Nursing Crisis Forces Cuts in Faculty

University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (1990s) Student Newspapers 2-23-1998 Current, February 23, 1998 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://irl.umsl.edu/current1990s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, February 23, 1998" (1998). Current (1990s). 263. https://irl.umsl.edu/current1990s/263 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (1990s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. '. Vol. 32 Issue 914 t University of Missouri St. Louis THE STUDENT VOICE OF UM-ST. LOUIS :'.; . .. ' , . ', . :. Grievance stricken: The I University Senate is debating the language of revised griev ance guidelines. For this story, Nursing crisis forces cuts in faculty see page 3, Nine non-regular instructors will lose contracts in August BY DOUG HAR~R ~IS~O~N _____________ -----/.{ ---- Durham refused to comment on the case staff writer ~~.:: ~:-& of Georgia Urban, clinical assistant professor, Enrollment by credit hours* don't have to work, but who reponedly has completed all but her dis Projected total Actual total \ Nine faculty members 'will nor have their sertation toward a donoral degree. Urban was \ I I'd like to be the one to contracts renewed in August under a plan to among the nine whose contracrs won 't be enrollment of 55 enrollment of 55 decide when I retire balance the budget of the School of Nursing, renewed. 19 7, F5 197, W5 197, F5 '97, TV5 administrators said Tuesday. rather than being thrown Some faculty members haye expressed dis '98 andJU '98 198 andJU '98 Jerry Durham, dean of the School of out on my ear. may at the choice of instructors or professors Nursing, and Jack Nelson, vice chancellor for who will be let go, citing at least one faculry ~ 419 5,754 Academic Affairs, announced Monday that -June Hertell member who was not among the nine but has Enrollment by students " COntractS of the nine non-regular instructors nursing instructor no credits toward a Ph.D. %~:~ would not be renewed, v,llen they expired ------ i / ______ "One would feel you were putting yourself Fall semster {9 7 Aug. 1. to which "the college has committed to pro in a more secure position by seeking a termi B5N 4-year . .. .379 South, see our story ''1his is a painful setback because it affects viding classes or programs taught by [existing] nal degree," said Virginia Drake, assistant pro M5N . .... .... ... .. ..... 282 on page 3, individuals' uves," Durham said Friday. "Bur faculty" or that srudents need to proceed fessor of nursing. B5N post-licensure . ... : ... 145 we will sun~ve." through their degree program. Durham also refused to comment on Ph.D . ........ , .......... 20 Way-ans out of control: The Durham outlined "broad" criteria used to 'We also used more specific criteria to eval Carlona Wilder, a widow with several children youngest Wayans brother has select the faculty whose contracts would not uate each case individually," Durham said. still at home, who ,vill also not receive a con Post M5N . ...... , .... .. .. 9 "'released his recent endeav. be renewed. In a letter to faculty Monday, Education and experience were important, tract offer in August. See Durham wrote that selections were made according to Durham. The college was "con June Hertell, 65, is on the ust as well. She is Faculty ratio 1996·97 based on the "extent to which the existing fa'c cemed" about losing faculty ,,~th doctoral one year from eligibility fo r full retirement 44 Full-time I 48 Part-time ulty ... depends on present course offerings preparation that allows them to teach "across that each faculty member is qualified byedu all lines" - undergraduate and graduate 'does not {nclude A &S hours cation and experience to teach," and the e),,1:ent courses. se'e CUTS, page 1 0 ,i~ Editorial: War with Iraq looms large but no c.iear policy has emerged to justify such Student Government Assembly searches for official constitution action. See page 4, Controversial motion Local attorney drnms is defeated despite up SGA support fo r constitutional weakness suit against University BY M ARY LINDSLEY UC-Berkeley prof BY DAVID BAUGHER .......... _-- _.......... •. ...... ....... __ .-.--_ .. , .. ...... -.........................................