University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 25, 1987
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Recommendations for KU defined in task force report
By ROGER COREY
Staff writer
The University of Kansas took a step toward improving the state's economic development Thursday by identifying its strengths and weaknesses in a report to the state Board of Regents.
The report, presented by Chancellor Gene A. Budig's task force on economic development, focused on two main areas of improvement: the University's need to reach out more aggressively to make itself known to the Kansas business sector, and the University's ability to do a better job of maintaining quality education if it receives additional financing.
"The report was well received by the Regents," Stanley Z. Kopik, Regents executive officer, said yesterday.
We won't see the results on any of the state funded projects tomorrow. Kopei
He said that some of the smaller projects that do not require state money would be carried out directly by the University. The larger projects requiring state money will take time.
Now that the University has presented the report to the Regents, it must now decide where it can make progress, he said.
future action," said Frances Horwitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, and chairman of the task force.
The report is a blueprint for
The committee had been working on the recommendations since June.
The 45-page report submitted to the regents included recommendations to
Create an industrial liaison office at the University.
- Establish a center for business consultation.
- Coordinate internationally related activities on campus through the new Center for International Programs to provide research analysis, translation services and training from establishing international connections.
- Improve communications, networking and statewide relationships to inform the public about University resources and how to reach them.
- Maintain core strengths and roles. The report pointed out that KU's financial resources were more than $16 million less than the average state financing of its peers and that bringing the University up to the average would enable it to carry out several self-financed projects.
- Seek support for a five-year program to strengthen basic and applied sciences, including the addition of more research and technology
centers for excellence, 10 mini-centers for science and research, research challenge grants, a distinguished schools program and technology service laboratories to assist the state's industries.
Recruit and retain highly competent students. Specifically, the report recommends increasing internship and cooperative programs to place students in Kansas firms and communities, increasing four-year merit-based scholarships for both resident and non-resident students, granting graduate students a 100-percent salary, and providing for graduate fellowships and increasing graduate students' teaching stipends.
Ask the state to establish a program to attract outstanding faculty to the University and nurture them. The state would provide special funds for newly recruited assistant professors in the sciences to equip and support laboratories, offer yearlong research leaves in new faculty members third or fourth year, provide name lists for research and allow graduate students to work with these faculty members
- Increase contributions to the arts, humanities and museums to help foster economic development.
Lawrence police are investigating an early morning incident yesterday in which unknown suspects threw a homemade smoke bomb through the back door of a fraternity house in the 1900 block of Stewart Hill. The suspect was estimated at $25. A fraternity raid said the smoke bomb activated the house's fire alarm at about 1:30 a.m., requiring residents to evacuate.
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Lawrence police are investigating the destruction by an unknown explosive device of a business mailbox in the 900 block of East 28th Street sometime between Saturday and Monday.
An ink line drawing, valued at $30, was taken Saturday from the art gallery of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., Lawrence police said. The 6-by-12 inch drawing of a woman in a marketplace was drawn by a Lawrence artist.
Pearson Hall was vandalized sometime Sunday or Monday, causing an estimated $40 in property damage, KU police said.
A video machine at Joseph R
- A stereo, valued at $300, was taken Feb. 8 from a KU student's unlocked house in the 1100 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said.
■ An electronic keyboard, valued at $160, was taken sometime Friday or Saturday from a KU student's KU police said. Jayhawker Towers, KU police said.
KU police are investigating an incident in which a travel voucher claiming questionable expenses was submitted Friday to the fire service training department of the Division of Continuing Education, 1246 Mississippi St.
A window in a KU student's car that was parked in the 1100 block of Tennessee Street was smashed Sunday, Lawrence police said. Property damage was estimated at $50.
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