MSU News -Bulletin

The faculty "lineup" at commencement. See page S. Inside. • • · .. A dean steps down, page 2 News -Bulletin · .. Development fund, page 3 MSU · .. Board roundup, page 4 · .. Saving money, page 6 Vol. 2, No. 31 Michigan State University luly 1,1971 MSU still spending at 1970-71 level Along with the rest of the state While the governor and the legislature actual resources available. inflationary and other uncontrollable government, Michigan State University struggle to match taxes and spending for As a result of the continued rising costs. Hopefully, the current enters its new fiscal year today with no the next fiscal year, MSU and other spending authorization, there will be no situation will not continue to that appropriation 1971 - 72. state agencies have been authorized to immediate noticeable effect on point. But the doors won't be closed and continue to spend at their present levels. University operations. A prolonged Although there is no imminent crisis, the lights and telephones shut off for This is within the mandate of the state hiatus could produce a fmancial crunch, not knowing the actual level of the failure , to pay the bills. In fact, things constitution which requires that however, if the University were to fmd 1971-72 appropriation does produce will go along pretty much as normal. expenditure levels be maintained within current spending levels too low to meet some difficulties. The most serious impact is on the university's ability to plan and implement new programs and to meet ~rsonnel needs. The salaI)' situation is a case in point, according to Findings reveal average faculty Jack Breslin, executive vice president and secretary to the Board of Trustees. F or example, Breslin says, the • necessity to keep spending within the work week lS more than 57 hours pre - July I rate means that step wage increases which some Administrative - The average Michigan State taculty Professional employees were to receive classroom teaching. If he's a full All faculty here reported spending member logs a wo'rk week in excess of on their anniversary date effective today professor, he spends about 12~ hours most of their work week in direct 57 hours and spends more than 25 will have to be postponed. The instruction, although this ranged from hours of that time preparing for, weekly in research and some 1 O~ hours University expects that any suchde~ved 20.9 hours a week for professors to 29.2 evaluating and carrying out his a week in administrative duties. If he's A-P increases will be paid retroactively for instructors. an instructor, he devotes 7~ hours each as soon as possible following the receipt On a percentage basis, MSU week to research and only 4~ hours to of appropriations, if funds are available. administration. professors spend 34:1 per cent of their Report your These figures are included in a report time in direct instruction, 21.6 per cent By the same token, any general wage summarizing the findings of the facuIty in additional instruction (including increases for faculty and staff must activities survey conducted last fall by counseling and advising). Associate necessarily wait until the amount of phone changes the Office of Institutional Research professors reported spending 42.9 per dollars available for such purposes is (OIR). The survey included some 2,200 cent of their time in direct instruction, known. Only after the appropriation is faculty in 15 colleges and their assistant professors 45.4 per cent and received will the University be able to Faculty members, staff and regular associated units, and in continuing instructors 53.9 per cent. determine its ability to provide salary employes should notify the University educatioI1. The new College of (Continued on page 2) hikes and their effective dates. telephone office of any change;) in office, Osteopathic Medicine was not included. department, residence, or phone The OIR was in response to a number at work or home by filling out a legislative requirement for and "716 card" available at the data "academic staff performance audit" at processing office, 44 Administration state - supported institutions, although Supplies now at photo lab Building. the state's survey request did not The information will then be added mention the 10 classroom contact hour to the telephone office's large stipulation added to the 1970-71 higher Effective July 1, University interdepartmental transfer of funds, computerized directory which is edited education appropriations act. (MSU departments will be able to obtain since no cash will be handled by the daily, said Eva M. Beckley, chief Faculty News, Nov. 24, 1970). photographic supplies at the lab. Purchases may be made Monday telephone operator. THE SURVEY REPORT shows that Information Services Photo through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon "The information cards filled out by the average work week for MSU Labrotory, Room 11, Agriculture and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. faculty and staff during the summer are professors is 59.1 hours. It is 58.2 hours Hall. Mitcham said that if a department only used to compile the green for associate professors, 57.8 hoUl:s for , wants a supply not ordinarily directory which is distributed across assistant professors and 54.2 for The supplies, including fIlm, paper stocked by the lab, a special order campus," said Miss Beckley. instructors. and prepared chemicals, had been may be made. "Most people ·don't realize that we And the OIR report indicates that the available at the General Stores. Although sales will not be made keep an up - to - date directory here at figures "appear to be typical of other "By handling the supplies'through cirectly to students, Mitcham said the office so we can give people the universities which have surveyed faculty the photo lab, we hope to carry a there is a possibility that the lab may correct information when they call for workloads" - the University of more varied stock and serve the be able to sell supplies to groups os someone new on campus or someone Minnesota reported 57 hours a week for departments in some kind of tudents enrolled in photography who has moved to a new office or has a all faculty ranks in 1969, the University advisory capacity," said William V. classes offered by the School of new phone number." of Wisconsin showed 54 hours a week,_ Mitcham, manager of the photo lab. Journalism and the Department of Unless a new directory address card is and the institutions in California Purchases must be made through Art. completed, the telephone office has no weekly.showed a range of 50 to 71 hours 1-_________________________...... way of receiving the information. Page 2, MSU,Ne~ - Bulletin, July 1, 1971 .. - - .. Letter Jack Bain: An ex-dean Urban affairs college needed? To the editor: mental growth are worthy of major returns to the classroom The State News of May12 informed effort in undergraduate education. And us that: "A proposal to cre'ate a College growth in this context is not a process Jack Bain spent last week "tying up of Urban Affairs and Ethnic Studies will of climbing up and down a sequence of some loose ends" and moving into his be submitted ... this fall." miscellaneous heaps of information. new office one floor up in South Kedzie As is traditional whenever a new Rather it is a continuing development, Hall. course or a new curriculum is refinement and enlargement of talent in Today he officially gives up his title considered, the first question to ask is: the use of systems of knowledge and of as dean of the College of To what body of knowledge does it the thought patterns that have created Communication Arts and becomes refer? and are creating order in these systems. professor of communication and acting Is there a body of knowledge called In such a context lies the best and chairman of the Department of "urban affairs"? Or does the study of most efficient possibilities: 1. For Communication. urban affairs consist of applications of individual learning, development of And if Bain had his way, the new parts of sociology, political science, intellect and discovery of self; 2. for department head would soon be named history, psychology and other contributions to the community of so Bain would be able to concentrate o~ disciplines? Are there "ethnic studies" learning; 3. for discovery and his first love, teaching. that are not parts of anthropology? application of , knowledge to the "My desire to return to full - time If an answer of the following sort is solution of human problems. teaching was the major reason for my forthcoming - "There is a great body of . To avoid this context is to avoid decision to announce my resignation as knowledge about urban affairs" - one higher education. If society at large dean last October," Bain said. must then ask for the names of the continues to find (Science magazine, He listed increasing administrative theories, laws or the like that give 168: 139. 1970) that higher education is paperwork and his wish to spend more organization to this body of knowledge, little more than climbing up and down time with his family as other reasons. If the responder answers this question similar piles of miscellaneous knowledge by naming a few theories, one should similar to those stumbled over in high * * * ask for a list of the postulates of each school, the streams of support will flow theory. If the responder names some slower and slower. And if internally a BAIN, WHO HAS served as dean Bain stresses the importance of studying laws, he should be asked to example university cannot decide which of its since 1967, cited the unique perspective communication.

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