. Dilemmas of academic budgeting . . , . . . . Se~ate Bill ~,3. passed. by. the 7St.h leglSlatUIe In 1969 requues that each Instttu-oon of lugh.er education shall certify to the legislature not later than April 15, 1970, the schedule of tuition and student fees applicable to Michigan resid ent students for the fiSCll) year 1970·71." The dilemma of a budget. . . . You figure you need so much . . . and you are collectively some 70 academic departments and so many non - academic departments ... and you arrive at a figure you want ... but you don't get it from the money - handlers, th~ legislature. Or at least you come out some $10 million short with the governor's recommendations. . .and you really have to figure' that you're not going to get all the way back up to that original figuration of your needs with the legislature ... so what do you do? . see that 80 per cent of your original figure was for ~alary Increases ... so ~t looks like you re n~t gOIng ~o Increase faculty salanes from 10th place In the BIg Ten to third place ... and maybe they'll even have to stay at 10th place ... and 'maybe you can raise tuition, which you have had to do more consistently than any other college in the state ... and you know you don't want to do either. Fac~lty salaries ... vs. student fees. And then the legislators requrre you Oy statute to tell them whether you're going to raise tuition before they tell you what other money you're going to have available to you ... but they ask you only in terms of .and you, of course, have resident non-resident students, too ... whose tuition IS lower here than at you sister institutions. . . tuition. . Cut a little here, a little there ... only eight new faculty positions...llistead of 10, maybe, for that new program ... a little off some other program ... Out you It is, says Elliott G. Ballard, assistant to the president, like trying to solve the algebra equation: x (tuition) plus y (state appropriations) equals z. The the legislature wants to know what x is to be. U?IVerslty IS . supposed to estabhsh ~s vanable WIthout knOWIng what the other two vanables are..:.~: so if what MSU is going to have to work with is z (?), tuition then becomes z minus y. . . . . .. . . . . Then, abiding by the statute . . . you say that IF there is going to be a gap between what you figure you need and what someone figures you're going to get. .. but in terms of resident tuition only ... well, then an extra $1.50 per credit would help close the gap ... but what about non - resident tuition? And how much other belt -tightening could you, should you, do? The dilemma of budgeting: for a non-profit -institution. . .where there i1 academic aspiration ... qnd just so much money appropriated ... and seldom, it seems, the twain doth meet. ... - BEVERLY TWITCHELL MOO Faculty N~w§ Vol. 1, No. 23 Michigan State University April 14, 1970 ----------~------------------------- Graduate Council receives draft of rights document McKee Report is adopted; student participation near By GENE RIETFORS Editor, Faculty News The students are coming. To academic government. And they'll be arriving in greater numbers than many faculty might have expected -j or preferred. If changes in the faculty bylaws are approved by both the Academic Council and the Faculty Senate next month, the student voice in the Council and on the Council (formerly Faculty) Standing Committees will be greatly enhanced. Arid while the faculty voice won't be lowered quantitatively, it will be diminished proportionally. The way ,was cleared for bylaw changes last Tuesday with final Council approval of the McKee Report (of the Student New Committee on education; Daniel YoungdalIl in music; and Willie Williams in education. . * * * ARTICLE 1 in the document, the preamble, will be drafted after preliminary hearings but before final submission to the Graduate Council. The bulk of the report is reprinted on pages 2 and 3. Implementation of the fmal document to be 120 days is following adoption of the trustees. Graduate students may contact their COGS representatives regarding hearirig dates. Information on hearing dates is also available from Ann Markusen at 5-3434. Psychology professors promote different learning approach By ELIZABEm HARRISON Educational Development Program set the pace of Students . learn more when they actively respond to material, when they themselves their learning, they master one piece of information before moving on to the next. These tenets of learning theory, in progranuned instruction, are guiding a applied most and when often course teaching experiment in a lecture course here. The is Psychology 200 ("Principles of Behavior," 5 credits, recommended for students planning to take more in psychology.) Stanley C. Ratner and M. Ray Denny, both professors of credits than 12 (Continued on page 4) Psychologists Stanley Katner and M. Kay Denny: Lemng students set their pace. -Photo by Dick Wesley in Recommendations Participation in Academic Governance). the McKee Report must now be written into the faculty bylaws and submitted to the Council's May meeting. If affirmed by the Council, the bylaw changes will go to the Academic Senate on May 20. Senate approval would mean that implementation of the changes. can begin in 1970-71. Should the Senate reject the bylaw changes, the matter would return to the Council. * * * NUMERICALLY, implementation of the McKee Report promises significant changes in, the University's academic governance structure. The present Council makeup gives voting privileges to the S6 elected faculty members, the president or provost (only in case of ties), the five - member steering committee and the 18 appointed members (deans). Elected faculty hold an overwhelming (56-24) voting majority. Only three students now sit on the Council, and none may vote. If