Council to hear plans for new commlSSlon • • proposed by President Wharton has a three - fold mission: To identify current admissions policies and practices, to analyze those policies and practices "as determinants of the present student mix"; to recommend to the president "policies conceming admissions and affecting the UniverSity during the 70's." the student mix of Wharton the proposes commission have 30 members, including that 12 faculty and representing the student body, the alumni and the public. The commission would be chaired by Wharton, and its members would be named during spring term. It would meet summer and fall terms, holding hearings during the fall, and issue its fmal report next winter term to the Academic Council, Graduate Council, the preSident and Board of Trustees. Observatory readied The fmal and most important component for the new MSU Observatory was installed last week. A three- ton telescope capable of mag nification up to 3,200 times will help astronomical research and train ing. The mounting being lowered through the dome supports the new telescope. Located south ofthe campus off Forest Road, the Observatory will be used for an astrophysics course this summer. -Photo by Bob Brown At its regular meeting today at 3:15 p.m. in the Con Con Room of the the Academic International Center, Council will consider: to evaluate - A proposal for the appointment of a committee the Distinguished Faculty Awards. The proposal will be submitted in the form of a resolution by David Snyder, a student member of the CounciL Presidential Commission on Admissions and Student Body Composition. - Report from the New Committee on Student Participation in Academic Government (printed in the Feb. 24 Faculty News). on an announcement by President Wharton of the nominating committee for the Steering Committee election. agenda Also the is - A proposal to establish a The commission on admissions MSU Faculty News VoI..l,No.19 Michigan State University March 3, 1970 Closing a gap Proposals aimed at non-tenured faculty units, _ was initiated because of the gap between tenured and non - tenured faculty, Sweetland said, particularly as relates to specific information the gap and procedures for the two groups. Or as Assistant Provost Herman King said, the purpose of the report is to that "regardless of status, specify whether a facuIty member is tenured or non - tenured, in or outside the tenure system, he essentially has 'tenure' for that long," that is, for the length of his initial appointment. * * * THE SWEETLAND report would require a department, school, in,titute, residential college or other comparable academic unit to provide clear criteria, annual review and consultation in any to not reappoint a faculty decision member in the probationary states of the tenure system. its The report states: "Each basic administrative unit shall base judgments on criteria and procedures that are clearly formulated, objective and relevant. These criteria and procedures shall be known to all members of the basic administrative unit. If appropriate, the responsible supplement administra tor may required these for information (Continued on page 4) By BEVERLY TWITCHELL Associate Editor, Faculty News Two proposals relating to tenure procedures, with particular concern for non - tenured faculty, are in different stages of consideration here. One is a set of recommendations from the MSU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors designed to clarify tenure rules and to give more power to the University Faculty Tenure Committee. This proposal has been submitted to the Steering Committee of the faculty for placement on an Academic Council agenda. It grew out of the controversy surrounding the Bertram Garskof case last year, when the former assistant professor of psychology was offered reappointment outside tenure system, though he had been hired originally within the system. the The second proposal, over a year old, is a report from the faculty tenure committee, under former chairman William E. Sweetland, professor of teacher education. The Sweetland apparently was resulting report, originally prepared in June, 1968, was approved by both the Academic Council and Faculty Senate in May, 1969, but was the Board of to never presented Trustees for approval. It is expected to be on the board's March agenda. The caused by delay transition confusion between provosts last year and resulting changes in procedure. Sweetland said is an attempt "to determine the University's responsibility to non - tenured faculty," in appointment, of reappointment, promotion or dismissal at the basic administrative level. It grew out of a report also prepared by the tenure dismissal procedures for tenured faculty. That report was accepted by the trustees in March,1967. the report committee terms from on This report, aimed at non - tenured faculty relationships with administrative Milliken cancels James C. Kellogg, executive assistant to Gov. Milliken, will fill in for the Governor as the speaker for today's noon meeting of the Faculty Oub in the Union. Gov. Milliken has been called out of town. Kellogg will discuss the Governor's to in announced program environment the recently improve Michigan. Former head of Black Student's Alliance now teaches course he helped create Tucked away in his sixth-floor Wells Hall office, Barry D. Amis sometimes wonders if anyone else wonders: "Whatever happened to Barry Amis?" Amis, at 29, is caught in a transition. Two years ago, as a