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Tuesday, March 6, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Morale . . .
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the University like a business. They want to
show the Legistature 'look how many eggs
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"THEER 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 dehumanization of people by audits and evaluations fits a business and commercial world rather than a university," he said.
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, supported Wright's
"We have an administration concerned more with economic efficiency rather than academic excellence" Leban said. "That is what we are running a supermarket than a university."
T. P. SRINIVASAN, professor of mathematics and a member of FacEx, said that evaluations of faculty by students, teachers, and staff had the worst effect on faculty morale.
Arnio Krapper, professor of business and a member of FacEx, said he thought another negative aspect of the evaluations was that the members were prevented from being creative.
"The faculty are made to evaluate each other constantly," Srinivasan said. "They don't see evaluation leading to anything except to create more friction."
"Because student evaluations are used in test evaluations, the instructor has to teach students how to rate too low," Knapper said. "Faculty members have to be careful not to offend them."
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 has turned into backstabbing sessions, he said, where faculty tried to out-justify each other for the wage increases.
"Every spring the members of the departments compete for the merit salary money. Leban said, "This is one of the reasons of morale and of morale and the cooperative element."
Weight also said that the almost constant demand for documentation of ability through evaluations had made the faculty more involved in demonstrating their worth to the University.
Leban said many faculty members would not apply for the raises because they did not know what to do.
"YOU HAVE ALMOST constant feedback asking are you good enough." Wright said. "Faculty members, especially those looking for answers, will turn 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 data, but he said there was little he could do.
"There are an increasing amount of federal and state regulations that force the University to engage in monitorite tivities and procedures." Dykes said
Dykes said he spends one-third of working on business involving gov regulations. More rules seem to be each day, he said.
"THEY SEEM to be inevitable, but gotten to the point where the institu higher education no longer control the houses." Dwks 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 educati
been hurt by the growing bureaucra
that the only thing that could be done
Approval of funding could aid KU budge
TOPEKA-Funding for women's athletics and libraries could be restored to the KU budget if the recommendations of a Kansas House Ways and Means subcommittee are
In addition, the three-member subcommittee has made a recommendation to $277,500 from an allocation for Marvin Hall to renovate Lindley Hall.
Under Gov. John Carlin's budget recommendation, funding for neither the state nor the national system were given. The subcommittee is scheduled to make its entire presentation to Gov. Carlin on Friday.
Yesterday, subcommittee members met with Marlon Rein, director of legislative research, to refine their recommendations on the KU budget.
Among the subcommittee's recommendations were the restoration to the budget $12 million or miscellaneous expenses for $64 million and $100,000 for the library security system.
IN HIS INITIAL budget proposal, the
allocated for the restoration of Marvin Hall.
City, subcommittee chairman, s favored splitting the money in orde both construction projects off the next year.
However, subcommittee members broke that figure down, allocating $1 million for the renovation of Marvin and $277,500 for the renovation of Lindley.
"We're going to have to finish buildings sooner or later anyway, longer we put off starting on Land more it will cost in the long run," he said.
State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden
Heimann said the funds to fir renovation of both buildings she had been working on would take about $1,550 to finish Hall and all $1,650 to finish
Despite the high cost of renovation is about $54 a square foot, he said er would still be cheaper than buildin 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 vv important for all of the moving it describes," Heinemann said. "Besides, the redic book theta will match the system."
The $16,660 that would be rest women's athletics is less than half of request by KU. Subcommittee 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.
Srinivasan and Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum instruction and chairman of FacEx, said that more faculty involvement in administrative functions was needed.
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"Over-regulation threatens the University's existence." Dykes said.
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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."
Tracy Spelman, a board member, said the effectiveness of the merger would depend on the attitudes of the administration.
Leban said, "You have to think of the academic mission first. We need an administration that can provide academic leadership."
Nemchock, 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.
try to prevent more regulations from appearing on the books.
men's athletic director, who was not responsible for women's athletics.
But Heller said it no longer was possible for the administrative head of a large university to use the computer.
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"I AUDITED SOME courses in the sciences and I hang around the engineering building and Malott Hall a lot," he said. "The research materials are here and I think KU has really been supportive of research in the arts."
“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.”
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Srinivasa said that the faculty needed to be assured by the administration that
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But Nermock's designs, which incorporate items such as solar cells, magnetic switches, fiber optics and light diodes, may be the jewelry of the future.
Nemchock, 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. He were working with electronic jewelry. He said the work was too new to be profitable.
"About three years ago, I started thinking about putting some electronics with jewelry," Nermchock, professor of jewelry and silversmithing, said. "I'm just working with different applications of new materials for artists; artist, and designer are just exuding."
“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.”
Nernchock said the materials he used came from campus departments and research departments in space, telephone and computer industries of the country. He said because much of the
if the two boards merged, women's athletics would lose their emphasis on academics.
Dykes said he wanted to emphasize that the board would advise the athletic director
Nernchock's "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.
The brooches, belts and rings Gary Neumack designs look more like props for the movie.
KU artist combines electronics, jewelry
"It's just basic research now," he said. There are no guide books on how to do it, and I don't know what they are.
By RHONDA HOLMAN
Staff Reporter
Although his feet don't quite fit his soft sculpture thone. Scott Hall manages to remain comfortable in his home at 1240 Ohio. The gloves are stuffed with fiber-art scraps.
Stall photo by Randy Olson
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