THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.31
October 7,1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
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a piece of string and a little ingenuity make for a few laughs in front of *Storm Hall* for *Pul Calphun*, associate professor of
history, and his daughters Karl and Kriten. The Paladians were waiting for a ride home yesterday when they found the piece of
Deans generally pleased with enrollment figures
By GREG HACK
Staff Writer
Deans at the University of Kansas were generally pleased yesterday by the announcement of enrollment figures for their schools.
"It it's bittersweet," he said of the increase. "and much rather have students love us and not worry about it. However, the greater enrollment makes longer lines and big classes and shorter ones."
Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the college's 11,953 students represented an increase of more than 9,000 credit hours.
HE SAID THE COLLEGE hadn't taken any specific steps to increase enrollment other than having tried to offer classes that students wanted and needed. Classes are response to demand, he said, rather than on the hope that students will fill them.
Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism, said the school's undergraduate enrollment of 650 was a substantial increase over last fall.
"It's always encouraging to know there are persons who want to enter the school and who are coming in to study journalism," he said. "However, the increase could be bad if we don't get the support we need to meet the increase."
Formal faculty evaluation studied
Staff Writer
He said that KU had recently considered a more formalized system. Although the meeting was a preliminary toward discussion of increased formalization, he said KU might start new evaluation procedures within the year.
By ALISON GWINN
Although there is a move away from the subjective, informal evaluation of faculty performance in research evaluations would be difficult to standardize, according to Five University of Kansas
Ronald Calgaard, vice censorforl for academic affairs, said yesterday deans discussed the possibility of a more formalized model of education at the Council of Deams会议 yesterday.
DEL BRINKMAN, DEAN of the School of Journalism, said "Our discussion was just informal and informative. The discussion was very preliminary. All we really decided was that what we do now needs to be more formal so that they can really see what we're being evaluated for."
Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, said his school had used a formalized system of evaluation for seven or eight years.
Brinkman said he didn't think the formalization of faculty evaluation criteria would change the criteria or the evaluations in any way.
Faculty members are evaluated every year for merit salary increases and whenever they come up for promotion and tenure, he said.
Although Pichler said criteria should be somewhat standardized throughout the University, different criteria would have to be differently in different schools and departments.
Every faculty member in the School of Business receives an annual review of his teaching, research and service, he said, and every member committee chosen from the school.
PICHLER SAID HE thought that the evaluations used for promotion and tenure were relevant to salary increases. The results of his studies uses similar evaluations for both, he said.
Sciences into the School of Business," he said, even though various departments under the College might require evaluations similar to those of the School of Business.
Pichler used the example of performance, which he said must be weighted heavily in the School of Fine Arts, but which wouldn't count as professor working an accounting problem.
What constitutes good research work, good service or good teaching may differ from the other.
He said the University would harm departments if the particularizations of criteria evaluations were enforced universally.
"It would be foobardy to smash criteria from the College of Liberal Arts and
Faculty members who must be evaluated
ROBERT COBEN, DSE of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that institutions nationally were moving toward more formalized systems of evaluation.
He said the College had an infinite number of choices and prospects for criteria and criteria to be used.
don't perform in the same ways, Cobb said, and the uniformity of evaluations would not improve.
"I don't think we'll ever get to the point of a 10-page checklist of evaluations criteria," he said. "It will always be subjective to a point."
Although he said the development of criteria was uniformly necessary, the criteria were not only based on
Most evaluations are done within each department by a faculty member's peer
ure and salary increases were given. Because of that, institutions are bound to move toward more systematic and tangleful solutions, and away from intuitive ones, be said.
Lawrence Police are investigating the cause of death of a 23-year-old University of Kansas student who was found dead early morning at the Holiday Inn, 2300 Iowa St.
Cobb defined evaluations as cumulative assessments done by the colleagues of a faculty member, and as a constant reappraisal of the University's staff.