co-founder and frrst the Black Students' president of Alliance publicly questioning Michigan State's role as a "prototype of the large, middle-class conservative, white university," and he helped voice black student demands for "more in Afro-American history, art, literature and politics." he was courses here, black literature course he helped design. One of Amis' concerns now as he approaches entry into a full-time college teaching career is "losing touch with the younger black students here." "My period of inactivity on the campus has coincided with the period of greatest growth in enrollment of black students," he says. "I am concerned that while I feel still committed to the cause, in practice I have not been. I'll have to redeem myself." * * * AMIS TEACHES two courses this . Since then, under a succession of leaders, the BSA has evolved into the Black Liberation Front, larger both in in militancy than its numbers and predecessor . Barry Amis, meanwhile, has taken himself out of circulation to complete work on a Ph.D. in romance languages (his dissertation topic: "The Negro in the Colombian Novel"). But he has carried out one of his own demands and this term is teaching a footnoted term, one in beginning Spanish and one in Contemporary Literature. The latter the winter -course is to schedule, Con t e m p orary Afro-American Literature." in "Introduction His intent in the literature course is "to acquaint students with some of the literary production of black writers." "When you say an author is Negro or black, the connotation is that he's not as good as a white author," Amis says., "This has worked to the detriment of blacks. How many black poets are listed in anthologies? "The works we read and discuss are included n ot because they're by blacks, as but because literature." they have value Amis avoids using works by such popular writers as LeRoi Jones, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, because "they're well-covered in other courses. "I try to deal with others who I feel ~ just as talented and have just as much to offer, even though they aren't as well-known." Students in Amis' class focus on such less-known authors as Jean Toomer, Ann Petry and Margaret Walker. Toomer, "if he weren't black, would be considered contemporary alongside authors of the twenties," Amis says. * * * CLASSES SUCH AS the reflect Michigan teaches one he State's (Continued on page 2) MSU Faculty News, March 3, 1970 Former BSA head • • • (Continued from page 1) "realization adequate job in studies," Arnis says. that it hasn't done an the area of black And with black studies courses becoming "the thing to do" in higher education, he says, there are problems to overcome. Despite his teaching experience (six years in all, including secondary and college teaching in Pennsylvania), Arnis admits: "I found I really didn't know how to approach this course. "In black literature, if students don't know some black history, it is like teaching a course out of context, because they can't relate the material to experience." As a result, Arnis often takes his class on brief visits into black history in the course of discussions of black authors. * * * DRESSED CASUALLY, usually in sweater and slacks, Arnis conducts what appears to be a free-wheeling class, encouraging - students into discussion. sometimes prodding - classroom: Getting Antis .says he faces two obstacles in students the their involved reluctance the teacher ," and getting around "the black-white thing" (Most of his 42 students are white). in discussion despite "disagree with to In trying to compensate for these factors, he says, "I tell students that their opinions are just as valid as mine, as long as they have a reasoned basis." "I feel that students have as much to offer !is the teacher, and their insights are often as valuable," Arnis observes. "I prefer discussion to lecturing, using the and my interpretations students' interpretations to reach a consensus on what the authors are trying to say." * * * EVEN THOUGH he plans to stay in college teaching, the world outside the classroom still has great appeal for Amis, and he says he hopes to become more politically when he completes his dissertation this term. active And he chides some faculty for a lack of active involvement in social issues. "I've always had the feeling that there's a possible cleavage between the BARRY AMIS: "I like ideas." -Photo by Bob Smith intellectual its community awareness of contemporary problems," he says. and "Some of our academicians, even those intimately concerned with social problems, tend to view those problems purely academically - as statistics, not as human concerns." "The academic community only has relevance as it applies itself to real.J.ife problems," Amis says. "It doesn't exist -GENE RIETFORS in and of itself." , Thirteen urban courses set This spring, for the fIrst time, courses that focus on the problems of race, poverty and urban affairs are being listed separately through efforts of the Center for Urban Affairs. The center is sponsoring two new i.n t erdisciplinary "Race, ~?verty and Education" (IDe 400V) and "Research in Urban Problems" (IDe 800V). courses: Teachers for the fIrst course are Robert L. Green, director of the center, and Thomas S. Gunnings, assistant the Counseling Center. professor Lawrence W. associate professor of education and research assistant iri the urban affairs center will teach the latter course. Lezotte, in ' Both will involve guest speakers from on and off