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The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, February 28, 1997 BY ANGIE MUHS community college system has aca­ Geveden presents HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER demic tenure. That"s not true in HICKORY, N.C. - North Car­ Kentucky"s community colleges. college proposal olina and Kentucky"s different ap­ which have academic ranks and PADUCAH - State Rep. proaches to their communitv col­ tenure. Charles Geveden has given leges and technical programs have The other major difference is in Gov. Paul Patton a copy of a deep historical roots. the power structure. Kentucky"s 1-l bill that he introduced Catawba Valley Communitv community colleges fall. under the during the 1992 legislative College, like most of North Caroli­ University of Kentucky; their local session. that proposes na's community colleges, started its boards are advisory and major de­ life as an "industrial education cen­ changing the way the state's cisions are made in Lexington. colleges are managed. ter," focusing on technical and vo­ The Keritucky Tech system. Geveden's bill, which was cational programs tailored to the lo­ which includes 29 post-secondan­ cal job market. not debated during the 199Z schools, is run by the Workforce session, proposed that the _ The mission of providing train­ Development Cabinet, which is part mg for the work force remained community colleges and of state government. regional universities be paramount - even as the system ln North Carolina, the commu­ grew to include a liberal arts col­ governed by a single board nity ·college system falls tinder a Each regional school · lege transfer program. statewide, free-standing board that Kentucky, on the other hand currently has its own was established in 1981. But most governing board with started its community college sys'. of the day-to-day decision-making tern to make a university education community colleges managed -rests with the local governing by the UK board of trustees. more accessible'to the public. The boards, not with the systems office. Under Geveden's plan, UK idea -Was :·that students attended "Each president of a communi­ community college near home for ty college is a little duke in his and U of L would continue to tlie, first two-years before transfer­ be managed by their own dukedom," said Ferrel ·Guillory. boards of trustees. ring to another university. writer in residence at MDC Corp., a ·-Meanwhile, the Kentucky Tech Chapel Hill-based non-profit corpo­ postsecondary vocational schools ration that studies economic devel­ offered iechnical and vocational opment and work-force training is­ programs. sues. There are two other key differ­ ences in-the systems . .In North Carolina, no one in the LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXJNGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1997 The Furniture Center features "Colleges have to realize it's a tdile·ges' several large rooms, which contain new day and the campus is just a .. . an upholstery lab, sewing ma­ headquarters," college President chines and many of the same ma­ •Phail Wynn Jr. said. "When there's chines that would be found in fur. a need, we'll take it there." µtdustry niture plants. An'd- the college was ready to The Hosiery Center's space is move when asked, said Bernard crammed with sock-knitting ma­ Farmer. the director of the City of µes pay chines, ranging from antiques to Durham's Office of Employee sleek computerized machines with Training and Development, which $40,000 price tags. It even teams up asked the college to teach basic lit­ with the college's English as a Sec­ eracy and GED classes to city em­ off in N.C. ond Language program to offer ployees. customized courses for the growing number of mill workers who are Re-engineering needed Schools provide Hmong and Hispanic immigrants. But the differences in emphasis. The college almost always gets history and culture, experts say, il­ workers, training called on when new industries are lustrate why policymakers can't thinking about locating in the area, just look at another state's system ■ Yesterday: North Caroli­ said its president, Cuyler Dunbar. na's -public university system and think that they could come up That might be anything from with one-size-fits-all answers. routinely wins national training in a high-tech skill to · "It's worked well here because praise. Ask leaders there teaching literacy courses - an it started out this way and people ~ow it happened and they'll area-in which community colleges are used .to it," Dunbar said. say there's n·o· magic are a primary player statewide. North Carolina's community A couple of years ago, Alcatel, formula. college system, after all, is not which makes fiber-optic cable, was without its occasional controversies ■ Today: Community thinking of expanding a plant near and challenges . colleges in North Carolina .Hickory. But it was worried about For example, much like in Ken­ and Kentucky have big :~ning trained workers. tucky, ·one concern has been im­ differences in emphasis, ~ :fhe college, with some state proving coordination and commu­ -funding, offered training at its cam­ nication - both within the system history and culture - but pus for potential workers while Al­ North Carolina's system is and between it and universities. catel was still building. the plant. said former Gov. Bob Scott, the recognized nationally for its -Now the college is hoping to start system's• president from 1983 to work with local industries. an associate degree program in 1995. . ::fiber optics, -Dunbar said. The result is a systemwide re­ BY ANGIE MUHS "By the time they walked into engineering that, among other HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER that brand-new plant, they had a things, is converting the colleges' HICKORY, N.C. -A quick trip lot of trained workers," Dunbar calendar to . semesters from . the around the campus of Catawba said. "It worked beautifully, and to quarter system. It is also trying to Valley Community College in west­ me, that's\what a community col­ make it easier for students to trans­ ern North Carolina illustrates that lege is all about." fer without losing credits. what a community college· is can . But that partnership works James Dixon, the system's vice depend on where you are. only if the community college re­ president fqr academic and student You would find a parking lot spects business's views and needs, services, said some students have roped off for a semi-truck driving said Dan St. Louis, who directs the had trouble transferring between school and a high-tech knitting ma­ Hosiery Center. community colleges. chine in a mini-hosiery factory - When it does work, though, the "It was enough to give us vocational pro­ effort can pay_ off for the college. pause," he said. "We want to be grams that you. Most of the machines in the hosiery sure that English 101 at Asheville­ wouldn't find in and furniture centers, for example, Buncombe Tech is the same thing Kentucky's have been donated or lent to the as English 101 at Edgecombe Com­ community col­ college· by plants or manufacturers. munity College." lege system. 'The industry's gone down to You'd find Raleigh and raised Cain to get us the liberal arts money before," St. Louis said. "Be­ for Hi2her programs cause they saw we were doing . Educalion meant to help what they wanted, they stuck up students trans­ for us down in Raleigh." SECOND OF fer to four-year A few hours away, in the urban Two PARTS universities -- Raleigh-Durham area, the story is but at Cataw­ similar. ba, unlike in Kentucky, they're not Durham Technical Community what the college was primarily College once flew two instructors to founded to do. a Motorola plant in Texas to learn In short, you'd find that a com­ what managers wanted from work­ munity college in North Carolina is­ ers before the company opened a n't; exactly the same thing as a plant in the Research Triangle. The corfunuiiity college in Kentucky. college then taught those skills to •But in both states, most agree future workers. that community colleges are crucial It also teaches skills at an IBM to the state's future prosperity. plant and offers registered nursing "A.state, to step up as an eco­ courses. for nurse's'. aides at Duke nomic.force; cannot do it without a University's Medical-Center - at strong· community college system," .the hospital. said William Friday, the former LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEX!N<•}h"nnanect]fuf'tlie ... " .. • . y!ll~salater was president colleges are producing more cal industries. of;North Carolina's community col­ associate 1.ExJNGTON HERA!.D-LEAoER, LExlNGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1997 .COLLEGES: 'It's panel to place odds on whether the legislature would approve taking almost a miracle UK won't the community colleges from UK and combining.them in some way it came off' • with the vo-tech schools. (

HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT schools, Jamie Rhodes of The Con­ Editorial: 1. Hyla MacGregor, The Trail Original lllustratlon: 1. Joe Welsh, Murray LOUISVILLE - The Kentucky Blazer: 2. Lance Williams. l<.entucky Kernel; 3. State News, 2. Victor Cuellar, Eastern cord at Bellarmine College was Diana Schlake, The Northerner. Progress. 3. Jamal Wilson, College Heights Kernel. the University of Ken­ named Journalist of the Year for the Edltorlal Cartoon: 1. Joe Welsh, Murray Herald. , State News; 2. Stacy Curtis. College Heights Comic Strip or Panel: no winners. tucky's student newspaper, and the second straight year. Herald .. Informational Graphics: 1. Tim Mollette and College Heights Herald of Western Here is a list of winners by cate­ Opinion Page: 1. Spring 1996 and Fall Jamie Neal, Eastern Progress, 2. Tim . Kentucky University each won nine gory in the major schools division: 1996 staff, Kentucky Kernel (tie); 3. Spring 1996 staff. College Heights Herald. Mollette, Mary Ann Lawrence. Jennifer Almjeld first-place awards yesterday in a Deadline Reporting: 1, C.D. Bradley, Murray Sports Game Story: 1. Jason Oatillo, and Kristy Gilbert. Eastern Progress, 3. Tim statewide competition sponsored hr State News: 2. Stephen Lega, College Heights Kentucky l<.ernel; 2. Kevm Kelly, College Mollette, Brian Simms and Chad Queen. Herald; 3. Dug Begley, Louisville Cardinal , Heights Herald; 3. Aaron Sanderford. College Eastern Progress. the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press (University of Lomsville.) Heights Herald. News Photo: 1. James Crisp. l<.entucky . Association. Deadline Copy Editing: 1. David Gross. The Sports News Story: 1. Bnan Simms, The Kernel. 2. l<.urt Frttic. College Heights Herald, In addition, the College Heights Trail Blazer: 2. Amy Ponder, Murray State Eastern Progress; 2. Melissa McGu11e 3. Teak Phillips. College Heights Herald. News; 3. Beth Whisman, Eastern Progress. Cornett, The Trail Blazer: 3. Jay G. Tate. Feature , Photo: 1. Jason Clark, College Herald's Kevin Kelly, from Lexing­ News Story: 1. Mandy Wo!f. Murray State Kentucky Kernel. Heights Herald. 2. Chad Stevens, College ' ton, was named Student Journalist News; 2. Carmen Miller, Lomsville Cardinal; 3. Sports Feature Story: 1. Kevin Kelly, Heights Herald. 3. James Glover. College •of the Year for the second year m a Brenna Reilly, Kentucky Kernel. College Heights Herald; 2. Aaron Sanderford, Heights Herald. Investigative Reporting: 1. Danetta Barker. l<.entucky Kernel: 3. Ty Halpin, Kentucky Sports Photo: 1. Patrick Witty, College Kernel. ,row. Kelly is a graduate of Lexing­ Eastern Progress: 2. Caleb Brown and Heights Herald, 2. Helena Hau. Kentucky Michael Lindenberger. Louisville Cardinal: 3. Sports Column: 1. Kevm Kelly, College :ton Catholic High School. Heights Herald: 2. Aaron Sanderford. Kernel. 3. Chad Stevens. College Heights Chris Campbell and C.D. Bradley, Murray Hera!O. : -Morehead State University's State News. Kentucky Kernel: 3. Jay G. Tate, Kentucky :newspaper, The Trail Blazer, fin­ Continuing News: 1. Kathy Reding, Kernel Photo Essay: 1. Teak Phillips, College l<.entucky Kernel: 2. Gina Hold and Chris Overall Layout: 1. Fall 1996 staff, Kentucky Heights Herald, 2. James Crisp and Matt ·ished first in six categories. and Mayhew, The Northerner (Northern Kentuck}· Kernel. 2. Fall 1996 staff, Eastern Progress, Barton. Kentucky Kernel, 3. James Crisp, Eastern Kentucky University's pa­ University): 3. Dug Begley. Louisville Cardinal. 3. Spring 1996 staff. College Heights Herald. College Heights Herald. Analyses and Special Reports: 1. Jennifer Front Page Layout: 1. Mary Ann Lawrence. Advertising Design: 1. Jason Kaufman, per, The Eastern Progress, captured Smith. Kentucky l<.ernel: 2. Sherry Wilson. Fall 1996. Eastern Progress. 2. Lance Kentucky Kernel. 2. Burt Bucher and Lisa 'five firsts. The Murray State News Jason Hall. Darryn Simmons and Marie Wilhams. Spring 1996. Kentucky Kernel, 3. Murphy, Eastern Progress. 3. Lee Miller, The :won four first-place awards. Holthaus, College Heights Herald; 3. John Epha Good, Fall 1996. College Heights Trail Blazer. Stamper. College Heights Herald. ,Herald House ~d: 1. Lisa Murphy, Monica Keeton, . Awards were presented at the Personality Profile: 1. Teak Ph11l1ps, College Feature Page Layout: 1. Jon Grant. College Eastern Progress, 2. Rusty Manseau, ·association's annual convention in Heights Hera!d: 2. John Daniels, Louisv1llt! 'Heights Herald, 2. Jan11e Neal. Shannon Kentucky Kernel. 3 •. Jon Grant, College Cardinal; 3. Josnua Hamman, Lou1s1:1llt' Rall11f. l1m Mollet\<.: rmd VIc101 Cuellar, Heights Herald. :1.ouis\·ille. Cardinal. Eas1ern Progress. 3. Jt!nrnfer AlmJeld, Eastern Advertising Art: 1. Jeremy Cox, The Trail Student newspapers at all Ken­ Feature Story: 1. Mehssa McGuire Cornell. Progress. The Trail Blazer; 2. Denise Higgins. Murray Sports Page Layout: 1. !tie) Epha Good, Blazer. 2. Burt Bucher, Eastern Progress. 3. :tucky colleges and universities State News: 3. John Abbott, Kentucky Kernel. College Heights Herald, Kevin Kelly, College Tracie Purdon, Rusty Manseau. Kentucky .were eligible to compete in the rnn­ Review: 1. David Gross. The Trail Blazer: 2. Heights Herald, 3. Tracie Purdon. l<.entucky Kernel . ;test that was judged by the staffs of Gabrielle Dion, The Northerner: 3. Dug Begley, Kernel. Advertising Copy: 1. Bill Powell. Kentucky Louisville Cardinal. Best Special Section: 1. Brenna Kernel, 2. Peter Bauer, The Trail Blazer, 3. ·the Herald-Leader, the Cincinnati General Interest Column: 1. Chris Hutchins. Reilly/Summer 1996 Staff. Kentucky Kernel, Rusty Manseau, Kentucky Kernel. :Enquirer and other newspapers. College Heights Herald: 2. Joshua Hamman. 2. Chris Easterling:. lrac1e Purdon. Fall Staff, Advertising Campaign: 1. Je~emy Cox, The Louisville Cardinal: 3. Jennifer Almjeld. Kentuck} Kernel, 3. Chris Eas1erling. Erm Trail Blazer. 2. Sean Townsley, The In a separate division for small Eastern Progress. Bacne,. Sprrng Slaff. Kenlucky Kernt!I. Norlherner. 3. Cathy Jones, Kentucky Kernel.

THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1997 Black women :earn degrees at double .the rate of men gaps in enrollment and degrees also gress, but many hurdles remain," said Both groups post are evident among white students, but William Gray, the College Fund's they are not nearly so large. president. · gains in college; "It's something we're definitely go­ Some of the report's most striking ing to investigate," said Michael Net­ findings focused on gender. Overall, tles, who coordinated the report for the number of black women going to gap is puzzling The College Fund, a coalition of the college continues to exceed the num­ nation's historically black colleges · ber of black men. In 1976, black worn• By RENE SANCHEZ and universities that was once -called en were 10 percent mcire likely than The Washington Post the United Negro 'College.Fund. black men to attend college; today, The report, which relies on data that figure is nearly 25 percent. · A progress report on the status of from the Department of Education The report also details how, as un­ blacks in American higher education and other studies, draws a broad por­ dergraduates, black women tend to reveals an extraordinary gender gap: trait of the success of black students gravitate toward business or manage­ Black women are now earning college at the nation's colleges and universi­ ment studies. As graduate students, a · degrees at twice the rate of black ties compared with a generation ago. high number of bfack men study edu­ men. , Its conclusions are mixed. Overall, cation, and black· women tend to earn ; Black women earned 52,097 bache­ college enrollment among blacks.has degrees in public administration. lor's degrees in 1994 - up 55.4 per­ increased slightly 'in the last decade, One figure that also struck re­ cent from 1977, the earliest year in­ but African Americans continue to be searchers .is that a majority of black cluded in the report. Black men underrepresented , on campuses in women - 55 percent - who are at­ earned 30,086 bachelor's degrees in proportion to their share of the over­ taining