COBB SAID HE WAS more interested that people in departments continued self-evaluations rather than that they be evaluated by their peers.
"It's not the checking-up, but the setting of goals that I'm concerned with," he said.
Smith said the School of Engineering would continue emphasizing formal student work.
Student's death being checked
William Smith, the school of the Engineering, said he thought that the University would use more standardized criteria, but it could use specific University-wide criteria.
However, he said that people across the nation wanted to know why promotions, ten
THE SCHOOL HAS developed 36 concentrations with other parts of the University, he said, offering more flexibility. A concentration is a major combining business courses with study in another area of the University.
WILLIAM SMITH, DEAN of the School of Engineering, said the school's undergraduate enrollment of 1,262 represented an increase per cent over last year, increased of a national trend of increasing engineering school enrollments, he said.
He attributed the increase to "a super school with a superb faculty," greater flexibility in major sequences and an effort to expand the graduate business program.
He said the 98 women enrolled in the school was a very substantial increase. He added that 1 per cent of total engineering enrollment, but, now, are 5 to 6 per cent.
The body of Douglas Dickinson, Fairway freshman, was discovered at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday by employees of the motel, according to the police.
He said the increase was "more than meets the eye" because enrollment in the two years had included more than 100沸腾，但 this fall's figure included almost none.
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Smith said the decline of the aerospace industry in the late '60s had led many people to think that employment opportunities in engineering were bad.
The high rate of unemployment has made students more job conscious, he said. This, combined with the lack of jobs, is driving down
"Employment opportunities are good in engineering and people are starting to get jobs in engineering enrolments dropped in the early 70s, so we're regaining lost land now."
Sen. Bayh to speak at KU on Oct. 23
L1. Kerneth Harrison said details of the death wouldn't be released until a coroner's report is published.
Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, said enrollment in the school had increased 16 per cent over last year and more than 30 per cent in the last two years.
Enrollment totals for other schools were:
Architecture and Urban Design, 447; Fine
Arts, 501; Computer Science, 682;
Social Welfare, 528; Intensive English
Center, 211; and special studies, 679.
Lawrence Price, Douglas County coroner,
said his investigation could take as much as
two weeks while a chemical analysis of the
victim's blood and body tissues was made.
Pichler said he was also "delighted" by the increased interest of women in business. 152 of the school's 822 undergraduates are women.
DALE SCANNELL, DEAN of the School of Education, said the school's undergraduate enrollment of 1,493 was less than last year. However, total credit hours offered by the school increased about 5 per year because graduate and continuing education colleges increased. There are 1,430 graduate students in the school this fall.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind, and an unannounced candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, will speak Oct. 23 at the University of Kansas.
program, has increased business enrollment, he said.
"I don't see any real problems in making the needs of education students this year."
According to Brad Bradley, SUA forms chairman, Bayh will stop at the University while enroute to a fund-raising dinner in Topeka.
Bradley said Bayh would make a speech and answer questions at 3:59 p.m. in the answer room.
His appearance is co-sponsored by the KU Young Democrats, Bradley said.
The administrator for Douglas County's first community development grant was chosen because of his familiarity with the county commissioner, said yesterday.
County grant administrator chosen on local know-how
The commission chose Ernest Coleman
Management program demonstrated at KU
University of Kansas officials will show other state schools today the first step in beginning a federal budgeting, planning and management program.
KU's computerized instructional workload matrix, which has been developed during the past month, will be shown to the schools as a step toward the use of procedure developed by the National HSE Institute and supported systems (NCHEMS), James Hite, associate director of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, said yesterday.
The matrix is a series of tabulations that show which courses are taken by various majors. The tabulations also show which courses are offered for nominals in a department.
"That's just the very simple beginning step in understanding a complex university." Hitt said, "because that's what a university is all about."
