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Thursday, December 4. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
KU must submit budget to reflect spending cuts
By a Kansan reporter
KU officials must submit a revised fiscal year 1987 budget plan today to the governor's office in Topeka.
The budget will show how the University will carry out a cut of $3,166,697. The University will absorb the cut during the next seven months.
The revised plan must be submitted because of a proposed 3.8 percent across-the-board cut in state spending that Governor-elect Mike Hayden ordered Nov. 19. The proposed cuts were designed to ensure that the state would end its fiscal year with a positive balance despite predicted revenue shortfalls. Fiscal
year 1987 ends June 30.
All Board of Regents schools must respond today as well. Hayden's proposal would force the Regents system to cut $12.1 million from its budget.
Ward Brian Zimmerman, KU budget director, said the figures in the budget would be specific enough for the governor's office, but, from the University's standpoint, it would be a general framework.
This outline would allow University officials to rearrange numbers if they have to in the future months, he said.
Information center has to trim services
Bv KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
As a result of recent proposed budget cuts, the University Information Center won't be able to help as many callers as it has in the past.
Pat Katehde, assistant director of the organization and activities center, said one noticeable effect of the cuts would be more busy signals.
Kehde also said the center would suffer because it was being asked to cut back expenses for supplies, equipment and wages for students who work at the center.
The budget cut would hurt the center, she said, because those expenses are about all they are allowed.
"Just about all the money we have, we have to give up," she said.
Overall, the University has been asked to cut 3.8 percent from its fiscal 1987 budget. Governor-elect Mike Hayden proposed a 3.8 percent cut in state spending last month as a way of dealing with the state's financial problems. The 1986 fiscal year ends June 30.
Although Khdeh didn't know the exact figure the center would have to cut, Dennis "Boog" higherger, graduate assistant at the center, estimated that the figure would be about $8.000.
Kehde said that users of the center would confront more busy signals when they called because fewer
workers would be on duty. Eighteen working hours will be cut from the service immediately.
During busy periods of the day, such as from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., the center is staffed by two student workers. Now, it will be able to staff only one worker, with the possibility of another working from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
During the 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. period, one worker could be expected to answer about 40 calls an hour, whereas two workers could answer between 70 and 80.
Kehde said that she was disappointed because the student workers wouldn't be given the hours they needed to work.
This, Highberger said, would cut into research material the center could buy, which would hinder its ability to answer callers' questions.
He said the center would no longer have the benefit of a long distance phone, used to answer callers' questions, and could no longer publish guides for students.
Khdee said that the center may have to close over spring break to accommodate the requested cuts. This week, she said, "We've ever closed over the break, she said.
For the first time, the center also may have to close between semesters and summer school. It also will be closed an additional three days during the Christmas break.
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The deans of KU professional schools and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are preparing for budget cuts but are hoping academic programs won't have bear too much of the burden.
As part of the 3.8 percent budget cuts requested by Governor-elect Mike Hayden for the University of Kansas, officials will be trimming 2.3 percent from academic budgets.
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Robert Lineberry, dean of the college, said although enrollment in the college increased by 1,060 students this fall, the school would have to delete $760,000 from the fiscal 1987 budget. Fiscal 1987 ends June 30.
"We don't consider the recommendations firm or final." Lineberry said recently. "We had a budget crunch before, and now we are even worse after this one."
Schools prepare for budget cut
He said that the college needed to increase the number of sections in various disciplines because of the enrollment, but that it was looking at decreasing sections because of the cuts.
Staff writer
College budget cuts would come from the summer school program, supplies and operations and uncommitted personnel funds, he said.
Of the $1.3 million KU must cut, almost $1.6 million will come from academic budgets with support services shouldering the rest, said Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
"There will be an adverse impact on everyone." Cobb said, "on students, faculty and staff. We're engaged in damage control."
Michael Davis, dean of law, said the cutbacks for the School of Law would delete around $65,000 from the budget.
Most of the cuts, Young said, would be absorbed in operating expenses and supplies and an unfilled faculty position.
The school recommended cuts be made from supplies, student employment and teaching contracts where possible. But Tolleison added that if summer classes were cut, it would lead to section reductions and larger classes.
Paul Haack, associate dean of education, said the school would take cuts from operating supplies, uncommissioned salaries and student employment to protect summer classes.
John Tollefon, dean of business,
said his school's cuts would delete
almost $84,000 from the budget.
The amount of cuts for the School of Education was unavailable because Edward Meyen, dean of education, was out of town. School officials referred questions about specific amounts to Meyen.
Professional schools also are facing heavy spending cuts for both the spring and summer semesters.
Students will suffer most from cuts to the law library, with the rest of cuts coming from the student law review, student employment, supplies and operating expenses.
Lee Young, acting dean of journalism, would not disclose the amount that would be cut from the school's budget, but said the school was lucky because the cuts wouldn't hurt classes.
Max Lucas, dean of architecture and design, said the school would survive, but it would be difficult.
Reductions in summer classes probably would occur, he said, but he added it would amount to only 15 percent and 15 percent of the final cut.
"It's going to be kind of tough," Haack said. "We are going to protect the summer session because many teachers do course work here during the summer."
The School of Fine Arts should cut about $100,000 and cuts will limit the quality of classes offered in the school, said Peter Thompson, dean of fine arts.
About $40,000 would be cut from the school's budget, including some beginning summer classes, Lucas said.
"Our ability to meet various student needs will be diminished." Ewalt said. "The courses needed by students will probably be open to them, but the convenience of timing may be affected."
"From our perspective now, we won't have to cut classes," Young said yesterday.
Patricia Ewal, dear of social welfare, said about $37,000 would be cut from the School of Social Welfare's budget.
"It would cut classroom teaching, including the summer session." Ewalt said.
The report analyzed the results of writing tests taken in 1984 by nearly 55,000 students in the 4th, 8th and 11th grades in public and private schools across the country.
"I'm not sure the students will notice any major changes, besides the cutting of some classes," he said. "We had to take cuts in every segment of our operation."
"The library is the laboratory," he said. "That's where the law is,
and that affects everyone."
"Most students, majority and minority alike, are unable to write adequately except in response to the simplest of tasks," said the National Assessment of Educational Progress at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., which produced the "Writing Report Card." The Department of Education paid for the tests.
Most children from elementary school to high school flunked a national "Writing Card" released yesterday. Blacks, Hispanics, males and students from poor urban communities had the lowest grades.
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