Trustees 
weigh  bias  M§1IJ Faculty N®w§ 
pro c e d u res  VoU. No.9 

Mkhigan Slate Univo,,;!y 

Nov-. 24, 1970 

The  Board  of Trustees heard  a  report 
Friday  from  Wilbur  Brookover, 
professor  of education  and  chairman  of 
the  committee  which  established  the 
now  nine  - month  -old  Committee 
Against  Discrimination  (CAD)  and  the 
Anti - Discrimination Judicial Board. 

Brookover's report and one by Robert 
Perrin,  vice  president  for  university 
relations  ,  were  in  response  to  Trustee 
Warren Huffs proposal  that the original 
Brookover committee consider changing 
its policy  and  procedure report to allow 
persons  other  than  the  "aggrieved"  (or 
"friends of the  court")  to  ask  the  CAD 
to investigate alleged discrimination. 

"Under  the  curlent  working  of  the  . 

Brookover  document,"  Huff  said  in  a 
letter  to  President  Wharton  which  was 
distributed  to  the  trustees,  "  a  person 
having knowledge  of discrimination  but 
not  personally  aggrieved,  has  no 
remedy." 

Both  Brookover  and  Perrin  pointed 
implicitly,  if  not 
the 

out  that  this  is 
explicitly,  already  provided for in 
procedures of the CAD. 

"In  fact,"  Perrin  said,  "it  is  the 
committee's  function 
to  investigate 
broad  areas  or  patterns  of  possible 
discrimination  where  no  personal 
complaint  has  been  fIled.  Initiation  of 
complaints to  be investigated may come 
from any source." 

One  investigation  was  completed  by 
CAD,  another  is  underway  and  two 
more  are about to be undertaken and all 
were  initiated  by  complaints  filed  by 
nonaggrievcd persons, Perrin said. 

Both  he  and  B.rookover  did  not 
object,  however,  to  including  Huffs 
the  policies  and 
in 
recommendation 
procedures for further clarification. 

Huffs  suggestion  was  referred  by  the 
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Grade  changes 

The  registrar's  office  reminds  faculty 
that the  time  limit  for correcting grades 
is  30 days after  the  opening of the new 
term. 

Council  will  consider  action 
on  its  rejected  committees 

the  agenda  when 

Tenure  and budget committees will be 
on 
the  Academic 
Council  holds  its  fourth  session  of the 
month  today  at  3: 15  p.m.  in  the  Con 
Con  Room  of the  International Center. 
The  two  committee  proposals  were 
rejected by  the  Board  of Trustees  at its 
October  meeting,  and  Jack  Stieber, 
director  of labor and industrial relations 
and  former  president  of  the 
local 
chapter of the  American  Association  of 
the 
University  Professors, 
Council  to  reaffirm  its  support  of the 
proposals (Faculty News, Nov. 3), add a 
preamble  and  resubmit  them  to  the 
trustees. 

is  asking 

After  he  read  sections  of  the  tape 
recordings  from  the  trustees  meeting, 
Stieber  said  the  Board  interpreted  the 
term  "administration"  in  the  proposed 
bylaw amendments to include them (the 
trustees). He  emphaSized that "the term 

administration  is  never  used  to  include 
the  Board of Trustees,  but refers  to the 
a dministrative  officers  of 
the 
University." 

The  proposed  preamble  states  that 
"the  Council  feels  that  the  Board's 
to  a 
action  must  be 
misunderstanding 
the 
intentions of the Council and the Senate 
in adopting these amendments. 

ascribed 
regarding 

The  amendments, the preamble states, 
"are  designed to clarify and improve  the 
relationship between the faculty  and the 
administration,  as  represented  by  the 
President  and 
the  Provost  of  the 
University  ... It was  not  the  Council's 
intention  to infringe  in  any  way  on  the 
authority  and  prerogatives  of the Board 
of Trustees as  they relate  to the subjects 
dealth with by these amendments. 
that 

the 
Board has  final  authority  on  all matters 

"The  Council 

recognizes 

Fund loss  won't  cut salaries 
or increase student fees 

The  $600,000  reduction  in  state  -
appropriated funds  which MSU  has been 
di:ected  to  absorb  during the remainder 
of  the  1970-71  fiscal  year  has  raised  a 
the 
number  of  questions  regarding 
possible effects. 

Students  have  asked  whether 

the 
reduction  means  a  commensurate 
increase  in  fees  for  the winter andspring 
terms,  and  faculty  and  staff  have 
inquired  whether  salary  cuts  may  be 
necessary. 

The answer to these  questions is "no." 
the  University  has  not 
While 
completed  its  plans  for  complying  with 
the  reduction  order,  it is  expected  that 

it  will  be  met  by  curtailing  or 
postponing  expenditures  and  other 
economy moves. 

Every  effort  will  be  made  to  avoid 
crippling  cuts  in  ongoing  programs,  a 
spokesman said. 

It  is  expected that  the budgets  of  the 
Agricultural Experiment Station and the 
Cooperative  Extension  Service,  subject 
to  the  same  1 percent  reduction  as  the 
University's  general  fund,  can  also  be 
realigned  without  severely  hampering 
their important services to the  state. 

