University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 14, 1974
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AAUP gets suggestions
Faculty members to be recommended for inclusion in a collective bargaining unit, if one is formed here, have been decided upon by the Executive Committee of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AUUP).
Frances Ingemann, president of AAPU, said yesterday the recommendations would be presented to the chapter as a whole.
If the faculty does decide to form such a unit, the unit would select a bargaining agent to deal with the administration.
*People with any kind of administrative position, including department chairmen, would not be included in the work unit.*
The committee will recommend that the three levels of professors, the three levels of librarians, lecturers and instructors should be included in the prospective unit, Ingemann said.
A subcommittee of the AAPU headed by Donald Brownstein, associate professor of philosophy, had recommended to the Executive Committee that department chairmen be included in the prospective work unit.
Brownstein said the question of their inclusion was a matter of how strongly each faculty member felt about the chairmen.
However, several faculty members convinced Brownstein to be chairman, included in the subcommittee's recommendation.
Grad students officials meet
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) met yesterday with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and W. J. Argersinger Jr., vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, to define the role of the office for graduate student concerns.
Members of the GSC were concerned about the loose construction of the office. Tom Donaldson, president of GSC, said that a large number of workers had responsibilities of the office were needed.
The office is designed to serve as a center for collection and dissemination of information of particular interest to graduate students, with the required publication of a newsletter. The office will be in the Kansas Union and should be operational after Nov. 27 when a quarter-time employee will begin working.
Shankel said he thought it would be inappropriate to use University facilities and funding to actively propose a strike of graduate students, for example. Even the possibility of a strike should discuss the possibility of a strike be to severe an action, Shankel said.
An amendment to the job description for the employee of the office brought concern over the independence he would have. Shankel explained to the GSC that because of University funding procedures, the name of the employee should be changed and graduate studies would need to appear as the employer of the office worker. The GSC's name would also appear.
Plans for selecting the employee call for a GSC interview of applicants. The employee will then be chosen on approval by Argersinger.
John Dagenais, Wichita graduate student,
said the office would be of no use to GSC if someone else had the power to fire the employee.
Shankel he was seriously considering proposals made by Argersinger for obtaining fee waivers for teaching assistants and assistant instructors and for giving them pay raises of equal percentage as unclassified staff.
General agreement was reached between administrators and GSC that a responsible employee, along with reasonable interaction, would be adequate.
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