recommendations of the McKee Report become bylaws, the Council will have 126 voting members. Acquiring voting rights will be 15 ex officio members (administrators and standi!lg committee chairmen) and 31 studer ~u (including 10 minority representativt;s). This would place the elected faculty in a voting minority (70-56). On the standing committees, where students now total 12, they would have as many as 95 voting members. Faculty membership would go from 121 to 129. * * * SUCH MAJOR change in academic government hasn't occurred without conflict. It took a year of committee work - from the Massey Report to the McKee Report and even to the Kumata Report - before the present document was adopted. The process hit its frrst snag last fall in the Council when the report of the first committee on student participation, by Prof. Gerald Massey headed (philosophy), was to committee. sent back The report of the new committee, . Prof. James B. McKee under (sociology), stalled in March because of controversy over its section dealing with (Continued on page 4) Hearing set The University Faculty TenUre Committee's subcommittee on initial appointments will hold an open hearing Thursday beginning at 3 p.m. in 101 S. Kedzie. A proposed document on "Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities at MSU" has been distributed to the Graduate Council review and recommendations. for The document was prepared by a special committee established by the Rights document, pages 2 - 3 last spring on a Graduate Council the Council of from suggestion Graduate Students. Members of the committee included facUlty, staff and graduate students. Eldon Nonnamaker, dean' of students and chairman of the committee, said this document, when final, would not conflict with the Academic Freedom Report approved in 1967, but would, if anything, complement it. Graduate students are "in a sense" covered by the Academic Freedom Report, Nonnamaker said. They may bring action to the Student - Faculty Judiciary (establishe d in the Academic Freedom Report), he said, but the question of referring graduate students to the judiciary fot a violation "has always been in limbo." The proposed document on Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities covers academic rights and responsibilities, university - employed graduate students (including graduate assistants) and judicial procedures. Copies of the document are available from Nonnamaker's office. He said the committee plans to hold several hearings to which faculty and students will be invited. said he welcomes Nonnamaker suggestions on report. After the suggestions have been received on the document, the committee "will then put it together again," he said. No de adline has been the committee hopes to complete the report this term. set, but The report would then be submitted for adoption to the Graduate. Council, the Academic Council and through the president of the Board of Trustees. Members of the committee writing the report are: Ted Brooks, assistant dean of ,the School for Advanced Graduate Studies; James H. Pickering, graduate chairman of 'English; John E. Jordan, professor of education; Thomas S. Gunnings, assistant professor in the Counseling Center; and graduate students Ann Markusen in economics; Georg Hasenkamp in agriculture and in natural resources; Caroline Yan MSU Faculty News, April 14, 1970 Proposed document outlines gra( ARTlCLE...2. A,cademic Rights and ResponSlblUtles 2.1. Glllding and Evaluation 2.1.1. Grading. Students have the right to a course grade that represents the instructor's professional and honest evaluation of the student's performance. Students have the right to expect that all course requirements, including grading criteria and procedures, will be made known early in the course. to evaluate 2.1.2. Evaluation. All departments shall develop procedures the professional capability of students and a cumulative departmental maintain evaluation of each master's, doctoral and prospective doctoral candidate. The methods and criteria for such an evaluation are to be published and made known to students and faculty' alike. This departmental evaluation is to be made available to the student upon request and, is to be communicated to the student at least once a y«;ar through the normal advisement function. In the case where a master's cl!I1didate contemplating doctoral work is required to meet certain standards, requirements and prerequisites, such criteria are to be made known at the time of the student's ru:st admission to the master's program. Should a decision be made denying the student's admission to doctoral ,work, this decision is to be communicated to the student in writing at least one full term prior to his completion of the requirements for the master's degree (except in caseswhere a master's thesis and/or an oral examination is regarded as definitive evidence). 2.2. Instruction. Students have the right to instruction which is in keeping with the best scholarly and professional standards of the discipline, which encourages the free and open discussion of ideas, and which respects the individual needs and aspirations of the students in accordance with the University's pursuit of knowledge and truth. Students on their part have a responsibility to maintain at all times the kind of classroom decorum and atmosphere which insures that the process of learning can take place. 