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Council will discuss sabbaticals
By JOHN MUELLER
Staff Reporter
The Faculty Council is to meet this afternoon to discuss proposed changes in faculty sabbatical policies, but FacEx decided yesterday that the changes were too controversial to be resolved at the council meeting.
FacEx vote to let the council talk about the changes, which center on decentralizing procedures for awarding faculty leaves of absence, but it also voted to defer action on the changes to a FacEx-appointed committee.
The FaceEx committee would include an equal number of members from the University Committee on Sabbaticals (UCS) and the Faculty Senate Committee on FrRPs (FRRP). Additional members would be chosen from outside UCS and FRRP.
THE NEW committee is necessary, according to FacEx, because of the complex issues involved in changing the sabbatical policy. FacEx members said they didn't think the council could agree on the issues after only limited debate.
Rex Martin, FacEx member and council presiding officer, said the sahabtical policy is not appropriate for a parliamentary consider. Let's take it to a committee."
If council members approve formation of the FacEx committee, the committee will act on an FRPR report that recently called present KU kabatbalistic procedures "cumbersome-and, in the view of some faculty at UCS, not as necessary while." FRPR recommended that decision-making power on sabbatical leaves be taken from UCS and given to
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TODAY: THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS will present Stephen Shawl, associate professor of physics and astronomy, for a discussion of KU astronomy
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TONIGHT: ALCOHOL ABUSE will be the topic of a lecture by FRED MGELLIEME, associate dean of men, at 7 in the Union's Council Room. STUDENT SENATE CANDIDATES will debate at 7:30 in the Union's Jawhawk Hall. The KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7:30 in Parlors A and B of the Union. DAVID PEARRS of Oxford University will present a paper on "Russell's Unpublished Study of Judgment and Wittgenstein's Picture Theory" at 8 in the Forms Room.
TOMORROW: A TRAINING SESSION for the recruitment and selection of University employees will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. in 104 Carruth O'Leary. Register by calling 864-542-8. A PSYCHOCLOGY COLLEGE will be present to be prepared by JOHN FLAVELLE of Stanford University at 3:30 p.m. in the Union 'B' Room.
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BUT UCS AND its chairman, Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, have disagreed with FRPR. A memorandum from Calgard, dated Feb. 7, says UCS unanimously consider the proposed "improposal" and unacceptable."
FRREP said sabbatical decisions should be made by four academic groups, which would represent humanities; natural sciences, including mathematics and computer science; social and behavioral sciences; and professional schools and the
Calgaard, however, has said he doesn't see the logic behind the proposed groups. Lumping the professional schools and library together isn't logical, according to Calgaard, who do the schools of social welfare, fine arts and pharmacy have in common with the library? And the School of Engineering could have been put with natural sciences."
T. P. SRIHVANAS, professor of mathematics and FHRP chairman, has defended the proposed group lawsuit against the FHRP in issue in the FHRP report is that "the Faculty Senate Rules and Regulations article on sabbatical leaves has been slowly eroded by the sab-
Because of the conflict between UCS and FRPR, FacEx members agreed yesterday that the new sabbatical committee should have an equal number of UCS and FRPR members. The other members would be neutral, according to FacEx members, but no machinery would be set up to ensure their neutrality.
FACEX MEMBERS also agreed that the present sabbatical policies discouraged professors from applying for sabbaticals. A new system of policies, one member said, "might generate less disappointment for members who are turned down for leaves."
The disappointment, he said, is due to the emphasis UCS places on the motters of sabbatical life.
"The present system is a reflection on you, if you're turned down. The awards should be based on the number of years at the University," he said.
FRPR has endorsed basing awards on the length of an applicant's service to the University, Calgaard and UCS have said the length of service proposal wouldn't work, for reasons not specified in Calgaard's Feb. 7 memorandum.
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