UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 28, 1996
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SenEx faces Regents' deadlines on restructuring, evaluations
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan staff writer
Two deadlines were the pressing subjects facing the University Senate Executive Committee yesterday.
SenEx must decide soon on department restructuring and faculty evaluations.
The committee discussed a report from the Academic Policy and Process subcommittee in the afternoon meeting.
The subcommittee is supposed to review recommendations from University of Kansas schools on how to restructure their departments under a Board of Regents mandate.
"A few departments should have given us recommendations on the changes they are going to make," said Bob Brown, subcommittee member. "So far we have only received a recommendation from
the School of Education."
Under direction from David Shulenburger, provost, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences must cut four departments, the School of Architecture must cut one department and the School of Education must cut two departments.
SenEx must review the recommendations by June 1997.
SenEx voted to wait until the recommendations were submitted before taking further action.
Grey Montgomery, student body president, asked Brown if all the recommendations would make the June deadline. Brown said that he was fairly certain that the deadline would have to be extended.
All 1,300 University faculty and 75 student senators have been invited to a meeting at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union to discuss the evaluations, which will be annual faculty performance studies.
The second deadline SenEx faces comes on Sept. 20 when the University is required to recommend to the Regents how it will approach faculty evaluations.
The evaluations will be conducted by the University and are different from the evaluations completed at the end of each semester by students.
SenEx committee member Larry Draper said he hoped the meeting would go smoothly.
If the University misses the deadline, the Regents will mandate an approach.
we want to give everyone the chance to express how they feel about the evaluations," Draper said. "We have very little time to approach this so we need to do it efficiently."
Commission hears development plan
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
Downtown Lawrence has become a popular place for new businesses in recent years, but until last night the city had no plan for handling new development in that area of town.
The Downtown Steering Committee presented a draft of a comprehensive plan for downtown development at the city commission meeting last night. The plan included eight principles that set a framework for how future development should be handled.
The plan suggested that new buildings should be pedestrian-friendly and that Massachusetts Street remain the commercial center of downtown. It also said that development should follow an urban, not suburban, development pattern.
"We cannot move forward responsibly without the study"
Jo Anderson City Commissioner
existing fabric of downtown," she said. "It's missing a respect for the historic nature."
Nancy Shontz, a representative for the Lawrence Preservation Alliance, told the commission she was concerned about the plan's lack of provisions for the historic buildings located downtown.
"This plan neglects the value of the
Glen Leroy, representative for the steering committee's plan, said it was not a problem to add a principle addressing historic concerns. The new provision will be added to the plan, and the commission will review it again at their next meeting.
"We cannot move forward responsibly without the study," said Commissioner Jo Andersen.
City Manager Mike Wilden also suggested the city contract the Walker Parking Consultant Firm of Denver to conduct a study to determine how downtown should approach the parking problems caused by recent development.
The commission assigned the planning staff to outline the study to be performed by the Walker firm.
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