2.3. Advisement. The quality of graduate -education is directly and inevitably related to the quality of academic advisement. For this reason each graduate student, regardless of his degree program, has the right to the best professional advice and counsel that his department can provide in such areas as program planning, selection of courses and professors, and general degree requirements. Moreover, each graduate department has the specific obligation to make known its degree requirements to each student at the time of his first admission to gmduate studv, and has the responsibility to so structure itS curriculum requirements can be met. that these DeI!artments are to maintain advisement for all students, specifying and/or .records', Containing degree requirements to be met, course 'waivers and substitution, program changes, and other sti~uJations directly affecting their degree programs. Advisees are to be provided with a suitable copy. , * * * 2.4. Academic Program. 2.4.1. Guidance Committee. At the time of a doctoral student's formal admiSSion to degree candidacy a guidance committee shall be formed, with the approval of the student, consisting of at least three members of the faculty (a chairman and two others) to oversee and direct the balance of the program. A guidance committee · report, listing all degree requirements, shall be filed with the dean of the college as specined by the gmduate school. This guidance committee report, unless changed or amended in full consultation between the student and his committee, shall have the status of a contract binding upon the student and University alike. to meet 2.4.1.1. Once designated, the 'guidance committee chairman has the responsibility to oversee the progress of a student so long as he the academic and continues professional standards established by the department or until he reccives his degree. Chairmen on temporary leave shall provide fOli the necessary guidance of their students du.ring their absence. The department shall provide an acceptable substitute sh?uld a chairman permanently leave the University. 2.4.2. Residency. Residency reqwrt:mt:nts shall be dermed by the individual department and med with the conege and the graduate requirements shall he school. Such functionally relatedto tne'lIilrureoI me de~ee, program and shall be made known to the student at the time of his admission. 2.4.3. Time Limits. The time limitations for candidates seeking advanced degrees shall be dd"m~ .,bY Gtfie' individual departnient and fiIeit ,wjt,b. the coDege and the graduate schooL ~ ' 1Je~~t sh!lll ,nQtify its degree · c~3~A",dat~~I" p'e~y of ~eir time standlligs. Al'plicatiOri for extensaon sbaIl be submitted to the department for the approval of the dean of the colege and the dean of the graduate school. Such limitations shall be made know to the student at the time of his admissipn. 2.4. ~.. Program Changes. Changes in the individual doctoral programs after student's to degree formal admission candidacy shall ,be made by the guidance committee in consultation with the student as' stipulated in 2.4.1 above. Such changes may be initiated by either the guidance committee or the student. Program changes for master's candidates shall be made by the M.A. advisor in consultation with the student. 2.4.5. Dissertations and Thesis. The nature and scope of the doctoral dissertation and master's thesis (or its equivalent) shall be defined by the department and guidance committee according to the. professional and scholarly research standards of the discipline. The department shall specify in advance the acceptable style and form of the dissertation (or thesis) in accordance with an agreed upon manual, handbook, or style sheet. 2.4.5.1. Standards for typing, duplication or reproduction and binding of dissertations and theses; as well as the stipulations covering abstracts, numbers of copies, dates and deadlines for acceptance, and regulations for micromming and publication shall be set by the Graduate School and published in the Graduate Bulletin. 2.4.6. Code of Professional Standards. Each code of department shall develop a professional and academic standards appropriate to its own discipline and which shall cover standards of student and faculty standards of professional conduct and expectation and academic performance. This code shall be made available to all members of the faculty and to each graduate student at the time of his ftrst admission to a degree program. A copy of this code is to be nled with the dean of . the college and with the graduate school. in 2.4.7 . Terminations and Withdrawals. Departments shall establish criteria for the termination or withdrawal of students its graduate programs. Such enrolled criteria shall be published and made available to students at the time they first begin their graduate programs. Should a decision to terminate a student be made, all information regarding the decision is to be held strictly confidential and be released only with the consent of the student involved. The same privacy is to be accorded the reasons for a student's temporary or permanent withdrawal from the University. ~ • * 2.5. Instructor EValuation 2.5.1. Evaluation of Faculty. To aid the . faculty in its responsibility for the quality of graduate education, student instructional rating reports shall be used in each graduate' course every term. In addition, individual departments are encouraged to devise supplementary means of evaluation tailored to their disciplines and modes of instruction. All such evaluations shall be forwarded to the department chaj.rman or the appropriate departmental committee. Such reports shall be considered carefully when graduate course assjplments are made., ' 2.5.2. Evaluation of Glllduate Teaching Assistants. Graduate teaching assistants are expected to be capable of effectively fulftlling their assigned responsibilities as instructors, and shall be evaluated like regular faculty. [n order to improve the effectiveness of graduate assistant instruction, the assistant shall use the student instruction3J. rating reports in each course lie teaches. These reports shall be submitted to the department chairmen or to the appropriate departmental committee. 