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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 20, 1993
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Professors have an 'in crowd' too
Those awarded tenure find security, respect
By Kathleen Stolie Kansan staff writer
Up or out
For assistant professors applying for tenure and promotion this fall, the options are limited, and the direction is significant.
"For many people, that's the most important thing that happens in their life, next to marriage and children," said Howard Sypher, chair of the committee on appointments, promotion and tenure in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Each fall, committees across campus recommend promotions and tenure for eligible KU faculty. Tenure is a lifetime appointment to a teaching position at the University, traditionally awarded during a faculty member's sixth year in a school.
iTenure applicants, typically assistant professors, are evaluated on their teaching,
research and community service records, Svphersaid.
"I strongly believe if you are not a good teacher, your case will not go on." he said.
The applicants' files find their way through three levels of committees before reaching Chancellor Gene Budig, who makes the final recommendation to the Board of Regents. The Regents decision can make or break a professor's career at the University.
"I think it's a very stressful period in people's lives." Snyher said.
For those who do make it --- 31 of 33 recommendations for tenure and promotion were approved last year --- the benefits include a sense of accomplishment, increased job security and academic freedom.
"Tenure, in terms of a faculty member, eliminates fear," said Jim Mayo, professor of urban planning.
Mayo, who received tenure in 1978, said that tenure allowed professors to voice their concerns more easily than could employees in the business world. He cited the faculty's attempt to form a union in 1987 as an exam-
"If we had not had tenure, a number of people would not have expressed any opinions whatsoever in the matter," he said.
Paul Lim, associate professor of English, received a promotion and tenure last spring. He said that as a teacher, the change had little impact on him or his students.
But, as the director of English Alternative Theatre, Lim said the promotion and tenure seemed to build a wall between him and some members of the theater group.
"It really hasn't changed my approach in the classroom or how I deal with students," he said. "I've always spoken my mind."
The promotion and tenure also altered his relations with other faculty, he said.
"It makes people think I'm more up in the ivory tower and less approachable, and of course that's not the case," he said.
"It was absolutely wonderful because suddenly my senior colleagues were congratulating me in the hallways," he said. "Although I never thought about it before, suddenly I became a peer and that felt very, very good."
Road to tenure
The process for receiving tenure and promotion is lengthy. It takes through many steps, through many steps to its conclusion the following year.
Fall
Committees and heads of departments make recommendations to the college / school a committee on promotion and tenure. Deana attach recommendations to the university recommendations to the University committees.
University committee on promotion and tenure begins reviewing recommendations from colleges and schools.
Late March / Early April
Committee advises Chancellor Gene
Budig as to which faculty members
should be awarded promotion/tenure.
Budget make recommendations at April meeting of Board of Regents.
Following Fall or Reel year Faculty members awarded tenure or promotion begin serving in their new capacity.
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Haskell delays state inspection of program
Kansan staff report
Haskell Indian Nations University postponed an inspection by the Kansas State Board of Education of its first four-year baccalaureate degree program, said Hannes Combes, educational assistant to
Haskell president Bob Martin.
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OAKS-Non-Traditional Students Organization will hold a brown bag lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alcove G in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Gerry Vernon at 864-7317.
University Forum will hold a forum, "The Kurds: How It Happened," at noon today in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave. For more information, call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. today in Danfort Chapel. The center will sponsor a Catholic student discussion group and sack lunch at 1:10 p.m. today following Mass at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. For more information, call 843-0357.
The Office of Study Abroad will hold an informational meeting for students interested in studying in Spanish-speaking countries at 3:30 p.m. today in 4010 Wescoe. For more information, call Ellen Strubert at 864-3742.
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KU Environers will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Amy Trainer at 841-
KU Gamers and Roleplayers will meet at 5:30 p.m. today on the third floor of the Burge Union. For more information, call Alex Baker at 864-7316.
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet at 6 p.m. today in 207 Robinson Center. For more information, call Jacob Wright at 749-2084 or Jason Anishanslin at 843-3099.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will hold a House/Hall Contacts meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at the center, 1631 Crescent Road. For more information, call Wendy at 843-0357.
ACE will meet at 7 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Brian Griffin at 864-5223.
KU Ad Club will meet at 7 topight in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall. For more information, call Wade Baxter at 749-7487 or Ed Schager at 864-4358.
KU Kempo will meet at 7 tonight in 130 Robinson Center. For more information, call Mandana Ershadi at 842-4713.
KU Sailing Club will meet at 7:30 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
Watkins Memorial Health Center will sponsor an eating disorders support group from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at the second-floor conference room in Watkins. For more information, call Sarah Kirk at 864-4121.
United We Stand America at KU will meet at 8:30 tonight at Room 305 in Anschutz Science Library.
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Fruits of labor
Facilities operations employee Kevin Bennett gathers pears that are beneath the pear trees north of Lindley Hall. The branches of the trees hang over the sidewalk opposite the Chi Omega fountain and have produced so many pears this year that facilities operations employees have had to gather them twice this month already.
Wednesday, October 27, 1993
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The parking board has received complaints for several years about state vehicles parked for long periods of time without moving. Hultine said.
"I remember we had one vehicle parked in lot 33 for a few years," Hultine said. "I don't think it even ran. Someone finally came and took it away."
The KU Parking Board is dealing with a different type of problem this semester — people are complaining more about University vehicles parked on campus. Complaints about faculty, staff and student vehicles are down.
The University operates about 300 state-owned vehicles on campus, according to Vicki Helsel, administrator for the facilities operations motor pool. A state vehicle is identifiable by its dark brown license plate with a sunflower on it.
Hultine said one option explored in previous years was to designate a lot on West Campus in which all state vehicles must park. After passing the parking board, the proposal was killed by University Senate, Hultine said, because of opposition and questions of practicality.
State vehicles using staff, faculty's spots
Faculty and staff are getting annoyed with the big green vans docked in their parking lots.
The remaining state vehicles, however, are used by other offices and departments throughout campus. Some of those are service vehicles used by student housing and facilities operations and are kept parked in lots at those departments.
Complaints about vans on the rise
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
There are no regulations concerning where or how long a state vehicle can park on campus, Hultine said. As long as the vehicle was in a nonreserved, nonmetered parking stall, she said, the vehicle could park there indefinitely day and night, week after week, month after month.
Lots frequently occupied by state vehicles include lot 3 behind Strong and Bailey halls, lot 37 behind Haworth Hall, lot 16 across from the Kansas Union and lot 14 next to Fraser Hall.
The board will continue to look for specific parking locations and will consider more stringent parking regulations for state vehicles. But Hultine said any such options would not be easy to implement.
A few of the departmental vehicles have designated parking stalls that are posted as reserved for those vehicles only, Hultine said. Most of the departmental vehicles, however, park in other red and blue zone parking stalls, making those stalls unavailable for faculty and staff.
But many state vehicles are used by offices and academic departments and are parked throughout campus near the offices that operate them, said Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking.
Hultine said the parking department had little control over campus parking of state vehicles.
"If the parking board came up with a reasonable solution, it would have to be passed through many other offices before it was enacted," she said.
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