The Kentucky.Tech schools, in Schilffarth said Patton had laid Patton plan Patton's thinki1,g, would be viewed out several different models of how as "technical colleges," which to run Kentucky Tech and commu­ would be run as a system by an in­ nity colleges during a meeting with would.make dependent board, Ford said. Vision 21 two weeks ago. They could possibly fall under One of those models also in­ the oversight of the Council on volved making the community col­ tech. schools. . Higher Education, if it still is the lege system independent, which Vi­ coordinating board, Ford said. sion 21 would support, Schilffarth _independent "As a group, they would have said. But he said he didn't know • the same stature and standing as a whether Patton would try to do BY ANGIE MUHS regional university," he said. . that. HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER 'I It isn't clear yet what would be "I did not get the impression Gov. Paul Patton wants to done with Kentucky Tech's 54 sec­ that he would not try," Schilffarth remove the Kentucky Tech post- ondary-school centers, Ford said. said. "But he said it would be the secondary technical schools from most challenging one to_ do." the states. Workforce Development Rodney "Biz'"Cain, the Work­ Cabinet and make them an inde­ force Development Cabinet secre­ For now, Kentucky Tech em­ pendent system, a key- aide said tary, said he supported Patton. ployees want to hear more about yesterday. · "I could see more agility, being any plan before they decide, said The move would be part of Pat­ outside government," he said. "Gov­ Charles Wells, legislative and politi­ ton's effort to overhaul the state's ernment doesn't have a lot of agili­ cal 'director for the Kentucky Asso­ post-secondary education system. ty. It's like turning a big ship - ciation of State Employees. Patton has said he intends to call a you'd better start turning it pretty About 400 Kentucky Tech fac­ special session on the subject May far in advance." ulty members belong to the group, 5, but has not yet presented a plan. At least one industry group Wells said. · Details of the governor's feel­ also said it would be likely to sup­ Teachers• there are primarily ings, thougl_i, ar~ starting to leak port the plan, for generally the concerned about whether their ben­ out He also has, over past months, same reasons Patton and Cain cit­ efits, working conditions and made no secret of his views that. ed. salaries would change, Wells said. technical education is a critical component of post-secondary edu­ "My experience with Frankfort "If they could show us that cation - and that Kentucky Tech in general and Kentucky Tech in folks would be as well'ciff or bette-: schools and the state's community particular is it's so difficult to im­ under a new system, I think it colleges must work together more plement change," said Ron Schilf­ would go a long way to satisfy efficiently. · farth, co-coordinator of Vision 21, a their concerns," Wells said. · Making Kentucky Tech an in­ business advisory group. "They dependent system "is one strong have to run things through ·so gut feeling he's got, and what he's many wickets." inclined to do at this point," said THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1997 Ed Ford, Patton's deputy cabinet secretary and point man on the UK trustees approve-selling effort. "He is concerned that .the tech­ nical schools are being strangled in 43··acres to development firm the bureaucracy in ·state govern­ Associated Press construction plans. ment," Ford said. "But he's said The rest of South Fann has been that if he's wrong, he's open to LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Univer­ identified as the site for further de­ anyone who·can show him why he sity of· Kentucky trustees yesterday velopment of Lexington Community is." approved selling part of the school's College. • Ford said no decisions have South Fann proP,erty to an Atlanta In personnel action, the trustees: been made on whether to change firm for $18.3 million. ■ Approved Donald E. Sands, the way community colleges are JDG Development Co. was the chairman of the chemistry depart­ governed. They are now T).111 by the high .bidder · for the property at ment and a former vice chancellor University of Kentucky: Some have Nicholasville Road and Man 0' War for academic affairs, as actin~ dean Boulevard. The 43-acre tract was cut of the College of and Sciences. suggested that the)' should be run off from the rest of the South Fann Aits by an independent board. property when Man O' War was ■ Appointed John H. Herbst, a 23- completed. year employee in UK's student ac­ "We are concerned with an end tivities program, as director of the - a system of technical institutes ' Uk President Charles Wethington UK Student Center. and community colleges that can said money from the sale will go to­ ward construction of a plant sci­ . ■ Named Dr. Robert Melvin cooperate," Ford said. "Whatever ences building for the College of Ag­ Mentzer Jr. professor and chairman path it takes to get us there, we're riculture. He said UK will ask the of the department of surgery in the willing to travel that route." 1998 General Assembly to approve UK College of Medicine. Right now, no single entity has oversight over both systems. The LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1997 Council on Higher Education, which coordinates community col­ ■ COLLEGE SPORTS · leges, does not have any say in Kentucky Tech. .Study: Women's numbers lag: Althoug_h_~ore than half of college students are women, most D1v1s10n Ford said ~atton thinks Ken­ I athletes still are men, despite the efforts of Title IX tucky Tech schools would get more sponsors to even the sco~e, a survey by US~ Today recognition as "equal partners" in shows. The survey, pubhshed yesterday, said two- post-secondary education if they . thirds of the athletes still are men. The survey :was were an independent organization. . commissioned to study effects of 25 years of 1:1tle IX, the legislation that was _to have brought equahty to women in college athlencs. The newspaper surveyed 303 NCAA Division l schools. ·ggJIDJl]iOfii·~cone es orge·a bigger f()Ie · . What community colleges re­ BY ROY SILVER qurre from the state is a mechanism program in partnership with area iscussions regarding higher . by which we and communities con- . middle schools and a leadership . education refonn in Ken- struct a collective image of the fu. academy that will'oroaden our lead­ .D tucky have primarily focused ture. We can transform this vision ership base. . ,;•. .-· • . on govemance"Any-infonned·deci­ into programs and services. Hazard is.actively engaging ·its sion about the role of our communi­ An example is the Rural Com­ community with a series of "round­ . ty colleges has to be grounded in munity College Initiative, ,funded by table" public discussions. They an understiriqing of our mission. the Ford Foundation. Southeast and have opened the door for new part­ .The vision statement crafted and Hazard Community Colleges are nerships that are conceiving local adopted by the faculty, staff and part of this undertaking. solutions for regional problenis.'ln administration of Southeast Com­ Using the initiative program the fall, the initiative program will munity College in Cumberland, is il­ community-building colleges de~el­ be brought to Prestonsburg and lustrative of the collective commu­ oped a strategic plan that is more Somerset Community Colleges. nity college mission. We are "the ~n array of suggested paths rooted · These colleges will have the oppor­ catalyst for educational, community m shared community values. Com­ tunity to initiate their own process and economic development, opening of community building. the door to a brighter future." munity colleges are positioned to ~emove the physical and psycholog­ These important steps are tak­ The typical student in the 14 ing place within the present struc­ community colleges within the Uni­ ical obstacles to admission. We can bring a.unity of purpose to econom­ ture. Will the changes produced by versity of Kentucky system is 28 a special legislative session further years old and two-thirds to three­ ic, cultural, educational and social planning. the mission of the community quarters are female. Our system is building college? currently undergoing a reorganiza­ Southeast Community College has established the Pine Mountain tion. Thjs promises to decentralize Community Development Corp. in Roy Silver is an associate pro­ decision-making and allow us to be fessor of sociology and team more responsive to the needs of the partnership with area banks. It pro­ leader of the Rural Community communities we serve. vides small business loans and College Initiative at Southeast In the book, The Community­ technical assistance for the people Community College in Cumber­ Building College, the authors chal­ of Bell, Harlan- and Letcher coun­ land. · lenge community colleges to be­ ties. We will inaugurate the South­ come "a community-building insti­ ea~t Scholars Program, a scholar- tution that aims to improve all as­ . ship fund wedded to a mentoring pects of community life." Our com­ munities have a core of common in­ terests a_nd common organizations. Community colleges are obligated to provide leadership, in partner­ ship with other organizations, to better articulate our common inter­ ests. Community colleges can affirm WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1997 ■ lEXJNGTON HERALD-lEAOER, lEXJNGTON; K¥. ■ COMMUNITY 19 the importance for the creation of a learning community. Our programs ROWAN COUNTY typically meet the needs of lifelong Eugene C. Norden, assistant learners. We are emneshed in-com: professor at Morehead State Uni­ munities struggling to oven1ome versity, has been named Col­ the burden of an economy that falls lege/University Teacher of the short in its production of sustain­ Year by the Kentucky Music Edu­ able employment opportunities and schooling that adequately trains. cators Association. These conditions frequently pro­ Norden, who duce fragmentation and division. earned a bache­ Community colleges should re­ lor's degree from vitalize organizations and individu­ Western State als through a network of partner­ s-;--.A'l College of Col­ ships. We partner with change dri­ orado and a vers, {e.g., business, education, gov­ master's from ernment and grassroots leaders). Morehead, has This can help with the creation of a been a member sustainable economy and life long of the universi­ learning. Norden ty's faculty since At our best, community colleges 1968,. when he advocate an acceptance of commu­ became assistant director of nity as campus and client. The goal bands. is to provide programs that teach He was director of Morehead's the skills required to respond to bands from 1981 to 1985. Today, community problems and individ­ he primarily teaches music educa­ ual needs. We champion the em­ tion courses and saxophone. powerment of citizens, community renewal, extensive access, techno­ He is an evaluator and trainer logical innovations and ongoing as­ for the Kentucky Teacher Intern­ sessment. ship program and coordinates Mcirehead's annual middle-school instrumental clinics, and, for sev­ eral years, the summer band camps. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, March 4, 1997 Sm.ith to head Pikeville. College ,FRr:rn~r,,yice president at Muskingµm College./ ,'. ~ i~tt1b\f;!~v~~1:i~0 ~!~~iri~'. -----~----·--- Pikeville's been doing for ·a.: Owens said the Science Build- By GEORGE WoiFFPRD long time. I want to come back ing will be renovated to accom- OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT to Kentucky to see if we can modate the school, with plans play a role in Pikeville's fu- under way for adding a floor. PIKEVILLE - Pikeville Col­ ture. The administration building lege has chosen Harold H. "My three children are all in and the Derriana Building - a "Hal" Smith, vice president of college now, in their own lives, dormitory unused for 15 years Muskingum College in New and it's a good opportunity for - are also being renovated. Concord, Ohio, as its 16th pres­ us to return. The opportunities ' Owens said the college has ident. are really good and this is the doubled enrollment to 800 stu­ Terry Dotson, chairman of right time to do it." dents and tripled its endow- Pikeville's board of trustees, Smith and Owens worlted to- ment during the dozen years announced the selection last gether for years at Centre Col- he's been there. week. lege, where both taught and '.'We've done a lot of campus Smith succeeds William H. served in administrative posi-- renovation and construction Owens, who ·will retire on lions. Both men are Kentucky and just made the place more June 30 after 12 years in the natives: Owens was born in attractive, safer and more ac­ position. Hazard, Smith in Southgate. cessible for students, faculty· Dotson said Smith was se­ Smith said he'll come to and staff," he said. "Remem­ lected from a pool of more Pikeville "a couple of days a ber, we're the school that sets than 100 candidates drawn by month" between now and June on the hill with 99 steps." a national search. 1, when he takes over. Owens Smith said he has no spe­ "Hal will be a good transi­ ment are valuable assets." said he will be consulting with cific changes in mind for the tion to continue Bill Owens' Smith said he was drawn to Smith on several building. school. "I know a lot's been work,'! Dotson said. "His _ties Pikeville by the commonality projects now going on at the done in the last 10 years. The to Kentucky and his experi­ of experiences. "The things college. :" institution is quite strong, ence in working in a small, I've been doing at Centre and Included are projects that · with a good foundation, and I church-related college environ- Muskingum are things focus on the opening this fall want to continue in that." /'l~Ya.;..n J7 I I/ J -11r,oc,o-- ,- ·l·U --1 '!) - l,. MSU A. RCHIVES MSU Clip ~l,eet1 A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL.• Fl3IQ_AY, MARCH 7, 1997 ■ Spending on research and devel­ postsecondary technical schools, un­ opment in Kentucky trails the nation­ der a new board. Patton: al average. Such spending can pro­ "That several universities offer the duce spinoff businesses that acceler­ same degree program and none of ate a region's economic growth. But them graduate more than five to 10 in 1994, even though it ranks 24th students each year raises a. basic Colleges among the states in population, Ken­ question about the adequacy of lead­ tucky ranked 35th in academic ership by the Council on Hi(!her Edu­ "R&D" - spending a comparatively cation and the incentives m: the ft. modest $126 million. nancing policies," Patton's fact book not ready Among the 15 states with which says. · Kentucky competes for jobs, it was last in 1994 in total R&D expendi­ THE REPORT implicitly criticizes tures per capita (only $30). UK for having too broad a mission for future ■ The state's high percentage of and for resisting proposals to jettison high-school dropouts is a drag on "lower division and workforce pro, growth in personal income. Only 13 grams," meaning the community col­ percent of the state's adult popula­ leges, and instead focus on "special­ Governor cites tion has completed a bachelor's de­ ized upper-division and graduate pro­ gree, compared to the national level grams." evidence to back of 20 percent. Among its competitor It cites numerous vocational pro­ states, only Mississippi in 1990 joined grams that are duplicated by the com­ his reform effort Kentucky in having more than 35 munity colleges and Kentucky Tech, percent of its adults lacking a high­ "sometimes on adjoining campuses." By ROBERT T. GARRETT school education. The report says students are "caught The Courier-Journal As a candidate for governor in between the systems," when it comes 1995, Patton said his major goal was to transferring course credits or find­ FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Paul to reform education and remove im­ . ing the right mix of technology Patton offered a multicount indict­ pedimenis to business activity so that classes and academic instruction. ment of Kentucky's public system of per-capita income in the state could The state's system makes no sense, higher education yesterday, saying it catch up with the national average in the report says. The funding formula isn't ready to meet new challenges 20 ~ears. T~day, Kentucky's per-cap­ encourages four-year institutions, and has failed to yield an acceptable ita mcome 1s 81 percent of the U.S. which are mindful of enrollment-driv­ return on the investment taxpayers average. Its 14 competitor states (Ala­ en funding, to latch onto students have made in it bama, Florida, GeorSia, Illinois, Indi­ who are better suited for Kentucky Patton's indictment was contained ana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tech's programs. But rigid state per­ in a "fact book" his office released North Carolina, Ohio, South Caroli' sonnel policies that cover tech-school after sending it to state lawmakers. It na, Tennessee, Virginia and West Vir­ teacliers, but not community-college offers data and anecdotes that sup­ ginia) have an average per-capita in­ faculty, prevent Kentucky Tech from . port recommendations he is expected come equal to 95 percent of the U.S. average.· offering night or weekend courses to to make by the end of the month to nontraditional students who have his task force studying higher educa­ PAffON'S FACT BOOK attrib­ work and family commitments. tion. Patton plans to convene a spe­ utes the system's woes to a lack of cial session of the General Assembly statewide · leadership and coordina­ KENTUCKY TECH schools often on the subject, beginning May 5. tion. "There is no statewide strategic receive more respectful treatment, in INCLUDED IN HIS BILL of vision to drive the postsecondary negotiating what course credits ~ particulars on the state's postsecond­ educatiop system as a critical eco­ be transferred from private or out-o aiy education system were: nomic engine for the state and its re­ state colleges than they do from UK' community colleges,. the report says. ■ Duplication is widespread. Near­ gions," the report says. ly half of the 1,142 degree programs The Courier.Journal reported yes­ The lack of cooperation isn't limit­ offered by the state's universities and terday that Patton is likely to propose ed to UK, the report says, It notes, community colleges are "low per­ that the state Council on Higijer Edu­ without specifying where this is the formance."· That means that in 199li cation be strengthened; that incen­ case, that a Kentucky Tech school they had only a handful of graduates' tives for. excellence and cooperation lacks access to the Internet "because - in bachelor's degree programs, be created in the state's funding for­ of insufficient phone lines. Next door, fewer than 10; in master's degree mula for higher education; and that on the same campus, the regional uni­ programs, fIVe; and in doctoral pro- the University of Kentucky's 14 com­ versity has a T-1 line with inunediate grams, three. . munity colleges be detached and op­ and direct access, but this service is For instance, five state university erated in tandem with the state's 24 inaccessible to Kentucky Tech." campuses offer a bachelor's in Ger­ man language and literature. But all told, such programs produced only nine graduates last year. ■ Degrees being earned don't match the 1· obs of the future. Among 5 states in the Southeast and Mi_ in · Ken­ tucky, ~wth · of jobs m'pi:ecl5ion production and craft and repm occu­ pations is expected "to iricrease at twic_e the national growth rate. 11 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1997 v o-recn scnools and two-year colleges in the same town duplicate nush change in the entrenched, po­ some courses, and the formula for iitically powerful system of higher funding post-secondary education Patton lists education. offers no incentive for universities to cut duplication. Aims McGuinness, the consul­ problems tant who wrote Patton's report, said Universities also have too many the state needs to coordinate be­ programs that produce few gradu­ tween community colleges and vo­ ates, the report said. with higher cational-technical schools; focus on ■ The state has no effective excellence in select programs at re­ way to set post-secondary educa­ gional universities; cut duplication: tion policy and coordinate offer­ :education and target funding to achieve spe­ . ings. cific goals. That means, for instance, that Report says system One main goal for targeted some Kentucky vo-tech schools spending should be improving re­ have been able to form course­ search and technology to mak~ edu­ transfer agreements with schools in inefficient, political cation more widely available. other states but not in Kentucky. BY Bill EsTEP McGuinness said. One key reason is that the AND JACK BRAMMER Reaction to the report yesterday Council on Higher Education, HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU was low-key because most legisla­ which is supposed to coordinate FRANKFORT - The system tors hadn't read it yet. Soo_n after higher education; has fallen short, for educating Kentuckians after getting it, though, som~ legislators robbed of any real power because high school is too political and inef­ complained that th~re 1s a lack of of politics. · ficient, helping to keep Kentu~ky access to education m parts of Ken­ Leonard Hardin, chairman of poorer than it should be, accordmg tucky. the council, issued a statement say­ to a plain-spoken review released Senate budget chairman Benny ing he agreed completely. by Gov. Paul Patton. · Ray Bailey, D-Hindma!1, told Pat­ ■ There is a lack of planning How do you fix it? Stay tuned. ton's budget director, Jim Ramsey, on using technology to create wider Patton, who wants lawmakers that southeastern Kentucky lacks a access to post-secondary education. to reform higher education in a four-year public university. . special session planned for May 5, ■ There are financial barriers "Any thought about moving or released a report long on criticism for students. The Kentucky Higher creating a university for that part but short on solutions yesterday. Education Assistance Authority Its conclusions that of the state?" he asked. · gave money to 25,000 students in universities Ramsey said the govef!lor is the 1995-96 school year, but didn't don't graduate also concerned about expandmg ac­ have enough to help 14,000 othe;;s enough students cess to education. who wanted help. "" with four-year These are some of the problems The report said Kentucky needs to put an extra million to degrees, don't do cited in the report: $100 $300 enough to drive million into post-secondary educa­ ■ There is too much duplica­ economic devel- tion in the next few years to keep opment and tion among the state's universities, up with spending in nearby states. ' - , -· ~ 1, ..,;"1 community colleges and vocatlonal­ don't produce Moberly said the state can come The text of · technical schools. Gov. Patton:s national-quality up with $100 million if the economy · statement Is ' research - were stays good and Patton can hold the available via not news to crit­ line on spending elsewhere. Kentucky . ics of Ken­ Connect at i;/~ ',-! 1 tucky's billion­ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1997 http://www;k . dcillar system of entuckycon- · post-secondary nect.com education. ■■■ Highlights of .: .. But while it !At least 200 UK the text will did not include ' be published recommenda- In the Sunday tions for Herald-Leader, changes, Pat- page E2. ton's first in­ Students protest I depth statement on higher educa­ tibn may signal his agenda. ; Observers are bound to read budget cut plan much into the rep9rt and ponder whether Patton plans to take the state's community colleges away BY JENNIFER ALMJELD from the University of Kentucky, HERAUH.EADER STAFF WRITER change the formula for funding At least 200 University of Kentucky students and universities, or set up a technology­ staff members blew the whistle on proposed university delivered "virtual university" to budget cuts yesterday. • spread access to education. At noon, protesters dressed in black filled the : ' Patton stressed he has not de­ square in front of the Patterson Office Tower to voice cided on any proposals - particu­ their opinions of UK administrators' 1997-98 budget larly regarding the sensitive issue proposal to the school's board of trustees. of UK's community colleges. The exact percentages or amounts by which the ' "I haven't decided what to do," budget would be cut have not been disclosed. But yes­ fie said last night. terday, protest organizers distributed handouts that · Some observers think Patton outlined the problems they think cutbacks will cause: wants to strip the 14 community ■ Bigger classes colleges from UK, but fears doing ■ Fewer sessions of each class so because the resulting fight ■ Fewer teaching assistants against that step would overshad­ ■ Increased workloads for faculty ow other reform proposals. "We were hoping to connect these cutbacks with ' "ls the fight worth it?" seems to real student and faculty lives," said Mary Curran, a res­ be the question Patton is ponder­ ident assistant. "This is not just an abstract proposal. It ing, said Rep. Harry Moberly, will affect everyone here." chairman of the House .liuaget com- Organizers said the rally's main goal was to make mittee.' ... :. "... "- · - .. =~- .,...,.: ·· 1r· people more aware of the budgeting process. • "We want more students asking questions," said There will probably be plenty student Meredith Redlin. "We want more undergradu- to wrestle with as Patton tries to The Daily Independent. Ashland. Kentuckv. Thursaay. 1V1arcn o. J.SJSJ, "My first preference is to stay with the University of PROTEST: UK Kentucky," said Jimmy J. Miller. "I believe I agree with students voice (UK) President Charles Weth­ ington and others who have budget concerns raised the issue. No one has (_c.,,,.dM u.eJ) shown there is any advantage in changing the governance. "If we're not affiliated with ates involved." and actually attached to the Students poured- out of nearby Lexington campus. then I classroom buildings and ·joined the would want a standalone sys­ demonstrators circling the adminis- tem, without the tech schools . . tration building. The demonstrators 1 agree there ought to be all blew whistles and chanted "Show kinds of joint. coordinated pro­ us the money" am! "It doesn't add grams between the two sys­ .up." tems, but the mission state­ Those unable to attend the rally By GioRGE'WomoRD ' ' ment set by the legislature expressed themsclves in other OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT . '[ years ago is as valid as when ways. · ,,· ;.. :.--.~;,,.~-- ., -~:~:.:~::-;.~- .~ :~_;:_; ~1:, it was written. If we dilute the ;ASHLANn?T0 TheJdea, community colleges and voca­ "Some members of my . class tional schools, we do a dis­ were wearing black ribbons in sup- · of· sfripping''!tiie 'sfate'iF i:_binml,Ulity :dpllege "'sys-:C service to the citizens of this port," said Shaunna-Scott, an asso­ tern· frbni"the; University· state," Miller said. · ciate professor of sociology .. of.~Kent4c!?y': lfiiiFiiever' Patton also wants to pour "I think many of the faculty are h:iien:a' · popµ!ar' one 1 iri' more cash and effort into en­ concerned about these cuts too," · Ashlalld. ·:'?:"-~t(~i":,;)f:!:Jr'.',.;,2~•; L'.· hancing national prestige for she said. '''Sb' .'Gov.''1Pliiii.z!"atti:in's'. UK's graduate-level and re­ Carolyn Gallaher, a teaching as­ p,op9sai iii·dd.tliahs:not search programs, as well as for sistant in the geography depart­ playtng,,yerv·,;wem,with selected programs at the Uni­ ment for more than three years, Ashlaiid ·.c:o~munt·· c~a1r- versity of Louisville and the ,,. _._, ffi ·'',;.;"· 1 said students should be more in­ ·l egero 1c1a~r, ."i\~;""'-~'•-',·,_,_.tr_.'"''"""';~'r six other state universities. . valved irl devising tbe'budget ''.\The Louisville Cdurier: '• Even as Patton prepares to "We have no voice;no way to J~url!al ;:repor.tedUthis, propose that UK give up the niorninglthi!t'.;-P.ll. tton · community colleges, an -impor­ give our input," Gallaher said. "The tan t part of its political­ budget process bas been very wants to'place.the -14 two; iiarc.~chools1}1i!d124·.ppsr­ support network, he also is closed off, and the mnnbers we are secondar-yy te.chnical! close to proposing that he give getting don't add up." schools·. underc,a ,board. up a gubernatorial prerogative Protesters also enjoyed a skit that· would. be i:reateci-'to· - direct appointment of uni­ by five students in the roles of oversee them. •· .. ·" · · ' : versity trustees. He would give teaching and resident assistants, ·..;,uiC.haiLoverseeri::-:the:: that power to the Council on staff, faculty, scbolarships and community colleges since Higher Education, which· coor­ quality education - all shackled .their. creation in. the, dinates the universities . together behind a student dressed ~arly)960s:~'rf'n.f~ fought Democratic legislators as UK President Charles T. ofl''·pasCattem.pts/ito, 'de­ f!'iendly to Patton, such as Wethington Jr. tach 'the:CoriimunC' ''col­ lfouse Budget Committee Not long after the rally began, ,l~esl' buf;fiioiief'.ofihose · ~airman Harry Moberly of Ii'adtia g~ernor•s":'1i1ess- ~chmond, have said they be­ protesters were urged to move to lieve the governor has only a the free speech area of campus by. ~g.:_~; fit~~t~;:{%hJ...... Patton.;,Jias\•aid•;he·m, ·, 51)-50 chance of success in Dean of Students David Stockham. wresting the community col­ Stockham's invitation was received fiends~.torcont~ne~la;i;; e­ 'f1a1:s!issfon,otthe':1eiiiila­ leges from UK. with angry shollts and more whis­ ( UK Pre~ident Charles Weth­ tle-blowing as the crowd remained turei•May ;sy;:{o:: reshape -~en.ttiw.Ls1Ji:!g!l~r.@ttjca- ipgton refused to comment where it was. t10n 'system.'· · · ,,·. · . - - \fednesday, saying, "I would "Certainly people should be able . Patton, who was tour­ not comment on anything of to express themselves, but they ing flood areas Wednes­ that sort unless I heard that shouldn't interfere with the rights day, cou1a;fi/it:ll'ii'reached directly from the governor." of others in that area," Stockham fcir· _cpmnient:';'.His'J com- : Patton's advisers have ex­ •.., , ,,;,,r -. · , 1 ·\1-,··• .1,' said. "We want them to have their 1Dumca,twns,:-

