The Alumnus, V65n3, September 1980

University of Northern Iowa UNI ScholarWorks The Alumnus UNI Alumni Association 9-1980 The Alumnus, v65n3, September 1980 University of Northern Iowa Alumni Association Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Copyright ©1980 University of Northern Iowaen Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/alumnusnews Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation University of Northern Iowa Alumni Association, "The Alumnus, v65n3, September 1980" (1980). The Alumnus. 86. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/alumnusnews/86 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the UNI Alumni Association at UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Alumnus by an authorized administrator of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Alumnus UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA September, 1980 President John Kamerick celebrates 10 years toward diversity at UNI / 3 The Alumnus UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA Vol. 65 No. 3 September, 1980 Ten years toward diversity / 3 President John Ka merick talks about the crises he faced when he became UNI president in 1970, about the so lu tions and about his hopes for UNI in the 1980's. Whatever happened to the old Library murals?/ 11 ISTC students before 1965 remember well th ose 40' long murals on the old Library reading room wall s. Two of the three murals remai n but their surrou ndings are much changed . Studying language problems en Espariol / 16 Speech pathologist Dr. Roy Eblen's leisure-time interest in lea rning the Spanish sound system led him to a new area of research in South America. NCA evaluation - UNl's report card/ 20 The North Central Association tea m th at visits UNI during th e 1980-81 year will determine w hether the institution does or does not meet certain academ ic criteria. UNI officials don't expect any pro blems, but are prepared with a massive self-study. UNI alumni are closer than you may think / 22 This reference list of alumni chapters state-by-state w ill help put you in touch w ith oth er' UNI al umni. Alumni Profiles / 26, 29 . Lee Smalley - spreading th e message of future stud ies; Dr. Fra nce s Bartlett Kinn e joines elite group - women college presidents in United States. Departments Campus Avenews / 7 Director's MedLee / 19 Alumni Avenews / 14 Class Notes/ 23 Cover: UN l's President John Kameri ck ste pped into his role as sixth pres ident of this institution 10 years ago. In an Alumnus interview, Kamerick eva luates those 10 yea rs and looks toward the future . UNI Alumni Association Board of Directors David Oman, B.A. 74, President Finn 8. Eriksen, B.A. '31, term expires '80 Margaret Willougby, B.A. '47, Vice President Joan Nordly McCann, B.A. '54, immediate past presi dent Lee Miller, B.A. '52, Secretary Francis S. (Jack) Orr, B.A. '26, term expires '82 James L. Bailey, Treasurer David Pike, B.A. 73, term expires '82 Bernard Ceilley, B.A. '55, term expires '80 M ichael Sheehan, B.A. '65, term expires '80 Donald Eichelberger, B.A. '63, term expires '81 W. Do uglas Winkler, B.A. '56, term expires '81 The Alumnus is published fou r times a year in February, May, September and December by the Un iversity of Northern Iowa, 1222 W. 27th St., Cedar Fall s, IA 5061 4. Member, Cou nci l for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Alumni Association membership dues, including magazi ne subscription, are $12 annually. Signed letters to the editor are welcome and will be printed pending length. Send to The Alumnus, Gilchrist Hall 169, UNI, Cedar Fall s, IA 50614. Produced by the Office of Public Information Services. Second class postage paid at Cedar Fall s, IA 50614. USPS 016-080. The University of Northern Iowa is a nondiscriminatory educational institution and employer. For information contact Dr. James Martin, vice-president for academic affairs and provost. 2 1970-80 Kamerick leads UNI through transition from teachers college to university Ten years toward diversity en years ago on Aug. 15, 1970, Dr. make UNI less vulnerable to enrollment while at the same time respecting tenure T John J. Kamerick started his first day dips is to seek sources of funding other and the universi ty's traditional strength s. as the sixth president of the University of than student tuition. Why is this so Reallocation had to be accomplished Northern Iowa. He and his family moved significant? with a minimum of st rain . It could not to Cedar Fall s from Denton, Texas, Kamerick: Of course, you realize that no be done without some unhappiness, but where he was president of North Texas matter what the sou rce of funding, we we could not ignore the changing State University. are somewhat vulnerable. But, if the preferences of students and the changing Kamerick accepted the presidency at a percentage of our budget dependent on needs of society. major juncture in the University's student tuition is smaller, we