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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Pharmacy dean is just what the doctor ordered
By Trine Nygaard
Kansan staff writer
Jack Fincham, dean of the KU School of Pharmacy, has had no personal success since he began the job last year, but he doesn't mind. He said his job couldn't be better.
"I don't look at personal success," Fincham said. "The school works as a team, and that eliminates the need to look at the success of individuals."
And the school has seen plenty of success since Fincham took over the leather chair in the cozy bookcase-lined office on Malott Hall's ground floor.
In the past year, Val Stella, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry,
won the Sato research award which is presented in Japan every year in honor of a Japanese-American researcher, Yoshio Sato. THE HOPE
award went to Jeff Aube, associate professor of medicinal chemistry, and Michael Doughty, associate professor of medicinal chemistry, was a HOPE finalist.
Jack Fincham
award is the honor for the outstanding progressive educator.
Kappa Epsilon, a professional
pharmacy greek organization for women, won the award for the United States'most-improved chapter and was named chapter of the year.
"I am very proud of these accomplishments," said the dean, whose biggest concern is the success of his students. "I want to make sure that the students have the opportunity to achieve their goals, regardless of those goals.
"I want to help them make a mark on the world."
with that philosophy in mind, Fincham said his office door always was open to the school's most-valued commodity.
"Students can stop by any time," he said. "It is very important to me
that students feel comfortable talking to me."
To make sure that Fincham gets feedback from students, he meets with leaders of the student council each month to discuss the general concerns of the pharmacy students.
Whether Fincham is dealing with his students or designing new drugs, he has devoted his life to helping people.
"I wanted to be in health care as long as I can remember," Fincham said. "Pharmacy is a business where you can help people to a significant extent."
Medication and the appropriate use of medication affords the health-care system a chance to improve the quality of people's
Research can provide understanding of medication and help practitioners enable people to use it properly. Fincham said.
lives.
The dean's research includes the outcomes of drug therapy, patient compliance and drug use in the elderly.
"He is very enthused about pharmacy" said Jeremy A. Matchett, associate dean of the school. "He has a good command of the future of this profession, and he has the right amount of energy to guide the school in the right direction."
Before taking command of KU's pharmacy school, Fincham held academic, research and administrative positions in pharmacy schools
at the University of Georgia, the University of Mississippi, Samford University and Creighton University.
Jennifer Feldkamp, president of Kappa Epsilon, said that she was excited to get a new dean because the school had been without a dean for two years.
"He came from a good school with good programs, so I'm excited that he chose KU," she said.
Fincham, a native of Marysville, said that coming to KU was a fabulous personal opportunity.
"KU is one of the top pharmacy schools in the country and has a remarkably positive reputation in the United States and elsewhere," he said.
Education dean set to tackle second year
By Gwen Olson Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas is requiring several schools to cut their budgets because of recent cuts by the state legislature.
The School of Education is being asked to chop $83,000 from its budget by mid-October, said Karen Gallagher, dean of education.
"We are going to be forced to cut money and not just organizational money," Gallaghersaid.
To ease the severity of the cuts, the school relies on fund-raising events and is one of the few schools to do so. One such event was the Second Annual Gale Sayers Benefit Golf Tournament in April, which raised $10,000. The school also utilizes endowed funds and contributions from alumni.
Karen Gallagher
Despite the difficulties, Gallagher, who is beginning her second year at KU, said she was happy with her position. She moved to Lawrence in July 1994 with her husband and teen-age son.
"I worked at the University of Cincinnati before KU, and I really like KU," Gallagher said. "It's nice to be closer to the University, and it's nice to be in a place where the university is an important part of the city."
As dean, Gallagher must keep up with the ideas and concerns of faculty and students.
"I think she has spent this first
year really getting to know alumni and the state of Kansas," said Suzanne Collins, assistant to the dean for certification. "She really has made an impact on alumni relations. I think she is doing a very good job."
Gallagher also has worked to get the state interested in the School of Education, Collins said.
"I find myself being the mouthpiece for faculty and students," Gallagher said. "My job is to say what the school would like to accomplish and often to dispel myths about the School of Education."
Several committees are set up to help structure and bring new ideas into the school.
"Our structure is fairly typical," Gallager said. "We have one dean, two associate deans, who are also professors, and six departments, each with its own chair."
The school also encourages students to get involved in the School of Education Students Organization, which links directly with several committees for the school.
