University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980
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Strong Hall shuffle brings challenge, controversy Dykes hands University's reins to Shankel
By DIANE SWANSON
Staff Reporter
Archie R. Dykes, chancellor of the University of Kansas for seven years, began work Monday as president and chief executive officer of Security Benefit Life Insurance Co. in Topeka.
"The offer was too attractive to pass up"
D. "I decided to take advantage of it."
I decided to take advantage of it.
Dykes, whom some have called "the most popular man in the state of Kansas," shocked officials, friends and students on June 4 when he recognized his resignation as 13th chancellor of KU.
Only four weeks earlier, on May 5, Dykes had said, "I plan to be here for the '86-'81 year. As far as University administration goes, it's very difficult to project ahead."
He said he didn't know then that "this opportunity would be here."
AT THE TIME of the announcement, Dykes said that he was leaving because 'after 13 years of being a university chancellor, the satisfaction one has from being involved in something that is new and intellectually stimulating is lost to a certain degree.'
Dykes, 49, said he thought it was an ideal time in his life to make a change.
"It's a problem a person faces in every profession—keeping intellectually alert, keeping experiences stimulating and having a sense of satisfaction," he said.
"I had an intuitive feeling it would be best for me and my family to make the change," he said. Dykes he did not know what his biggest achievement was during his seven-year term.
"You can't say one achievement is any more important than another achievement. It's a matter of what you want."
Dykes said he did not know what his biggest achievement was during his seven-year term.
spent much of my time on was the development of the new hospital in Kansas City and the
"I was deeply involved with establishing a permanent home for the School of Medicine in Wichita and would have liked to see that we could do this," she said, "and ensure the administration will continue that effort."
THE UNIVERSITY has seen tremendous growth since Dykes came to KU. An enrollment increase of about 31 percent since Dykes came in 1973 is only one indication of that growth. Enrollment last spring exceeded 25,000. In 1973, it was about 19,000.
However, Dykes has not been without his share of criticism.
He has been criticized by Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare, as well as other faculty for his stance on Forer's trips to Iran.
Freedom of speech advocates have protested his stance on prohibition of banners at commencements and other enclosed University events.
THE UNIVERSITY's biggest challenge, said
the university's president, is the quality of
the academic programs it already has.
Dykes said he had no response to the criticisms.
Bonnie Ritter, former director of Affirmative Action, has said that Dykes did little in that area.
"One only has to look at my record to see what I've done," he said.
"With the high rate of inflation, it is going to take a lot of hard work to maintain the excellent quality of the products. The resources necessary to give that kind of high quality education," he said. "We've been very
fortunate in the past to get that kind of support, and I hope it will continue in the future."
Dykes said he hadn't had time to evaluate his
own insurance company, the 28th largest insured company in the nation.
"I've been so busy I haven't really had time to stop and think about how things are going," he said.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, was named acting chancellor by the Board of Regent. He began his dutys Aug. 15. A new chairperson expected to be named by the board by next spring.
Dykes
"The transition has gone smoothly," Shankel said.
SHANKEL MET Tuesday with the vice chancellors and University directors. He said general goals for the University for the coming year had been set.
"I want to leave the institution at the end of the year in at least as good a shape as I found it," he said. "It's a fine university, and I would like to build on its 113-year history of excellence."
Shankel said he was planning no major personnel or administrative changes.
"The institution is headed in a good direction in a good position," he said.
He did say there would be some "stylistic differences" because of the differences in personality.
SHANKEL IS NOT planning to assume the position of chancellor permanently. He said he made an agreement with the Regents that he would resume his original plans when a new chancellor was named. The Regents decided not to consider the acting chancellor as a candidate
"The changes will be in the way we get things done," he said.
Shankel
for permanent chancellor to ensure that the search would not be regarded as a mere for-
Shankel said he wouldn't know until after his term as acting chancellor whether he would have liked to have been considered for the permanent position.
"I'm satisfied with the arrangements," he said.
Shankel had resigned as executive vice chancellor to resume teaching and research in microbiology June 30. He planned to attend his after his duties as acting chancellor ended.
He said he would live in the chancellor's residence during the sight- or nine-month search.
"We would just as soon have stayed in our own home," Shankel said, "but the Board thought it was important that the chancellor live on campus. We'll move to the chancellor's residence until the new permanent chancellor is named."
Class Ex member seeks ACLU help
The Regents set Shankel's annual salary at $60,000 while he serves as acting chancellor. The Regents had raised Dykes' salary to $75,000 plus the highest paid chancellor in the Big Eight.
A member of the Classified Senate has asked the American Civil Liberties Union to represent him in a discrimination suit stemming from the selection of a search committee to find a replacement for former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Joseph T. Collins, a member of the Classified Senate executive council, said he wrote a letter to Paul Rasor, a member of the state ACU committee, asking the ACU to take up the case because no classified employees were named to the committee.
Collins said he requested the ACLU's help to investigate whether all of the employees had been violated.
the search committee by the Board of Regents.
"Clearly the alumni, students and other
"classmates are identified," he said.
"Classified should be too."
Collins said the Classified Senate met this summer and expressed "extreme displeasure" that no classified employees had been placed on
Jan 'N O'elln, Classified Senate president, said
the Senate would take action to collate "Collin's"
campaign, the Senate would take action.
The Senate had voted to vote the chairman of
the committee, Mr. Reeves, to consider the
appointments to the committee.
The letter was sent to Jordan Haines, former president of the University of Regent, who replied by praising O'Neill.
"He told us we were wasting our time," she said.
Franklin said he had not responded to the letters he received. The Record did not met.
O'Nell said she then wrote a letter to the current chairman, E. Berman Franklin, asking for his permission to serve in the Senate.
"We will be responding to the letter around the first part of September," he said.
He said he did not know how the Regents would respond.
Chancellor
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Kleinberg said some of the rumors of possible candidates he had heard "are in the world of fantasy."
The committee has no set guidelines for deciding on candidates, but there are similarities among members.
Kleinberg said the appointee should be able to promote "the University of Kansas, the state and the country."
"He ought to understand what higher education is all about, know the importance of good teaching and be able to sell these things to the LeRislature," he said.
Greg Schnacke, KU student body president and committee member, said he was looking for a candidate "who can run a $22 million-a-year college," and said the academic community and can work with students."
COMMITTEE MEMBER Ross McKinney, N.T. Teacher professor of civil engineering, stressed other qualities needed in a chancellor. He said he or she should be an excellent administrator, leader, politician and psychologist "walk that narrow line and get the job done."
Title IX ...
"the chancellor will become the image of what the University is." McKinney said.
Other committee members are David Robinson, professor of surgery at the KU College of Health Sciences; Matt Davis, student body vice president; Michele Van, Lawrence graduate student; Anita Sauerwein, a senior in nursing at the College of Health Sciences; Frank Lauffer, associate professor of the Association; Robert W. Wagstaff, executive vice president of the Alumni Association; Ernest Crow, KU alumnus and Wichita physician; and Georgiana Morrill, KU alumnus from Topeka.
From page one
agreement, Glickman said. The plan then would be monitored by the Department of Education.
"The purpose of these investigations is not to point a finger and punish a school, but to make sure that future students do not suffer what past students did," Glickman said.
FEDERAL FUNDING for schools in violation of a Title IX regulation is rarely cut off, she said, although such a cut remains a possibility.
"As long as a school has a plan that looks to the future and it is showing good faith in its attempts to comply with the rules, the school is not going to be penalized." she said.
Vickie Thomas, University General Counsel,
said the school would cooperate with the
Department of Education by providing any
necessary information, but she could not comment further on the investigation while it was still in progress.
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