have time The faculty did rai se the standards for history, the beginning years of the to adjust to enrollment changes. We tenure. Over the years, reallocation and transition from a teachers college to a used to depend on tuition for 32% of our new funding slowly met the most university. general operating budget. Now it counts press ing needs. Today, the percentage of Ten years later, the native of for less than 20%. We've made up the faculty members with terminal degrees Ottumwa, Iowa, looks back on the major difference mostly through additional state has risen about 70%. The percentage of problems and solutions during those appropriations and some additional tenured faculty members has dropped years. He also discusses what kind of federal funds. It would probabl y be good from over 70% to about 55% of the future students, alumni, faculty and staff if we could get that tuition percentage whole faculty. may expect as higher education enters even lower. It is insulation against an Alumnus: Another area of success has the 1980's, a decade due to awaken enrollment decline. been the bricks and mortar growth for people to the new problems facing Alumnus: Another step you've taken to UNI in the past 10 yea rs. We 've added higher education. help UNI become a multi-purpose 10 buildings including the Speech/Art Alumnus: You 've mentioned before that institution is to encourage departments to Complex, UNI-Dome, second phase of the most important occurrence for UNI seek national accreditations. Why are the Library, the Ph ys ical Education during your 10 yea rs here has been the those so valuable to UNl's university Center, Education Center and Industrial University's evolution to a multi-purpose status? Technology Center. What brought about institution . Why do you feel this is so Kamerick: National accreditations this success? important? indicate the attainment of some level of Kamerick: It's been done by rather hard Kamerick: Before 1967 when UNI maturity, quality in programs and in work with the Regents and legislature. gained university status, it had been diversity. They are symbolic but, more We have been successful in the past 10 mostly a single purpose institution. important, they help the University years, but I'm a little less hopeful about Training teachers was about 80% of our become more attractive to potential the future. Quite justifiably, the other mission 10 years ago and the market for students. Ten years ago we had Regents universities are beginning to get teachers was declining very rapidly. Plu s, accreditations in chemistry, education their buildings now. However, the every other Iowa collegiate institution and music. Now, our home economics, second phase of the Speech/Art Complex was also training teachers. For example, social work, art and speech pathology is still our number one priority. teacher training was the largest and audiology programs also have Alumnus: You mentioned earlier the undergraduate and graduate program at national accreditations, in addition to the enrollment decline in 1974 when the University of Iowa and it was also Museum and Extension programs. enrollment dropped from a high of 9,741 large at Iowa State. Alumnus: In reference to UNl's on-campus students in 1970-71 to 8,690 The major problem at UNI has been transition to a university, you wrote for on-campus students in 1974-75. How this transition from a teachers college to the 1979 UNI Foundation Annual Report did UNI counter this enrollment dip and a more broadly diversified university. It that UNI seems to be we// along in how do we plan to counter the projected has affected enrollment, the institution's negotiating a most difficult transition future enrollment declines? attractiveness, its size and general health. under hazardous circumsta nces. What Kamerick: Our enrollment has been I saw this as a major challenge 10 years were those hazardous circumstances? mostly up since 1975 and diversity has ago when I accepted the job as Kamerick: Briefly, in the early seventies, helped. Enrollment also went up after president, but I didn't realize how near we were faced with a declining 1975 because the pool of students began to a crisis we were until the fall of 1972 enrollment for four successive years, a to grow and because we were better when enrollments went down. That highly tenured faculty, a low percentage known partly due to things like the decline was caused by the Vietnam War of faculty members with terminal UNI-Dome and national accreditations. winding down, a decreasing birthrate, a degrees, a pressing need to develop We're always concerned about decreasi ng demand for teachers and the curriculum diversity (which meant enrollment because so many things fact that, generally, regional institutions finding funds for faculty members in new depend on the number of students we were not as attractive as the old-line disci plines), and a host of related have.

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