BY ROWN J. WATSON thousands of successful Kentuck- funds. How can this be a drain on ''It is an ancient Mariner, ians got their start in a community UK? . And he stoppeth one of college. Another is that Kentucky is The drain on UK emanates three" to tell a tale of woe not North Carolina and should not from too many competing state uni- · to an uncaring stranger, Samuel want to be. Yet another is that . versities, not from the meager re- Ta)!]i)r Coleridge told us in "The states where branches of higher ed- sources used by the community col- Rime,of the Ancient Mariner." The ucation are closely related have the · leges. · long:grey beard and the glittering best university systems. The flag- In recent times, many of the . eye in this case may belong to a ship University of North Carolina more progressive states have seen sagacious professor, who like the at Chapel Hill, traditionally a Harper'.s point, as they have begun ancient mariner, may have made · strong research university, has lost pulling the community colleges the mistake of killing a good bird, ground in recent years, and its closer to the flagship universities. like. an albatross, although he is un­ community colleges are not the . The best flagship research universi- aware of his egregious error. It may most highly rated_ in the country, ties use supporting institutions to be that it is he, not the University With .far better funding than Ken- disseminate practical research and of Kentucky, who is killing the al­ tucky, North Carolina's system· of provide incentives for further re- batross. higher education is fragmented, not · · search. · I-recall Coleridge because a pro­ Third, UK is a land-grant insti- fessor wrote in a Feb. 23 letter to tution that serves an entire state. the.editor that the University of 'Its community. colleges enable UK Kentucky community colleges are The best flagship research to give broad public exposure to an albatross that hangs about the universities use supporting applications of research. The com- . flagship university's neck. The Institutions to disseminate munity colleges, for instance, now metaphor of the albatross is badly practical research are taking "lean manufacturing" misplaced. The poem, after all, was and provide incentives created by the Robotics Center at about a remorseful man who had for further research. UK and supplying that knowledge killed a good and innocent cTeature to industry around the state, just as · and was spending his life in lamen- they are making practical applica­ tation for a dreadful mistake. tions of medical, dental and other .The professor defended UK's technoiogical research in remote need to concentrate on enhancing free of internecine warfare. sections of the commonwealth. its reputation as a research institu­ Second, consider the example of Fourth, UK President Charles. tion while ridding itself of the two­ William Rainey Harper, who built T. Wethington Jr. knows perfectly year colleges. After comparing the one of the nation's great research well what he is doing in standing community colleges to an albatross, universities at the University of up for the community colleges. Per­ he wrote, "How in the world is an Chicago. Harper, acknowledged to haps more than any leader in high­ associate-degree-granting institu­ be one of the pioneers of the Ameri­ er education since John Oswald, tion going to help a university gain c~n research university, not only who began to revitalize UK in the prestige in its graduate programs? saw great benefit in university ex­ e;Jrly 1960s, Wethington has a vi­ On the contrary, it seems clear that tension work, but he also started a sion for a great flagship research it can only drag it down." junior college because he saw that university. He has brought more What he fails to recognize is it could enhance his efforts to cre­ Merit Scholars to UK than any oth­ ate a first-class research university. er president. We might ask who, af­ that a sound foundation provides ter all, had the courage and the lasting support for the upper levels Another research university pi­ on an edifice. ·· wisdom to build a much'needed re­ oneer, David Starr Jordan, founding search library and who works tire­ There are· four crucial matters president of Stanford, was an early lessly to extend the.resources of to consider about UK and its com­ advocate of the junior college as a · UK to the entire state wliile he is munity colleges. supporting institution for the re­ busy raising millions of private dol­ First, the lesson in Coleridge's search university. lars to enhance the university's re­ poem is that we should not kill the Funded separately from UK, the search efforts? good bird, the albatross, or in this community colleges do the work of Wethington knows that .the · case,· the community colleges, lest · preparing undergraduate students community colleges give efficient we •live to regret it. The poini here in general education and technical delivery to, and public support for, is that danger lies not with UK - studi,es so that universities can con­ further research, Community col­ which has seen that the supportive centrate their efforts on upper-level leges extend the services and the community colleges can be part of and graduate work. In Kentucky, influence of UK to the entire com­ a great research university - but the community colleges educate monwealth. with· well-meaning people who de­ one-third of all students in higher stroy something unknown to them. education while using only 10 .per­ ■ Rollin J. Watson is president of -One political reality is that c~nt of the public allocation of Somerset Community College, A resident who violated the cov­ THE COURIER-JOURNAL• FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1997 enant potentially could have his or her training terminated, according to the agreement. Wilson said he's periodical! ·UK doctors told heard ~f incidents in which UK d,1. tors disparaged doctors in private practice, or ridiculed rural areas of the ~tale. But a recent incident in­ not to speak badly vcivmg a UK physician and a Ken­ tucky h(!spital prompted him to go ahead with the covenant, he said. Wtls~n said the UK physician coml)lamed that the hospital didn't of other physicians provtde X-rays of a patient it re­ ferred to the university for treat­ Associated Press Kentucky and the entire UK Health­ ment. -pie UK d_octor then wrote to care enterprise. I will not make dis­ the. patient offenng assistance if the LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Univer­ paraging remarks about my paµents, pali_ent wanted to take legal action sity of Kentucky Chandler Medical their farililies, their physicians, their against the hospital, Center now requires faculty physi­ homes or heritage, nor will I tolerate . '!\"tlson said lie thinks no UK phy­ cians to sign an agreement forbid­ anyone who does." s.man should ever encourage a pa­ ding them to make "disparaging re­ UK doctors will be obligated to do tient to take another doctor to court. marks" about doctors in pnvate other things under the agreement. . There has been no public opposi­ - practice, or their patients. For example, a doctor who sees a ti~n from the UK faculty so far, and '· UK residents - doctors in train­ patient referred from an outside WIison says most faculty members ing - are required to sign a similar physician would have to report back accept the idea of the covenant pledge, to that doctor within 24 hours on the Checks with some nearby medical It is not a gag order, insisted Dr. diagnosis and treatment. schools in Tennessee Ohio and Emery Wilson, dean of the medical According to the agreement, a UK ..yest V!rginia turned up no institu- school and the author of the new physician who makes disparaging tions With such a policy. . ,,policy. comments or violates other provi­ Al)d the Association of American Wilson said the idea is to combat ·sions could lose a large part of the Me

ty doctors will sign in May and June. Charles Weth- r======-=,,.;.,== his ammunition 1 .A doctor who doesn't sign, in effect, ington was wise }tt:Ctftt~:-t""Wtf·Xt\>::t\\(.;;:5,:;-;'\f?#;\tn for later. ·, ·.~.'..t·\ would terminate his or her employ- to say that he ::NetiJBreathitfrHoid'..J!1 For the. mo- , ..,ment. will not re- •;fali•:·,,_:<-.:.-::,-li''rt;'I/:\Afif:•:••':,~D-:i}_;''"·~hh;r~¾t,:Q:(· ment, however, 1 "' The covenant covers about 500 spond until he '\. Jg ~t;I:~QUcatJQJT<1i,tillt as we await UK clinical faculty members who see patients referred by outside doc­ ~/= ;;:; ,:fi§,'.f~Y2f:9~;'. ::;~:H¾t:: ~~m~it tors. The policy does not apply to 100 or so ·doctors who do research at UK .. The covenant says, in part: "I un­ derstand that my comments and ac­ ~~ lrl1tlt·~r~ ,., lions reflect on the University of community col- . · munity coll~ 1!!1$es ~ very good news. For one is in the interests of both. We think thing, 11 suggests he intends to·· .a united system of colllllllllli!Y.·co1:., tightly _coordinate the operations leges arid technical schools:'fuider · and D11SSions of the community· a separate board would: be•more · colleges and the state's .24 post- ~nsive to the, loca!.nee'ds ·of .. secondary technical schools. That . empltiyers··and the:workforce'..c'.•,' : would be a boon to local and re- · But such a divorce could'afso ·· · giC?nal econoff!ies. More important, enable lJK,.to streanlW!e its(@:" it.JS.strong evidence that the Gov- ..reaucracy and.focus on.its cenlri11'' ernor continues to -think· ambi- mission as the state's flagship'iiril-':' tiously and in terms·:of :5Y.51emic. yersife....:. becoming·the center:of' ch~~~-rtunately, ~a,•~~~ar~ -··:~a=~rsfu~~~: ominous sour note was Immediate- · final form of Mr. Patton•~ propos- , ly struck by former Gov. Edward ·a1s, it is clear that •UK stands to I T. Breathitt, the chairman of the gain far more than it can lose, even UK Board of Trustees. Mr. Breath- if its interests are viewed in.their:, itt warned of "a ,conflict of;epic most parochial terms. ⇒ l ~~ proportions, which would endan- If.this moment of opjxirturiify jg'·, ger the whole proposal." It is rea- not to be lost, it is imperative iliat sonable to construe his remarks as UK - and its board chairman - !<--- "· ' • years. Wright. lii.:a;UK illumnus, and ;.--.;:-· •·, ·,,~·-'.''M""''""t;"' ,.,,_. Its· future, the barriers to Moloney is a Jaw school graduate. ·:' ASHiAND7 - Ken­ achieving an efficient and co­ Ari example ofMoloitey's influence '"tiicky's postsecondary ed· ordinated system, ·and the came during a 1985 trip to a Louisiana State University-UK football game in "ucational system is ill- goals for creating a compre­ Baton Rou~e, La., _where then-Presi­ prepared to meet the· hensive postsecondary ed- dent Otis Sm!;letary imd Kin;,;y8t M~­ needs of the next cen­ ucation system. · loney's blessing to put $5 on m tury, concludes a report Patton urged legislators to the state budget for a $10 million su­ prepared for Gov. Paul become · familiar with the re­ percomputer the state Council on Patton. port and keep their minds Higher Education had earlier recom­ The system of state mended that UK finance with its own open to suggestions. money. · , , .universities, community ·"This issue is too important "It was a good trip," Moloney said colleges a,nd vocational 1 to be decided on the basis of