The  administration  hopes  to  present 
its  specific  recommendations 
to  the 
Board  of Trustees meeting in December. 

to 

the  budget  of 

the 
pertaining 
University,  faculty  compensation  and 
these 
tenun:.  Nothing 
faculty 
amendments  detracts 
this 
authority." 

in 
from 

ERWIN  BETTINGHAUS,  assistant 
dean  of  communication  arts,  offered 
four  amendments 
the  proposed 
bylaw changes: 

to 

- Change  the  name  of  the  proposed 
University  Committee  on  Faculty 
Compensation  and  Academic  Budget  to 
the  University  Faculty  Affairs 
Committee; 

- Substitute  references to the provost 
term 

the 

for 

or  his  office 
administration; 

Make 

the  chairman  of 

the 
committee  a  voting  member  of  the 
Elected Faculty Council; 

- Add  a  section  to  the  committee's 
charge  to  include  review,  proposal  and 
amendment  procedures  for 
two 
sections  of  the  Academic  Freedom 
Report  dealing  with  faculty  rights  and 
responsibilities. 

the 

The  amendments  were  designed  to 
make  it  clear  that  "we  do  not  want  a 
confrontation  situation  with  the  Board 
of  Trustees,"  Bettinghaus  said.  The 
faculty  affairs  committee  (of which  he 
is  chairman)  now  includes  almost  all  of 
what  is  being  proposed, he said, and the 
ti tIe 
a 
as  originally  proposed 
"semantic trap." 

is 

Bradley Greenberg, associate professor 
of communication  and chairman of the 
University  Faculty  Tenure  Committee 
offered an  amendment  to  the  proposals 
concerning 
that  committee.  His 
amendment  would  read  that  "decisions 
of the  (committee) cannot  be overruled 
except  by  the  Board  of Trustees."  The 
proposal  now reads:  that  such decisions 
"shall  be  binding  on  the  administration 
and the faculty member concerned." 

Faculty  being surveyed for  report  to  state 

"It is  the intent  of the legislature that 
each  full  - time  faculty  member who  is 
paid  wholly  from  the  line 
item 
instruction will  teach a minimum of not 
less  than ... ten (10) classroom contact 
hours (per week) ... " 

- Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1179 
July, 1970 
Backlash  from  campus  unrest?  An 
attempt  to  require  accountability  for 
public  funds?  An  effort 
to  reduce 
university  autonomy? 
Whatever  their  intentions,  those  few 
I ines  from 
legislature's  1970-71 
Higher  Education  Appropriations  Act, 
they  have  caused  a  flurry  of  activity 
among  Michigan's  colleges  and 
universities  and  in  the  state's  Bureau  of 
Higher Education. 

the 

At  Michigan  State,  specialists  in  the 
Office  of  Institutional  Research  (OIR) 
have  spent  several  months  writing  and 
rewriting  an  eight  - page  report  form 
that will be the basis for  the University's 
report 
to  the  Bureau  of  Higher 
Education. 

Copies  of  the  MSU  form  are  or soon 
will  be  in  the  hands  of  some  5,000 

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- Photographed by Bill  Mitcham 

Letters 

Retirement fund  • 

IS  questioned . 

To the editor: 

the 

Warned  by  previous  experiences  that 
one  should  always,  particularly 
in 
America,  read  the  "fine  print,"  I  have 
fmely 
been  carefully  perusing 
printed  "edibr's  note"  of some  issues 
back  (Faculty  News,  Oct.  27)  that' 
sought  to  explain  the  factors  which 
were  considered  when  the  Powers  at 
MSU  raised,  oh  so  gently,  last  summer 
the  pension  of non-TIAA  faculty from 
$3,000 to  $3,300.  I  had pointed out in 
my letter that in terms of today's prices 
the  increase  should  have  been,  at  the 
minimum (some  12 years having elapsed 
since the $3,000 figure  was set), $4,500. 
I  am,  .unfortunately,  not  a  fmancial 
specialist,  but  my  political  philosophic 
expertise  reacts  to  the  Editor's Note  as 
follows: 

in 

1.  You  mentioned  that  the  faculty 
now  constitute  "a  minority 
the 
University  program."  You 
indicated 
that  increasing  the  retirement  salary  in 
the  noncontributory  plan  "involves 

• 
Nisbet quote 
is  clarified 

To the editor: 

Your  article  headlined  "AAUP  will 
seek amendments again" (Faculty News, 
Oct.  27)  was  read  with  interest.  One 
reason  a  person  hesitates to speak out is 
because  of  being  misquoted  or  only 
partially quoted. 

Mr.  (Sigmund) Nosow referred  to  my 
concern  over  "continued diminution  of 
the  Board's  authority."  That  was  only 
patt  of  what  I  said.  The  rest  was 
"without any group being able  to accept 
the  responsibility."  The  two  parts must 
go  together.  Our  attorney  said  at  that 
time,  "Yes,  you  can  give  up 
the 
authority,  but you  legally  can't give  up 
your responsibility." 

It has  always  been  my understanding 
that  the  administration  was  advised  by 
the  faculty  on  building  budgets,  and  I 
have  no quarrel  with that; in  fact,  I  am 
greatly  in  favor  of  the  faculty  being 
used in advisory capacities. I'm sure this 
is  done  to  a  great  extent  at Michigan 
State. 
. But~en under  the  second proposal 
they  talk  about  ''tenure  rules  shall  be 
binding,"  then  ~t  passes  out  of ' the 
advisory capacity. 
I  think . ~e h;tv;e  a  l!I'eat  facultY  at 
Michigan  State." And  they  shou)d  be 
the 
i,nvolved 
University.  My  only  point,  however,  is 
that  the  Board  of  Trustees  is  given 
certain  responsibilities  by 
the  State 
Constitution,  and  we  must  have  the 
fuial  authority 
these 
responsibilities. 

the  operation  of 

to  '. carry  out 

in 

. 

. 

The 'facu1ty's role  should be advisory, 
fmal 
. 

yes.  But 
. 
. 

recommendatory 
4ut!:tority - no. 
. 

'  '. 
. ' Stepben Nisbet 
Member, Board of Trustees 

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Phone toll corrected 
The  Nov.  17  Faculty  News  story 
conet:riting  !he  ~l~ph<?n~ rate . jncte~ 
contaUied  an  errorleoUs  report  on  the 
charge for a daytime person - to - person 
call to Traverse City. 

' 

The  story  said that such  a call  "costs 
80  cents  for  the  first  minute  and  30 
cents for each minute  thereafter, plus a 
service  charge  of  50  cents."  The  50  -
cent service  charge is INCLUDED in the 
toll  for  the  first  minute.  But  Michigan 
Bell  officials  point out that it is still less 
expensive  for  campus  callers  to  direct -
dial the ir calls. 

