CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, August 22, 1995
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Chancellor envisions progressive changes
Hemenway's plan includes more services and funds despite recent budget woes
By Josh Yancey Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Robert Hemenway is wasting no time in making his intentions for the University of Kansas known.
The rookie Jayhawk and new chancellor, speaking yesterday afternoon at Faculty Convocation, made it clear that he had a mission and a direction for KU.
The night before, at Student Convocation, Hemenway had promised to make news the next day.
"It is then (at convocation) that we talk about money," he said. "That's when people really start paying attention."
They certainly did. More than 500 faculty members went to hear Hemenway speak in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Hemenway praised KU's successes, especially in the areas of national rankings of professional schools and in KU's high ranking in the list of best buys in college education.
He spoke of KU's original faculty's funding problems during the 1866 school year and of the determination and success of Chancellor John Fraser. He recalled the eventual building of Old Fraser Hall, portraying it as a symbol of KU's destiny for greatness.
In general, he urged the faculty to focus on determination and stoicism.
"I am unwilling to let the hard times of the moment distract us from the grand vision of our predecessors," Hemenway said. "Our challenge in the last half decade of the 20th century is not to build a new university, but to fulfill the promise of the old one."
*Our challenge today is how to take a good university and make
Hemenway was referring to recent budget cuts, to decreases in Legislative funding for KU and to KU's faculties salaries, which are lower than those of peer universities.
Hemenway listed 10 steps he wanted the University to take to better itself.
The main points
"My 10 goals grow out of the 10 characteristics of a great public education that I shared with the campus this spring," he said. "My
Hemenway's goals include recruiting more minority faculty, increasing research funding, ameliorating all KU campuses and increasing faculty salaries.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway outlined 10 steps to make the University of Kansas better by the year 2000:
Recruit and retain additional minority faculty and students
Increase research funding from $92 million to $120 million
Recruit a freshman class with 100 National Merit Scholars
Enhance KU's Regents Center by offering more courses and degrees
Enhance KU Medical Center by continuing to ensure top-quality health care and patient relations
■ Ensure an international experience for all at KU by increasing opportunities for overseas studies and teaching
Offer one class free of charge each semester for all full-time university employees
Realize funds for buildings, equipment and library, asking the Kansas Legislature the match the funds.
it an even better university, even "during a time that seems difficulcult for higher education," he said.
Restructure and streamline
to help deal with budget cuts
Improve KU's faculty salaries through reallocation and state appropriation
vision of KU is that of a great university."
He also said he wanted to
Hemenway said he wanted to increase minority faculty from the present 9 percent to 12 percent and women faculty from the present 28 percent to 35 percent by the year 2000.
"I am unwilling to let the hard times of the moment distract us from the grand vision of our predecessors."
he wanted to increase the quality of incoming freshmen at KU.
"We will recruit the best students, and good students will follow. Because we are recruiting good students, better students will follow. There is no great university without a distinguished student body." Hemenway's speech, like
Robert Hemenway Chancellor
the one the night before, received a lengthy ovation. He concluded with a call to all faculty to help make sure his plan was enacted.
"We can move forward, and we will, despite the times, despite difficult circumstances," he said. "Past chancellors and past faculty whose spirit is present in 130 years of opening convocations are owed that courage and commitment."
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