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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 25, 1965
Board of Regents Approves KU's New Budget
KU's proposed budget of $27,-
733,270 for next year's operation
was approved by the Kansas Board
of Regents at its Saturday meeting
in Topeka.
The budget provides funds for faculty salaries and salary increases, construction at KU, the remodeling of the old Post Office building for the use of University Extension, and the construction of a tower to be used in a television hookup between the campus and the KU Medical Center.
The Regents also approved a $16,044,585 budget for the Medical Center next year. Both these budgets become effective July 1.
An amount of $10,652.703 was allotted to the University for the salaries of its teaching staff and the hiring of 64 new teachers for next year said Raymond Nichols, vice-
chancellor of finance. This fund also provides wage increases for the present teaching staff which can be either more or less than four per cent of their present salary, Nichols said.
The new budget provides $2.7 million for first phase construction of KU's humanities building, which will be constructed where Robinson Gymnasium now stands.
Robinson Gymnasium is being replaced by a new physical education building south of Summerfield and east of Allen Field House.
NICHOLS SAID the departments which will occupy the new building are working with James Lawton, state architect.
Funds were also authorized to repair and construct a concrete block shed under the radio tower near Marvin Hall which will be
used in KU's new closed circuit television link-up between KU and the KU Medical Center granted by the Federal Communications Commission last Wednesday.
Nichols said that the closed circuit television will broadcast courses here on the hill to students at the medical center who are interested in taking them but can't travel to the campus.
THE REGENTS APPROVED $25,000 for the remodeling of the Post Office when the department moves to another building next year.
Nichols said the schools will "direct all inquiries for correspondence study here and they will be handled" at this central office. It will still be up to the schools' Extension services to decide where
and by whom these lessons are graded.
The Regents also approved a request for $200,000 for remodeling Carruth O'Leary residence hall into office space for those faculty members presently housed in condemned Fraser Hall. Plans also call for the construction of 12 classrooms in the hall.
THE BOARD approved a request by Chancellor Wescoe for the University to pay three quarters of the cost of building a sewage system in the area of 19th and Neismith where a privately-financed residence hall, along with three or four University owned halls are to be built.
Although it was not actually part of the budget, the Regents also authorized KU to offer the
master of arts degree in teaching.
"It's not a big enlargement over last year's. It's a nominal one," Nichols said in comparing the new budget with last year's.
Senior Jayhawker To Be Distributed
The fourth and final edition of the 1965 Jayhawker magazine yearbook will be distributed Thursday.
The edition will be distributed
Thursday only from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. in the Information Boon
at Jayhawk Boulevard.
Students may also obtain a copy at the Jayhawker office in the Kansas Union during final week.