(nonfaculty)  as  well  as  faculty,"  and 
that  "the  increased  benefits  must  be 
drawn  from  a  special  retirement  fund 
that  is  separate  from  .the  University's 
armual  state  appropriation." I  reply: We 
should  be  concerned  with  and  deal 
fairly  with  nonfaculty  employes as  well 
as  faculty.  The  same  Consumer  Price 
Index  applies 
the 
non-TIAA  faculty.  In  other  words, 
prices go up for all concerned. 

them  as 

to 

to 

2.  In  the  explanation,  "according  to 
Stephen  Terry,  assistant  vice  president 
for  business  and  fmance,"  I  fmd  much 
that should be  questioned  . . . If, as the 
editor's  note  indicates, he  said that the 
University  actually  funds  5  per cent of 
the  salary  of  each  non-TIAA  faculty 
member  and  has  done  ~o  in  the  past 
(and if not, why not, may  I  add),  then 
there  should be  a very generous amount 
of  money  in  the  "special  retirement 
fund."  This  should  be  so  especially 
when one considers: a) Only about one -
fourth  of  our  full  - time  employes 
participate  in  TIAA and b) the turnover 
in  personnel  (those  who 
terminate 
employment  here  and  never  draw 
benefits). 

3.  Mr.  Terry,  via  the  editor's  note , 
tells  us  that the  present  University  plan 
for  such  people  covered  by  it  must 
remain  "actliarially sounll." That is, "its 
investments  must perform well."  But if 
the  plan  is  "actuarially  sound,"  why 
does  a  person. have  to  select  age  60 as 
the  retirement option?  This  selection  is 
forced  upon  the  individual  five  years 
ahead  of the  implementation for  most, 
and  eight  years  ahead  for  many. If the 

"actuarially  sound," 

plan  were 
it 
wouldn't  make  any  difference,  would 
it? 

required 

4.  You  state  that  according  to  Mr. 
Terry,  "an  increase  beyond  the  $3,300 
figure  would  have 
the 
University 
to  take  money  from  the 
general  fund  and  this would have meant 
either  higher  student  fees  or  lower 
faculty  - staff salary  increase."  I  reply: 
ANY action that is  necessary for justice 
taken.  After  all,  the 
oUght 
to  be 
Universi ty  has 
its 
increased 
contributions  to  the  TIAA  - covered 
fund  by one - third; from 7Yz  per cent in 
1958  (the  year  of  the  $3 ,000  for  the 
others)to 10 per cent in 1965 (five years 
before 
increase  for  " the 
others).  Why  shouldn't  similar  increase 
be made in the "old plan?" 

the  $300 

injustices  being 

This  is  my  last  word on this  matter. I 
wish some int~rested and more narrowly 
specialized  people  would  now  take  up 
the  questions  raised  here.  There  are 
(not 
many  other 
deliberately ,  but 
thoughtlessly) 
committed at MSU to which I must give 
there  are  also  such 
attention.  Then 
matters  as  classes 
taught, 
pu blications 
to  be  produc e d, 
community  to  be  served  - and  salary 
and promotion to be  aspired to. 

to  be 

Carroll Hawkins 
Associate professor of political science 

(Editor's  Note:  There is currently underway 
a  regular  a,ctuarial  review  of  the  University's 
noncontributory retirement  fund.  No  changes 
in  the  program or in  the benefits will be lnade 
until  that  review  is  completed.  The  Faculty 
News  will  report  any  changes  made  in  the 
system.) 

11/(  C 

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"Tues.day,  Nov.  24 

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1  p.m. 

(AM): 

Ad vocacy  and  Objectivity 

in  Urban ' 

Joumalism"  with  Paul  Gapp,  U.  of Chicago, 
and  Don  Holt  of  Newsweek.  11:30  p.m. 
(~M): .  "Radio  Smithsonian" 
includes  a 
discusslon of women's liberation. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  2S  - 1  p.m.  (AM):  "LSD 
~d  O.ther  Many  Splendored  TIlings"  is  a 
discuSSlon  of drug  ~se  ~d abu~ by  Joseph 
Benforado of the Um verslty of Wlsconsin. 

Sunday,  Nov.  29  - 2 p .m.  (AM-FM) : Music 
by  Pr.okofiev,  Dvorak and  Brahms: is featured 
by  the  Qcveland  Orchestxa's  Severance .Hall 
Concert.  10  p.m. 
(FM) :  "New  England 
Conservatory  Concerts"  includes  music  by 
Cima, Morin and Bach. 

11.51 

Saturday,  Nov.  28 

..:  12:30  p.m . . . 
"'I:chaikovS':<y  Gala"  features  the L os Angeles 
PhilharmOnIC  performing  "Piano  Concerto 
No.1" and the "1812 Overture." 

Sun~y, Noy.  29  - 1:30 p.m, ... Baroque 
R,ome  IS  explored on "Civilization." 3 p.m ... 
.  Slo}"  Death  oftlte Desert Water" is a look 
at  ~e one  - tin)e  home  of  the  largest  whl te 
in  North  Amed~ on  "Ow 
pelican  flock 
Vanishing  WJ..!derness."  lq  p .m.  :.: . ,.  "From 
the  House of the Dead," Leos Janaeek:s opera 
based o n. postoov~k.i's autobiography. 11 p.m. 
.. ''Making Money' and  13- Other Very  Short 
Plays,"  14  vignettes  by  Wllliam  Saroyan 
fonowed  by  James  Saunders'  one  - act  "A 
Slight Accident" 

Student participation report 
passes  with  some  changes 

The  special  Panel  Report  on Student 
PartiCipation  in  Academic  Governance 
, wa.s approved by the Academic Council 
. last  week  and  will  be  forwarded  to -the 
Academic  Senate  for  consideration Jan. 
20 . 
. The  Council' s  unanimous  vote  came 
' despite  student . opposition 
to  the 
report.  Undergraduate  student 
representative  Gina  Shack  told  the 
Council  she  "will  not  be  party to  an 
illusion  of  participation."  She  referred 
to  her  earlier  stated  objectio)ls  to  the 
p ro visio n  concer ni ng  election  of 
,,;l,Dinori~:r student;; rep'resentatives and to, 
the  section  0li' I "ma~t~~ aff~t.ing  the 
distirictively  professional  duties; -of. the 

'"  faculty/' 

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;, ~'All  has  not  been  iri  vain,"  Miss 
Schack  said.  "At  least  now  there  is  a 
document  besides  the  Academic 
Freedom  Report  addreSSing  itself  to 
faculty rights." 