the campus, and both will include observations in the field. Another. new course scheduled for spring term is "Race and Politics in America" (pLS 337), taught by Bryan Downes, assistant professor of political science. The course will examine the means used by blacks to influence public policy on race - related issues at both the national and local government levels. Two other political science courses listing: in included are "Urban Politics" (pLS 302) and "Selected Aspects of State and Local Government" (pLS 404). the spring in "Crises the Cities" is also spring term, and it will be offered for credit in either economics (EC 895) or management (MGT 890)., It will be taught by Robert A. Solo, professor of economics and of management. include: Workshop Other spring courses that focus on in urban affairs Black Literature (ENG 452), Problems in Urban Geography (GEO 411), Negro in the United States Since Emancipation (HST 310), Workshops in Black Music (MSU 320 and MSU 820), Urban and Minority Sociology (SOC 429) Peoples (SOC 433). NUC to discuss African Center The New University Conference will discuss the African Studies Center at its meeting tonight at 7:30 in Room 32 Union Building. of Representatives the Black Liberation Front, the African Studies students are Center expected to attend. The meeting is open to the public. and African NUC is a national organization of radical faculty , graduate students and staff. Emphasize quality teaching, ASMSU chairman urges (Editor's Note: The following letter has been sent to all central administrators,deans and department chairman, according to a spokesman for the Associated Students of MSU, who said that it was adopted during the Feb. 17 ASMSU board meeting. The letter is dated Feb. 20.) Dear Members of the Michigan State University Academic Organization: The time is approaching when the various departments will be engaged in promoting certain of their members up the ranks of professorship. Unfortunately, the process has, in the past, been too often a mean~ of rewarding those instructors who have spent time in research and writing at the expense of their students. Likewise , the faculty member whose major interests and greatest accomplishments have been in the classroom is more likely t() be passed over for pr9motion. This is an injustice. It is not our purpose to discount the merits of research and publication. It is rather to insist that the~ebe accorded no more than their due influence in promotional criteria. These are only adjuncts to what should be the central concern of the University - the quality of the student's education. The reason this University exists at all is not to write journal articles or to do the kind of research which will draw many grants. The University exists to provide students with a meaningful educational experience. Yet the professor who places devotion to his students above devotion to his department, who spends his time teaching instead of writing, who may have contributed more to the educational process than any two of his research minded colleagues - this professor will likely be ignored. A system of priorities which would allow this is unacceptable. The quality of his education, and thus his professors, is the concern of every student. Until students are allowed to assume part of the role of evaluating and rewarding professors, this process will never be fully cognizant of teaching abilities. For these reasons we strongly urge not only the desirability, but the necessity, of basing promotions primarily on teaching performance. To do this properly, the process must involve students. Any other alternative must necessarily be faulty and incomplete. We should-aIso make very clear that when we refer to quality teaching, we are not thinking of that kind of dictatorial, paternalistic fact - feeding which often passes as competent instruction. We refer instead to the approach whereby the student and professor think, work, teach and learn together, each contributing his knowledge and expertise to the learning situation. The successful instructor is one who can relate to his students as intelligent individuals, desirous of learning, rather than inferior objects to be lectured from a distance. We do not as yet feel it necessary to name specific departments as offenders. Some departments have shown a commendable desire to shift the emphasis from research and publishing to teaching. These are, however, still too few. We hope that more departments initiate needed reforms and assume their responsibilities to recognize, reward, and otherwise encourage quality teaching. If your department could not justify its procedures and criteria for promotion before a concerned University community, we urge that you take steps to involve students and remedy existing deficiencies. Sincerely, Bill Rustem Chairman, ASMSU - A -P group approves benefits; reaffirms its independence and The University the Administrative Professional Association have reached agreement Qn a package Of benefIt improvements for MSU's more than 500 AP employees. the University and based on proposals from offered by package The Bargaining units, page 3 the association, was ratified by the association last week. It includes: 1. Immediate participation for all the TIAA-CREF in AI> employees Retirement Program, with University contribution, effective July. 1. (present bene fits immediate provide participation only for those with rank of A-P-5 or higher. Those in A.p-l through A.p-5 have not been eligible for TIAA-CREF un til after two yeps of service or until age 35.) plan study 2. A providing reimbursement of tuition charged by MSU to any A.p who successfully completes a course "which relates to his work or professional development," ~ffective July 1. (Currently, an employe may take up to four credit hours each his term, with permission of administrative head, but he is not reimbursed for tuition.) 