UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 18, 1992
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Program review to go to Regents for acceptance
By KC Trauer Kansan staff writer
Yesterday's announcement of the program review recommendations marked a milestone on the University's path to restructuring. The recommendations detail a road map to KU's future.
But the road for these recommendations runs much farther.
The recommendations' next destination is the Kansas Board of Regents, which will receive the report Nov. 20.
The Regents are expected to respond to the University's plans and to those of the five other Regents schools by February. However, they probably will leave most, if not all, of the recommendations intact, said Ed Meven, executive vice chancellor.
In the meantime, many of the academic program proposals will begin to go through a process where faculty and students have a chance to voice their opinions.
"Possibly the most important challenge is how we work through the decisions of the next several months." Mewen said.
Although some of the details of the process ahead have not been resolved, administrators and University Governance, which represents faculty and students, have developed plans for how the University community will assess the recommendations.
Here's how the process will work:
■ University Senate already has
rules that govern the discontinuance of a dogeer program, and they allow
Senate rules say that the committee on academic procedures and policies, a University Governance committee, will call a hearing during the fall semester where faculty and students in the affected programs can give testimony on whether their program should be discontinued.
Because of this rule, the University cannot consider discontinuing a degree until Fall 1993.
University Governance will start forming a hoc committee to review restructuring proposals such as mergers and consolidations in the next few months.
After the hearings the committee, composed of faculty and students, will give its suggestions to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, who will then make a recommendation to Chancellor Gene Budig.
If a program is discontinued, it is phased out during a three-year period to allow students to finish their course of study
Nancy Dahl, chairperson for University Senate Executive Committee, said committees probably would not be formed for all the restructuring proposals, only those that University Governance wanted to contest.
The final decision rests with the chancellor.
The committees, which will include faculty and students from affected programs, may recommend alternatives to the recommendations.
University of Kansas Program Review recommendations
The recommendations yesterday included the elimination of 15 academic degrees, the transfer of four academic departments and reallocation of $1.35 million from non-instructional areas to instructional. They are as follows:
Academic Affairs
- Reduce the number of academic departments within Academic Affairs through consolidation of functions.
- Consolidate job placement services for graduates over the next three years.
School of Architecture and Urban Design
Reduce the bachelor of architecture degree enrollment on the next five years as the required age for graduation.
School of Engineering
- Increase cooperation between the engineering management program and the School of Business to offer appropriate business courses for the engineering management program.
Merge the department of computer science from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences into the department of electrical and computer engineering.
Move the department of art and music education and music therapy into the School of Art.
School of Fine Arts
- Eliminate the glassblowing emphasis within the design major.
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Eliminate the community journalism emphasis within the journalism bachelor's degree.
- Increase cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences through a reciprocal agreement for enrollment of English and communications studies majors.
School of Law
Provide courses for the master's degree in health services administration, which is offered by the University of Chicago.
Eliminate the toxicology bachelor's degree.
School of Pharmacy
- Eliminate the pharmacy bachelor's degree, continuing the transition to a six-year period.
- Req. Bachelors in Pharmacy or equivalent.
Increase cooperation among the Schools of Law and Business and the department of health
School of Social Welfare
- Eliminate the bachelor of social work at the Regents Center.
School of Business
Move the department of economics from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to the
- Eliminate the petroleum management master's degree. Create a petroleum management concentration within the master's in business degree.
Division of Continuing Education
■ Consolidate efforts between the Lawrence and Medical Center campuses.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Eliminate the humanities bachelor's degree.
Create a track with the Classics major.
Eliminate the bachelor's degree in Italian.
Create an Italian language track within the program.
- Eliminate the history and philosophy of science bachelor's degree. Also, eliminate the comparative literature bachelor's degree. Create a track within the English major.
- Monitor the revised curricula for bachelor of arts and bachelor of general studies degrees in Human Development and Family Life Implemented this fall.
Eliminate the geophysics bachelor's degree.
Develop a concentration within the geology
- Move the department of microbiology into the division of biological sciences.
- Eliminate the atmospheric science bachelor of
science's degrees. A bachelor's degree
will continue.
- Eliminate the engineering physics bachelor's degree.
- Eliminate the visual arts education doctoral degree.
School of Education
Eliminate the recreation bachelor's degree.
Merge the departments of counseling psychology and of educational psychology
Merge the doctoral degrees in educational administration, founders of education and higher education administration into an educational doctoral program with concentration options.
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