T4esecond  undergr-aduate 
representative,  Riehanl  Foster, . .voiced 
the  same  objections  but  said  he 
. supported  ~e report because "I ·hope  a 
.  lot of paranoia will  SUbside 'and' perhaps 
some further progress ,will be made~";  . 
, .• ~harles  Kming:;worth~ ,  UniverSity 
professor  of  labor  and  industrial 
re~tions, respqn~ed thi~ thes¢"terribly 
,;b~-tfer  statemt:nts  a te  made  with 
complete  lack  of  perspective  and 
understanding of the fundamental iSsues 
with  which  we've  been wrestling here." 
. "Faculty  have  re~Ognized  ~r~as  of 
exclusive  student  concern;"  he  said, 
naming  the  State  News  as  an  example, 
"and  now  we  are  at a  point,  in a move 
toward  community  government,  where 
the  faculty  feels  it is essential that there 
should  be  some  recognition  of  a  few 
limited areas in which faculty concern is 

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predominant and faculty should .be self -
goveqling  and  self  -, regulating, just  as 
students are in  mapyareas of a~ademic 
, 
life today:" 
Graduate  student representative David 
Wright  spoke  for  the  executive 
committee  of the  Council  of Graduate 
Students which feels,  he  said,  "that the 
heart  of the  document  is  a  preserve  for 
the  rights  of  fa~ulty."  rather  tpan  .a 
"document allegedly for student illput." 
And  if th~ document is passed, Wright 
reported  thai:  COGS  may  not take  part 
"in totar: ..vit11., it*.s. jmp\e~m~ ~tq!h' 

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,  BECAU~E .  ~isc~ssions  on  ~e ryp.ort 
h ad  "yxpcise~  deep  hostilities  and 
- divisi~ns"  John ' F .. A. ;:ray;~e~.  pro~essor 
of  philosoph.y  and  chaionan  of  tlie 
special  panel,  asked  that  the  report  be 
submitted  to  the  Senate  with 
the 
understanding  that  the  pattern by  tried 
experimentally  for 
then 
reviewed  by  the  council and the Senate. 
Rejection  . of  the  document  by  the 
Senate  would  be  '~a  literal  disaster" 
Taylor said. ' .. 

two  years, 

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Act ,ion  concerning  student 
. participation  would  not  be  preciuded 
during . the  two  years  since  the ,report 
proposes '. a  Committee  on  Academic 
Governance,  whose  charge 
includes 
continuing  review  of  the  student 
participatl~n in academic governance. 

James  ~'.McKee ,  profesSor  of 
sociology  a nd  cha i rman - of '  the 
commIttee , which  prepiuM  the  ~tudent 
participation  report  reJected  bY . the 
Senate last June, opposed the motion to 
present  the  current  document  to  the 
Senate as an experiment. 

To  do  so,  he  said,  would  be  "buying 
votes  of faculty  who  have doubts." The 
Senate  should  "vote  it  up  or  down 
according  to  their  confidence  in  the 

procedures  establishi d  and  their 
commitment  t?~th~ pr!nCipl1s;" l¥ $aid. 

But, the in(')tion ~arned.' 

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OTHER  COUNCIL  actieJ}  on<, the 

document includt:d: 

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- Defeat  of  a  motion  to  lower  the 
percentage  ·of  votes  re«;ffii~~ '!;offefer 
action to the Senate fr'?m~.! hper),?~JjIJ to 
40 per cent.' 

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- Contingent  approva..· of it  proposed 
revision  of  Article  ~ven  of , the 
Academic  Freedom  Report,  which 
outlines amendment prqcedures for that 
: .d~ument. 

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)i  'It 
R,econsid~ration  of procedures  to 
be  used  in  selecting faculty members to 
the  'stude~t ,affairs  a,nd  public  safety 
conunittees.  Two ~e~ks ago the. Council 
amended  the panel report to provide for 
selection  of  these  faculty  members  by 
the  Committee  on  Committees.  On  an 
appeal  from  Provost  John Cantlon  the 
Council  reversed  its action,  returni~g to 
the . original  pro:visions. which  call  for 
final  selection  by  the  president  from  a 
list  of nominees  (twice. the  number  of 
vacancies)  presented"by  the Committee 
on Committees~ 

- Bylaws  were  aine'rlded  to proVide a 
vote  for  the  vice  pre'Sident  fo r  student 
affairs  and  to  remOve  voting  privileges 
from  the ombudsman, at his request. 

A move  t9: 'reconsider  Sectio~ Two of 
the  document,  wttich  refers 'to'  faculty 
prerogative's,  was  ·defeatetl.:: U· <iduate 
student  DavId · Wrigllt  hadJ'l~nhed to 
offer  an  amendment  to  th  ~m~~ to 
provide graduate students a vote  in' areas 
where  graduate  students  "assume  the 
responsibilities  of  faculty." 

, 

- BEVERLY TWITCHELL 

About  80  members  of  the  MSU 
chapter of the  American  Association  of 
Universify  Professors  met  Thursday 
night  to  hear  represeniatives  of  two 
other  Michigan  universities  discuss  -
favorably  - the  unionization  of  their 
faculties. 

But  fust  on  the  agenda  was  a  report 
on  MSU  faculty  salaries  from  Einar 
Hardin,  professor of labor and industrial 
relations.  The  report  is  made  annually 
and  sent  to  the  national  AAUP,  but 
Hardin· said  that  this  year  the  provost 
would  not  provide 
infonnation 
regarding  salaries  by  rank  and  colleges 
until spring term. 