3. A new pay schedule providing a "general" salary increase for all A-P employes each July 1, plus an individual merit increase on the anniversary date of his employment. This is also effective July 1. The association requested that the three - point package be placed on the agenda for the Board of Trustees' March meeting. ABOUT 300 persons make up the association, which was formed last May. . Prior to last week's meeting, there had been speculation that the group' would consider afflliation with an outside bargaining agent. But the association membership approved a report board of reafflIming to "act and intent perform as an independent professional association" and "to employ only a professional approach in resolving any issues employment conditions." regarding executive the its The report ruled out the need to negotiate an annual contract between MSU and the A-P staff, and it described as unacceptable "the use, or threat, of a strike or work slow - down." Gifts, grants are $3.6 million Gifts and grants to the University are divided nearly equally between research and educational programs. But only twice since 1962 has the total number of dollars for education exceeded that for research - 1963 - 64 and 1967 - 68. But while research usually has the edge in total numbers of dollars, the number of research programs funded is usually about twice the number of educational programs funded. for dollars received 375 a In 1968 - 69, for example, 609 research programs received a total of educational $13,865 ,920 and of programs total $8,302,679. Total educational programs' decreased by more than one - half between 1967 - 68 and 1968 - 69 , federal because money the major source of both government - research and educational gifts and grants - decreased by more than one - half. This is reflected most in money received since for MSU's activity in Nigeria, one of its major international programs, was curtailed. international programs - from the * * * from LAST MONTH, the Board of Trustees accepted about $3.6 million in gifts and grants 11 different industrial organizations and 11 different governmental agencies, designated for 45 different departments, colleges or other units at MSU. (This is more than half the total number of departments and units here.) Of the total $3.6 million, federal government - sponsored research and education accounted for SO percent. Fifty - five percent of that total was designated for sponsored research and education programs, and 90 percent of those programs were funded by the federal government. The government supplied a total of 73 percent of all money received for research, education and fellowships. These percentages are slightly higher than those for all of last year. None of the federal money received is used for classified research, according to Milton E. Muelder, vice president for research development and dean of advanced graduate studies. The University does not accept classified research programs, Muelder said, because their secrecy would be inimical to the academic concept. The University, according to guidelines set by Muelder's office, "should retain for .A letter: Why the FN? Dear Editor: I do enjoy reading the MSU Faculty News. However, I believe that all of its contents might well be placed in the State News for both students and faculty to read. Many of my colleagues regard the issuance of a separate news sheet as an inconvenience and an unnecessary expenditure. Undoubtedly there may be reasons why a separate sheet is needed, but from my vantage point I cannot see them. Sincerely yours, William H. Form, Research Professor, sociology and information (Editor's Note: It is OUI hope that material in the Faculty News is of interest to both students and faculty. But OUI creation was based on the notions that we would provide background primarily for faculty, and that it would be improper for us to suggest content for the State News. Publishing the Faculty News two publications it costs "succeeded:" The quarterly Format and the monthly MSU News Highlights. Reading the Faculty News is, of course, voluntary, and we liope that the inconvenience of its issuance is minimal) than less the its scholars publication." the right of first Exceptions may be made in times of national emergency. The guidelines for sponsored research the Policy projects' are Handbook for MSU Faculty. listed in While Muelder's office must grant fmal approval for proposals for grants, i~dividual faculty and he departments with most of the work leading to receipt of the grants. credits But all gifts and grants are not necessarily monetary. Last month the trustees accepted a gift of a litter of minks, for example. In the past, MSU has received such gifts as a pure - bred stallion, a pure - bred bull, collections of ' insects and plants, mounted rare birds, rare books, art works and types of plastic for use in the art department. Grants were approved for: R. J. Evans, biochemistry, $27,543, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study lipid - protein rmding in lipoproteins; E. J. the Benne, biochemistry, $14,250 from National