recently. "I'd never been to Baton schools is fragmented. 1 politics, region, past loyalties Rouge before." driven too much by poli- or incomplete data," Patton One legislative perk that probably .'tics and fosters competi­ said. "Please do not commit or helped UK was free basketball and tion rather than coopera­ football season tickets lawmakers re­ stake out positions on this ceived until a few years ago, when tion, said· the report, critical subject until you have concerns about legislative ethics end­ compiled by National reviewed all the information ed the practice. Legislators now must Center for Higher Ed­ and heard the entire debate."' buy tickets, but are still offered choice ucation Management Sys­ But .some legislators - in­ seats. Most do buy them, but often ' terns, which was hired by cluding several members of give them to constituents, which the Task Force on Post­ the state Interim Education makes the tickets even better politics secondary Education. Committee - are already skep­ for UK. "The commonwealth tical about the prospects for ANOTHIER SIGN of UK's has an undereducated higher education reform. Dur­ strength in the legislature is that since citizenry and a postsec­ 1982, it has won General Assembly ing a meeting Thursday they approval for all 18 capital construc­ ondary .education system complained that the system's tion projects earlier rejected by the marked by fragmentation biggest problem is that it isn't Council on Higher Education. The to­ and conflict," the report readily accessible to many who tal value of the projects was $104.2 said.. , .: :, , need it. million. . rHigher education in "You've got islands of un­ Senate Majority Leader David Kentucky remains inac­ served people in the state," Karem called UK "an incredibly pow­ ,,cessible to too many erful force in the legislative process" said_ Rep. Charlie Siler, R­ and one that few lawmakers want to ·.members of the general Williamsburg. openly oppose. "All of us want to be ;,public and "there remain Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, D­ perceived .as being ·mends of UK," · niany serious. questions Hindrnan, chairman of the _'about quality." Karem added, noting that he fre. Senate Appropriations and quently hears from constituents in his The report lists the Revenue Committee, said the Louisville district on behalf of UK and ·shortcomings of Ken­ its Jefferson Community College. tucky's eight public uni­ focus of the debate is wrong. One lawmaker who did tangle with , versities, community col­ "Students are getting lost in UK is former Sen. Ed Ford, now dep­ this mix, it seems to me, espe­ uty secretiuy of Patton's Cabinet and -Jeges . and . postsecondary vocational schools: cially undergraduates," he a top aide in Patton's effort to reform said. hi~er education. . , . "These · separate insti­ 'The nearest time I ever came to Patton said last week he fa­ tutions share many co.mmon vors separating the state's getting a whipping,'' Ford ·said, was goals but have developed inde­ when he killed a House-passed bill to community college system give county extension agents a seat pendently," the report said. "The most significant bar­ from the University of Ken­ on UK's board of trustees. tucky, a move supporters of Since General Assembly approval rier (to excellence) is the lack would be necessary to remove the of an effective statewide struc­ Ashland Community College community colleges from UK, its in­ ture to coordinate all of the have resisted for years. But he fluence in the legislature could be a state's postsecondary ed­ is not expected to make other key to the outcome - and UK may ucation resources and provide specific recommendations on' have more experience in that arena reform until later this month. than Patton. a strategic vision." Stripping UK of its community col­ · The system suffers from a leges was termed "difficult, but not duplication of services and is THE ASSOCIATED PRESS impossible" by Senate President Larry not doing its job graduating provided information for this· Saunders, a Louisville Democrat. students, the report said. Ken­ story. The outcome, Saunders said, will tucky also seriously trails the depend on "how much pressure and influence" UK and its supporters can bring on lawmakers. 1 1 -So ·~ :find Patton e1£:'"''"-, ,...... ,., .,...,. ,, a·~enda· ~ffi,:Blin~r=enucalioii·--1eport.. _I.gl ·/g" ·, .,,; ..,,-, ·: ,":.:;,:~lf~.: . ~. ' . : -~ ;. ·. Bv:.JACK BRAMMER. . Agreement on polltlcs .. ·-H~8ER: FRANKFO~T ·suR_~u ·; Council Chairman Leonard FRANKFORT .,... · Gov. Paul 1 Hardin said he agreed that politics Patton's liighly criiical report·on saps the council's power. higher education in Kentucky re- ceiv'ei:l :,Csomewhat critical grade ,. The report also says that dupli- from ·lawmakers: "incomplete." cation of programs is widespread. The reportoffered nci plans:or '.' It noted that 511 of the 1,142 de- s?.luti9ns;Jjis~d -_it ca~logu~ gree programs offered across the prob\enis;utithe"state's eight um- 1, state- or about 45 percent-.each v~ttie§,::14.'.community colleges graduate fewer than 10 students in ·and'24 :post:secondary technical bachelor's degree programs a year. schools:,'.rherre l'l\cked by poli- ;_ Only nine students got bache- tics,. l~~king,jn:· leadership_ and , !or's degrees in German language they dor(t get enough bang for and literature last year, though five the buck, tt says." · . . state universities offered such pro- Somf flee clues in the criti, grams, the report said. That "raises cisms. \ a basic question about the adequa- Sen: Erriesto Scorsone, D-Lex- cy.. of leadership" by the council and ington-:-said Patton "hasn't shown about "the incentives in the financ- his cards" in the report, but "it's _ ing policies," the report said. abundantly clear he wants a dif, And the report said Kentucky is ferent structure of governance." lagging in granting degrees that The report has harsh words match jobs of the future. · for the Council on Higher Educa- In 1994, Kentucky ranked last lion, which coordinates universi- among 15 states in the South and ties. Midwest in the number of bache- But others :are reluctant to !or's degrees granted in computer guess at the goals of the governor, science, engineering and sciences who has said he wants to make for every 1,000 high school gradu- reforming higher education a cen- ates. Kentucky had only 53 gradu- terpiece of his administration. ates in such programs, compared "The governor makp a com- with an average of 69 in other pelling case for reforms but ! states. don't think we should read into it "The statistics in the governor's exactly what he plans to do," Sen- fact book are not new revelations.'' ate President Larry Saunders said said House Democratic Whip Joe yesterday of the bulky report. Barrows of Versailles. "But they : Patton told legislators this week take on more attention when the that the report "will be used as the governor raises them to the public:· basis for formulating a plan for im- House Republican Floor Leader provements," but stressed that he Danny Ford of Mount Vernon cred- has made "no final decisions." ited Patton with spotlighting the is- : · State Budget Director Jim Ram- sue, "but I wouldn't say I have SIT, a member of a task force heard an overwhelming cry from studying higher education, said mv constituents to revamp higher Batton will not make recommenda- education." tions on reform until late this Ford said many Kentuckians n)onth. The governor plans to call a have become wary of state reforms special legislative session on the is- since the 1990 school reform effort sue for May 5. and the 1994 health-care reform. : The report says the higher-edu- "Reform has gotten to be a cation council "has fallen far short word people are afraid of," he said. of its potential." "They've gotten the idea it means · For example, the report cites a throwing everything out ... even if recent controversy between the Uni- some of the old things were work- versity of Kentucky and Murray ing." State University over engineering courses at Paducah Community College. "This decision ... should have been made in a logical way by the council," it says. "Instead. these de­ cisions are made by governors, leg­ islatures or institutions based on political considerations." UK President Charles Wething­ ton said yesterday he has not yet received a copy of the report and would not be able to comment on it until he has had time to review it. Murray State President Kern Alexander was not available for comment, but a spokeswoman said he had not gotteri a copy of Patton's assessment. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1997 ■ EDITORIAL Time ~is ,right for ·bold changes Higher education reform: unify; collaborate, excel and strengthen he party is over. · school students in math, physics and statistics, teach- Kentucky's state-sponsored universities for ing the high level skills neeoed in a modem economy. Tdecades have carved the state like a Christmas Technical schools and community colleges today have turkey - a leg for Murray, a breast for Lexington, - missions that are converging, yet they remain separate gravy for Louisville, ~ressing for l\_1oreh~d. T~~ divi- institutions. sion has been contentious, as the eight umvers1tJes All things must ·come to an end, and the end is here have scuffled over scraps and stolen food from each for Kentucky's overlapping, wasteful, politically others' plates. · _ charged system of higher education. Kentucky has a The schools have sought size over substance and governor in Paul Patton with the courage and insight they have succeeded. Wildly. to tame this monster. Money is short. The economy is Programs have cloned and duplicated. Schools have demanding change. And the evidence calling'for re- captured towns with their troops (disguised as extend- form is overwhelming. ed campuses) as if Kentucky were a Risk board. The _We propose this outline of a new system: University of Kentucky and Murray State fight over ■ Community colleges and technical schools who will establish a redundant engineering program in should be separated from UK and th~ Workforce Cabi­ Paducah. Northern Kentucky University starts a foot- net, and then combined. The combined system should ball team (even though the universi- ______be given the status and the financial ties overall lose $8 million a year on support equal' to the regional univer- sports). Western Kentucky University sities. pushes to add doctoral programs and The state should take whatever ■ The combined (and enhanced) UK pushes back. . steps are necessary to support community colleges and technical The schools have exercised their th11 University of Kentucky's schools should be ordered to establish political muscles far more than they quest to become a school on a a seamless system of education and have concentrated on their academic par with leading state universl- · work force training for both young skills. And it shows. Kentucky has ties In Virginia. Indiana and people and adults. eight universities and not one of them · North Carolina. ■ The state should take whatever ranks as a national center of research steps are necessary to support the and scholarship. When the National University of Kentucky's quest to be- Research Council examined doctoral . come a school on a par with leading programs in 1993, Kentucky had only one that ranked state universities in Virginia, Indiana and North Caroli- in the top 20 nationally. North Carolina had 37. Vir- na. . . ginia had 14. Georgia had nine. ■ The legislature should dissol\'e the Council on The system has achieved neither excellence nor a Higher Education and create a single entity with the systematic education for those who don't want or need unquestioned power to oversee and control a unified a college degree; Kentucky continues to have intolera- higher education syst~m consisting of the state·s eight bly low rates of college graduation (13 perc_:ent of Ken- universities and the system of community colleges and tuckians have college degrees compared with 20 per- technical schools. cent nationally). But even in the inost advanced ■ This new "super board" should coordinate pro- economies, only a quarter of the population need grad- fessional schools, degree programs and course offer- uate frorrt college. The majority of young people need ings, minimizing duplication and emphasizing high stringent and practical post-secondary education. Here, standards. Collaboration between these schools should the Kentucky system also fails. become the norm. Kentucky has 14 community colleges and 24 techni- ■ The super board should be charged with devel- cal schools. The colleges and the tech schools have oping new funding formulas that reward success in similar missions, but they live on different planets. The teaching, service and research, not just high numbers colleges are run by the University of Kentucky. The of students enrolled. technical schools fall under the auspices of the Cabinet These, we know, are only a child's steps toward re- for Workforce Development. form. We have not addressed how universities should Although part of the same government family, change their shape and form as the economy and the these schools barely speak. Students who take courses needs of students evolve. We haven't figured out what at a community college or technical school can't be as- missions our schools should adopt nor how many pro- sured universities will accept these credits. Technical fessional schools should be combined or closed. schools and community colleges often operate in the same town, but they_ seldom coordinate courses or pro- We have concluded, however, that until the tangle of brush and logs are cleared, the river will continue to grarigically, the two systems should be growing dos- flood. Until the issues of control and ownership are set- er. Community colleges no longer transfer many stu- tied, the state's universities will continue to tear each dents to universities. (Only 5 percent of the students other apart in a wasteful battle for territory and man- who enter community colleges transfer to universities.) ey. · Community colleges are centers of job training and We've had enough. Tum out the-lights. Let's start community development in their towns; And technical over with a new order'- and hope that other reforms schools no longer teach rudimentary skills. They will follow. •

- ··-iLD-LEADER, °LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1997

· ·L~-b.E____ "-~T-_ ~T-i- ERs··'. :)."':-;.,f.i7'1.'. ,, I . , Ashland, Kentucky, · Saturd_ ay, March 8 1997 --- I -- Academic records ·NKUjob apparently don't count for much finalists' The Morehead Lady Eagles just fin. ished a stellar season. They rank sixth in visits set the nation, first in Kentucky and first in HIGHLAND HEIGHTS (AP) the Ohio Valley ·Conference with .a team - Northern Kentucky Univer­ grade point average of 3.31. They rank sity released the names Friday first in Kentucky in graduation rate. Amy of three finalists for president Kieckbusch, Alisha Griffith and Vette and said the selection should Robinson maintain perfect 4.0 grade point be made by April 4. averages. Griffith won the OVC's Medal of The finalists: Honor last season with a perfect 4.0.-These ► Marlene I. Strathe, provost young ladies epitomize the scholar- athlete. and vice president for aca­ On the court, Kieckbusch has been just demic affairs at the University as excellent. She is fourth in the nation in of North Dakota, who will visit scoring and sixth in field goal percentage. NKU Sunday through Tues­ With both starting guards battling back day. from knee surgery, the team started slowly but finished the season in fourth place m ► Donald J. Mash, president the OVC. With 11 of the top 12 players re­ of Wayne State· College, Neb., turning. next year, the future is indeed whose visit is scheduled Tues­ bright. In recognition of these efforts, the day through Thursday. ► James C. Votruba, vice MSU administration rewarded Coach Janet provost for university out­ Gabriel with i glowing written evaluation, reach, Michigan State Univer­ then one week later informed her that her sity at Lansing. His visit is set contract would not be renewed, as the ad­ for Thursday through March ministration wished to pursue a more win- 15. ning course. · University officials also said MSU President Ronald Eaglin has re­ Thursday the board of regents peatedly stated publicly that MSU teams is considering lucrative perks are at a disadvantage because of budget to make sure that pay is not cuts and led efforts to drop scholarship an obstacle to hiring the per­ football. In light of his past position, this son the university wants. "change in course" is surprising and high­ "Sometimes, that includes ly disturbing. appointments to various STANLEY T. TURNER boards in the community," re­ JACKSON gents chairman Jim Poston Making the tough calls said. "At this time, the possibility It's tough to be an administrator, just of area businesses offering ask Steve ·Hamilton, the athletic director at board appointments that Morehead State University. Hamilton is would include additional com­ one of the very few people to play on pro­ pensation has been discussed. fessional championship teams in two But that's discussion only," sports· (New York Yankees and Minneapo­ The board is seeking a re­ lis Lakers). As a baseball coach at More­ placement for Leon Boothe, head, he produced conference cba_mpi­ who retired last July. onships, NCAA appearances, professional players and hundreds of good citizens. Hamilton has always been a gentleman and has shown class representing More­ head State since the mid-1960s. Unfortu­ nately, as an administrator _someone has to make the hard decisions. Let's talk about basektball coach Dick Fick's tenure at Morehead. It was obvious. that he cares about the players as people, as well as athletes. The graduation rate was fantastic. On the other side, his antics along the sideline had gotten old. lri my opinion, he has done little to encourage the alumni, and frankly, has _not won many games with a schedule that is not that dif­ ficult. Also, I notice the power ratings show Morehead is at the bottom. All this leads to low attendance and unhappy alumni, which hurts the budget. Unfortunately, an administrator has to do what's best for the university. Kyle Macy· would make an outstanding choice. · JIM STEWART MOREHEAD ALUMNUS PRESTONSBURG 10 -ll (h a;rc k l lJ '11 ? MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BO X 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030

LEXINGTON HERALO-WOER, LEXINGTON. KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1997 . Msu ARCHIVf=S Governor calls for overhaul uf higher education council

BY ANGIE MUHS The state has created a patchwork of often-compet­ HERAU>-lEADER EDUCATION WijlTER ing educational institutions that suffer from a lack of FRANKFORT - Hamstrung by political leaders focus and lag behind other states in quality, Patton's who ignore its directives. the Council on Higher Educa• consultants told the task force. tion needs a major overhaul if the state's colleges are to In particular. the state's community colleges and improve, Gov. Paul Patton said yesterday. Kentucky Tech technical schools present a picture of Patton said he and past governors and lawmakers "disarray and confusion" to businesses looking for share the blame because they've meddled too much in trained workers. the consultants said. higher education. At the other end of the spectrum, Kentucky is hurt "We've given it the authority and yet we haven't by the fact that it doesn't have a top-flight research listened to it," Patton said. "We've got a funda mental u1m·ersi1v. the consultants also said. decision to make: Are we going to have a system that's "The· issues aren't really about governance. The is­ run on political power? Or are we going to have a coor­ sue is. does Kentucky have its act together?" said con­ dinated system that works together 10 achieve sultant Aims McGuinness. ''It is so obvious when you statewide. long-range goals?" lay out the facts that something must change. What Patton said yesterday that he intends to have the used to work fine won't work for the future." first draft of his proposed remedies ready in time for The analysis. though, did not offer specific solu­ the next meeting of the task force. on April 14 and 15. tions. Patton also said that fixing the higher education Patton declined to say yesterday whether he will system couldn't be fully accomplished in the special propose placing the community colleges under the con­ session that he plans to call on May 5. trol of an independent board, rather than unper the "This is not something we can solve with one piece Cni\'ersitv of Kentucky, which now runs them. of legislation and then move on," he said. "We have to "It is certainly a subject that has to be addressed," establish the framework." he said. To do that. Patton said. he definitely will seek leg­ CK President Charles T. Wethington Jr. said he had islation to change the makeup and struc1ure of the just received the report yesterday afternoon and had council, a citizen board that's supposed to coordinate not read it. the· eight public state universities and 14 community But he said he was not surprised by its conclusions. colleges. "It's about what I expected," he said. "We've been "More than anything, we have 10 have confidence hearing different pans of- the report for months now." in it." he said. "We have to listen to it." Wethington refused to say what UK might do if Patton said he did not yet know how to achieve hi~ Patton does recommend shifting the community col­ goals, but envisioned the new coordinating body work­ leges to an independent board. ing much more closely with the governor and legisla­ John Shumaker. the University of Louisville presi­ tors to set policy. dent, said he agreed with the report. It was one of the few definite conclusions. 1hough. "We've been given a wake-up call and it's about that emerged from the first meeting of Patton's task time we pay attention in Kentucky," he said. force since he presented his analysis last week of the But Eastern Kentucky University President Hanly svstem's woes. Funderburk questioned whether the situation was as · Much of the meeting was devoted to ;;111 overview of dire as the consultants said. the blunt report. which depicts Kentucky's pos1-sec­ "'I don"t think higher education in Kentucky is quite ondary system as rife with unnecessary duplication that bad," he said. ·'But there's certainly room for im­ and driven by precisely the wrong financial incenti\"e::-. provement."

THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1997 !\Researcher backs Patton on COueges He also will propose finding a way way Kentucky's college and universi­ Way universities "to dev_elOJ? nation~lly recognized re­ ties are run often hampers the state's search msntunons m Kentucky." Pat- ability to compete for business. ton said after yesterday's meeting of McGuinness, senior associate at the are fllfl h Urt S St a t e, the Task Force on Postsecondary National Center for Higher Education Education. which he heads. Management Systems, described a CQilSU1 tant Says The governor. who has called a higher-education system that trails special session of the legislature for many of those in other states in pro­ By RICHARD WILSON ~uctlvity and efficiency and one that The Courier-Journal May 5. said he was not ready to offer lS marrE:d by political infighting. specifics yet. But he said he will tty to "The politics are driven by institu­ forward his program to task-force tions and regional self-interest," he FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Paul Pat­ members before convening a task­ said. "The question is: Can you really ton said yesterday that he wants force meeting April 14-15. He suggest­ changes in the way higher-education ed that comments also may be accept- pro~ are coordinated and possi­ shift that around and te1k aouu1 u1t: . ed then from interested educational public, clients and learners?" bly m the way the state's community groups before developing final pro­ colleges and technical schools are The political intruSion, he said, is governed. posals. partially the fault of the state's univer­ Changes Patton might want to sities and their supporters, who have make were Siven a strong boost yes­ often bypassed the Council on Higher terday by Aims McGuinness. a task­ Education and successfully taken their force consultant. who said that the cases to gove'!lors and legislators. ~NGTON-HERALC>LEADER,"lEXJNGTON, KY, ■ TUESDAY; MARCH _11, 1997'

Patton talked of cutting at least 25 TA po­ sitions, she said. C. (,d' "'t-: \ UK-to cut, Zinser said that UK's Lexington McGuiimess said the state's com­ campus - which does not include munity colleges and technical the Medical Center, community col­ schools, operated separately by the shift· funds leges or research centers - has suf­ University of Kentucky and the Work­ fered a $640,000 shortfall in the force Development Cabinet, often be­ amounrof tuition it collects. come enmeshed in their own bureau­ • For the reallocation, the Lexing­ cracies, and that businesses coming into Kentucky seeking help frequently m campus ton campus will collect a "tax" - "find nothing but disarray, confusion slicing about L6 percent of every and conflict. . . . - academic division's budget and "The issue really is not about gov­ budget putting it into the central fund - ernance. It is about whether Kentucky because the central fund's reserves has its act together on one of the most were too low to pay for UK priori­ important issues facing the state. Frankly, the Kentucky Tech and com- ties, Zinser said. munity-college issue is really killing HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER UK also will receive only a 2.4 the ability of this state to be competi­ The University of Kentucky's ·percent budget increase from the tive with other states in the region." main campus will take a $640,000 state next year, but intends to give The courier-Journal reported last :­ budget cut for the coming year and its faculty a 3 percent raise and in­ week that Patton is le~g toward a internally shift about $2.4 million crease the pay for teaching assis­ recommendation to strip UK of its_ 14 more, according to university fig­ tants by 2.9 percent - creating an­ community colleges and C?mbme ures released yesterday. · other gap, Zinser said. them under a new board with the Lexington Campus Chancellor "We don't have competitive technical schools. Without elabo".11· Elisabeth Zinser yesterday de­ ing Patton said yesterday that that is­ salaries to the extent we think we sue was "certainly a subject that has scribed the $2.4 million as a reallo­ should," she said. "But at least by to be addressed." . cation, not a cut. giving a 3 percent raise instead of UK President Charles We~gton That money is being cut from 2.4 percent. we won't fall further be­ declined to comment on the 1Ssue. individual academic programs· bud­ hind.'' · McGuinness, who helped prepare a gets; it then goes to the central ad­ The hardest-hit college will be fact book released by Patton last ministration and Arts and Sciences. which will have week, said the state h'!5 no lo'!g-range is being funneled plan for higher education and its fund• On Page C4 ing formula rewards enrollment back into projects Gov. Paul Patton to slash $853.024 from its budget. growth, not outstanding programs such as upgrad- calls for a major The college will get a $500,000 that respond to citizens' needs. He ing a campus overhaul of the loan for this vear from the adminis­ also said it has few incentives for ef­ computer net- Council on Higher tration, but that will have to be re­ fective campus manageme':'t- . work, boosting Education That has led to a proliferation of paid the following year. said Rick - small off-campus courses throughout some staff ------Edwards, the college's dean. the state, he said. He lik~':'ed a r_nap of salaries, giving "Of course. we're trying to mini­ these "extended-campus offerings to 1 more scholarships and providing mize the impact on students," Ed­ a picture that "looks like parts of the money to hire more black faculty wards said. "But it will certainly state almost have measles." members. mean we'll have fewer classes and Several university presidents at yes• The budget problems provoked some classes will be larger... terday's meeting expressed little sur­ a demonstration last week by about Edwards said he did not know prise at McGuinness' comr_nents. . 200 students. who argued that the the magnitude of the changes be­ "No one today - certamly not I -;; university's actions would mean cause departments had only just be­ would feel there are not prob\ems,. fewer course selections and larger Wethington said. "The questmn is gun to revise course schedules. how can we best" focus al!, of our re­ classes. Yesterday, the dean of one Rumors of the proposed cuts sources on solvmg (them). - _ of the hardest-hit colleges said that had been circulating for weeks be­ Hanly Funderburk, pr~s1de1!I of scenario is still likely to happen. fore the students· protest. Several Eastern Kentucky University, said he But Zinser said yesterday that faculty had also questioned why does not think the problems are as se­ she does not think the budget the cuts and reallocations were oc­ vere as outlined by McGwnness. changes will hurt undergraduate "We're all in this together, and all of curring. us, I'm sure, will be affected," Funder- students' education. Zinser said she understood fac­ UK will still reduce its numbers burk said. 'd f th ulty and students' concerns. but "it John Shumaker, presi ent o e of graduate teaching assistants. but was an environment in which it's University of Lomsville, called not by as much as first feared. easy to overreact." She also noted McGuinness' comments "a wake•up Zinser said. that the colleges have been asked call" and agreed that Kenl);cky ne~ds "This is not easy and I'm not a "clear strategic agend~ to which almost every year to give up at the universities can contribute and be trying to diminish it," Zinser said. least 0.5 percent of their budgets. held accountable. "But there should be no good rea­ "These are strategic decisions. "We have often thought that the son why service to our undergradu­ some of which are just the right public's agenda should simply be an ate students should be jeopardized thing to do:· Zinser said of the real­ extension of our agenda, ra~her than one iota." locations. "But they add up to more the other way around," he said. The university will have seven than normal this year_" THE COURIER-JOURNAL and a half fewer teaching assistant positions next year, she said. Jan Schach, chairwoman of the TUESDAY, At one point, officials had University Senate Council. said that MARCH 11, 1997 having the actual amounts made WKU to get help seeking president public was "calming some of the re­ action." The Western Kentucky University board of re~en~s "The main point was that the chose a Cleveland-based search firm to help fin t e damage to the TAs wasn't as sig­ university's next president. 11 President Thomas Meredith was named chance or nificant as rumored or believed," of the University of Alabama system and plans to Schach said. "I think there was an begin his job June I. . h I ed find Uni- honest effort to be fair, but those The search firm. Lamalie Amrop, e P . who had the drops (in budget) are I versitv of Kentucky President Charles Wethmgto~. It still going to feel it." will meet with Western's mternal search conmnttee March 24 to develop a schedule. ------1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY. MARCH: i. 1997 -~ Still, in his prepared text, Ford de­ cried the tenfold increase in the cost of an average Senate race since 1974, and said the position "unfortunately has become a job of raising money to be re-elected ,instead of a job of do­ ing the people's business." Sen.Forcl7 He said senators spend too much time away from thetr home states

raising money, and "Democracy will be lost if we continue to allow gov­ won't seek ernment to become one bought by the highest bidder, for the highest bidder." Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, chief defender of the current cam­ paign-finance system, declined to re­ spond to those remarks, choosing in­ re-election· stead to give his opposite number his political due. "Senator Ford has clearly been the mostimportanl and influential Demo­ Democrat's wish crat in Kentucky politics for the last quarter century,' McConnell said. "During that time he's worked hard to retire signals for his party and his constituents, and I wish Wendell and Jean (Ford's political era's end wife) well in their future endeavors." MUCH OF FORD'S text was de­ By AL CROSS voted to an account of his accom­ C-J Political Writer plishments. As governor, he noted, he reorganized state government and FRANKFORT, Ky. - U.S. Sen. started the Kentucky Housing Corpo­ Wendell Ford announced yesterday ration and incentive pay for police that he will retire next year, ending training. an era that had defined Kentucky In his Senate record, he cited his politics in the last third of the 20th sponsorship of the "motor voter'' century. BY MICHAEL HAYMAN, THE COURIER.JOURNAL law, which allows people to register Ford, 72, said at a packed news In an emotional announcement, to vote at driver's hcense offices and conference that he wanted to leave U.-S. Sen. Wendell Ford said he other government agencies; and his the Senate with "a lot more birth­ won't seek a filth term. work for Kentucky's tobacco indus­ days to celebrate with my family," try, its military bases and its airports, but also said he detested the not10n which he has been able to help of having to raise millions of dollars SCRAMBLE IS ON through his seat on the Commerce for a race against Republican Rep. Committee. He also pointed to his Jim Bunning. TO SUCCEED FORD proposal last month for a graduated reduction in the capital-gains tax, Ford's announcement left Demo­ U.S. Rep. Scotty Baesler, crats surprised and crestfallen, Re­ which could lead to a compromise D-6th District, said yesterday with Republican~. publicans hopeful of capturing the he would run for the Senate. second of Kentucky's two Senate seats, and interest groups wary of Other Democrats mentioned life without Ford, an aggressive de­ include Louisville Mayor Though he didn't mention them, fender of tobacco and other state in­ Jerry Abramson, Attorney other legislative accomplishments in­ terests in Congress. . General Ben Chandler, Lt clude pfaying a key role in passing Ford indicated that the prospect of Gov. Steve Henry, former the family- and medical-leave law, by a bruising race with the combative congressional candidate insisting on exemptions for small Bunning next year had nothing to do Charlie Owen and former Lt businesses. And the mammoth farm bill enacted last year included a new with his decis10n, but he blasted the Gov. Steve Beshear. rural economic-development program current campaign-finance system and Republican U.S. Rep. Jim proposed by Ford. acknowledged that the prospect of Bunning of the 4th District But grand legislation and political raising $5 million to finance such a also is expected to run. g philosophy are not where Ford ma~e race was daunting. his mark. Indeed, even as Democratic "To reach that mark, I would have WHEN HE FILED for a fourth whip, the second-ranking party post, to raise $100,000 a week, starting to­ term in 1992, Ford had said that it Ford remained true to his promise to day, for the next year," he said. would probably be his last, and that be "a workhorse and not a show "And Mrs. Ford won't let me bring appeared all the more likely after horse." anyone to sleep in our spare bed· Democrats lost their Senate and Senate Minority Leader Tom room." House majorities in 1994. He has Daschle of South Dakota called Ford Ford's reference to President Clin­ been whip, the second-ranking spot "an important teacher for me, espe­ ton's use of the Lincoln bedroom at in the party's Senate leadership, cially smce I became leader. I rely on the White House for fund-raising was since late 1990. him not only for his unerring whip But pressure on him to run in- (vote) counts, but for his excellent advice." one of the few light moments at a Gov. Paul Patton told the crowd at largely somber and sometimes emo­ creased last year, especially after Re- • yesterday's event, "No one during tional event in the state Capitol - publican Anne Northup of Louisville this period has served with more the building. where he began public took the 3rd District congressional dedication, more ability, more re­ service as a governor's aide more seat and left Baesler as the only oth­ sults .... He has become our rock, er Democrat in the state's congres­ our security." than 37 years ago, then was state sional delegation. In a statement released by the senator, lieutenant governor and gov­ "That caused him to agonize over White House, President Clinton said ernor. the decision,'" said former Sen. Jim of Ford: "I will miss his leadership Ford's eyes water!;l:d and his voice Exon of Nebraska, a close friend and advice on Capitol Hill, but know cracked and thinned to a whisper as since he and Ford were both gover­ that he will continue to find ways to he spoke of his family, which flanked nors in the 1970s. improve the lives of the constituents him in the State Reception Room and "I think the matter had been pretty he has served so well for so long. provided the most visible reasons for well laid to rest," Exon said. "During Kentucky and the nation are better his retirement. "This is tough," he the last year, citing the feeling of the for his dedication and service!' said. Democrats in Kentucky, I thinl< there Information for this story was also He said his adult son and daughter was some wavering on his part. gathered by staff writer Mike Brown. "have had to grow up with an absen­ There was no question that he felt a tee father much of the time, but they responsibility there." know in their heart how much I love Exon, who retired last r.ear at 75, them, and I plan on helping them in said he assumed that family reasons the years to come the way they've were paramount for Ford. 11 I'm sure been there for me all these many ii was an extraordinarily difficult de­ years. 11 cision," he said. Ford said he wants to spend more In response to a question, Ford time with his five grandchildren, ages said that even if he could have gotten 12 to 21. "I'll finally have the time to by on the $2 million budget that he dote on them as any J11:11nddad is sup­ had in his last. race, he would not posed .to do," he said. "Bless their have run again. "Raising the money heart, I'm gonna teach one of them was something I detest," he said, to fish." Later, he said a family mem­ "but that did not prevent me from ber told him that several "can teach running .... You know and I know I me to fish" - a reminder of their can raise five million." childhoods he has already missed. BCHS students gettin~ftas~e·ofthe:•'tuture · experiencing the Distance 'Learning Labs

Daniels also visits the various sites Quenna Riddle says, "I feel this and two weeks ago came to BC~~ helping prepare me for college. I also and taught the class from the lab · like the way the class is taught." "Readin' and writin' and there. Jason McCany ads, 'The world is "Visiting the various sites, gives full of technology and I think this 'rithmatic", are still taught in public the students and me a chance for better prepares me for real life." schools, but they are cenainly not more interpersonal communication Another studen, David Bailey, "taughtto the tuneofahick'ry stick;'' and individual help with their writ­ says he is keeping up with the assign­ as the old song implies. ing," says Daniels. ments and adds that the class moves Insiead with the advent of com­ The class is run the same way that at a faster pace than in high school. puterand video technology, ihere are college classes are offered at MSU, "It is a good experience using this classrooms now that utilize the abil­ ona Tuesday-Thursday schedule. The type of teaching method since it will ity to educate via phone lines and days the students don't have class, , be used more in the future," says studentscantakecollegelevelcourses they are still expected to report to the Bailey. inthe_c_!)nvenientsettingoftheirown classroom and usethecomputers there "It is helping me get prepared for high schools. orin the computer lab across the hall. college," adds Greg Staton. They also may use the library at the Replacing the traditional black­ The students all agree that they high school and they have access to board, are large video monitors and would take more classes like this if the MSU library, although they are the opportunity presented itself, and computers thatprovidethelinkneces­ not to leave school to do so, but that they also like Daniels. sary to communicate remotely with may not be so difficult in the future This type of classroom setting is an instructor at some other site. once the high school is hooked up to not just reserved for high school stu­ Currently at Bath County High the MSU library through the Internet. dents or college students taking their School, there are some English IV The students tuition is based on the classes at extended campuses, but students who are taking college enny number of credits they are earning in can also be used for the school-to­ level courses such as Composition college;in this case, threecredithours. work, and other programs says Paul 101 while still in high school and There is no fee charged by the high Christy, assistant principal at BCHS earning credit for their high school school. Students must purchase text­ and the school-to-work coordinator. graduationrequirementsandalsoearn­ books for the course at the University "Students can talk to business lead­ ing college credit at the same time. It Bookstore. Thestudentsareexpected ers in various communities about a is referred f?as dual credit; one course to work at the same level as a college careerthatinterests them withoutleav­ freshmen taking an English IOI class. counts two ways. A student has to be ing the school building," says Christy. ''Dr. Daniels is very pleased with "It could also mean some personal asenior,havescoreda21 orhigheron the Bath County students work to their SAT' s, and be a student in good development for teachers as well." date," says Cox. At the present time, Christy adds Iha, he too, is pleased standing at the high school. the students must print out their as­ with the program and feels that the This is all made possible through signments on the computer and the faculty at BCHS and MSU are doing the Distance Leaming Lab where papers are deliverd to Daniels through an excellent job with the students. Janice Daniels, teaches English IOI the post office. Once she grades them, Of course, Bath County is not the from her lab at Morehead State Uni­ the papers are returned to the students only school with a compressed video versity, students across the region. at the high school, but that will change classroom. Other schools in the area. '"This is the cutting edge of tech­ shortly. including McNabb Middle School in nology. I am very excited to have the "Once we have e-mail, the stu­ Mt. Sterling and Simons Middle 1 dents will be able to send their work opportunity to be a pan of this pro­ School in Aemingsburg, have the gram,' says Daniels. to me that way," Daniels says. compressed video, enabling college Wanda Cox is the facilitator at the In addition to the camera, the sys­ students to take classes without trav­ high school and is responsible for tem is also hooked to a computer so eling to MSU and dual credit courses setting up the monitors, focusing the that Daniels is able to call up a par7 will be offered therein the future. The cameras and positioning the camera ticular program for the students and extended campus centers in Ashland, so the speaker can be seen as well as there is an overhead projector that she Big Sandy, Hazard Community Col­ a student who asks a question of the can use to show overhead or even lege, and Licking Valley Extended instructor. She has a control panel on pages from a book if she wanted to. Campus in West Liberty offerclasses her desk to change the camera angle · All this is done through com­ through compressed video. The Uni­ and zoom-in for close-ups. pressed video which is run through versity of Kentucky and Eastern Ken­ 'That makes it seem more per­ the telephone lines, and therefore, tucky University also offer com­ sonal, a little less like we are the there is about a three second delay. pressed video classes. Classes are distancefromeachotherthatweare," "It takes a little while to get used offered at various sites based on in­ says Daniels, who teaches the class to," says Megan Gilvin, one of the terest. from the studio in Ginger Hall on the participating students from BCHS. MSU campus. Therearemicrophones Daniels was chosen for the project atthedesksateachsitesoDanielsand in pan because she is one of the few the students at all the sites can ask college instructors who is certified in questions and have discussions with secondary education. each other; narurally Daniels has a 'This is my third semester teach­ THE COURIER-JOURNAL microphone, too. The students watch ing this course, and I am thrilled to be TUESDAY. Daniels on the monitor and she can taking pan in this unique, partnership MARCH 11. 1997 see them. When a student has a ques­ between higher education and the tions for Daniels, Cox changes the school system," says Daniels. 'The camera angle so Daniels and the stu­ students are pioneers, among the first I/(i Community colleges \ dents at the other sites can see who is in the state to participate in this en­ I oppose any change in the current asking the question. deavor, and the students at Bath relationship with the University of Kentucky as outlined in the March 6 All the lectures are taped, and Cox County are very good to work with. They are patient when there are occa- article, "Patton: Strip UK of two-year says that this is areal advantage. 'The colleges." No proof exists that dem­ students can watch the tape if they sional glitches in the system, and they onstrates how the community col­ have questions about the class dis­ are very cooperative. They also have leges and the commonwealth would cussion, to review their assignments, a good background in writing, thanks be better served or how academic and possibly a student who missed a to their English teachers at the high quality would be improved under a class could view the video to catch school." different governance structure. up," says Cox. "Dr. Daniels is very "I think technology is a good me­ SUZANNE COLLIER, Director helpful and the students can call her dium for learning and I am enjoying Development and Public Relations anytime they have questions. and she the class," says Brad Miller, a senior Owensboro Community College takes time in the beginning of class to fromBCHS. Owensboro. Ky. 42303 SJ 1\-~-L)-lo-.lo MSU AliCHr\11!~ ··1v1SU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, 'Tuesday, March 11, 1997 MSU approves bond issue Funds will be used for wellness center . - ~ ,._. . ·..... - ~·· issue,"th'e "university will .em­ excess will be doled out to em­ By MAoELYNN'CollllRON ploy an architect. to begin de­ ployees in the form of volun_­ OF THE DAILY_ INDEPENDENT signing · the 25,500-square-foot tary cafeteria-style flexibl~ :-··<:-.''i~--~·r~: _: addition.· The project is sch~$ spending accounts. Full-time MOREHEA:D'.,;:.,... 'Morehead uled to be completed before fit& staff members may use the State University_;_ will pay"for semester 1998. ,' - . -:~ money in .those individual ac­ the second phase

