University Daily Kansan, August 23, 1982
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University budget cut irks KU profs, staff
By LINDA LANG Staff Reporter
The $1.7 million cut in the KU budget announced last month has become a growing source of day-to-day headwork, as teachers and fessors, students and support staff
Precipitated by a $47 million shortage in projected state revenues, the 4 percent reduction requested by Gov. John Carlin has gouged budgets that many professors say were stretched too far before the cuts.
AV officials decided to protect academic programs as much as possible, preferring to take heliotrush cuts from administrative and support services budgets. They also cut budgets for equipment and supplies money for unfilled positions.
STUDENTS RETURNING for the fall semester are finding decreasing supplies and teaching aids for labs, classes that have closed and increased competition for the dwindling number of available jobs.
or available jobs.
They are also finding that libraries'
and Robinson Center's hours have been
reduced.
Thomas Berger, graduate student in systematics and ecology and executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council, said the Council became aware last week of changes in new contracts for graduate student assistants, research assistants and other student employees.
The changes indicated that an academic year appointment could be cancelled at the end of the fall semester if funding was not available for the spring semester and if one month's notice was given.
THE CHANGES, which appear in at least some of the revised contracts that
came out in July, do not appear in the contracts signed by students last spring, he said.
"We are concerned about possible negative effects," he said.
negative engagement committee of the council held an emergency meeting Friday, he said, and will issue comments about the changes this week.
the changes on
Another group concerned
another employment conditions is the Classified Senate which represents about 1,300 civil service employees. Although classified employees received the 6.5 percent cost-of-living increase slated for fiscal 2013, Carlin froze the slated 1.25 percent merit increase
President Gall Hamilton said the organization had two questions pending before KU's general counsel Vickie Thomas; whether Carlin's action to freeze merit increases was legal and whether civil service requirements were employees of the Kansas Board of Regents, rather than the state of Kansas.
CHANCELLOR GENE A. Budig has supported the classified employees, Hamilton said. She said they hoped that if classified employees were ruled to be under the jurisdiction of the Regents Budig would make a request in the
Depending on Thomas' response, Hamilton said, the group might pose the question of Carlin's freeze on merit in his defense. Attorney General Robert Stephan.
Many professors say they fear the cuts in salary increases, employees and supplies will lead to lower quality of instruction.
Donald Robertson, professor of microbiology, said students would be hurt the most by the cuts he made. Mr. Robertson too expensive to conduct with budget cuts and by decrease
"The cuts will affect the teaching mission first, but they are bound to affect the research programs as large items of equipment that need repair are put on hold," he said.
ing quality of instruction if students must perform experiments in groups.
EVERYONE WAS put in the position of carrying out the governor's mission with little flexibility, he said, making it more difficult to teach, maintain research momentum and keep up the morale of graduate students.
mobility of graduate students.
Da Santo, professor of English,
said the cuts would make it "a thousand times more difficult to carry on routine business."
Cuts for the English department, he said, included individual phones, photocopying and postage.
"It works against the effort of research and publication," he said.
search and publication. He also said he bought it was important to point out that some schools were out making more severe cuts than KU.
"It is directly the result of what I call the Reagan depression," he said. "The economy is in sad shape. Fewer people are employed, so fewer tax dollars are coming in. If we are lucky, taxes will be increasing."
involvement.
LETHA HUSTON, professor of human development and family life, said her department also was experiencing cutbacks in such items as videotaphual videos for students. One of the businesses she said, is no more free handouts for students.
"Once the phones are taken out, there
is going to be lots of inconvenience and wasted time," she said. "One of the burdens of the budget cuts will be getting more calls at home in the evening and on weekends because professors are going to be less accessible."
One faculty member who has a heavier class load than he anticipated last spring is Michael Shaw, associate professor of classics.
Last spring, he agreed to teach one basic Latin class by himself, another with an assistant and an advanced classics class.
Now he will be teaching both hour beginning classes by himself because there are no funds for the assistant. He is also one of 10 professors who volunteered to teach a section of Western Civilization.
ALTHOUGH THE extra teaching probably will cut into his research, he said, it was important because only two of the four beginning classes were offered. The rest of the program must be staffed at the beginning level if it is going to continue.
Shaw said he was worried that with the cuts, students would not receive the level of instruction, individual attention and their own work that they previously received.
"I don't know how much I have given up yet," he said. "It is very difficult for language learners to keep up beginning levels and still keep an active research program."
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"The instability of sudden and unplanned budget cuts is not good for the health of the institution," he said.
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