- ... ... .. .... -.. staff writer argues for pre staff writer The attorney representing two UM Stu glacial settlement A resolution which would have set aside the de.ci dents in a tuition-related lawsuit against the sians of the Student Activities Budget Committee Univ rs ity system spoke at Wednesday's ~ A 1'11.eriCflS - V'Iil5 oereal' ar 'IeClnesday's' Srudenr Govmnnent Student Government A~sociation mee ti ng to Association meeting. encoura ge student involvement in the issue. BERKELEY, CAUF. The resolution, introduced by rep resentative Steve Robert Herman, an attorney with the " (U-WIRE) - A UC Berkeley \I oife, stated that since the members of the commit loca l law firm of Schwartz, Herman and professor has found evidence tee had not been approved by rhe SGA assembly as David on, filed a class-action lawsuit la t that the first humans to inhabit required in rhe SGA constitution, "any decisions America may have come momh on behalf of two UM students, claim alre,ldy made by rhe SABC regarding restrictions on before the Ice Age. much earli ing that the educational fees the University srudem groups funding are null and void." er than previous studies have charges are actually tuition, someth ing that is concluded. Sharone Hopkins, president of the University prohibited by state law. He aid he learned of Johanna Nichols, a linguist Program Board and the the statute through hi s invo lvement in and professor of Slavic studies, Associated Black CoUegians, another case against the UM System . also found that. contrary to spoke in favor of the resolu Herman is also represcming the Ku Klux common belief, the Americas non. Klan in a lawsuit over campus radio station were populated from the "['DIe constitution] says K\X/MU's refusal to air the Klan's advertise- south. that [the committee] has to mems. Nichols presented her find be approved by Jinl Avery Herman showed the statute to the assem ings at the American and the vice president and bly, along with regulations passed by the Association for the [the assembly] as a whole," Board of Curators in 1977 that aUow the UM Advancement of Science con . Hopkins said. "After look- System to charge for a variety of fees, includ ference in Philadelphia on 5taa1e HoP<rs ing through the minutes 'Vie ing "incidental fees," but forbids the collec~ Monday. She integrated found no such recommen tion of tuition. Herman also use d a dictio archaeological findings with dation." nary definition to liken the incidemal fees her own linguistic research to ABC, UPB and several other organizations were charged by the University to tuition. reach the conclusion that initially denied direct funding from srudem acti\~ties "The current position of the University is America's first inhabitants fees because officials said they did not send represen migrated to the continent that they are not charging you tuition," tatiYes to mandarory budget workshops held last year. before the glacial period. H erman said. "It sure feel s like tuition. does Hopkins has said that extenuating circumstances pre Nichols's belief stems from n't it? Nobody's being f00 led he re, right?" the recent archaeological dis vented him and others from mending rhe workshops Herman explained that the lawsuit, filed but that he has conducted such workshops in the past Jan . 30, asks the court to rule that the covery of the MonteVerde site Daniel Hazelton/ The Current and is fully aware of the budget process. Appeals filed University is chargin g tuition, to forbid it in Chile, which archaeologists Robert Herman tells SGA representatives the University of Missouri to make it "fol have found to be 12,500 years for both ABC and UPB were denied by S,IillC The from doing so and to issue refunds to Stu why they should support his suit against low the laws everyone else does." old. Nichols estimated that if committee decided instead to fund UPB rhrough the dents. He also encou:·;tged studems to take a the Monte Verde site was first Office of Student Activities while ABC ",ill be fund~d of the SABC was part of a re\ision proposed in 1993 by rh en-Presidem proa ctive stance on the issue. through rhe Africill-American Leadership Council. inhabited 12,500 years ago, it Andy Mas ters. The pr posal was ne\'er submitted to the chancellor for "A lawsuit alone is not go in g to be , took Siberians 7,000 years to SGA President Jim AYer}, called the resolution "a waste of rhe assem approval, Avery said. enough," Herman said. "This is a political get there from the Asian conti b~?s rime" since it was based on a constirution that ,vas n~yer officially "For whate\'er reason, Andy Masters did n Ot resubmit the proposed creatUre; this is a very large polit ical crea- nent - which would place the accepted as the SGA's governing document. Avery said that after research first migrants in the Americas ing the issue he found rhat the constitutional provision requiring approval during the peak of the Ice Age, see MOT IO N, page 8 see SU I T , page 8 at least 19,500 years ago. .\ Black Women to be BemiceNg Food services manager caught with handgun Dally Ca/ijomian focus of special feature BY BILL ROLFES he alJegedly kept the gun, police said.

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