THE COURIER-JOURNAL • KENTUCKY • WEDNESDAY, MARCH !~ _1_997 Some students may qualify for loan relief People who live in designated flood-disaster areas may qualify for relief on repaying student loans. Those who qualify will be allowed to forgo payments for three months or to make smaller payments temporarily. Interest will still accrue. The KentuckY Higher Education Assistance authority has set up a toll-free hot line to help: (800) 928-5327. Borrowers must provide their Social Security number and county of residence and must verify that they were harmed by the disaster. - The Frankfort Bureau q I ~dd--Y-L0-9. Marcti 1.3, 19'11 _ MSU ARCHIVES M:JU Clip :.:heet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1997 During the experiment, the students will bang a Experiment hammer on a special aluminum-rod truss that is about 60 inches long and weighs about 24 ounces. The truss, which is modeled after the proposed space station, will be equipped with sensors that will measure the vibra­ by UK students· tions from the hammer. The measurements can be used to determine the location and extent of the damage. The students got their first feel for how the ex!)!'ii­ may help NASA ment will react in weightlessness yesterday while prac­ ticing on an air floor at Link Belt Construction· Equip- ment Co. on Palumbo Drive. _ BY ELIZABETH WADE HALL An air floor is like a giant Air Hockey table. The HERALD-l.EADER STAFF WRITER students floated on a metal pad and practiced hitting NASA has a big problem to solve: how to detect the truss. which was on another pad. After each hit. the damage from orbiting debris on the proposed space truss and the students began to float apart and they station without sending astronauts on a space walk to had to learn how to grab it before it got away. · look for it. Six University of Kentucky mechanical engineering students and their adviser are conducting a $30,000 ex­ periment that might give the space agency its answer. The students are testing a method developed by re­ searchers at UK, the University of Houston and Mc­ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. ■ THURSDAY. MARCH 13, 1997 Donnell Douglas Aerospace that uses vibration mea­ surements to determine the location and extent of dam­ age to a structure_ Kentucky may set. goals The method already has been proven to work on Earth but students need to find out whether it will on graduating blacks work in the zero-gravity of space, said Suzanne Weaver A plan that has won approval by a state Council Smith, associate professor of mechanical engineering · on Higher Education committee would establish a who has been working with NASA and McDonnell statewide goal for black undergraduates at Kentucky's Douglas for the last eight years. . . state universities and community colleges. A school- ""Space debris, abandoned satellites and dust-sized . by-school approach is now used. The proposal would particles are going to cause some damage you won ·1 be the first big overhaul since 1990 of a plan to ex­ necessarilv be able to detect on the space stanon with pand opportunities for black undergraduates. Schools vour eves:" said Kathv Sienko, a junior who spends her would be prodded to cooperate to ensure that black summers working for NASA and aspires to be an as­ high school graduates enroll in college at the same tronaut. rate as their white peers. Another change would "Hopefully with some good results (from the exper­ strengthen the emphasis on making sure that black iment), this technique will be able to be used on the students graduate. The draft plan was approved Tues­ space station." ~ay by the council's committee on equal opportunities. The project - which was funded by UK, the Ken­ tucky Space Grant Consortium and industry - was one of 24 selected for NASA's 1997 Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opporiunities Program. Next month the students will head to Houston where two of th~m will conduct the experiment in sim­ ulated weightlessness on NASA's KC-135 reduced­ gravity aircraft. The plane. which is used to train as­ tronauts and was used to film the movie Apollo 13. flies to a high altitude before falling in a controlled plummet that simulates the weightlessness of space. Sienko, 21, of Maine, N.Y., and Jennifer Ditz, 21, of Fairfield. Ohio, will make two eight-hour flights aboard the KC-135 during the week of April 14. During the flights. the plane will make 40 parabolas and the stu­ dents will have 20 seconds of simulated weightlessness during each parabola to conduct the experiment. - LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY, ■ THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1997 ■ LOGOS College is expecting to benefit from design changes by Bengals

BY HOLLY E. STEPP logo," said Melanie Shaw, CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU director of the college's GEORGETOWN partnership with the Ben­ The Cincinnati Bengals are gals. changing their stripes. The training camp logo And the team's training features a team pennant camp at Georgetown College with the tiger logo beneath. is getting a new logo - An additional pennant with something the college hopes "Training Camp George­ to turn into big bucks. town College" runs beneath The Bengals introduced the tiger. •. . the newly redesigned uni­ The college plans to in­ forms and logo yesterday '~ -•"1 troduce the clothing line for :i~ .C2©&U\e,~v~.if'J·, •· in Cincinnati. the camp in May. The redesign is the first "We hope to make this since the team introduced a yearlong line, with T­ the swirling Bengal tiger L------' shirts and shorts in the stripes in 1981. summer, and sweat shirts The changes in the uniforms are not drastic. with a and heavier items in the fall," Shaw said. new tiger logo added to the jersey sleel'es and simpli­ Profits from the merchandise will go to the college to fied tiger stripes on the jersey and pants. pay for maintenance and construction costs on the S3 mil­ The new tiger logo also is featured on the training lion stadium complex under construction for the camp. camp's logo and will be part of the clothing line mar­ Shaw said the college is negotiating with Kentucky keted by the college. Textiles in Paris to manufacture the line, and with area Georgetown College, which was selected last year department stores and businesses for distribution. as the site for the four-week summer training camp, The Bengals training camp begins the first week in has the sole merchandising and marketing rights for July. any camp products and apparel. "We are the only training camp to have our own The Assodated Press •••contributed to this report. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1997 both community colleges and techni­ "The message is consistent, that cal schools, Ford said. (separating the two-year schools . "Wf~ not talking about any role from UK) would weaken the commu­ dimimShing the community-college Letter nity-college system if it became a system, We're talking about enhanc­ separate entity," Ford said, ing it," he said. • Ben Carr, chancellor of the 14-­ UK officials say the university has campus community college system, operated the colleges efficiently and campaign could not be reached for comment effectively for more than 30 years yesterday. and that there is no justifiable reason The Courier-Journal reported last for a change. pleads· week that Patton was strongly lean­ The state's 24 postsecondary tech­ ing toward putting the community nical schools are operated by the colleges with the state's technical state's Workforce Development Cabi­ schools under a new governing net. UK's case· board. Ford said that most of the letters Patton and consultants working were mailed either last Friday or over with the Task Force on Postsecon­ the weekend. dary Education, which he heads, "As a former state senator, you Don't strip away have argued that greater coordina­ ki!'d of suspect that these things are tion is needed between the communi­ m1tiated by some entity somewhere, community colleges, ty colleges and technical schools. because they all happen to hit you They contend a closer link would the same day," Ford said, writers tell Patton eliminate inefficiencies and allow UK "We just assume that there is an to focus more on research and gradu­ organized movement to encourage By RICHARD WILSON ate education. people to express themselves." The Courier-Journal Ford said the letters are being tak­ Under Patton's tentative plan, the en seriously and that Patton plans to technical schools would become col­ FRANKFORT, Ky. - A letter-writ­ answer them. He said the governor leges and offer technical degrees. ing campaign ur!ling Gov. Paul Pat­ has made no final decision on any They and UK's community colleges ton to let the Umversity of Kentucky proposals, which ultimately will go to would be overseen by a new state continue to run the state's communi­ lawmakers in a special session in community and technical college ty colleges is apparently under way. May. board. The governor has received about Patton said earlier this week that It would have a president whose 130 letters since Monday from com­ he plans to release his reform agenda st~ture and salary would be on a par munity-college faculty, students and in time for it to be discussed at the with those of a state university presi­ a few college presidents, Ed Ford, task force's April 14-15 meeting. dent. Under that president, two chan­ deputy secretary of Patton's execu­ Whatever Patton decides on the is- cellors would run the dual system of tive cabinet. said vesterdav. rnnin,11nih, ,. .. ,-1 t-n.-.1.. .. :;..,.,.1 .-..-.11---- A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1997 ;Patton wants UK to be state's flagship school "I've felt strongly about UK's role for a long time · ~ • 1 and I just want people to know what I think of its po- O S O ave fiaITOW !OCUS, reglOfia Stential," Patt?n said. . .. U f L h uld h UK President Charles Wethmgton could not be: I reached for comment. . . : : ·. sh OU ld ed ucate masses l governor says To make UK a nat10nally recognized research mstl'· BY JACK BRAMMER Kentucky State) and the University of tution would take 20 years, said Patton, a UK engineer-· HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU Louisville," Patton said. "It should at- ing graduate. FRANKFORT - The University of tract the brightest students inside and Patton said his vision for UK involves centering "a: Kentucky should be the state's flagship outside the state." concentration of intellectual capacity in one place." ·- institution - a nationally recognized UK "should not be in remedial edu- Without elaboration, Patton said U of L should fo.-; research school on par with the Univer­ cation if it's going to be a great re- rus '!'or~ on_ narrow academic fields in lin~ :vith an ur­ siiy of North Carolina and Indiana Uni­ search institution," Patton said. Most , ban mshtut10n. And the reg10nal universities "s_hould versity, Gov. Paul Patton said vester- of UK's remedial education actually is I ha".e one or two areas where they are the best m the•: day. . done at Lexington Community College. nation but t_hey 1:1ust edu":;te masses of people baser.: "As great as our basketball team is Patton is said to be considering , on what their regi?n needs. . -~; that's not what makes UK great and stripping UK of its 14 community col- Pat_ton also did not elaborate :,vhen he said (he,, I'm a big basketball fan," Patton' said leges _ though he has said publicly statewide network of county agnrulture extens1011 yes~erday while speaking to a group of that he has not decided the issue He agents should be removed from UK. . .• busmess leaders and education advo­ said his comments yesterday were· not The gove_rnor repeated hjs goal of providing _an _ex=-· cates. aimed .at deflecting criticism from UK ?-1 $100 million a year for higher education, beginning_ The governor, who plans to call a supporters. m fiscal year 2000. "c':'. special legislative session May 5 to con­ sider reforms in higher education, also said the Kentucky Tech post-secondary technical schools should be removed from the state's Workforce Develop­ ment Cabinet and become an indepen- dent system. · Patton's comments came in a 90- minute session at the Capitol with about 20 representatives of the Ken­ tucky Chamber of Commerce, Advo­ cates for Higher Education and the Prichard Committee for Academic Ex­ cellence, The session also included questions by video conferencing from groups in Ashland, Somerset, Eliza- bethtown and Owensboro. ·· Though Patton has not yet present­ ed his plan to overhaul the state's post­ secondary education system, he indicat­ ed yesterday several of his major con­ cerns. One was the role of UK, the state's largest university. UK "should be our flagship school and I don't say that to the detriment of the regionals (Morehead, Murray, East­ ern. Western, Northern Kentucky and The Daily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, March 13, 1997 Patton gets letters on proposal colleges and technical schools, Ford said. Writers: Let UK run community colleges "We're not talking about any FRANKFORT (AP) - Gov. entity somewhere, because needed between the com­ role diminishing the com­ Paul Patton has received about they all happen to hit you the munity colleges and technical munity-college system. We're 130 letters since Monday urg­ same day," Ford said. "We just schools. talking about enhancing it," ing him to let the University of assume that there is an organ­ They say a closer link would he said. Kentucky continue to run the ized movement to encourage end inefficiencies, letting UK UK officials say there is no state's community colleges. people to express themselves." focus more on research and justifiable reason for a change, The letters came from com­ Ben Carr, chancellor of the graduate education. arguing that the university munity college faculty, stu­ 14-campus community college Ford said the -letters are has operated the colleges ef­ dents and a few college presi­ system, could not be reached being taken seriously and Pat­ ficiently· and effectively for dents in what appeared to be for comment. ton plans to answer them. He more than 30 years. an organized campaign, said The Courier-Journal re­ said the governor has made no The state's 24 postsecondary Ed Ford, deputy secretary of ported last week that Patton final decision on any pro­ technical schools are operated Patton's executive Cabinet. was strongly leaning toward posals, which ultimately will by the state's Workforce De­ "The message is consistent, putting the community col­ go to a special session in May. velopment Cabinet. that (separating the two-year leges with the state's technical Patton said this week that Under Patton's tentative· schools from UK) would weak­ schools under a new governing he plans to release his agenda plan, the technical schools en the community-college sys­ board. in time for it to be discussed at would become colleges and tem if it became a separate en­ Patton and consultants the task force's April 14-15 offer technical degrees. They tity," Ford said Wednesday. working with the Task Force meeting. and UK's community colleges "As a former state senator, on Postsecondary Education, Whatever Patton decides on would be overseen by a new you kind of suspect that these which he heads, have argued the issue will be an effort to state community and technical things are initiated by some that greater coordination is strengthen both community college board. · THE COURIER-JOURNAL• FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1997 WKU president open to giving up control of community college Associated Press complish this (better coordination), yes,' II OWENSBORO, Ky. - Western Meredith will become chancellor of Kentucky University's outgoing presi­ the University of Alabama's three­ dent says if the University of Ken­ campus system June 1. tucky is asked to relinquish control of Western's community college - community colleges, perhaps his which is not associated with the UK school should give up its own commu­ system - serves 1,250 students and nity college. offers two-year associate degrees in "Certainly that's a decision that is fields including banking and general to be made by the (Western) board of studies. regents," ·President Tom Meredith Patton intends to call the Kentucky said Wednesday. legislature into special session May 5 Gov. Paul Patton reportedly is lean­ to address postsecondary education. ing toward separating 14 community The governor said Monday that he colleges from UK and putting them would present his proposal before his under a new governing board with Task Force on Postsecondary· Educa­ Kentucky Tech, the state's system of tion meets again April 14. vocational-technical schools. During an interview with The Mes­ senger-Inquirer, Meredith defended Meredith said he supports the com­ Western's plans to put a $3.4 million munity college-technical school ar­ building on the Owensboro Commu• rangement. nity College campus. He also said he has talked with If the 1998 General Assembly ap­ people in other states and they think proves funding, the 30,800-square­ technical schools and community col­ foot building would be shared by leges belong together so they can re­ OCC students and by students from spond to the needs of their areas. Western's extension campus in Meredith said the 11overnor asked Owensboro. him some time ago 1f he would be Those students now take classes at willing to surrender Western's com­ other locations, although Western's munity college at Bowling Green. nursing students already take classes "And I said, 'If it took that to ac• on the Owensboro campus. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Wednesday, March 19, 1997 lnlerviews set for ACC presidency-finalists t • Community College at Tampa, higher education from the Uni­ York university. By G EORGE WoLFFORD Fla., is scheduled for interview versity of Kansas, specializing Past positions have included O F T HE D AILY IND~PENDENT Monday. in higher edu cation man-' directing a division for Mana­ Angeline Dvorak, dean of agement; and master and bach­ tee Community College in Bra­ ASHLAND - Fina lists fo r arts and sciences at J ackson, elor of science in business de• '­ denton. Fla., from 1987 to 1995. the presidency of Ashland Tenn.. State Community Col­ grees from the University of Before that he taught sociology Community College will be in­ lege will be on campus next Kansas School of Business. at Wesleyan College in Geor­ terviewed this week and next Thursday. Before coming to Belmont gia. Indiana University and hy the school's search com­ They are the last four of six seven years ago he served 13 the University of Central Ar­ m ilteP and college constitu­ interviews among a field of six years as vice president at kansas. ' 11 ts. finalists chosen from 97 ap­ Western Nebraska Community Dvorak, with a background Dr. Deborah Hecht, vice plicants who sought to fill the Hecht Channell Khoury Dvo,:ak College; two years as associate of study and teaching English, presjdent for instruction a t vacancy left when Dr. Charles dean or assistant provost at has a law degree from Thomas l.nke City Community College " Chic k" Dassance becam e Before ta king her present at the Community College of Park College in Missouri. M. Cooley Law School, a Ph.D. i 11 Florida, is scheduled on president of Central Florida job in 1992, she was vice presi­ Southe rn Nevada for four Khoury has a doctorate from from Florida State University, , ·1mpus Thursday. Community College in Ocala. dent/dean or associate dean of years. the University of Georgia, a master 's degrees from the Uni­ Dr. W.R. " Wes" Channell of Hecht has a Ph.D. in experi­ master's from Florida Atlantic. educational services for four She has a private pilot's Ji. versity of Alabama and Florida St. Clnircsville. Ohio. presi­ mental psychology from the University and bachelor's from years at Western Nebraska cense and has a background in State University and a bach­ dent of Belmont Technical Col- University of Texas, Austin, City College of City University elor's from Troy State Univer, 1,·gC'. will visit Friday. and a bachelor's in psychology Community College in Scotts• undergraduate teaching ex­ of New York, all in sociology. bluff. Prior to that. she was perience. sity. She got her associate de­ Dr. Robert Khoury, district from the University of Nevada, His associate degree in chemis­ gree from Gulf Coast Com­ \ ice president of 1-fillsborough Las Vpgas. outreach service coordinator Channell has a dortorate in try also came from the New munity College. Before coming to Jackson. Cl) she was a faculty administra­ Ill tor at Michigan State Univer­ > sity for four years. Prior to r- ::c that she directed English edu­ I (.) cation projects or taught En­ 0 oc glish in two.year colleges in ,'i:- Enterprise, Ala., and Panama -u ~ City, Fla. She began teaching _; ::> ::) I c in Panama City, Fla., Chris­ (6 ~ (/) tian School. (o . ~ ,._ a: ~ ~ - :c 0) ~ 00 0) tz ..-i 00 00 0 UJ -~ 00 II: 0 ..; 0 z C 00 0 Q.) lo. UJ a, ..-i =ca Q.) lo. a. "O .c -' UJ C U ~ ~ 00 0 0 a, ... ~ ~ a. - i ~ 00 = w ...J C" • c:, <{ - >, u =~ Q.) Q.) 11: 0 >, >- u.. a, ,- .c ~.,- vide continuing education for dency of Ashland Community "It's a lot cheaper fo_-_retain people who need it. than to recruit," she said. -' College said Thursday her --- Her· own -- experien~e Kirkland later told teachers proudest accomplishment has fias· his management style was par­ been "to_ create an environ­ shown that mid-term inter­ ticipatory, building academic ment where everybody can vention salvages students programs from the bottom up. talk, where people aren't who might have_ been~_l)eyond "You get a faculty or staff to afraid to try." help by the end of the semes- buy in, give their input, in­ Dr. Deborah Hecht said she stead of operating in isolation. strives for - and has t.~tiie ,~- tol;if{~~imtJ I have an open door policy and achieved at Lake City Com­ support th,oughout ·_th!,5-col_,., would bring it here with me." munity College in Florida - legei ,i'and · not -jµ_~L'.1)1;\tp.e. He told instructor Nick an atmosphere surrounding classi:p,(im,.~O:1e ~~Y.-isei:i°ei,; Ghassomians he quit simple where there is no punish­ 1· ·tary can make the differ- . lecturing long ago to embrace ment for failure but where more-modern teaching technol­ ence," she said. success is celebrated. Innovations like · 7:30 a.m. ogy, focusing on collaborative Blowing the horn for those assignments that make stu­ classes · and 6'ompressed­ successes is part of a larger schedule · courses' might open dents work together. plan of letting the public Kirkland had 10 years of ex­ know what's going on, she doors for students who can't perience as an English instruc­ said. meet customary hours, she tor, five years as director of an "We've got to find our , suggested. off-campus center and four niche and sell it." · Hecht said she -supports re­ years as a dean before coming Hecht told John Mays, a medial classes. "We have to to his present job. member of the college advi­ have them or we can't put Four more finalists for the sory board, that her greatest students into classes Where job left behtnd by Dr. Charles management problem has· they have to read textbooks "Chick" Dassance will be in­ been in trying to step up to terviewed in the next eight two inches thick."· , ------·"" days - Thursday and Friday make changes when those de­ And such "classes need to ·lie cisions belonged to people taught five ·days a week, she of this week, Monday and under her direction. Wednesday of next week. The Hecht told the faculty she said, because students need search conimittee hopes to ' constant reinforcement. hire a replacement-by July l. sought the job because she felt ready and had the experi­ The fourth finalist for the ence, desire and stamina to ACC job, Dr. W.R. "Wes" LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON. KY. handle it. Channell, visited the campus ■ TH4RSDAY, MARCH 20, 1997 "The school is small today. Still to come fcir inter­ enough that people can talk views are Dr. Robert Khoury, to each other," she said. district vice president for aca­ Two major She told the advisory board demic affairs at Hillsborough that if she got the job, she ex­ Community College in Tampa, pected to stay "as long as I on Monday, and Dr. Angeline fraternities and you feel I'm effective, and Dvorak, dean of arts and sci­ I would trust you to tell me." ences at Jackson (Tenn.) State ban alcohol Hecht, currently vice presi­ College, on Wednesday. dent for instruction ·at the The six finalist are vying to Florida school, supervises' succeed Dr. Charles "Chick" in houses management and operation of Dassance, who left in Decem­ instructional functions, in­ ber to become president of ASSOCIATED PRE~S • cluding planning/develop- Central Florida Community CINCINNATI- Hang up your togas: The days of animal houses COllege at Ocala. "· i are endangered. l.EXJNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1997 : Two major fraternities have be­ can study and hang out," said come the first in the nation to ban Robert Pasquinucci, a spokesman ■ FRANKFOR"'T.--- alcohol in chapter houses, and for Phi Delta Theta, which an­ Universities gain from personal tags: Eight more are expected to follow suit. nounced their policy this week. public universities are picking up scholarship money The new policy· by Phi Delta A spot check of University of from the sale of personalized auto license tags bearing Theta and Sigma Nu is aimed at a · Cincinnati's fraternity row found their names. Last year, they received $6,275 from the new breed of frat boy more serious few brothers willing to embrace the state, with the University of Kentuc_ky collecting $3,780 about earning a dfgree than chug­ new trend. on the sale of 756 plates. The University of Louisville ging beer. The ban is supposed to "It's a fad. It's all politically was second with $1,225 for 245 tags. Bernie _ go into effect by the year 2000. . correct," scoffed Eric Thurston as Vonderheide; UK director of public relations, originated -~They're coming to school to he tossed a football yesterday out­ the idea anl;I approached then-state Rep. Bob Jones, get ·an education and they need· a side the Alpha Tau.Omega house. who introduced legislation in the General Assembly. family and some friends. They Phi Delta Theta, based in Ox­ Th_e plates became available in 1988. County clerks sell want a c~e::ui •. ~~'~ouse w~e \!l_ey__ ford, Ohio, ~asJS_0 .c~apters _and the plates for $30, plus the normal registration fee. A I 7,500 members. Lexington; Va.-. total of $5 goes to the university's scholarship fund, based Siiima Nu has 210 chapters and $25 to the Transportation Cabinet for the n,;,jntp. T ,, ,,, ' ,,1ii..1 ~1,uu1, ,,,._,1,uLI:::>, nance ul roads. Plates are available at county clerks' offices when, tags are renewecL,1;,t'(1i',-.. --<...... -.,, · The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, March 14, 1997 ~CC presidentictl search resumes l\',JQp';'d@:'M,,,j -hanel to 1· nterv1· ew· other· 5 f1· na1'1· sts· The finalists were chosen Coll~ge in Ocala. .,}~t.c\.-;o:!ii~~'.ri~!i~n .dti~'-"?:>•"';,,:, ' ·i'i r from 97· who applied for the Noe, a member of the a~lh~·:::Yi,~nk:l!_~!1lit1st'l · :", j job. istra~ion at Sout~east (!)?.in•·: -:q!!(J 1 ~)t~ i,~ ·: , ident for academics at Darton Fla., March 24. Each will tou~ the school, mumty College m CumBer- Borger, Texas,. . • 1 By GEORGE WOLFFORD College, Albany, Ga .. on Mon- ► Angeline Dvorak, dean of then meet with the presiden- land, is not a candidate for'the for fouf years);) OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT day. arts and sciences, Jackson, tial search committee. interim position. . Before that he'.;;: ► Deborah Hecht. vice presi- Tenn., ·state Community. Col- President Roger Noe, the col- The school hopes to seat a directed the}~ ASHLAND - A search com- dent for instruction. i:,ake City, lege, March 26. lege's advisory board and foun- new president by July I. Del Rio Centert mittee looking for a new presi- Fla .. Community' College, on The other candidate. Dr. dation, faculty and staff, de- Monday's interviewee, Kirk- of Sotithwesf dent for Ashland Community Thursday. Ervin Griffin. vice president partmental deans, students land, holds a bachelor's degree Texas · JUniol-7' t:;ollege begins two weeks of in- ► Wes Channell. president, for student affairs at West Vir- and community members. from Sam Houston. State Uni- College' andtj;Kttliiai{ii.i,;ff~ terviews on Monday with Belmont Technical College, St. ginia Stale College at Institute, Dr. Charles "Chick" Das- versi_ty and a Ph.J?.,. bo~h._!n taught E~glis~.:'"r ·::':il%~1'fi1ffJ plans to talk to five of six fl- Clairesville. Ohio. March 21. met with ACC representatives sance resign~d in December En?hsh,_ from Texas Christian Ip.~re. '.. . · J;,c \:{ ~ , .:1.)! 11-;; nalists for the job. ► Robert Khoury, district on March 6, prior to the after four years in ACC's top Umvers1ty. , . · Previously, he taugljf ·t r~'u,) The five are: vice president. Hillsborough school's spring vacation this post to become president of Before taking hisJffesentjob t'qr._nil)e yearf:~!1~~W:, )J< i! ► Joseph Kirkland. vice pres- Community College, Tampa, week. .. Central Florida Community in 1992, Kirkland was dean of years in the Army. •.,., · !k\i ·~'("1, The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, March 20, 1997 .• (' ~ Jj"I_ ·,, ., ·.' !