The  guest  speakers referred frequently 
to  that  situation  as  one  which  would 
not  occur  in  a  collective  bargaining 
situation. 

*  *  * 
PROFESSORS  Tom  Brite  (business) 
and  Bob  Clason 
(mathematics)  of 
Central  Michigan  University  discussed 
-the CMU situation. 

The  faculty  there voted in September, 
1969,  to  be  represented  by  a  local 
district  of the Michigan  Association  for 
Higher  Education  (MAHE).  Their  first 
contract  was  ratified  in  Minch  by  a 
369~2 vote,  with  82  per  cent  of the 
547  eligible  faculty  voting.  (Faculty 
News, Feb.  ~ and April 7, 1970). 

the 

faculty  and 

Collective  bargaining, Clason  said,  has 
relationship 
created  no  adversary 
between 
the 
administration. In fact, the opposite has 
occ&'re-d,  he  said. " .~'There  are  better 
relatlQns.  There  has' been  a  good  effort 
on  the  part  of  the  administration  to 
make  sure  that when decisions are  made 
a faculty member is involved." 

"I  think  we  have  educated 

the 
administration  that collective bargaining 
just  anothe{:  way  of  making 
is 
decisions,"  Brite  said.  "It  is  not  the 
imaginary  horror that  some  thought  it 

" 

, ,' 

:." . "  

COGS says 
it "w'ill, stay" 
'iii Council 

. 

If 

Visitors  laud collective  bargaining 

Jim  McKay 

would  be.  It can  work.if  it  is  entered 
into  openly  and if the  faculty  share  the 
responsibility  with  the  administration." 
*  *  * 
PROFESSORS  Joe  DeMent  (English) 
and 
(mathematics)  of 
Oakland University  discussed conditions 
at 
faculty 
institution,  where 
recently  voted  to  be  represented  by 
their  AAUP  chapter.  No  contract  has 
been  ratified,  but  faculty  are  protected, 
law  which 
DeMent 
provides  for  no  changes  in  working 
conditions until a  contract agreement is 
reached. 

said,  by  state 

that 

The  Oakland  situation 

is  unique, 
DeMent  pOinted out, because it is newly 
independent,  and  has  a new  president, a 
new  board  of  trustees,  a  new  provost 
and  a  new  vice  president  for  student 
affairs. 

Oakland's  faculty  voted  164-45  in 
favor  of  collective  bargaining  because 
"we  wanted  more  voice  and  more 
money"  DeMent  said,  and  "collective 
bargaining  was  further  facilitated  by  a 
lack of trust." 

He  said  that bargaining may begin in a 
month,  and  he  described  the  structure 
and  procedures  in  selecting  a bargaining 
committee.  The  AAUP  members  will 
select bargaining priorities. 

(Unlike CMU, where the entire faculty 
voted on ratification  of a contract, only 
AAUP  members  would  vote  on  a 
contract at Oakland). 

McKay  discussed  four  other factors in 
Oakland's  decision  to  enter a  collective 
bargaining situation : 

-

Salary  structures  at  community 
colleges  and  at  Central  Michigan, 
compared  to larger institutions, revealed 
"real  discrepancies"  and  led  to  an 
attitude  of "it's not going to be  handed 
to  you  unless you organize. We  saw that 
collective  bargaining  was  going  to  be  a 
fact of life ," he said. 

- AAUP  was  favored  by  the  faculty , 
because  they  did  not like  the  emphasis 
of  other  organizations  on 
such 
approaches as  "the administration is the 
enemy." 

- The  public  control  factor,  or  the 
increasing  presence  of 
legislative 
"riders"  on  appropriations  bills,  with 
the  faculty having "no effective voice  to 
stave  off this  sort  of legislative  action." 
United  action ,  he  said,  was  viewed  as  a 
way  to get that voice. 

-

"Faculties  everywhere  are  badly 
politicized,"  with  the  factions  divided 
on  every  issue.  The  issue  of collective 

bargaining,  McKay  said,  united  the 
faculty  at Oakland. 

*  *  * 
SOME  QUESTIONS  from  the  MSU 

audience  and responses included: 

*  Were  the  traditional  governmental 
structures,  as  provided  in  University 
bylaws, ,Weakened?  Answer  from  CMU: 
No, 
they  were  strengthened,  "given 
some  bite." 

*  Is  teaching  load  emphasized  over 
research  and  public  service?  Answer 
from  CMU:  We  have  a  "status  quo 
statement."  Brite  said  his  own  view  is 
that  "you  can  over  - negotiate,"  by 
saying  that every faculty  member has to 
teach  a  certain  number  of hours  until 
he's  practically  punching  a  timeclock. 
So  "we  let  the  usual  channels  taks  care 
of this." 

the  CMU 

* Strikes?  There  is  a  no - strike clause 
in  the  CMU  contract.  There  are  "other 
weapons," 
representatives 
said, in  case  of a  "last resort" situation. 
MSU's  AAUP  chapter  will  discuss 
collective  bargaining at  MSU  at  its next 
meeting Thursday, Dec. 3. 

- BEVERLY lWITCHELL 

. Faculty workload  survey  •  •  • 

(Concluded from page 1) 
facuItymembers  and graduate  assistants. 
Using  data  from  the  survey,  the , OIR 
will report to the state by late February, 
1971. 

After  the  Bureau of Higher Education 
has  processed  and  analyzed  data  from 
all  sta~ institutions, a draft Qf its report 
will  be'  reviewed  next  summer  by  each 
school.  The 
the 
final 
legislature is due by next September. 

report 

to 

*  *  * 

is 

to 

ALTHOUGH  THE 

legislative  rider 
"specifies  that  "each  full  - tiine  faculty 
rriember" 
teach ' at  ' least  10 
classroom  contact 'hours  it  week,  OIR 
assistant  directors  Thomas  M.  Freeman ' 
and Lynn  Peltier said. that MSU intends 
to '  report  only  average  departmental 
, figures,  not  individual ,facultY,  totals,  as 
the .  BU,rea\l- .of  Higher 

And  he  notes 

that  the  state  has 
indicated  that  it  will' include  graduate 
' assistants  as  well as ' f~culty in its report 
forms. 

