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Tuesday, March 6, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Morale...
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the University like a business. They want to the Legislature "look how many eggs we have."
"THERE IS A general feeling of being in a corporate system where things are manufactured and produced, rather than created."
Wright said the administration had instilled a corporate atmosphere in the faculty through continual evaluations and competition for benefits.
"The dehumization of people by audits and evaluations fits a business and commercial world rather than a university," he said.
"We have an administration concerned more with economic efficiency rather than academic excellence," Leban said. "That is why we are running a supermarket than a university."
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, supports Wright's research.
T. P. SRINIVASAN, professor of mathematics and a member of FExa, said that evaluations of faculty by students, the most important, had had the worst effect on Fexa morale.
"The faculty are made to evaluate each other constantly," Srinivasan said. "They don't see evaluation leading to anything except to create more friction."
Ari Knapper, professor of business and a member of FacEx, said he thought another negative aspect of the evaluations was that the members were prevented from creative work.
"Because student evaluations are used in tenure evaluation, the instructor has to teach to the masses so that he doesn't get rated too low," Knapper said. "Faculty members have to be careful not to offend too many students."
LEBAN SAID the evaluations—combined with the bad economics situation—had resulted in an ugly trend. The application and evaluation process for merit salary
increases awarded by the departments had turned into backstabbing sessions, he said, where faculty tried to out-justify each other for the wage increases.
Wright also said that the almost constant demand for documentation of ability through evaluations had made the faculty almost paranoid about demonstrating their skills.
"Every spring the members of the departments compete for the merit salary money," Leban said. "This is one of the most important elements of morale and cooperative element."
Leban said many faculty members would not apply for the raises because they did not want to be part of it.
"YOU HAVE ALMOST constant feedback asking are you good enough." Wright said. "Faculty members, especially those looking for feedback, can help to turn out the product demanded of them.
"In a corporate structure this may be legitimate, but not in a University."
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said he agreed that there were increasing bureaucratic controls over the University's faculty, but he said there was little he could
"There are an increasing amount of federal and state regulations that force the University to engage in monitoringivities and procedures." Dokes said.
"THEY SEEM to be inevitable, by gotten to the point where the institu higher education no longer control th houses." Dykes said.
Dykes then he spends one-third of working on business involving gove regulations. More rules seem to be each day, he said.
"Faculty are legitimately concer the growing bureaucracy, but a lo faculty don't realize that it's not from us," he said.
Dykes said he knew that educat been hurt by the growing bureaucr that the only thing that could be done
TOPEKA-Funding for women's athletics and libraries could be restored to the KU budget if the recommendations of a Kansas Department of Means subcommittee are approved today.
Approval of funding could aid KU budge
In addition, the three-member subcommittee has made a recommendation to sell $277,500 from an allocation for Marvin Hall to renovate Lindley Hall.
Under Gov. John Carlin's budget recommendations, funding for neither women's athletics nor a library security system were given. The subcommittee is scheduled to make its entire presentation to the entire committee today.
Yesterday, subcommittee members met with Marton Rein, director of legislative research, to refine their recommendations on the KU budget.
Among the subcommittee's recommendations were the restoration to the budget $25 million for miscellaneous expenses for the library and $10,000 for the library security system.
IN HIS INITIAL budget proposal, the
allocated for the renovation of Maryn Hall,
was
However, subcommittee members broke that figure down, allocating $1 million for the renovation of Marvin and $277,500 for the renovation of Lindley.
State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden
City, subcommittee chairman, s favored splitting the money in orde both construction projects off the next year.
"We're going to have to finish buildings sooner or later anyway, longer we put off starting on Lind more it will cost in the long run." he
Heinemann said the funds to fin renovation of both buildings she allocated by the Legislature next would take about $1,550,000 to finish Hall and about $1,650,000 to finish he said.
Despite the high cost of renovation is about $50 a square foot, he said rewould still be cheaper than building building.
Because of the value of the book KU libraries, subcommittee memb that restoration of funding for a security system would pay for itself.
"The book detection system is very important because of all the moving thiefs. The book detection system, Heinemann said. "Behindes, the radio book thefts will make the system more effective."
The $16,660 that would be rest women's athletics is less than half of request by KU. Subcommittee me said the money would be used for athletic events and for an athletic room.
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Faculty members said they agreed that over-regulation harmed the University but they offered their own solutions to the faculty morale problem.
Srinivasaan and Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum instruction and chairman of FacEx, said that more faculty involvement in administrative functions was needed.
"Over-regulation threatens the University's existence." Dykes said.
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try to prevent more regulations from appearing on the books.
Nermock, who grew up in Chicago and studied jewelry design in Denmark, said he always had an interest in electronics, physics and metallurgy. He said the work he was doing would be much more difficult away from a university campus.
new metal, titanium, which can be changed to any color. He said he also had hopes of making jewelry that could emit sounds and light, a technology activated by light, temperature and movement.
Leban said, "You have to think of the academic mission first. We need an administration that can provide academic leadership."
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"MANY FACULTY members want more involvement in making the budget," Swartz said. "Having confidence in the budget allocations would boost morale."
"It's not the day any longer where a university president can go around patting people on the back," Heller said. "The role of the administrator today is to acquire resources."
But Helder said it no longer was possible for the administrative bend of a large corporation to be used.
Athletics ...
men's athletic director, who was not responsible for women's athletics.
Tracy Spellman, a board member, said the effectiveness of the merger would depend on the attitudes of the administration.
Srinivasan said that the faculty needed to be assured by the administration that students would be able to
"I AUDITED SOME courses in the sciences and I hang around the engineering building and Malotl Hall a lot," he said. "The research materials are here and I think KU has really been supportive of research in the arts."
do what it says it will do
“It’s the women who are having to make the biggest changes,” she said. “And I’m afraid if the boards merge, we might lose our philosophy.”
if the two boards merged, ours athletics would lose their emphasis on academics.
Dykes said he wanted to emphasize that the board would advise the athletic director
KU artist combines electronics, jewelry
Nermock, who came to the University of Kansas in 1972 from the art institute in Cleveland, said he was in contact with English, German and West Coast designers who also were working with electronic data. He said the work was too new to be profitable.
But Nernochmck's designs, which incorporate items such as solar cells, magnetic switches, fiber optics and light diodes, may be the jewelry of the future.
"About three years ago, I started thinking about putting some electronics with jewelry," Nemchok, professor of jewelry and silversmithing, said. "I'm just working with different applications of new technologies, the artist and designer are just expanding."
The brooches, belts and rings Gary Nermock designs look more like props for the show.
By RHONDA HOLMAN
Nenchockh "bodonic jewelry," as he calls it, combines traditional metals in geometric designs with tiny flashing bulbs and pinpoints of light—all powered by a tiny battery and a sensor that activates the lights when the pieces are worn.
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"It's just basic research here," he said.
There are no great book guides on how to do it with the digital library.
Nernchok said the materials he used came from campus departments and research departments in space, telephone offices and other country. He said because much of the material
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