2.5.2.1. The coordinator of each course staffed by graduate teaching assistants shall turn in tO 'the department chairman or to the appropriate departmental committee a formal written evaluation of each of his assist!lI\ts. 2.5.2.2 The student instructional rating reports, formal written evaluations and any supplemental-information shall be placed on ' fire. 2.5,2.3. This evaluation material may be used in determining such matters as renewal of assistantships, teaching assignments, recommendations and the need for further ' training. . 2.5.2.4. A cumulative evaluation of his teaching shall be ~ven to the assistant at least once each year and/or at his request. 2.5.3. Training of Glllduate Teaching Assistants. Departments are responsible for estabHshmg orientation and in-service trainiitg for all new assistants. Such progtaJl1s programssb;ill include periodic classroom visitation by appointment, and a thorough introduction to course goals, grading criteria and practice, and classroom prQcedures. The teaching assistant is held responsible for full and active participation in all sucb programs. ARTICLE 3 University Employed Graduate Students 3.1. Defmitions 3.1.1. University students fall primarily graduate assistants and other employees. employed graduate two classes: into 3.2. The Glllduate Assistant 3.2.1. A graduate assistant shall be defmed as a candidate for an advanced degree who receives compensation for services rendered. 3.2.2. Each unit employing graduate assistants shall establish job descriptions. 3.2.3. Each unit shall establish criteria for the selection of new graduate assistants. Such criteria shall be published and made available. 3.2.4. Each unit shall establish criteria for retention and renewal of graduate assistantships. Written nolincation of ·the retention and renewal of graduate assistantships shall be made by March 31. 3.2.5. The graduate assistant has the right to be treated as a professional member of his employing unit. 3.2.5.1. As a professional, the graduate assistant shall be responsible for adhering to the code of profesSional standards established by his unit or department (see 2.4.6. above). 3.2.6. The Office of the Provost shall establish a campus - wide policy for graduate assistant stipends, taking 'into account: 1. the minimum amount of compensation adequate to the current cost of living; 2. the need to be ' competitive with other university and employment opportunities. Such a policy shall be reviewed by the Graduate Council at least once a year. 3.2.7. Each department shall establish and for graduate its salary schedule publish assistants. 3.2.8. , Each department, in consultation with representative graduate assistants, shall establish and publish guidelines for the salary advancement and promotion of its graduate assistants. 3.2.9. Graduate assistants are entitled to all full-time benefits normally accorded graduate students. to 3.2.10. All graduate assistants are entitled to clerical - secretarial help and to supplies commensurate with the carrying out of their assigned responsibilities. 3.2.11. The OffiCe of the Provost shall establish and publish, in consultation with representative graduate assistants, policies (or graduate assistants relating to: 1. si~k - leave; 2. parking privileges; 3. bus privileges; 4. travel off.:campus; 5. insurance. Such policies shall be reviewed by the Graduate Council at lel!St once a year. 3.3. OtheJ University - Employed Graduate Students 3.3.1. The following articles are intended to cover all other graduate students emptoyed by th,e University not formally desiptated as graduate assistants. 3.3.2. The Otfice of the Vice President for Business and Finance shall establish and publish minimum and maximum salaries and hourly wages for other University - employed ,graduate students. 3.3.3. The Vice President for Business and Finance shall have the authority to approve departmental requests for, all payments above the established maximums. 3.3.4. All University - employed graduate studentS, other than graduate assistants, are entitled to the same fzjrige benefits accorded other University, employees who work a similar amount of time at a similar job ' classincation. The University shall not withhold an employee's fringe benefits solely because he ,is also registered as a student. 3.3.5. Michigan State shall not deliberately adjust hours of student employees in order to deprive them of fringe benefits that they would otherwise be 'entitled to. 3.4. All UI)iversity - Employed Graduate Students Including Graduate Assistants 3.4.1. Michigan Slate and all of its departments and units are Equal Opportunity Employees. Therefore: 1. employment discrimination on the basis of race, creed, ethnic origin or sex is expressly prohibited; 2. all hiring and employment policies shall be consistent with anti - discrimination policies of Michigan State. 3.4.2. All University - employed graduate , s~dents, including graduate assistants, shall be informed of all relevant employment policies when a position tendered; including, but not limited to: 1. salary or rate 'of pay; 2. salary advancement or promotion; 3. procedures for evaluating performance; 4. length of term of , appointment including continuance and renewal of graduate 'aSsistantships; 5. work l~ad and duties; 6. grievance procedures. is ARTICLE 4 Judicial Procedure 4.1. Judicial structure. An appropriate judicial structure shan be established for hearing and adjudicating cases brought by and against graduate ' students in the fonowing areas: 1. academic rights and responsibilities; 2. University reguJattons; 3. professional standards and responsiBilities; 4. employment responsibilities of ' graduate righ ts and assistants; 5. employment rights and responsibilities of other University - employed graduate students. 