Wednesday, October 8, 1975
University Dally Kansan
KU funding called 'short'
Despite a good response from the state legislature to the University of Kansas budget during the past two years, KU is $6 million to $7 million short of its 1985 funding level, according to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
These figures are this fall's updates on a study done at KU three years ago by a fiscal analysis team, Shankel said yesterday at his weekly news conference. That study indicated that KU was $5 million short of the 1963 level in funds per credit hour, he said.
Shankel said that Governor Robert F. Bennett's proposal to cut down on new faculty positions at state schools to have a disastrous effect on KU's budget.
He said the University's inability to maintain the 16% level of funding meant that he had to rely on grants.
The lack of funding for new positions will result in further deterioration of the University's ability to carry out its educational missions, he said.
KU and Kansas State University will be more affected by Bennett's proposal than enrollments have increased substantially, while enrollments at the other schools have decreased.
KU is already understaffed, especially in support areas, such as clerical workers and nurses.
Shankel called Benett's proposal "very damaging," and said administrators' reactions to the proposal were generally negative.
Shankel also announced the appointment of a 16-member advisory committee for the statewide demonstration continuing education center. The committee will be headed by Howard Walker, dean of the division of continuing education.
Walker said the committee would work for the next 18 months to design programs for the proposed center, within the proposed preliminary proposal KU has already written.
The preliminary proposal won for KU about $86,000 in planning funds for the study of a statewide continuing education center, he said.
The planning funds will be used for activities such as visiting other continuing education centers in the nation, he said, with most of the money going to architects who will draw plans for the center in compliance with the committee's plans.
The committee will decide specifics of
programming; whether face-to-face,
online, or in-person.
Student's death is ruled suicide
The death of a 23-year-old University of Kansas student who was found Monday morning at the Holiday Inn, 2089 Iowa St., has been ruled a suicide by the police.
The cause of death of the student, Douglas Dickinson, Fairway freshman, hasn't been determined, Lawrence Price, Douglas County Coroner, said yesterday. Price said he was not until a chemical analysis of Dickinson's blood and body tissues was completed.
Those tests are being conducted by the state forensics lab in Topeka, Price said, and could take as long as two weeks to be finished.
A maid at the motel found Dickinson's at about 9:30. The police said he had chased her.
correspondence instruction will be used;
where the facility would be located in relation to the KU campus; and what existing KU facilities would be used.
Walker said, "We have a tentative schedule we'd like to meet, but we don't worry about our own schedule as much as worry that we can complete the study within 18 months. We have said we can complete it within 15 months."
Shankel announced at the press conference that Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan,
would speak at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 18 about his trip to China and that his effect on U.S. foreign policy. He said the location of the speech was still being negotiated.
Shankel commented on the cancellation of the Shockley debate by saying that he thought, from the point of view of a professor of microbiology, Shockley was wrong. He said that KU administrators had received no particular pressure to cancel the debate and that they hadn't pressured SUA.
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