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Friday, October 3, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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KU's economic role to be studied
By KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
Faculty members soon will begin meeting in work groups to examine the University's role in state economic development, one of the study's coordinators said recently.
Carol Prentice, a spokesman for the Chancellor's Task Force on Economic Development, said that more than 100 faculty and staff had been invited to participate in 28 work groups, which the task force recently organized. Most of the groups are expected to start meeting next week.
Frances Degen Horowitz, head of the task force, said the study would try to describe how the University of Kansas contributed to economic development and what the University could be doing. Horowitz is vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
When Chancellor Gene A. Budig established the task force in June, he asked the group to identify KU programs that needed enhancement to maximize their contribution to economic development. The task force also will examine the
University's role in Kansas economic development.
Task force members will serve as liaisons to the work groups assigned to them, Prentice said. The groups will have until Nov. 1 to look at their special topics, and then the members will report their findings to the task force.
The task force, which includes six deans, will digest the information and make a recommendation to the chancellor by the end of the semester. Horowitz said. Budig might later relay the information to the state Board of Regents and to Kansas legislators.
to the room. The work groups will focus more on ideas than on data gathering. Prentice said.
"I'm hoping that one of the outcomes of this task force is that it will sensitize both us and our constituencies to the role that we are playing." Horowitz said, referring to the role of the University.
Each work group will receive a set of seven questions to discuss, and a few may get an eighth, she said. Questions focus on the University's contributions to the economy, its relationships with the private sector, and sources of
The groups also will see whether their areas could coordinate with other state Board of Regents schools. One group will be devoted to examining models from other universities.
financing.
Other groups will look at computers, social issues, undergraduate education, media and communications, and minority issues.
Science and technology are obvious areas to investigate, but the work groups are by no means limited to those areas, Horowitz said.
Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a member of the task force, said dozens of areas had an effect on economic development.
"There's scarcely a discipline that doesn't fit in," Limeberry said.
Lineberry and Horowitz pointed out that the arts related to the economy because companies that expanded into new cities took into consideration the quality of life there, based on the cultural and intellectual opportunities.
Besides the arts themselves, the KU Center for Humanistic Studies
also serves as a resource for business, she said. The center now conducts seminars for corporations that want their managers to look at social issues and the relationship between arts and the economy.
In the social sciences, she said, KU has leading researchers in the studies of child development, the handicapped and the retarded. KU could help with research to enable the development of special devices for such populations, she said.
Another link to economic development comes through the School of Business, she said, because the school provides resources to help develop small businesses.
Ed Meyen, dean of education and a member of the task force, said the group was performing a useful function by examining the University's contributions and opportunities.
As for the role of education in state economic development, Meyen said, the study is likely to reinforce the importance of primary and secondary education as well as higher education.
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