4.1.1. Departmental Graduate Judiciary. Each department (or its equivalent) shall judiciary composed of seven establish a fonows: The department members as chairman or his deputy (to act as chairman); three faculty members selected or chosen by 'professor; one associate rank professor; one assistant professor); three graduate students elected by the departmental graduate students (one masters candidate and two doctoral candidates). (one full 4.1.2. College Glllduate Judiciary. Each college shall establish a judiciary as follows: The chairman of tile college graduate council or his deputy (to act as chairman); three elected faculty members of the college graduate council; three graduate students. The three graduate students shall be those who normally sit on the college graduate council. If there are no graduate student members, or less than three, the college graduate council shall request that the Council of Graduate Students (COGS) establish a selection process to name the student members. 4.1.3. University Graduate Judiciary. A judiciary shall be established at the University level composed of seven members of the Graduate Council, as follows: The dean of the graduate school , or his deputy (to act as chairman); three elected members of the regular Graduate Council; representatives of COGS. three the 4.1.4. Each judiciary shall provide for alternate members. 4.1.4.1. The selection process for regular and alternate graduate student members shall insure that among both regular and alternates there will be a minimum of two graduate assistan ts. 4.1.5. Term of Office. Judiciary members and alternates at all levels shall be named in the fall of the year and shall serVe one year. The one . year term shall not preclude the reappointment of any member the following year. 4.~. Judicial Process. 4.2.1. A cademic Rights and the Responsibilities. Any , member of academic community ~f ,Michigan State may initiate a caSe involving the academic rights or responsibilities ofgr3duate students. 4 . 2.1:1. The Departmental Graduate J udlciary shall have original jurisd~ction in cases 'rights and responsibilities, involving academic 4.2.1.1.1. The Departmental Graduate J udici.ary shall hear cases and' hand down decisions, " or may, with the consent of all parties involved, ~fer 'cases to the College Gradua:te Judiciary. . 4.2.1.1.2. Any of the parties involved milY appeal an adverse decision , to the College ' Graduate Judiciary. 4.2.1.2. The College Graduate Judiciary shall have appellate jutisdiction in cases appealed from Departmental Graduate J udiciarie.s and origiIial jurisdiction in cases waived ' from Departmental Graduate , Judiciaries. 'of appeal the College Gr~duate Judiciary shall hear the appeal or refer the case to the University Graduate Judiciary. ' 4:2.1.2.1. In ~s, ' , , < 4.2.1.2.2 . .&.ny of the parties involved may appeal an adverse ,decision to the University Graduate Judiciary': 4.2.1.2.3. In case of , a waiver from a Departmental Graduate Judiciary, the College Graduate Judiciary shall either hear the case or refer it back to the department for hearing and adjudication. 4.2.1.3. The University Graduate Judiciary shall hear all appealS brought before it. The decision of the University Glllduate' Judiciary shall be ftnal. 4.2.1.4. A judiciary hearing a case involving the academic rights l!I1d responsibilities of graduate students mar decide as follows: - A. Not proven: 1. There has been no infringement of the academic rights of the' graduate student; 2. there has' been no neglect on the part of the graduate student of his academic responsibilities. - B. Proven: 1. There has been a violation of the graduate student's academic rights; 2. the graduate student has neglected his academic responsibilities. the judiciary, handing down 4.2.1.5. Penalties and Redress. In cases of proven violation of a student's ac3demic rights, the decision sQall 4irect the chairman or dean of the appropriate academic unit to provide immediate re~ss. In cases ''Of proven neglect of academic responsibilities, the judiciary may fonowing penalties: 1. select warning - an ,official wotten reprimand; 2. probation - a period of probation with specffic stipulations; 3. dismissal from the program. from the ate student rights and responsibilities MSU Faculty News, April 14, 1970 4.2.2. University regulations. Any member of the Michigan State community may initiate a case involving violation of a University regulation by a graduate student. 4.2.2.1. The University Graduate Judiciary in cases shall have original involving violation of a University regulation by a graduate student. jurisdiction 4.2.2.1.1. The Uniyersity Graduate Judiciary shall hear the case and hand down a decision. 4.2.2.2. In case of an appeal, the office of the Provost shall , uphold the decision of the University Graduate Judiciary or shall reverse the decision. The decision of the Provost's Office shall be fmal, 4.2.2.3. The University Graduate Judiciary or the Provost may decide as follows: - A. Proven: A violation of University regulations has occurred. - B. Not proven: No violation of University regulations has occun:ed. 4:2.2.4. Penalties and Redress. In cases of proven violation of a University regulation by Ii graduate student, the Office of the Provost or the Uriiversity Graduate Judiciary, whoever makes the decision, may select from the following penalties: 1. warning - an official written reprimand; 2. probation - a period of probation with stipulati~ns; 3. specific dismissal from the University. * * * 4.2.3. Professional Standards and Responsibilities. Any member of the academic community of Michigan State may present a case involving professional standards and responsibilities of graduate students. The graduate student may only be brought to charges on those counts of violation of professional standards and responsibilities which are explicitly formulated by the department in which .are he is enrolled for graduate study or in which he has academic responsibilities. 