~ C 'Personalized auto tags raise 0 f- ■ I'- z Ol 0 money for state universities Ol z II) ,-i 0 a. LEXINGTON (AP) - Eight 20, $100; and Kentucky State tomobiles, said John D. Trag­ ,,; a: :l!: N 40 public universities are picking 14, $70. er, assistant director of the De­ ,: :c :c up scholarship money from Bernie Vonderheide, UK di­ partment of Vehicle Regula­ """ 11)1- the sale of personalized auto. li­ rector of public relations, orig- · tion. ::;:"" cense tags bearing their ,: inated the idea and ap­ County clerks sell the plates .,: names. proached then-state Rep. Bob z for $30, plus the normal regis­ "=> Last year. they received Jones, who introduced legisla­ (/) tration fee. A total of $5 goes to $6,275 from the state, with the tion in the General Assembly. Ill University of Kentucky col­ The plates became available in the university's scholarsh.ip ,: $3,780 756 fund, and $25 to the .Transpor­ lecting on the sale : for 245 tags. university license program .:i Q Other schools: Western Ken­ like other states have," fices when tags are renewed. a: tucky University 109 tags, $545; Vonderheide said Wednesday. The university plates are "'w ~ Eastern Kentucky University "'w" ::c Some of the best publicity eighf of about 30 specialty -' 58, $290; Morehead State 29, comes from the plates them­ plates sold in Kentucky and C < ca $145; Murray State 24, $120; selves as they travel through­ are by far the most popular, "" w Northern Kentucky University out the state on the back of au- Trager said. :':! z z w 0 CJ ~ II) "'z w -'" ■ I<; ■ SUNDAY MARCH 23, 1997 Let's not stop there. Let's describe . LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, y. • people's clothing (suits or Dollar qen~ . • - .~, To be fair. then, shouldn't the editors plaid) in d~tail; the~ hom1:5 (pal~l!al ed1, ~~-~ ' --- ,,,:, •·.,:~ , of each paper declare either universal jl9; fices or tra!lers), their habits (drinkmg, " ~ Vincent is from Louisville but the· ar• were down to 1,038 from 1,157 and specialists said alcohol abuse posed btirglaries were down to 16,0ll, a far greater problem. The survey tide is about Eastern Kentucky. · :. L, A February article by Allen G. Breed from 16,789. · found 15,208 arrests for liquor-law of The Associated Press regarding _ '. But forcible sex offenses were violations, up from 15,027. And, dropout moms trying to get off welfare -· up. to 973, froll) 955 in 1994. added Steve Lustig, executive .di- by taking school buses to high school ip :"There were 6,797 arrests for rector of University Health Services dl'.llg violations in 1995, up from at the University of California at various Eastern Kentucky counties ijh-1:. ~ minated several glaring ~tical 5,f64 the previous year. The Berkeley, "Almost all of the sexual er· ' largest increase was reported at assaults here last year were alco- rors. He quoted some of the women a$• saying: "There isn't no jobs in Leslie • : Northern Arizona University, with hol-related." . . , County," "I'm afraid I won't be able to . 133 drug arrests in the 1995-96 The Chronicle cautioned that· support my young'un ... ," and "Sissy, • academic year, up from 78 the pre- t_he crime reports are not necessari•.· how do .you ride that bus and you ll!af: vibus year. . _ · ly complete. Crimes involving stu- old?" . _ :· Ten other institutions reported dents.at an urban campus, for ex­ rni,re than 100 drug arrests in _1995: ample, might be handled. by .local Incidentally, the quotes from a prCP.:, • At!zona State University'; Michigan police, not campus ·ageii\:/es, and gram supervisor were granunaticall:.·c!!r­ Slate University, Rutgers Universi- thus not included in the data. Fur­ rect I wonder. . •. .J- So what's wrong with this realis~c; '. ~:San Jose State Univ_ersityjn_ Cal- · thet, co)leges .with a;profes'sional. style? Well, for starters, newspapers :~ · ifei-nia, the University ot·Atjzona, police force, not li"campµii;'. judicial . t~ University. of California at- sj,steni';. may· sliciw liigher crime· aren't novels. Journalists hav_e pro~. ~rkeley, the-University 'of Mary-_ rates because of mo',e~~essivii': people with· imperfect speech and pen:~~ lafid at College Park, the University enforcement. Ai:id hot aJ(·the-crimes. chants for colloquialisms for centuries[;,,: o~: Michigan, the University of involve students. · · ·' · ·., . and it is disconcerting to see that trad1!,.: tion broken, especially when a "new"' . ·' style is confined to one geographical ~­ tion of this state. · • '.: ·'1' Now, if all of the state's newspapers" were to adopt· this new verbatim jo_urrnili ism, it would be a different matter. It''.':: would rid their pages ·of bigotry and' !in:,. plied inferiority if all repo~ wrote··', .. down exactly .what their:'@ofees _saitL"li! •: But' as it is' ~- lefiomF:astem1{eh'.,r'< tucky who ~~oted iii tlieir'hlitive'~''! o e whether it'iii' " iimli!ic;ii)cy'"!:&J' ~~r'no~· are urifairr;3eij•ouf~i!? literate by imnlication. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. II SUNDAY. MARCH 16. 1997 r--E!)ITORb\LS An opportunity for greatness UK and its president can come out on top by concentrating on long-range goals rom Morehead to Murray, Highland Heights to as adversity, but as opportunity. Bowling Green, each of the state's eight universi­ Suppose, for instance, Patton suggests the sensible Fties lias its own constituency - among the citi­ leap to a unified system operating under some forn1 of zenrv and in the General Assemblv. "super board" and funded in a way that rewards quali­ There is, however. just one Big Kahun~. one 900- ty not quantity. Under such circumstances, relieving pound gorilla, one flagship institution with friends in UK of the community colleges and the responsibility every port from the Big Sandy to the Big Muddy, from for lower division remedial courses would leave the the banks of the Ohio to the shores of Dale school free to concentrate on attaining na­ Hollow Lake. tional prominence with its· upper division, This first among non-equals, the Univer­ He can be graduate and research work. sity of Kentucky, has the potential to be Gov. I! visionary Yes, we know renewed talk of stripping Paul Patton's worst nightmare or his sweet­ university the community colleges from UK strikes est dream as he pursues his goal of higher president, Joining closer to home for Wethington than it would education reform in Kentucky. Right now,· with a for another UK president. He ascended to with UK leaders revving up a war to save reform-minded power from the community college system, control of the community colleges, it looks governor to lead so his loyalty is understandable. But loyalty like restless nights ahead for the governor. this state toward can be blinding; and Wethington must not UK's attitude is disappointingly short­ the academic lose sight of the fact that what he does now, sighted. We don't know what changes in excellence it so in response to reform efforts, will determine higher education Patton ultimately will pro­ sorely needs. his legacy. · pose. We do know considerable change is a He can make history, or he can relegate must if this state is to lift itself from its edu- himself to history's footnotes. He can be a cational and economic depths. visionary university president, joining with a reform­ We know, too, that the plan Patton settles on for minded governor to lead this state toward the academ­ creating his oft-meptioned "seamless system" of higher ic excellence it so sorely needs. Or he can be just one education must solidify UK's position as king of the more in a long line ·of turf-conscious university presi­ Kentucky mountain and enhance its ability to achieve dents responsible for-letting this state wallow in medi­ national prominence. ocrity. That's why UK. and particularly President Charles The choice is Charles Wethington's. We urge him Wethington, should look on Patton·s reform push not to make the right one.