Science Foundation (NSF) for undergraduate research participation ; W. A. from U.S. Wood, biochemistry, $21,754 Atomic Energy Commission for isotopic and related studies of microbial enzymes; C. C. Sweeley, biochemistry, $1,000 from LKB Instruments, Inc.; an unrestricted grant in mass spectrometry; W. G. Bergen, animal husbandry, $22,254 from NIH for research·in ruminant gnotobiology; K. T. Payne, crop and from Golf Course soil science, $1,000 to develop Superintendents . Association, Board adopts statement on bargaining A statement of policy and procedure on recognition of appropriate bargaining units at the University was approved by the Board of Trustees at its February meeting. The statement was drawn up by Executive Vice President Jack Breslin after it was requested in October by Trustee Stephen S. Nisbet. calls the individual, group or labor organization wishing to be represented by a collective bargaining unit to petition Breslin, who is also secretary to the trustees. procedure The for The petition would describe the claimed bargaining unit and would give an approximate number of eligIble employees in the unit. The petition would also include signatures or signed cards of the employees in the claimed ,unit who want to be represented by the petitioner. Breslin would then consult the attorney and personnel to information for University department determine: I-That the claimed bargaining unit is in fact an appropriate bargaining unit. 2-That signatures of the are the employes employes eligible to be represented in the claimed unit and are on the University's current payroll. the on petition 3-Which employes of the claimed unit should be excluded from the colle.ctive bargaining provision. If signatures or signed cards represent 30 to 50 per cent of the eligIole employees in an appropriate bargaining the unit, Breslin would petitioner to then petition the State of Michigan Labor Mediation Board for a certification election. inform If more than 50 per cent of the signatures of eligible employees have been obtained, Breslin may recognize the group voluntarily or may inform it to petition the State Labor Mediation Board fOT a certification election. improved bentgrassvarieties; H. D. Hafs, dairy, $1,000 from National Association-of Animal Breeders, to determine sex ratios of calves born from cows inseminated with electrophoresed sperm; H. D. Hafs, dairy, $29,160 from NIH to determine endocrine environment with optimal sperm capacitation in the uterus; L. R. Dugan, food science, Natick U.S. $25,638 LaboratOries, to evaluate flavor contribution of products of Maillard reaction; D. H. Dewey, horticulture, $1,000 from Michigan Apple Committee, to improve intemal quality of apples. Army from research" $40,000 to Others awarded grants are: C. W. Nicklow, horticulture, $2,500 from Pickle Packers International, Inc., research in mechanical pickle harvesting in Michigan; Ruth Useem, sociology, • and John Useem, Institute for Intemational Studies in Education, $16,110 the Hazen Foundation, comparative from study of social roles of men of knowledge in Indonesia and Philippines; G. L. Park, from engineering study Consumers Power Company, transient and steady-state effects of load changes in power systems; H. W. Cox, microbiology and public health, $1,838 from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, to investigate relapse mechanisms in malaria; C. L. San Qemente, microbiology and public health, $668 from NIH to study immunological activity of staphylococcal phosphatase in experimental animals; D. H. Bing, microbiology and public health, $22,566 from NIH specificity of serum Cox, complement microbiology and public health, $30,000 from U.S. Army Medical Research and Development study immunopathology of malaria and other hemosporidian infections; Robert Corwin, microbiol~t9\ and public health, $530 from American Cyanamid, determine incidence of dictyocoultiS viviparus in cattle in Michigan ; Leland Velicer, microbiology and public health, $20,000 from Elsa U. Pardee Foundation, study proteins in ceDs infected with cancer related viruses. proteins; H. W. Command, to from and and French, These grants were approved: G. R. Carter, microbiology and public health, $2,400 from Smith, Kline pasteuzella multocide infections in calves; T. M. Brody, NIH, ' $20,676 pharmacology, phenothiazine brain tranquilizers NaKATP-ase; Joseph DiSalvo, physiology, $2,692 from Michigan Heart Association, research in cardiovascular physiology; T. E. Emerson, physiology, $17,796 from NIH to study effect of vasoactive agents On venous return; S. R. Heisey. physiology, $22,383 from NIH, to study control of brain of Barnett anterior from Rosenberg, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals Corp., investigation of anti-tumor activity of platinum compounds, and $35,097 from NIH, electronic charge transport in visual systems; E. C. Cantino, botany and plant pathology, biochemistry of $19,813 in Blastocladiella; A. H. Morphogenesis Ellingboe, botany and plant pathology , $3,818 from NIH, genetics and physiology of plant parasitism. from NIH, biophysics, function; pituitary $35,000 Also receiving grants are: Harold Hart, chemistry, $55,238 from NIH, stUdies in organic syntheses; G. E. Leroi, chemistry, $19,100 from Department of the Navy, spectroscopic studies in the far infrared; G. D. Anderson, mathematics, $9,500 from NSF, study properties of quasiconformal mappings; Jack Bass, physics, $40,902 from U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, studies