4'.2.3.1. The Departmental Graduate Judiciary shall have original jurisdiction in cases involving professional standards and , responsibilities; 4.2.3.1.1. The peparlmental Graduate Judiciary shall hear the case and hand down a involving professional de~ision. In cases standards the Departmental Graduate Judiciary may not waive jurisdiction and send cases to the College Graduate Judiciary. responsibilities, 'and 4.2.3.1.2. Any of the parties involved may appeal an adverse decision to the ' College Gladua1e' Judiciary. , ' " 4.2.3.2. The Coitege Graduate Judiciary shall have appellate jurisdiction on cases appealed from Departmental Graduate Judiciaries. 4.2.3.2.1. In cases of appeal, the College Graduate Judiciary sh~ h~ the appeal or r~f~~ the case to til:e, University, ,Grad,uate judiciary. , 4.2.3.2.2. Any of ,th,e parties involved may appeal an adverse decision to the University ' Graduate Judiciary. 4.2.3.3. The University Graduate Judiciary shall hear all appeals brought before it. The 'decision of the Uni,{ersity Graduate Judiciary shall be final: . 4.2.3.4. The judiciary hearing a case invoivlng professional standards or responsibilities of graduate students 'may • decide as follows: , A. Not proven: There has been no violation of profeSsional standards or responsibilities by the graduate student. B. Proven: There has been a violation of professional standards or responsibility by the graduate student. ' , 4.2.3.5. Penalties. ' the following penalties: 1. warning - In cases of proven violation of professional standards ' and responsibilities, the judiciary may select from an official written reprimand; 2. probation ~ a period of probation with specific stipulations; 3. dismissal from the program. " * '" * 4.2.4. Employ,meni Rights and Respoilsibilities of Graduate Assistants. Any member of the academic community of Michigan State may present a case involving employment rights and responsibilities of graduate assistan ts. 4.2.4.1. The Departmental Graduate Judiciary . shall have original jurisdiction in cases involving the employment rights and responsibilities of graduate assistants. 4.2.4.p. The, Departmental G~d~1e Judiciary shall hear cases and hand down decisions; or may, with the consent of all parties inVOlved, 'refer cases to the College Graduate Judiciary: ' 4.2.4.1.2; Any of the parties involved may appeal ari' adverse decision to the College Graduate Judiciary. ' 4:2.4.2. The ' College Graduate Judiciary shall have appellate jurisdiction in cases appealed from Departmental GJ3duate Judiciaries and original jurisdiction in cases waived from Departmental Gradua1e Judiciaries. 4.2.4.2.1. In cases ,of appeal, the College Graduate Judiciary shall hear the appeal or refer the case to the University Graduate ' Judiciary. 4.2.4.2.2. Any of the parties involved may appeal an adverse decision to the University -Graduate Judiciary. 4.2.4.2.3. In case of waiver from a Departmental Graduate Judiciary, the College Graduate Judiciary shall either hear the case or n;fer it back to the department for hearing and adjudication. - 4.2.4.3. The University Graduate Judiciary shaJI hear all appeals brought before it. The decision of the University Graduate Judiciary shaD be final. neglect of responsibilities as an employee the the follo~g judiciary may select from penalties: 1. waming - an official reprimand; 2. probation - a period of probation with specific stipulations; 3. tennination of tJJ~ student's graduate assistantship. 'and 4.2.5. Employment Righb Responsibilities of Other University - Employed Graduate Students. Any member of the Michigan State community may present a case involving the employment rights and responsibilities of other University - employed graduate students. 4.2.5 .1. The UniVersity Graduate Judiciary in cases • shall have original involving employment rights and responsibilities of other University - employed graduate students as deimed this tfncument. jurisdiction in 4.2.4.4. The judiciary hearing a case involving rights and the employment responsibilities of a graduate assistant shall insure that its membership includes the two graduate assistants provided for under 4.1.4.1. 4.2.4.5. A judiciary hearing a case involving the employment rights or responsibilities of graduate assistants may decide as follows: 4.2.5.2. In the case of an appeal, the Office . A. Not proven: 1. the employment rights of the graduate assistant have not been infringed of the Provost shall uphold the decision of the upon; 2. the graduate assistant has DOt been University Graduate Judiciary or shall reverse the decision. The decision of the Office of the negligent Provost shall be fmal. employee. 4.2.5.1.2. AllY of the parties involved may appeal'an adverse decision to the Office of the Provost. 4.2.5.1.1. The University Graduate Judiciary shall hear the case and hand down a decision. responsibilities as an in his B. Proven: 1. the employment rights of the graduate assistant have been infringed upon; 2. the graduate assistant has been negligent in his responsibilities as an employee. 4.2.4.6. Penalties and Redress. In case of proven violation of a graduate assistant's employment rights, the judiciary handing down the decision shall direct the chairman or dean of the appropriate academjc unit to provide immediate redress. In cases of prove~ 4.2.5.3. The University Graduate Judiciary or 'the Office of the Provost may decide as follows: A. Not proven: 1. the employment rights of the graduate student have not been infringed upon; 2. the graduate student has not been negligent responsibilities as an employee. in his B. Proven: 1. the employment rights of the graduate student have been infringed upon; 2. the gradua1e student has been negHgt>nt in hi responsibilities as an employee. 