University Daily Kansan. October 8. 1982
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Council wants more talk Tenure seat decision delayed
By DEBORAH BAER Staff Reporter
The Faculty Council yesterday voted to refer discussion of how appointments to the University Committee on Promotions and Tenure are made to another faculty committee before making a decision.
T. P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, moved that the issue be discussed by the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee. The Council accepted his motion unanimously.
James Seaver, chairman of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, told the council that FacEx had been discussing the procedure for making UCPT appointments since last May, when Dean Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs and chairman of UCPT, asked for a change.
On May 20, she sent a letter to FacEx asking that the University Senate Code be changed to say that the vice chancellor for academic affairs, in consultation with the vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, name UCPT members from a list prepared by FacEx containing twice the number of people needed to serve on the committee.
The code says "nine members of the faculty, named by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee by virtue of the tenure and serve overlapping three-year terms."
BUT THERE is a complaint. It is that in the existing system, Chancellor Gene A. Budig may appear to be giving only a rubber stamp to the decisions made by FaceEx. Budig should have more choice than he now has in the decisions to avoid attacks from Kansas legislators who might use his apparent lack of involvement to attack tenure in general, Seaver said.
FacEx could not agree to Tacha's proposal, he said, because it would not include Budig in the selection process at all.
After several conversations with buddag and others who had been in the field, the group said.
FacEx adopted a last Friday that was acceptable to Budig, Seaver said
Under this plan, the Senate code would be amended to say that the nine faculty members would be named by the chancellor from a list of nominations made by FacEx, with the understanding that Budig would not take recommendations from anyone other than FacEx members.
That plan was presented by Gerald Mikkelson, a member of FacEx.
He said it was the best of the three actions the Faculty Council could take.
MIKKELSON SAID passing that amendment would preserve the faculty's right to be involved in the process of promotion and tenure.
At the same time "it removes the possibility of (Budig) being stigmatized as a rubber stamp for the University," he said.
But Srinivasan said the amendment would do the opposite. He said that the naming of UCPT members was not a power of the faculty, but a respon-
He also said that because Budig would be limited to taking nominations in the 1960s, he was forced to
"If the code is changed, the faculty would be abdicating its responsibility," he said.
outsiders that he had even less power than he does now.
Now, "he has a whole world of freedom and he can defend (tenure) to the hilt," Srinivasan said after the meeting.
HE SAID he did not understand why Budig, who he said had a reputation for delegating duties, would want "to take away the one meaningful responsibility delegated to the faculty by his predecessors."
Charles Kahn, a member of FaEx, said he disagreed with Srinivasan that the code should not be changed. He said he had no time to learn how to make appointments to UCPT anyway.
Mikkelson told the council there were only two reasonable options to FacEx's proposal.
FacEx can leave the code as it is but come to an understanding with Budig that the word "name" means "nominate." In that case, a record of a discussion on the matter would be kept in the FacEx minutes so that any future chancellors would be bound by that decision.
His other option was the one taken by the council — postponing a decision until more faculty members discuss the issue.
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