" .") " ""' ,"'

: ' ",; 

" 

"

, , " 

r;  , 

. ! j 
i', The  :CoUhcil  'of  Graduate  Students'  required  by 
voted :(;rh~rsday  to  continue  sending  Education. 
graduate , student  representatives  to ' the ' 
Academic : Co'uhcil  and  standing 
committees,  regardless  of  voting 
privileges. ' :·[ 

, 

' 
The  moveca'me " despite 

the 
organiza,ti9n's  oppositiori " 'to " the 
Aca4emic Council's  denial of (un voting 
"  privileges  to  s'tudent  represelltatives,  as 

MSUnughFkabl~tbl ~ettrn;'State's ' 
reporting-needs with  the  fu,nited  data  it 
already has, Freeinan explained, "but an 
' institution  as  lar$e  as  this  OJle  provides 
in'  the  SpeCific  P.anel.  ,.  mUcn ' iridependent 'and ' Variable  credit 
the ,  faculty 
That  oppoSi.tJorr  waJ ex presSed  'in  a  workload  isn't to be  found in  scheduled 

recommended 
Report on St  'dent Participation. " 

( ins fruction .'  " Much  of 

' resolution  also  paSsed  by  COGS 

to 
protest  the  den ial  of  full  voting 
the , pro(esso~  who 
privileges:, to', graduate  students . in, ~he .'  teaches  a  three  ', - credit  course  that 
Council and~i4e standing-committees. 
the , 

classroom contact." 

An  example 

is 

showS ' "hours  arranged."  Only 
professOr 

teaching 

Discussion ' of  whether  to  continue 

that  cour~  can 
sending  represetitatives was spurred by a  . . provide  data  on'  how  many  "classroom 
report  bv  Dave  Wright,  COGS'  Council 
representativ~. . 

, .'  While 
that 
is .'  the  first 
Wright  said ' that " ~iti'S  un1ike~y t~ t  ,  tefe'ren~ to  facuIty  workloads has been 
{ m~de 'm a  public act, freeman said, it is 
l nQ~ th~ flISt  time MSU has had to report 

any  faculty  cont~olled  Counell  wJlI 
pro~u.ce  an~ v.w ea.rungfuI,  do~ument for  "
studen1  partIc.watp n until  they reach an  '  'suc.li' information to the slate'. 
understanding  wi th.  the  administration 
on their 'Own  rights." 

contact hours" he logs each week. 
time 

this 

, 

He '  suggested  that  graduate  student 
representation  ,be  with(,i(l}wn  frem  the 
AC .~A~~ic  Coun~il. : l i!!:toprder  to 
cop:£jBtr~ te  on  the  GJaduate · Council, 
.  w~'~1hL~8s  ~hree gradua te ,students with 

f~l mJWlbersh ip privileges" , 

' 

T h e  a,pparent  fe eling  of  COGS 
.representatives,  however,  was  that  if the 
Council  is  a  viable  group,  COGS  ought 
to  participate  since  it  still  has a voice, -
a "foot in  the door." 

" Until  now,  ~ll  stateiliquiries  have 
been  answered  with  exi~ting  data  we 
, acqwred  without  going  directly  to  the 
faculty.  Now  is ,a good t.ime to go  to the 
faculty ,  because  We  don't  know  how 
mucH  time  they  spend  in  independent 
and  variable  instruction ,  and we  don't 
know  the  extent of their  public service 
activities or other workload fac tors." 

These  data  will  be  reflected  in  the 
state, 

the 

to 

report  MSU  makes 
Freeman said. 

legislature  that  this  is  none  of  their 
business  and give them only gross data," 
Peltier said. 

IS 

"EVERYONE 

looking  at 
universities  with  an  increasingly  critical 
eyes,"  he  observed.  "Some  faculty  will 
say,  'I  work  hard.  It's  obvious  to  me 
that I work hard.' 

Freeman  added,  "but unfortunately  it's 
not obvious to everyone else." 

"The  other  approach is  to  cooperate, 
communicate  and  educate.  We  need  to 
"It  may  be  obvious  to  us,  too,"  make  some  of  our  faculty's  varied 
activities  visible,  because  there  is  a  real · 
credibility  gap  with  the  pUblic.,  Some 
people  now  see  our  only  outputs  as 
graduates  and  people  who 
throw 
stones." 

He  said  that  one  problem  with  the 
state's  requirement  for  10  classroom 
contact  hours  is  that  "it  really  doesn't 
reflect  the  magnitude  of the  workload 
of providing  classroom  instruction  in  a 
major university." 

"It  may  be  our  role  to  convince  the 
legislature  that  at  this  University  10 
classroom  contact  hours  are  too  many 
, to  allow  faculty  to  fulfill  their  other 

obligations." 

Some  have  questioned  whether  it  is 
even  appropriate  for  the  legislature  to 
'Freeman agreed. 
'request ,  such 
information  from'  the 
"This  can  be  seen  as  a  threat or as an 
University .  And  in  the  faculty  affairs 
committee,  where  the  survey  forql  was 
ppportunity,"  he  noted.  "Although the 
legislature's  request  caused  'us  to  move 
this  month,  it  was 
,reviewed  earlier 
reported  'thai  faculty  may  be  uneasy  more  rapidly  than we  would have liked, 
about  trying  to  me~suJe  activities  but  we  have  been  mOving 
this 
(reporting  procedure)  for  the  past  few 
not teaching quality. Some contend that 
" 
years. " 
to  assess 
is  virtually 
it 
. quality . 
. 
I  'B o'1'b  "F'r e e m an 
acknowledge 
that - the 
emphaSizes  qnant~  and  !nput .  .But 
, Freeman  ,pointe'd  out,  that  measuring 
input  is  "a  minor  problem"  compared 
with 
to  measure  educational 
output:  Knowledge  learned,  gr-aduates, 
books, papers, services. 