4.2.5 .4. Pp.nalties and Redress. In cases 'of proven infringement of a ,graduate student's employment rights, the University Graduate Judiciary or , the Office of the PI:ovost, whoever is m:ilcing tile decision, shall direct' the student employee's superior to redress the grievance immediately. ~n cases ' prOving the student's neglect of his responSIbilities ' as an employee, the penalty may be selected from the following: 1. warning - an official written a period of reprimand; 2. probation - probation with stipulations; 3. termination of the student's employment. specific (The remainder of Article 4 cuncems dut: process. It adhefus to basic funadmentals expressed in Article VIII of: the bylaws of the Board of Trustees. Once a grievance IS filed with a judiciary, the chairman must notify all, parties in writing within 48 hours. If the party' charged denies charges; a hearing shall be held. (Due process also provides: Written notice to all parties at least 48 hours before a h,,'nine:' the right of any party to appear in person to present his caseto thejuin J04B Wells Hall, Garre~'.~e Bell~ ~Qt'?fEnvironmental HandbR?1t~ ·.an~ ,~, .gY?~Yist for Zero Popula~on Growtti" roc.. will speak on "Youth and the Environmental Movement." MSU Faculty News, April 14, 1970 -TUESDAY, April 14 ' 8 a.m. (AM-FM) MORNING REPORT. 60 minutes o·£' local news and reports from Group W. 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. " Oh What a Lovely W3I." 5 p.m. (AM-FM) NEWS 60. 8:30 p.m. (FM) BOSTON SYMPHONY. WEDNESDAY, April 15 8 a.m. (AM-FM) MORNING REPORT. 11 a.m. (AM) BOOK BEAT. Robert Cromie with Andrew McNally, author of "An International Atlas." 1 p.m. Abner." 5 p.m. (AM-FM) NEWS 60. 8 p.m. (F~) THE ART OF GLENN GOULD. THURSDAY, April 16 (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Li'l 8 a.m. (FM.-FM) MORNING REPORT. 1 p.m. (FriI) MUSIC THEATRE. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." 5 p.m. (~-FM) NEWS 60. 9 p.m. (FM) JAZZ HORIZONS. FRIDAY, April 17 8 p.m. (AM-FM) MORNING R,EPORT. 10:30 a.m. (AM) THE GOON SHOW. Peter Sellers, HIl(ty Secombe, Spike Milligan: "The Rea." 11 :45 Environmntal news, features. 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "You're a Good Man. Charlie Brown." 5 p.m. (AM)-FM) NEWS 60. "; a'~m. (AM) ENVIRONMENT. , SATURDAY, April 18 8:15 a.m. (AM-FM) THE GOON SHOW. "The Albert Memorial." 10:30 a.m. VARIEDADES EN ESPANOL. 11:45 a.m. (FM) RECENT ACQUISITIONS. 1 n.m. (AM) DD2. 1:30 p.m. (AM) THE DRUM. By, for and abou~ the black community. 2 p.m. (FM) OPERA. Live from the Met: "Romeo and Juliet." 7 p.m. (FM) LISTENERS CHOICE. Classics by calling 35Hi540. SUNDAY, april }C) (AM-FM) CLEVELAND 2 p.m. ORCHESTRA. 4 p.rn. (AM-FM) FROM TIlE MIDWAY. Discussion of public interest and political process. MONDAY, april 20 8 a.m. (AM-FM) MORNING REPORT. 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Peter Pan." 5 p.m. (AM-FM) NEWS 60. 8 p.m. (FM) OPERA. "Rosine" and "The Bear." , Tuesday, April 14 12:30 p.m. UNDERSTANDING 0Ut\ WORLD. 1 p.m. TM GREEN mUMB. 7 p.m. D&UGS: THE CHILDREN ARE CHOOSING. Wedaesday, April 15 IN TIlE 12:30 p.rn: BLACK MAN AMERlCAi. life .ad philosophy of Mania tu~ IGq. 1 p.rn. nTS TAn: PICTUJU;S. 7 p.~ YOUNG MUSICAL ARTISTS. Bus Olarles c.."well; Thursday, April 16 1 p.m. tHE FRENCH CHEF. 7 p.m. LA IlEVISTA. Friday, April 17 12:30 p.m. INSIGHT. 1 p.m. LES FLEURS. 7 p.m. ASSIGNMENT 10. Saturday, April 18 11:00 a.in. INNOVATIONS. Sunday, April 19 11 a.m. INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE. 1 p.m. THE FORSYTE SAGA. 2 n.m. YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT. 2:30 p.m. SOUL! 3: 30 p.rn. NET FESTIVAL. Music from 20th Dubrovnik Festival. 4:30 p.m. NET JOURNAL. Economic and political state of Taiwan and Thailand. 10 p.m. TIlE ADVOCATES. Redistricting and busing: An answer to school segregation? 11 p.m. NET PLAYHOUSE. "The Bond," Monday, April 20 12:30 p.m. GERMAN PLAYHOUSE. Firstin it drama series br{)adcast in German. 1 p.m. MONEY MATTERS. 7 p.m. SPARTAN SPORTLITE. . MSU Faculty News Editor: Gene Rietfors Associate Editor: Beverly Twitchell 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. 48a23. Despite appearances, the Faculty Qub will be partially ready by June 1. - Photo by Robert B. Brown Questions raised on club dues If I drop out of the Faculty Club, will I get my $225 deposit back? When husband and wife are both faculty or staff, should both buy memberships in the Faculty Club? These and more questions are being put to the Faculty Club's membership committee since the group announced last week that new dues for the club ($17.50 a month) will be effective June 1, the same date new club building is scheduled for partial use. * * * RICHARD ·L. FELTNER, chairman of the Faculty Club membership committee and assistant dean of agriculture and received most of explains that : natural the questions. He resources, members who use the club's bar and dining facilities. No cash transactions will be made. - A person leaving the Faculty Club will receive refund of his membership deposit, even if he remains at the University. He will receive a refund on equity payments when another person replaces him a& a club member, no matter how long it is before the new member joins. - When both husband and wife are faculty or staff members, only one needs to join the club to receive full family membership privileges. Monthly bills will be sent to - A faculty member who is going on sabbatical leave may join the club, pay his membership deposit (or au thorize it to be deducted over 10 months) and receive a waiver on dues payments while he is on leave. 