of electrical and defeat properties of thin metallic wires; Hironobu Ozaki, zoology, $3,125 from American Cancer Society, Michigan Division, control of cellular differentiation in abnormal echinoderm development. , $20,859 from NIH, Other grants accepted are: J. A. King, study zoology, development of visual activity in genetically different groups of mice; W. F. Riley and large animal surgery and David J. Ellis, medicine, $17,195 from Parke, Davis and Co., deterrnine efficacy of a drug to treat various equine larnenesses; W. F. Keller, small animal surgery and medicine, $6,076 from Parke, Davis and Co., chloromycetin blood level study; Merle Esmay, International Programs, $3,110 from MUCIA, research on Cooperative Technical Agricultural Approach Improvements in Pakistan. to Lecture set Richard professor of Jackson, in Spanish at Carleton University Ottawa, Canada, will speak Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Green Room of the Union on "Being Black in Spanish America: Racism and Color Prejudice in Contemporary Spanish American Prose Fiction." MSUFaculty News, March 3,1970' Tuesday, March 3 p.rn. UNDERSTANDING' OUR 12:30 WORLD. Education in Israel 7 p.m. KUKLA, FRAN AND OLLIE. Wednesday, March 4 12:30 p.rn. BLACK MAN AMERICAS. The NAACP and the UNIA. 1 p.rn. LET'S TAKE PICIURES. 7 p.m: YOUNG MUSICAL ARTISTS. Pianist Edward Auer. IN TIlE Thursday, March 5 1 p.m. TIlE FRENCH CHEF. A delicious and easy Quiche. 7 p.m. LA REVISTA. Friday, March 6 12:30 p.m. INSIGHT. Efrem ZimbalBt Jr. and Jane Wyman star. 1 p.rn. LES FLEURS. 7 p.m. ASSIGNMENT 10. Saturday, March 7 11 a.m. INNOVATIONS. Piezoelectrics. 11 :30 a.m. GAMUT, "The Apple Pie and White Picket Fences Carnival Show." 1 p.m. TIlE SHOW. Author Joe McGinnis. guitarist - singer Dion and folk artist Dooal Leace. Sunday, March 8 12 noon ASSIGNMENT 10. Repeat. 1 p.m. NET FESTIVAL. Canadian pianist Glenn Gould discusses Bach's "Well - Tempered Clavier." 2 p.m. YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT. Can orchestras survive in metropolitan ~as? 2:30 p.m. SOUL! Curtis Mayfield, Tee Collins, the Impressions, B. B. King and Eddie Floyd. 3:30 p.m. TIlE FORSYTE SAGA. 4 :30 p.m. BLACK JOURNAL. Black history at the ancient ruins of Meroe and a survey of Malcolm X's life. 10 p.m. TIlE ADVOCATES. 11 p.in. NET PLA.YHOUSE. "Yesterday the Children Were Dancing," a French - Canadian lawyer, earmarked for a high federal post, is a militant Quebec discovers his son separatist. (90 minutes). Monday, March 9 1 p.rn. MONEY MATI'ERS. 7 p.m. SPARTAN SPORTLITE. Tuesday , Marc~ 3 6:30 a.rn. (FM) MORNING SHOW. (Monday through Friday) 8 a.rn. (AM-FM) MORNING NEWS REPORT. (Monday through Friday) 9 a.m.. (AM-FM) DICK ESTELL READS. "Iron Coffin" by Herbert A. Wemer. (Monday through Friday) 10 a.rn. (FM) ON CAMPUs. (Monday through Friday) 11 a.m. (AM) TRANSATLANTIC PROFILE. 11:30 a.m. (Mcinday through Friday) 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Bells are Ringing." 5 p.rn. (AM-FM) NEWS 60. (Monday through Friday) 8:30 p.m. (PM) BOSTON SYMPHONY. (AM-FM) NEWS. . . . Wednesday, March 4 1 p.rn. (FM) MUSIC TIlEATRE. "A Thurber Carnival." 8 p.m. (FM) TIlE ART OF GLENN GOULD. Thursday, March 5 . (AM) TIlE ART OF :GLENN 10 a.m. GOULD, 1 p.rn. '(PM) MUSIC TIlEATRE. "TUI'lmy:' 7 p.m. (FM) CINCINNATI SY~HONY ORCHESTRA. 9 p.m. (FM) JAZZ HORIZONS. t : Friday, March 6 THEATRE. (FM) MUSIC ~, 10:30 a.rn. (AM) TIlE GOON SHOW:;' .. 11 a.m. (AM) A FEDERAL CASE. p.m. 1 "Goldilocks." 2 p.m. (FM) ALBUM JAZZ. 4:45 p.m. (AM-FM) EDUCATION .iN TIlE NEWS. 8 p.m. (FM) OPERA. "Manon." Saturday, March 7 9 a.rn. (AM-FM) DICK ESTEll ,READS. "My Way Was North" by Frank l)ufri,sne. 9:30 a.m. (AM) TIlE WORD AND" M\iSIC. 10:30 ESPANOL. 11 :45 a.rn. (FM) RECENT ACQUJS'iUONS. (AM) VARIEDADt,S EN . a.rn. '- . 1:30 p.m. (AM) THE DRUM;, 2 p.m. (AM) ALBUM JAZZ. 7 p.rn. (FM) LISTENERS' CHOICE; ;> Sunday, March 8 (AM-FM) p.m. 2 ORCHESTRA. 4 p.m. (AM-FM) FROM mE MIDW k{. 7 p.m. (FM) COLWQUY. CLEY : LAND 1 i Monday, March 9 10:30 a.rn. (AM) ASIA SOCIETY. 11 a.m. (AM) COLLOQUY. 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "&rna LaDouce." ~ p.m. ITALIANA. "The IrnpresSarlo iii TrOuble." 10:30 p.rn. (FM)MuSIC OF TODAY. (PM) OPERA FROM RADIO MSU Faculty News, March 3,1970 Proposals aimed at non-tenured. • • (Continued from page 1) by consulting judgments with representative non - tenured faculty, students and/or qualified individuals outside the basic administrative unit. shall "Review be procedures described in its bylaws and shall include a means by which the faculty member is evaluated and informed annually for his progress. These bylaws shall provide for to make a group recommendations with to respect reappointment, tenure or promotion. designated "Procedures shall also exist by which the faculty member may confer with this sub - group before a decision is made in his case." A decision not to reappoint a non - tenured faculty member need not imply that he has failed to meet the standards of the University, the report states, but may relate to availability of salary: funds and/or department needs. that the decision not The Sweetland report also states: "If a non - tenured faculty member believes to reappoint has been made in a manner which is at variance with established he . may, evaluation procedures, following efforts the differences at the level of the basic administrative unit and the dean of his college, submit a written petition to the University for a review of his case. The