The faculty equivalent to the SESO is the school assembly.
"We don't have a faculty senate, but we have the school assembly." Gallagher said. "The school assembly meets a minimum of once each semester. All tenure-tract faculty are given voting rights in the assembly."
The school's enrollment is about 1,000 undergraduates and 1,800 graduate students. The school has a few worries about enrollment, Gallagher said.
"The drop in freshmen didn't directly affect us because our curriculum is set up to allow students in their junior year to begin their studies," Gallagher said of the Uni
versity enrollment. "We have a couple of programs that were really attracting out-of-state students, but with tuition increases, it comes to a point where we get priced out of the range of schools those students are interested in. But we haven't seen a big drop in enrollment."
The school has received high honors from a U.S. News and World Report poll. It was ranked 17 out of 223 education schools nationwide.
"In the poll, we were the only Kansas university to be ranked in the top 25." Gallagher said.
The school will undergo many changes in the next year because of the budget cuts but hopes to maintain its ranking. Gallagher said she was excited about what Chancellor Robert Hemenway would bring to KU.
"I think because of Chancellor Hemenway we will be more focused on what's good for students," Gallagher said. "I see that he will continue to try to make people in Kansas understand why KU is important. He has displayed strength of character, and we have a lot of access to him. I am very impressed with Hemenway."
Looking to the future, the School of Education and Dean Gallagher have some tough decisions to make.
"We need to make permanent budget cuts, and there are several restructuring programs going on in the Teacher Ed program, continuing education and in teacher licensing," Gallagher said. "But our school is involved in national teacher reform groups, so we can see what we can do well and how we can stay ranked high in national polls of universities."
Open management helps engineering school operate
By Phillip Brownlee
Special to the Kansan
The KU School of Engineering is organized in the same logical mindset of its students, by a hierarchy and an open-management style that seems to run smoothly.
"Engineers by our nature and training have a logical approach," said Stanley Rolfe, representative for the civil engineering department. "We work together to solve problems."
At the base of the school's administrative hierarchy are approximately 90 faculty members. These members teach and advise 2,000 graduate and undergraduate engineering students
"Faculty are our backbone," said Thomas Mulinazzi, associate dean of engineering.
The faculty is divided into seven departments: aerospace, architectural, chemical and petroleum, civil, electrical and computer science, mechanical, and engineering management.
One faculty member heads each of these departments, creating the administrative-hierarchy middle level.
Carl Locke Jr.
These leaders oversse their department's operations and work with faculty for decision-making and problem-solving. The heads also serve as intermediaries between the administration and the faculty.
"The action is at the department level," said Carl Locke Jr., dean of engineering. "That's where key decisions such as promotion and tenure begin."
The dean's office sits at the top of the school's administrative pyramid and is responsible for academic records, the career services office, the school's diversity program, and the school's funds.
The dean also oversees the department heads and represents the school to the University administration, said Locke, who has been dean since 1986.
The School of Engineering operates using an open-management style in which each administrative level has a degree of independence.
Rolfe said that as department head, he had laid out objectives and goals at the start of the school year but still had given faculty its necessary freedom.
"Ilike to keep the decision-making at the level where it impacts faculty the most," Rolfe said.
Locke also gives the department heads latitude in running their own programs,
"The dean recognizes that the department chairs and faculty know more about the details of the operations," Rolfe said. "I like having access to the dean but also appreciate being left alone once broad directions are set."
The engineering dean meets every two weeks with the department heads. He also decides how limited resources will be divided among competing departments.
"Competition among departments is not as difficult in the engineering school as in some other areas of the University," Locke said. "We share a commonity in the application of math and science, so we can develop ways to cooperate."
The school's open-management style seems to operate smoothly because of the communication that exists between each level of the administration.
"The dean and department chairs are accessible," said Robert Sorem, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. "Any time we want something, we can talk to them."
Brian McIntyre, a fifth-year architectural engineering student from Lawrence, said that he was able to talk to his adviser or department head whenever he had a problem.
More than anything, the effectiveness of the school's administration is dependent on the quality and cooperation of its people.
Locke himself meets several times each semester with the engineering student organization presidents and with the school's Faculty Senate representative to share information and to hear concerns.
Mulnazzi said he thought the School of Engineering was lucky in that respect.
"Any academic structure is smooth only if you have good people," he said. "We have good faculty, good department chairs and a good dean."
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