'This applies to faculty on leave for six months or longer. If the same faculty member were to join after he returned from leave, he would have to pay the deposit as well as ,the equity accumulated since June 1. - The Faculty Club will have no ties with Akers Golf Course. formal Council p(lsses McKee Report . • • (Continued from page 1) minority student representation. That question was referred to an ad hoc committee chaired by Prof. Hideya (communication). Kumata Recommendations from the Kumata Committee were adopted by a 39-12 vote at last Tuesday'! Council session. Those recommendations provide for the addition of 30 seats for minority student representatives, no more than 10 of them on the Council and the remaining 20 distributed over the nine standing committees on which students shall sit. Allocation of those numbers would be determined by the Office of Black Affairs of ASMSU. The process will be reviewed in three years by the on academic proposed governance. committee * * * of COUNCIL ADOPTION the recommendation from Kumata's ad hoc committee followed more than an hour of debate, marking the flith consecutive session devoted to the question of student participation. Charles C. Killingsworth, University professor of industrial labor and reI a tions, new said recommendations constituted simply "a face - lifted McKee recommendation" with a "little juggling of numbers and an injection of obfuscation." the Herbert Garfinkel,. dean of James Madison College, read excerpts from a letter he sent to the Kumata Committee in which he expressed opposition to establishing numbers for minority representation. Garfinkel said that representation assigned on the basis of race constituted a quota system. "As a practical matter ," he added, "it is a poor idea for minority groups racially accept discriminatory policy which can benefit them only so long as they possess sufficient political power." to a Terry Sullivan, a student member of the Council, said the recommendations would remedy de facto segregation that has occurred here. But she noted that repr~sentation for achieVing broad minority students would time, take since most of the University's black students - because they are freshmen or sophomores - University College. are Confined to the Kumata defended the recommendations as an attempt to enhance the patterns of minority representation on the campus. "This -report sets forth a plea for inclusivity," he said. "It is needed so we don't perpetuate an institutional pattern of exclusivity." THE ONLY amendment * * * recommendations of committee the on minority to the ad hoc student representation (Faculty, News, April 7) was the honors programs committee. concerning one the stipulation Proposed by Robert 1. Wright, professor of American Thought and Language, it added to recommendation 3b that minority representation on the honors programs committee meet the same requirements as do other student representatives: ''They must be members of Honors College or be enrolled in honors courses or programs, or be graduates of an Honors College program." Psychology professors . . . (Continued from page 1) three psychology, have experimental measures into the course's standard text - lecture format. introduced They are offering a series of optional non - credit quizzes throu~out the term by which students can estimate their mastery of specified blocks of subject matter, and they are permitting students who receive grades below 2.0 on the mid-term examination to take it again (with a maximum grade of 2.0 awarded). And they are making lecture materials available for review through audio tapes and visual materials. They to hope, increase student learning in the course. these measures, through The optional quizzes are the most innovation. During winter elaborate term, three quizzes were offered over each of six blocks of subject matter. The first quiz was given during a scheduled Friday class period; students who chose not to take it had a "day off." Grading was done on the spot by the students themselves so "feedback" is immediate and questions on wrong answers may be raised. Students who do not score at least 80-85 are advised to the same take a second quiz over material. If they fail this, they may, if they wish, take home a third quiz. In no case is it obligatory to take the quiz, and whatever the score, it does not count toward the student's final grade. * * * GRADUATE TEACHING assistants the quizzes and have worked out supervise use of the lecture tapes and visual materials for review. Supplies and the experiment clerical serrvices for have an under been Educational Development Program grant. provided Tallies made fall term show: 1. Fifteen percen( of the 350-0dd studen ts in the class used the lecture review materials from one to 10 times. 2. On an announced day , usually Friday, as many as 300 students elected to take the quiz rather than a cut class. Roughly half the students who received fmal grades of 3.5 or above had taken from seven to 10 of the optional quizzes given that term. Among students who received grades of 1 or below, none had taken from seven to 10 quizzes and 35 : percent had taken no quizes at all. Preliminary tallies do not indicate whether the quizzes helped indifferent students learn more or whether "good" students are more inclined than others to take quizzes. But winter term a group of students volunteered to take all the quizzes and to pass them before taking the graded mid-term. With the results of their grades, Professors Ratner and Denny are evaluating the effect of the quizzes on learning. Meanwhile, the professors say they are pleased with the other results of introducing the experimental measures. And they find it gratifying that their students elect in such large numbers to take optional quizzes rather than Friday cuts and that the students seem to feel genuine appreciation for the interest shown in helping them to learn.