University tenure connnittee shall establish appropriate procedures for review of each such case." tenure committee reconcile to This is basically the same procedure now in existence. What is' new in the the Sweetland following paragraph: report, however, is "When reason arises to consider dismissal of a non ~ tenured faculty member before the expiration of his term of appointment, the procedures to be followed shall be identical with those the dismissal of a established tenured faculty member." (See related story on this page.) for Spelling out procedures like this for non - tenured faculty is, Sweetland said, "a revolutionary idea." * * * THE AAUP recommendations are based on two conclusions from a special AAUP committe's study of the Bertram Garskof case. Those conclusions were: - That the offer to Garskof of a two - year - appointment outside the tenure system was the University's tenure rules and should not have the department or approved by the dean or the the provost. recommendation tenure committee, but it was not followed. irregular once to appointment had been offered Garskof, it should not have been withdrawn (as it subsequently was) without showing cause. recommended by improper under This of That been was the the To prevent this kind of occurrence in th~ future, the AAUP is proposing to the Academic Council and Faculty Senate that: - Tenure rules be amended to state explicity that a faculty member may not be transferred to non - tenure status during after appointment under the tenure system. - Faculty bylaws be amended to immediately or MSU Faculty News Editor: Gene Rietfors Associate Editor: Beverly Twitdlell Editorial Office: 296-G Hannah Administration Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823, Phone 355-2285. Published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Information Services. Second-class postage paid at East Lansing, Mich. 48823. provide the tenure committee with final authority on all questions relating to tenure, subject to appeal by the affected faculty member of the provost to the Academic Council. any case - The faculty tenure committee shall the Academic to report promptly Council the adminsitration acts contrary to its (The tenure Council's) question, except cases involving formal for dismissal of a faculty charges member. in which decision on a . . I d' The commIttee, accor mg offIce. SItS commIttee, WIt out vote. ~Xh - officio with t . 0 the THE FACULTY tenure committee, . . the as a faculty standmg commIttee, IS h l td f f f e r~m eac bylaws is "the judicial and investigatory composed 0 II acu ty e. eC d depa~~e~ta y /rga;~~ f ~~e efa~Ul:; agency' for all tenure actions." It is also charged ~ith interpretation. o.f tenure ~r~:~s~ (T~e s::c~;e Re~o~t on student ruels actIon on cases of deVlahon from y " . . . the ~les, review of the tenure rules and partIcIpatIon m acade~Ic gove~n:~: proposes d that on~ gra :ated~ t advising the provost and the Academic the under~ra uate stu ents ~ a ~ ~l'be Council on appropriate changes, and commIttee. The :c~e d ep~r; il investigating "any matter pertaining to tenure which the committee deems discussed by t e ounc significant." today.) ca erruc . ' A representative of the provost's Tenure system: 'To protect idea,s' First mention of a tenure system in University records came at an April, 1942 Faculty Senate meeting, with a on report from Pro bationary and Tenure." a Appointments "Committee That committee had been appointed Oct. 6, 1941, "to consider the problem of probationary appointments and tenure." The committee, according to the minutes of that meeting, "studied the local situation" and information from 17 other colleges and universities. Eight recommendations were made concerning written that at contracts for teaching, research and extension staff personnel above the rank of graduate assistant, and for a system of appointment and reappointment, similar in many ways to the current tenure regulations. On June 2, 1942, a slightly amended version of this report was unanimously approved by the senate. time * * * THE TENURE system was not, Provost Herman King Assistant explained, invented by faculty, nor was it invented to protect people. It is, he said, "a device of society to protect ideas." A tenure system can become frozen, King said, when a University stops growing. An already large number of permanent - or tenured - people leave few tenured positions for new people. Universities like Harvard, Princeton and Stanford are at that level now, King said, and MSU is rapidly approaching it. But since a university wants new and good people with new ideas, the result is a fluid system of non - tenured faculty, coming and going every few years. They bring the university cannot offer them permanent positions because there are no vacancies, they leave with perhaps a good so record to hefp them obtain positions elsewhere, King said. ideas; their Faculty hired without tenure, but within the tenure system, are actually hired for a specified period of time - "a temporary hiring," King called it. Thus if a faculty member is not reappointed, he is not being fired; he is simply not that reason, a being decision not to reappoint a non - ten~ed faculty member need not be approved by the Board of Trustees; if a faculty member is not to be re-hired, no action is being taken and thus need not be approved by the board. re-hired. For * * * . TENURE RULES, as approved by the trustees in 1952 and amended in' 1962, are listed in the Policy Handbook for MSU