Last spring, the Board of Regents asked the six state schools to change to NCHESM procedures, Shankel said, because the state school system requires that students assess programs at the state schools.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor, said NCHEMS was developed in 1965 primarily to improve information management systems in higher education, so that they would be able to compare their programs and their budgets through common criteria.
Max Bickford, executive secretary of the Regents and a member of the CHEMES board of directors, said there was every indication that NCHEMS procedures would become a common way to manage colleges and universities. He said the Regents thought Kansas schools should start the system now.
Since then, KU's Office of Institutional Research and Planning has been studying the costs and procedures of NCHEMS, he said.
Bickford said NCHEMS procedures were designed to define common elements within institutions and to enable schools to make comparable reports.
He said NCHEMS procedures would affect all data an institution used in its processes, including data in the registrar's offices, deans' offices and administrators' offices.
Shankel said KU would have some problems switching to NCHEMS procedures. The procedures frequently aren't application-ready in universities which are involved in research, and statewide services that are hard to estimate in monetary terms, he said.
"How do you assess the costs of various service programs?" he said. "Many services are unrelated to the number of students KU has."
At a meeting last week with Kansas State University officials, problems of budgeting such programs as the Museum of Natural History were discussed. Child Research were discussed, he said.
Hitt said if the preliminary studies of NCHEMS were comparable to attending college and the implementation of NCHEMS procedures was comparable to holding a job, then KU hadn't graduated vet.
Sahnelked the switch to NCHEMS procedures wouldn't alter KU's budgets, but would probably alter the format in which he presented it presented to the Regents and the legislature.
He said that NCHEMS budgeting would probably be more accurate and provide more complete justifications for budget requests.
"I hope that it will show that we are operating a high-quality educational system at the highest levels."
Academic programming shouldn't be affected directly by NCHEMS, he said, except possibly through the comparison of KU's programs with those of other schools.
Hitt said he didn't know whether NCHEMS would improve or deteriorate academic programs. If better budgeting means more money and better academic programs, then academics can be helped by NCHEMS, he said, but if all schools use NCHEMS procedures, then academic programs may not be helped.
Concentration
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Wayne Gaul, Severance special student, concentrates on the play of his defensive unit during an intramural football game between the Big-T Boys and the Pocket Rockets
for the position. He has been county federal funds consultant since 1973.
"our support and communication with Mr. Coleman are strong." Whitenight said. "He has interest in the community and a lot of contacts."
Coleman was one of two final choices for the position. The other consultant consulted by the commission was Ochser and Association Planning Consultants of Kansas City, Mo.
WHITENIGHT SAID he expected no conflict of interest in the county government.
"I think we'll be able to separate the functions without any difficulty," he said. "Even if there are problems in separating them, we will get a lot more for our money with Erie."
Housing rehabilitation is one of the projects to be funded by the community development funds. Coleman said his experience in obtaining federal funds would have made him more qualified for people whose homes didn't quality for community development funds.
Coleman said he would have a meeting every month in a different town in the city for this year's grant could be discussed, and to prepare for next year's application.
Coleman's experience will enable him to equitably through the county. Whitenight savals it.
ANOTHER RESPONSIBILITY Coleman who has is applying for the funds again next
Coleman said community development funds were granted to counties for projects in southern Florida.
Whether the county will receive the grant next year will depend on what the county does with the funds this year and the needs of other counties, Coleman said.
He said the federal government, which grants the money through the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, might have made more donations that hadn't received them this year.
Whitenight said Coleman could administer the grant for less money than Ochser because he was familiar with the county. Ochser's proposal requested $22,500 for administering the $223,000 grant. Coleman's proposal requested $21,600.
WHITENIGHT Said CALCION knew the county well enough to start the projects
The eight areas of development being financed by the grant are a county-wide system of housing rehabilitation, senior citizen neighborhood centers, natural resources and recreation, dredging of Baldwin Lake, work on the waterfront pool, and administration of the grant.
of the money is eligible for use as a fund to obtain other federal funds. Coleman said.