Early  last  year,  institutional  research 
began  developing  forms  and methods to 
form  m~asure  mputs  and  outputs  for  12 
·d e"p'artmen'ts.  And 
it  his  been 
computing  credit  hours  and  other 
information  for  the past de~de. 

'a n d  Pel tier 

impossible 

toward 

report 

trying 

"  , 

" 

, 

I ·  

faculty 

Freeman  also·  noted  that  the  survey 
to  elaborate  oil'~  their 
asks 
" I s 
acti vi ties: 
fall · 'quarter 
. representapve  of  your  workload'  and 
activities'?" 

this 

And  he  emphasized  that  the  0lR 
plans  to  review  the  survey  results  with 
. ,department heads aild deans before -they 

are  reported to the state. 

"WE COULD take  a hard line, tell the 

*  •  * 
. THE STATE'S tentative form asks the 
,  University  to  report  on  the  experience 
and  degrees  held  by  faculty  at  vario\lS 
ranks;  credit  and  conbK:t  hour 
workloads  and  other  considerations  by 
faculty  rank  and  salary;  and  the Jul! -
time  equivalent  credit  workload  by 
(acuity rank. 
. Freeman  noted  that  while  the  whole 
pTOceSS  "is  deadly  seTious,"  it  may 
repre~eilt. a  tr~ ru~~.  ~nce , t~ s~t~' ~ 
indicated  this will  be  an annual process. 

A'-P  emplo'yes 'describe  jobs 

Copies  of '  the  "Cleric~1 

Administrative 
- Professional 
chlssification  Questionnaire"  sent  last 
week  to  all  administrative  - profeSSional 
staff  represent  the  first campus  - wide 
review  , of  job  duties  since  the  A,-P 
system was introduced in  1961. 

Gerald  F,  O'Connor, assistant  director 
of  the  personnel  center,  said  that  the 
survey  was  not  related  to  a  current 
examination  of the classification system 

by  a  committee 'of the  A-P Association. 
The  need  for  the review at this time is 
based  on  the  merit  salary  increase  pian 
for  A-P  staff  that  became  effective  last 
July  1, he  said. 

He  explained that A-P job descriptions 
are  normally  reviewed  and  rewritten 
when  a  request  for  reclassification  is 
made.  All  A-P  job  descriptions  will  be 
updated  as  a  result  of  the  current 
survey, O'Connor added. 

MSU Faculty News, Nov. 24,1970 

They really  started something! 

A prizewinning new book written by a Michigan State faculty member describes 
attempts  by  radical  critics  of education  to  reshape  university  curricula  and  to 
make them more relevant. 

And it points out that the radicals' attempts to destroy existing structures really 

centered on replacing them with better ones. 

But  the  book's  setting is  not  the  American  college  campus  of the  1970's; it is 
Puritan England of the mid - 17th century.  For his work, "The Puritan Revolution 
and  Educational  Thought," Richard  L.  Greaves  last  week received  the  Walter  D. 
Love  Memorial  Prize  for  the  best  book  on  British  history  written  in  1969-70. 
Greaves,  an  assistant  professor of humanities, received the prize at the Conference 
on British Studies in Wilmington, Del. 

*  *  * 
EDUCATIONAL  REFORMS  sought  during  1640  - 1660  in  England  closely 

parallel many of the changes requested today, says Greaves. 

In his book, Greaves  writes that sectaries - the radical reformers among English 
'Puritans  - sought  "a deeper  religious  experience,  a more  relevant  education and 
universal knowledge in law and medicine." 

For  those  who  contend  that  today's  students  and  educational  critics  are 
pioneers  in  seeking  fundamental  change,  Greaves  points  out  that  the  present 
marks  "probably  the  third  time  in  modern  Western  civilization"  for  major 
"educational reform to be  espoused. 

The  events of 300 years ago  recalled in his book, Greaves says, helped form "the 
fountainhead  of the  land - grant idea,"  which constituted the  second major push 
for educational reform in modern Western history. 

Even  in  17th  - century  England,  he  says,  radical  reformers  were  promoting 
agricultural schools,  trying to  expand education and calling for  more emphasis on 
technological  and practical  knowledge. 

* * * 
GREA YES  WRITES  in  his  book  that  critics of the  Puritan  reformers tried to 
dismiss ,them as  enemies of education and knowledge.  But he  adds  that "the real 
foe  of the sectarian reformers was only an educational system steeped in tradition 
and dedicated to the propagation of esoteric knowledge to the initiated. 

"In  attacking  this  behemoth,  the  sectaries  began  to  pave  the  way  for  the 
development  of an  educational  system  more  responsive  to  the  needs  of society 
and more inclusive of the people within that society." 

Then,  as  later, some  voices were  calling  for  universal  education,  Greaves'  book 

says: 

"Because  education  (in the form  advocated by sect'lfies) was utilitarian in nature 
and because  it could benefit the  poor,  most  sectaries contended that it should be 
extended to all children." 

Some  urged expansion of the system of colleges  to allow more people a chance 

for higher education: 

"If such  a  program  of education  was  established  (the  sectaries  said),  parents 
could  keep  their  children  at  home  while  they  were  attending  school,  and  thus 
reduce  educational expenses.  The  practical effect of such a program would be  the 
extension  of higher  education  to  academically  capable  children  of parents with 
lower incomes." 

