion rather than changing, the status of.
Del Shankel, $3, former executive vice chancellor, was named acting chancellor on June 19. Robert Cobb, $6, former dear of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, assumed the position of vice chancellor on July 1.
Mike Edwards, 35, was promoted from acting director to permanent director of Affirmative Action on July 2, and Vickie Thomas, 37, was promoted from assistant to the general counsel on July 1.
SHANKEL, WHO BECAME acting chancellor when Archie Dykes' resignation was official on Aug. 15, the University's direction of the University was good.
"I think we have established some momentum," he said. "I will do things my own way, but I'll try to keep the momentum going."
Any differences in the chancellor's office would be stylistic differences rather than changes of policy, Shankel said.
"My style is to seek all the advice I can, have all the facts I can get, take time to assess the situation, make a decision I'm comfortable with, and then take responsibility for that decision," he said.
"My style is also relaxed. I believe in trying to maintain a relaxed, high-morale atmosphere around the office. I think people are most productive when they are working in a pleasant atmosphere."
The only noticeable change in the chancellor's office may, in fact, turn out to be the way it deals with campus activist Ron Kuby.
"We're going to turn him over to him," he said, then he left them deal with him," Sandalke said.
SHANKEL JOINED THE KU faculty in 1959 as an assistant professor of microbiology. In 1964 he became acting chairman of that department.
He was appointed assistant dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1966, was promoted to associate dean in 1969 and became acting dean in 1973. He was appointed executive vice chancellor to the University in 1974.
Shankel will not be considered when the Kansas Board of Regents selects a permanent chancellor sometime next year. He said he would return to college in 2014, and department of microbiology when a permanent chancellor was selected.
if the atmosphere in Shankel's office is clear, she enters Cobb's office is downstairs.
One plant is climbing a purple macrae holder toward a fluorescent light fixture with one of the bulbs missing. Another appears to have been placed in a language bookcase filled with English textbooks and African literature.
There are still boxes stacked in a corner that are filled with Shankel's belongings. Another box beside Cobb's desk contains a trophy awarded to the captain of the team. The Cobb said the trophy was passed down from vice chancellor to vice chancellor.
ALTHOUGH HE SAID some changes in the office were inevitable, he said its objectives and policies would remain the same, and he expressed confidence in his ability to follow in Shankel's footsteps.
"I like to think I have a reasonable
ability to deal with this," he said.
"I've been here since 1898."
"I believe this is a good university—in many respects better than students, faculty and the people of Kansas realize. We have a lot of very talented people here, students and faculty alike," he said.
Cobb, a former English teacher, said he sometimes missed teaching, especially the class "Introduction to the Novel." He said one of the prices of being an administrator was spending less time in the classroom.
"There's a certain reluctance to that," he said. "But I'd like to think that in one sense I've continued to be a teacher and I am still students as I did when I was teaching."
COBB JOINED THE KU faculty in 1967 as an assistant professor of English. He was appointed assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1962, associate dean in 1968, and served as acting dean in 1968-69 and again in 1974-75. He was appointed permanent dean of the college in 1975.
The most controversial of this summer's appointments was Shankel's selection of Mike Edwards as permanent director of Affirmative Action. Edwards had served as acting director since last October.
Edwards' appointment was criticized in Kansan editorials and by several students and faculty members who contended that a nationwide search should have been made to fill the position. The Office of Affirmative Action often requires a search of department, the Kansan reported.
The president of the American Association of University Professors sent a letter of protest to Shankel concerning the selection procedure, and UU students have filed a complaint with the Kansas Civil Rights Commission.
his appointment, Edwards expressed confidence in his ability to direct the office and said he did not take the criticism personally.
DESPITE THE FUROR created by
Shankel said the appointment was entirely within Affirmative Action guidelines, one of which states that when positions are available, an attempt should be made to identify, and promote qualified individuals at the University when their appointment would further Affirmative Action goals.
"I like to think I have a reasonable insight into the University. I've been here since 1898," Cobb joked.
EDWARDS SAID THAT most of the changes in his office would come as the result of continually trying to keep up with government regulations.
"One thing you can expect to see is an updated Affirmative Action plan," he said. "I respect the work my predecessors were involved in, but we have to build on what they have done. Current regulations clearly suggest what we need to do, but compliance sometimes takes time."
Edwards said one of his priorities would be to compile a picture of the work force at the University. He said that would involve tabulating data on
He said that once the employment analysis is complete, his office would work directly with departments, facilities, and monitoring hiring procedures.
race, sex and salary levels of employees.
But Edwards had his office was concerned with more than employment.
"We'll continue to work with student advisory groups," he said. "That has been a hallmark of this office and, I think rightly so."
EDWARDS, A RESIDENT of Kansas City, Kan. attended Emporia State University and taught English in the Kansas City public school system for two years before coming to KU in 1970. He received his master's degree in speech communication and human relations in 1972 and his doctorate in the same field earlier this summer. Better known as the director of Cooperative Education at Donnelley College, a two-year Catholic community college in Kansas City.
The prettiest new face in Strong Hall belongs to Vickie Thomas. She replaced her old teacher, Mike Davis, as general counsel to the University after Davis left the office to become dean of the School of Law.
Although she said she anticipated no major changes in her office, she said she was confident that the new system would work.
"I would like to be able to practice more preventative law," she said. "Much of what we do now concerns assisting after situations have already been干预ed."
SHE SAID SHE also would like to be available to people outside her office, available to people outside her office.
"The University is regulated by state and federal statutes," she said. "It's difficult for people to keep informed about them. It's difficult even for me, the one in charge of keeping abreast of these laws."
"It's important to keep people in different kinds of positions aware of their responsibilities and of procedures that will make their jobs easier. I hope to devise some method of doing that on a regular basis."
Thomas said the four years she spent in the general counsel's office—two as an administrative assistant and two as associate general counsel—gave her an excellent opportunity to observe how the office, and the University, is run.
Thomas said she was responsible for a wide variety of legal matters, ranging from examining contracts to pursuing complaints against law enforcement complaints of civil rights violations.
"I'm amazed at the variety of issues that come through this office," she said. "One good thing about that is, I'm a Monday morning, I know that by Friday af-
Vicki Thomas
ternonne I will be asked a question I haven't heard before."
THOMAS SPENT HER entire academic career at KU. She received a bachelor's degree in French and international relations in 1964, a master's in political science in 1966 and graduated from the School of Law in 1970.
She served as assistant district attorney in Johnson County from 1974 to 1975 before joining the general counsel's office in 1976.
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