Facility. They state that: - A professor has tenure from the date of original appointment to that rank. - An associate professor who has not served previously at MSU is appointed for a probation period of two years; if reappointed he will be granted tenure. assistant professor not previously at MSU is appointed for a An is An instructor three - year probationary period; he may be reappointed for another three - year probationary period; if reappointed a second time at that rank, tenure is granted. If he is promoted to associate professor during the two three - year probationary periods, tenure is granted. appointed originally for a two - year probationary period; he may be reappointed for a second two years' probation and again for an additional probationary period of three the appointment is terminated if he is not promoted to assistant professor, unless a special one - year extension is made upon approval of the University Faculty Tenure Committee, the dean, provost and president. after which years, - An mstructor who has served one year at MSU and is appointed to assistant professor is appointed to a two - year probationary period; if he has served two years as an instructor, he If serves year's reappointed at the assistant professor rank, the appointment is for three years, after which, if reappointed again, he is granted tenure. probation. one - An instructor who has served three years or more and is reappointed at the rank of assistant professor serves a three - year probationary term. If reappointed; tenure is granted. * * * OTHER NON-TENURED faculty include those visiting or temporary faculty appointed for a specific period of time outside tenure system; the reappointment or temporary extension of appointment is not implied. There are also provisions for faculty members who are granted leaves of absence, who, serve abroad, and for non-U.S. citizens. 15 by Dec. A faculty member who is not to be recommended for reappointment by his dean or department chairman must be notified in writing by the department chairman preceding expiration of his appointment. This is done, King said, to give the faculty time to seek other member ample employment. If a is recommended for reappointment by his department chairman or dean is not reapP9inted, proper and/or notification is not given, a one-year is extension automatically granted, but this also serves as notification that University employment is terminated at the end of the extension. faculty member who appointment of if Questions on interpretation of tenure regulations or on solution of tenure problems arising from situations in not covered the regulations are_ the University Faculty to referred standing a Committee, Tenure committee faculty. the Recommendations from that committee are submitted the president or appropriate administrative officer or the body; fmal decisions trustees. lie with of to tenure action or promotion ongmate m the department and are reviewed by the dean, provost and president; the latter two make the fmal recommendation to the trustees for action. school the department or The department chairman is bound by article 2.3.1 of the faculty bylaws to "seek the counsel of the voting faculty of in formulating major decisions affecting the personnel and the program of the department or school, especially matters pertaining to appointments, promotions (and) tenure ... " Since, as the handbook states, "extensive information is needed to make an adequate evaluation of the productivity of each faculty member to be recommended for reappointment, tenure or promotion," a comprehensive form has been developed by the reporting such provost's office, for academic as activities services, research, public advising, international program assignments, etc. instruction, * * * IN MARCH 1967, the trustees approved procedures for dismissal of tenured faculty members (for "gross violation of professional ethics" or incompetence). The procedures include: - Preliminary conference with the appropriat~ administrative officer(s) and the faculty member, who may be accompanied by an adviser of his choice. If agreement on solution is not reached, and if the faculty member declines is initiated, but only after the faculty informed of the member has been charges against him. to resign, formal action - The provost or administrative head fIles charges with the Officer of the Provost. - The provost refer~ the case and relevant data to the faculty tenure committee, which serves as the hearing committee. The hearing committee serves written notice to the faculty member, listing the charges against him. - A closed hearing is conducted, but is stenographically or tape recorded. hearing committee committee's decision and a complete record of the case with the provost's office; a minority report may also be submitt~d. The report is also sent to the president, the affected faculty member and the . administrative head. Chairman files of the the - If two - thirds of the hearing committee votes to retain the faculty member, the case is terminated. - In any other case, the president, the hearing after consultation with committee, the faculty member and the administrative head, may decide to retain the faculty member, or if either the president or the hearing committee recommends dismissal, then the report of the recommendations of the president and any comments from the faculty member shall be submitted to the trustees for action. committee, hearing the According to the faculty handbook, - BEVERLY TWITCHELL