The sectaries also wanted an educational system to uplift the poor: 
"(They)  realized  that  a  primary key  to  the  permanent  betterment of the lower 
classes  was  education.  The first step was to revise  the curriculum of the schools to 
provide  practical training  rather than gentlemanly refmement ... The second step 
was  to  expand  the  educational system to provide  training  for  all children, and to 
decentralize it at all levels in order to make school less expensive and schools more 
accessible  ... The  fmal  step  ... was  the  establishment  of new  fellowship  and 
scholarship  programs  to  aid  deserving  and needy  students to  obtain a university 
education. " 

THE  "ESTABLISHMENT"  in  Puritan  England was  much more closed - minded 
about  the  prospect  of  reform  than  is  society  today,  Greaves  observes.  "Most 
people are  more willing to listen today." 

Even  now,  though, many  ignore the lessons of history, he says, and fail to recall 
that  many  of today's  demands  for  change  have  been  with  us throughout history. 
Even  worse  than  overreacting to reformers, Greaves says, is remaining complacent 
about the issues they raise. 

*  *  * 
GREA YES'  book, which  took him three years to write, was completed while he 
was  on  the  faculty  at  Eastern  Washington  State  College.  He  W<is  sup~rted 
partially by a  postdoctoral  research  fellowship from the National Ena()~ for 
the Humanities. The book is published by 'the Rutgers University Press. 

.",. 

Greaves has been a member of the MSU faculty since September of 1969. 

- GENE R1ETFORS 

Board 

recogulzes  COGS  •  •  • 

• 

(Concluded from page 1) 
Board  to  the  Brookover committee for 
consideration  and  whatever  disposition 
it chooses. 

Huff expressed further  concern  about 
the  "sense  of  urgency"  which  he  said 
had  apparently  been  lost  since 
February. 

"Nine  months  have  passed  since  the 
president  called  an  emergency  meeting 
of  the  Board  to  act  on  the  Brookover 
report,"  he  said.  "In  July,  the  Board 
was' told  a  task  force  would  be  formed 
to  study  discrimination.  To  my 
knowledge,  no  study  has  been 
undertaken  by  the  Committee  Against 
Discrimination,  and  no  task  force  has 
been formed." 

He  expressed  concern  about 

two 
areas:  Employment  of  faculty  and 
graduate  assistants,  and  placement  of 
graduates in good jobs. 

''I'd like  to  recapture  that (February) 
sense  of urgency  and  concern,"  he said. 
"We  have  quietly  slipped  into  a 
bureaucratic approach." 

He  suggested  to  President  Wharton 
that  action  be  taken  through 
administrative channels in two areas: 

-Ask  the  President  to  express  to 
departments  and  colleges  the  Board's 
concern  that  poliCies  prohibiting  any 

- "Recognizing 

discrimination  in  employment  be 
carefully followed,and that the provost's 
office  scrutinize  hiring  with 
these 
policies  in  mind  before  recommending 
such hirings to the  trustees. 
tha t 

is 
widespread bias in business and industry 
against  the  employment  of  many 
minorities,  including  women," 
the 
president  is  requesting  to  consult  with 
the  Placement  Office  to  provide  special 
servies  to  help  place  graduates who  are 
they  are 
having  difficulty  because 
members of minority groups. 

there 

Regarding  the sense  of urgency, Perrin 
said  that  discrimination  is  "easy  to 
charge  and  difficult  to  prove.  Speed is 
not always available to us." 

He  said  that  the  Office  of Economic 
Opportunities  (OEO)  has  presented 
guidelines  on  nondiscrimination 
in 
hiring  to  the  deans.  There  will  also  be 
visits by OEO  staff members. 

*  *  * 
THE  COUNCIL  of Graduate Students 
was  recognized  by 
the  trustees  as  the 
official  organization  representing  the 
graduate students at MSU. 

Because  the  Graduate  Council 
endorses  the COGS  tax referendum held 
at  fall  term  registration  as  "having been 
a  legitimate  action  by  a  legitimate  and 

representative  student organization,"and 
because  COGS  plans  to  hold  a 
University  - wide  referendum  on  its 
revised constitution during this academic 
year,  the  Graduate  Council  had 
requested  the  official  trustee 
recognition of COGS. 

The  Council  further  suggested interim 
re cognition  until  the  proposed 
constitutional referendum is held, as long 
as  that  occurs  no  later  than  the  end of 
spring term, 1971. 

The  resolution,  which  has  been 
approved unanimously  by the  Graduate 
Council  Oct.  26,  was  approved 
unanimously by the trustees. 

Official  recognition  by  the  trustees 
means  that  the  COGS  tax  on  graduate 
students  will  be  collected  winter  term 
registration. 

M§lLJ Faculty N~w§ 

Editor: Gene Rietfors 
Associate Editor: Beverly Twitchell 
Editorial  Offices:  Rooms  323  and  324, 
Linton  Hall,  Michigan  State  University,  East 
Lansing 48823. Phone:  355-2285. 
Published weekly during the September - June 
the  Department  of 
academic  year  by 
Information Services. 
Second  - class  postage  paid  at  East  Lansing, 
Mich. 48823. 

Fund  drive 
hits  $6,655 
. 
The  voluntary  fund  drive  among 
University  employes  has  raised  $6,655 
as  of  mid  - November  for  the  MSU 
Development Fund. 

Emery  G.  Foster,  assistant  vice 
president  for  business  operations  and 
chairman  of  the  all  - University 
Development  Fund  Campaign 
Committee,  said  he  is  encouraged  by 
the response  thus far. 

"We  still  hope  to  receive  additional 
contributions  before  the  end  of  the 
year," Foster said. 

He  expressed  belief  that  a  show of 
support  for  the  University  among  its 
employes  will  have a favorable effect on 
the  taxpayers and the  State Legislature. 
It is  the  first  campaign  of its  type  at 
Michigan  State  and  is  expected  to 
become  an  annual  part  of  the 
Deyelopment Fund program. 

Foster  said  that  a  boost  to  the 
campaign  is  a  new  Michigan  tax  law 
which makes  it possible to contribute at 
a  very  low  net  cost  to  the  donor.  The 
law  provides  a  tax  credit  for  charitable 
contributions  to  institutions  of  higher 
learning  in  Michigan,  provided 
the 
contribution  is  for  the  general  fund  or 
the general support of the institution.