The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, March 18, 1997 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, March 14, 1997 ~Former Rowan educator Status of WKU's satellite pondered Lake Cooper dies at 74 OWENSBORO - Western MOREHEAD - Lake Cor­ She was a former member of Kentucky University·s nett Cooper, 74, of Morehead, a the Morehead City Council, outgoing president says if former associate professor the Rowan County school the University of Kentucky emeritus of board and the Morehead util­ is asked to relinquish mathematical ity Plant Board. control of the commtmity sciences at Surviving are her husband, colleges. perhaps his school Morehead Warren Harding Cooper; a son, should give up its State Uni­ Fred Cooper of· Morehead; a community college. versity, died daughter, Penny Alderman of ··certainly that"s a Monday at Morehead; three brothers, decision that is to be made her home. Coney Cornett of Greenville, by the (Western) Board of Mrs. Coo­ Ohio, Brode Cornett of More­ Regents ... President Tom per was born head and Bernie Cornett of Ni­ Meredith said Wednesday. Jan. 9, 1923, cholasville; four sisters, Lola There were published in Knott Faye Jones of New Smyrna reports last week that Gov. County, a daughter of the late Beach, Fla., Grace Amburgey Paul Patton is leaning Bill and Malissa Combs Cor­ and Madge Mayo, both of toward separating the 14 nett. Clearfield, and Mable Smith of community colleges from She was also a former in­ Crown Point, Ind.;_ and six UK and putting them under structor at the University of grandchildren. a new governing board with Kentucky and taught in the Kentucky Tech. the state's Bracken, Knott and Perry The funeral will be con­ system of vocational­ county school systems. ducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday at technical schools. She was a graduate of More­ Northcutt & Son Home for Fu­ head State University and the nerals in Morehead by the Meredith said he supports Rev. Harold Tackett. Burial the community University of Kentucky. She was a member of Morehead will be in Caudill Cemetery at college-technical school Sharkey. arrangement. First Christian Church, the Mathematical Association of Friends may call after 6 p.m. America, the National Council today at the funeral home. of Teachers of Mathematics, -In lieu of flowers,' contribu­ the Christian:Women's Fellow­ tions may be made to the s)lip, tlie League ·or. -Women Ainerican Cancer··society, the Voters, the Morehead State Sf:· Claire MedicalTenter Hos­ University Women's Club, Pi pice or the Lake Cornett Coo­ Mu Epsilon, Kappa Delta Pi per Scholarship Fund, c/o the and Daughters of the Ameri­ Morehead State University can Revolut\on. Foundation Inc. -LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON. KY. II MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1997 Kentuclijr's Vie'.tnam memories .. - -.· Professors begin re$earch of oral ·history How to reach them If you are Interested in talking BY ANGIE MUHS of duty in combat. while her best with Yvonne Baldwin or John HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER friend was an anti-war protester. Ernst about your expertences dur­ When Yvonne Baldwin and John "We're hoping to find people ing the Vietnam War, you may Ernst began teaching a class about the like that who will share their expe­ call Baldwin at (606) 783-5160 Vietnam War, their students spilled forth riences," he said. or Ernst at (606) 783-2484. The professors also hope to Or, you may write them at 350 recollections about how the war bad af­ Rader Hall, Morehead State fected their families and hometowns. borrow things like photographs, University, Morehead, Ky., Now, Baldwin and Ernst, who are diaries or other documents that 40351-1689. both assistant history professors at could be microfilmed and then re­ You could also send them elec­ Morehead State University, aie'boping turned to the original owners. tronic mail at y.baldwi@msua­ to cast that net of reminiscences a bit . . Eventually, Ernst and Baldwin cadJ11orehead-st.edu or · · '.: wider. hope to write a book about Ken­ [email protected]. st.edu · , .. , They are embarking on a tuckians' experiences during the ,.:1,- "·"..... statewide project to interview Ken­ war. They plan to do most of their . ' tuckians about their experiences dur­ interviews this spring and summer. ing the war - combat veterans, nurs­ "A lot of academic studies - es, student protesters, draft board rightfully and naturally - ignore members and anyone else who was af­ the personal, individual experi­ fected. ences, of what the war meant to "We're just interested in talking to Americans," Baldwin. said: "But as many people as we can," Ernst said. the personal part bas as much to "It bad such an impact on so many teach us as the diplomatic and eco­ · people." nomic and political parts." "No story is too small," Baldwin added. The research will be the first statewide oral history, although some smaller, local projects have been done The Sunday Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, March 16, 1997 before, the professors said. Their. work is being supported by grants from the Kentucky Oral History Commission and Morehead State. Sfildent center home away The project grew out of a class the two professors taught jointly on mod­ from home for students em history, focusing on Vietnam and the buildings most students ministrators' and students' Pr Watergate. By ANDREA PEIERSEN and parents ask to see. "You thusiasm for the costly union THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Baldwin and Ernst bring very dif­ need an attractive union to be "In my own department \\ - ferent perspectives to that era.. "We're competitive with other institu­ have equipment getting on in The students at Appalachian tions that are pulling out all age, and it needs to be re­ kind of an academic odd couple," State University in Boone. the stops," says Wayne Ander­ placed," says James Perley, a Ernst said. N.C., are starting to stick son, president of the As­ biology professor at the Col­ Ernst, 34, knows of only one dis­ around campus on weekends. sociated Colleges of the South, lege of Wooster in Ohio and tant relative who fought in the war. That's how much they love a group of 13 regional liberal president of the American As­ their new $9.7 million student arts schools. "Parents and stu­ sociation of University Profes­ "Mv main memory of it is being over union. at my grandparents' house and seeing dents are increasingly asking, sors. "The answer you get is "We all pretty much live 'What am I getting for my pay­ it's easier to raise money for it on TV," he said. "I remember seeing here." says Page Bradham. a ment?"' buildings than for educational Walter Cronkite and body bags and senior hanging out at the Alan Resnick of Sasaki As­ purposes." maps of Vietnam." union one recent afternoon. "I sociates, a Watertown. Mass .. The money for new or reno­ For Baldwin, the memories cut eat here. I meet my friends. I architectural firm. says unions vated unions often comes from take naps here.·· are important because prospec­ students' pockets. usually in deeper. She had been married just 18 That's exactly what Ap­ months when her husband shipped out tive students form impressions the form of student fees. Of the palachian's administration of a school so quickly. "Most. $22 million construction cost to Vietnam. Her two brothers also had hoped Bradham and his high school students decide if for renov~ting Pennsylvania fought in the war. and one was badly fellow students would do. Like they like a university or not in State University's union. $16 many other colleges across the 15 seconds ... he says. "A nice million will come from a wounded. Many of her friends country, Appalachian has were killed. union shows the place cares newly imposed student fee of spent millions of dollars to about students." Today, a nice $25 a semester. Those memories sometimes create a student center that union looks like a high-class Student unions have tradi­ make it hard for her to relive the will attract students to the hotel, with modern furnish­ tionally cost more to run than period as she teaches it. Once, she campus and then hold them ings, tall ceilings, wide-open they brought in, so now many had to leave the room during a there in their leisure hours. spaces and tasteful paintings schools are renting space to re­ Today, student centers - once on the walls. tail shops that help pay opera!· documentary film. little more than dingy lounges "This is a very emotional war Student unions can also help ing expenses. with banks of vending ma­ solve another campus problem: At Northeastern, students for me· to step back and try to chines - have become among keeping students out of mis­ held a referendum about four teach,'' said Baldwin, 49. "I tell my the biggest and most lavish chief off-campus. "There are Years ago to increase their' stu­ students that I ,viii not be a disin- buildings on college campuses, other kids there. there are dent fees to pay for the renova­ often housing state-of-the-art terested person in other adults ...!.. it's a real tion of their 32-year-old stu­ health clubs. computing cen­ strong support system," says dent center. The school put in "I remem' all this." ters. food courts. art galleries Betsy Herrscher. mother of a a food court to rival any sub­ Ernst said that and working fireplaces. her seeing students' r.eac- senior at Northeastern Univer­ urban shopping mall's, with Student unions have become sity in Boston. which recently eight places to eat including a Walter tions in the class increasingly important mar­ spent $13 million renovating Burger King, a deli. a Chinese Cronkite convinced him keting tools because. along its student union. restaurant. a vegetarian cafe and body that the state is with residence halls. they are Not everyone shares the ad- and a Starbucks. bags and full of Kentuck- maps of ians with unique Vietnam." perspectives. For JOHN E~' · instance, 1me older assistant student who bad history returned to school professor and wrote a paper researcher about how her husband had served two tours LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1997 Better schools don't always ...... :lead to economic prosperity

.. , . BY PETER APPLEBDME skills and knowledge of America's and the economy is far more com­ rom the dire warnings of edu• children is closely linked to their plicated than the conventional wis­ · cational and national decline economic prospects. And it is clear dom has it. ; Fin the 1983 "Nation at Risk" that the current focus on education M0st experts say corporate de­ : r~rt to President Clinton's full­ reflects changes in the workplace cisions, tlie economic aspects of the court press on education as the key that make education a more critical national culture, the vagaries of the , io.national prosperity, the direct component of an individual's eco­ business cycle and numerous other lihk between schooling and the nomic success than before. factors play a far greater role than el;()nomy has become part of the Frank Levy, a professor of ur­ education in the nation's economic conventional wisdom of American ban economics at the Massachu­ success. education. setts Institute of Technology and "The link between education Education Secretary Richard Ri­ the author, with Richard Murnane, and the national economy is pretty ley put it bluntly in his State of of Teaching the New Basic Skills, tenuous in all but the grossest American Education Address last notes that in 1979, a 30-year-old sense - say the difference between month: "Education is the engine man with a high school diploma developed anc:l undeveloped coun­ that drives our economy." And as earned a yearly average of $27,700 tries," said Peter Cappelli. co-direc­ the earnings gap between brains in 1993 dollars. By 1993, a high tor of the National Center on the and brawn grows eve~ larger, al­ school graduate was only earning Educational Quality of the Work­ most no one doubts the link be­ $20,000. force at the University of Pennsyl­ ,....,tween education. and an individ- Fifteen years ago, the typical vania. "Could you improve the ~-.uu's econom1c prospects. worker with a college degree made economy by dramatically ratchet­ , , , ...... ,But many educators and econo- 38 percent more than a worker ing up its average education level? :.i!ljsts are increasingly skeptical of with a high school diploma. Today, Other than dropping a lot of :1;)\!,notion that better schools mean the typical college-educated worker Ph.D.'s on Rwanda, it's a very com­ :;t',!Jlore prosperous nation. makes 73 percent more. plicated argument." : ;:·:And as Clinton's education But what holds true for individ­ Given the limitations of educa• -~da makes its way through uals does not necessarily make a tion as an agent of economic · : &'>ngress - he promised that edu­ metaphor for the nation as a whole, progress, some experts say linking )aiion would be the No. 1 priority most experts say. education too closely with the econ­ 'Gf.liis second term - some wonder Larry Cuban, an education pro­ omy could engender false economic '-il'.'.overemphasis on the link be- fessor at Stanford University, said expectations at the same time it de­ · tween schools and jobs can tilt the there's also a false kind of connec­ values many of the broader ele­ •i,ublic's view of education to an un­ tion "about how lower productivity ments of schooling .. healthy degree - expecting too in the economy, particularly in the "Education does many things, · much in building the economy and late '70s and '80s, was somehow re­ from teaching kids how to read to · riot enough in developing intellects lated to lower productivity in the teaching ethics and responsibility," -aild personalities and ultimately schools." said Richard Gibboney, an educa­ citizens. The skeptics often start with tion professor at the University of As for its economic effects, "I'm the Reagan administration's "A Na­ Pennsylvania. "If you focus too ·.~tunned by how unexamined that tion at Risk" report, which said the much on the economy, you squeeze · dairn is," said Mike Rose, an edu- nation has been "committing an act out some of those other values . .. qation professor at the University of unthinking, unilateral education­ When businessmen get into the ed­ @f,Califomia at Los Angeles. al disarmament." ucational business, and they are fo . . · "If you look at 100 years of in- . But almost a decade and a half cusing on the kind of workers they : dustrial history, there's nothing later, the nation's economy is per­ need, the curriculum becomes nar­ . ~lose to the one-to-one link between forming, by many measures. extra­ row, technical, de-liberal." education and the economy that we ordinarily well. In fact, it is dra­ Still, if education alone can't .. qs~ume today. I think the way we matically outperforming Japan and guarantee national prosperity, the think about education is terribly Germany, often cited as countries lack of it almost guarantees, for constrained by the assumption that with educational systems that the. any one child. economic failure. we"re in trouble, that we"re in de­ United States should be emulating. "lt takes lots of things to get cline, and that the decline is inti- Given that no one claims a sud­ the train going," said Levy of MIT . . mlltely, causally linked to what's den, dramatic increase in the quali­ "But the real question is who will . )'(j"Qng with education." ty of American education, critics of be on the train? If you don't have a :, :. Rose, the author of Possible the report say that either the na­ reasonable education, the chance of Lives: The Promise of Public Educa­ tion's schools are not as dismal as earning a decent salary today is tion in- America," is quick to add the "Nation at Risk" report indicat­ very, very small." NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE that·,1,, he believes that upgrading the ed or the link between education 'resident has raised $7.5 million, trengthened college's reputation

BY HOLLY E. STEPP CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU GEORGETOWN - Six years .o. when Georgetown College's 1stees were looking for a new col­ ,e president. they wanted a dy­ .mic leader who could raise funds .d motivate the community. In Bill Crouch, they got that and ·: As a. child, Crouch often accom- ... ' ' · •· ,. · .,~. whole lot more. parried his father, a minister, to Uni- "He is not as accessible as he "He has exceeded what we ex­ versity of Mississippi football was in his first two years, but he ·cted. We were aware of his fund­ .games where his father gave the has brought so much to the cam- ising skills, but he has much opening,prayers. The Crouch fami- pus that we all benefit from" he ore than that," says Randy Fox, ly would·sometimes get to sit in the said. ' ,airman of Georgetown College's presideii:s box. Crouch also personally mentors iard of Trustees and a member of ; The '\park was ignited, and at 12 students from Scott County High e search committee that recruited 39, Crouch became one of the School for four hours a month. ·ouch. Y.<)ungest college presidents ever. 'Couldn't find a nicer guy' The gains made since Crouch's Crouch, who was born in -rival in 1991 read like a college [ouisville and raised in North Car­ Crouch's popularity extends be­ ish list: securing gift commit­ olina, was the vice president for de­ yond the college community. ents of more than $7.5 million; velopment at Carson-Newman Col­ "That is one of his greatest as­ ,ming the status of a national lib­ lege in Tennessee when he became sets - his ability to draw people to al arts college in numerous rank­ Georgetown's president. the college; people who have drifted gs; and beginning three new con­ , He earned a bachelor's degree away from the college," said trustee ruction projects on campus. in- from Wake Forest University and chairman Fox. · 1ding a new stadium complex later earned master's and doctoral In addition to his higli school at will be the site of the Cincin­ degrees in divinity at Southeastern mentoring program, Crouch sits on Lti Bengals' 1997 summer training Baptist Theological Seminary. numerous boards, including the mp. He has been married for 17 Scott Education Foundation Co­ Crouch, who last summer years to the former Jan Banister lumbia Hospital Georgetown' and gned a contract through 2002, originally from South Carolina'. Hospice of the Bluegrass. ,ys he can't take all of the credit They are the parents of four daugh­ Crouch's commitment to the r the success at the small Baptist ters and a son. community is part of reason the ,llege of 1,420 students. city of Georgetown was willing to "I have been surrounded by a Meeting the goals help build the college's stadium, t of great people," Crouch said. "It · Crouch believes he accom- says Mayor Warren Powers. as not as if Georgetown College plished the goals set for him by the The city, county and the school as not a strong college already." Board of Trustees when he was district had pledged $1.75 million to But when you talk to those who hired. help build the new stadium but a ark with the 44-year-old native "The first speech I made to the lawsuit filed by a local far~er in entuckian. you hear about a man faculty, I said when people say protest of tax dollars used by a ho's leading the college into the Georgetown, I want them to at least Baptist college ended the parmer- Lture. ask, 'Which one? Kentucky or , ship. "(Crouch) has made some of the Washington,"' Crouch said. '.'I hope we get the opportunity ,ings faculty has always wanted a But the accomplishments agam to work with the college on ,ality," says Gwen Curry, an Eng­ Crouch is most proud of are the re- such a project," Powers said. sh professor and former chair­ suit of goals he set for himself. "You couldn't find a nicer guy ·oinan of the faculty. Crouch, despite a busy fund- to work with than Doc" Powers The college opened the Anne raising schedule, serves as a mentor said, using Crouch's nic~ame. rt1ght Wilson Fine Arts Building f<'.},!;'cl,"' ··: '.'It'.s ,.:Ver.y'';'.p'"re.IIm·'·1:- j~,;•'·}~-:~;:a·,~(£:-.t;,~1.. ~ ' h~ ""' ' title of council president who S.1.1ar~-~~"/l/'. nary,:• ifaid/S'auriders would make more money than any _ ... ,,,.,,,, who··decline •~ ..,, • ~ t -~ ~ woulq_ 6J~ll_l_lly;.:a «president, who demonstrate that they had re­ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. would bi:!'ch'.osen through a·ila- allocated money"from·· low­ ■ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1997 tional search and would be the. performing programs to those primary advi~er to the gover- of higher priority. ·· ·. nor on po~t-second~ry educa- ►Community colleges also tion issues.:'.< • . would get extra money . to Expand schools ►The c~cil would· appoint briJ_l,g; their funclipg in line the meml'.iers of the. boards of with what -other ~tates spend· all universities and the new on their systems, the plan under.UK's community and technical col- says. It does not give an exact I lege board. ""It also would ap- dollar amount, but Patton ear­ prove programs, colleges' mis- lier in the week had pledged control, group sions and coordinate academic an additional $11. 7 million for offerings and . distance learn- the system with more to fol- ing, among otl!er duties. low. tells governor ► Community colleges and ► Patton also wants to create the Kentucky Tech post- a Strategic Committee on Post­ BY MARK R. CHELLGREN rsecondary vocational schools. Secondary Education, which ASSOCIATED PRESS would be separated from the ""would be chaired. by the gover­ -~ORT-If anything is to be done with the University. of Kentucky and nor. Its other members would Umvel"Slty of Kentucky community colleges, they the state government, which be five Executive Branch of­ should be expanded and perhaps even absorb the now run them. Kentucky ficials chosen by the governor, state's technical schools, UK supporters told Gov. Paul Tech's schools also would be the Speaker of the House, the Patton yesterday. known as technical colleges. Senate president, majority and · Bill Francis, a Presto11sburg lawyer and chainnan ►The two systems would not minority floor leaders of both of Ad~ocates ~or Community College Excellence and be merged, but both would re, houses, and the chairman and Sta)ewtde Semce_ - ACCESS - said the group made port to a new board, which president of the Council on a pitch to Patton in a nearly hourlong meeting. would be headed by a presi- Post-Secondary Education. . The most important message was that the commu­ dent. 'Each system would have ►The strategic committee mty colleges stay with UK, Francis said. its own chancellor. ., would oversee a long-range The community colleges, 14 campuses sprinkled The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Wednesday, March 19, 1997 across the state that often feed students to UK, have b~come one ?f the central points in the debate over higher education that Patton is leading. Com111:unity-_colleg~ The idea of taking community colleges away from UK has been raised, and supporters of UK have been almost, uni_versally op~d. But a study prepared for expansion suggested Patt?n s higher-education study group said no other ------'--·---"- - · posed. But a study prepared leadmg research university in the nation is also sad­ By MARK R, CHELJ.GREN for Patton's higher education dled with the remedial programs that are often para­ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS study group said no other lead- mount in community college programs. ing research university in the Pat1on _ha~ said he wants UK to be a leading re- FRANKFORT - If anything nation is also saddled with the search mstltution ..•.,, ·:·····~"- .,-~.•··, .. . is to be done with the Univer­ remedial programs that are . On the_ other side;-ih{~tJie?~ven -regiorn,,J ~i~~i­ sity of Kentucky community often paramount in com­ ties have Ion~ hung\;1"$9•fcr the ·community colleges colleges, they should be ex­ munity college programs. Pat­ and the s~d~nts t!1~Y represent· To a large degree, state funding for higher education is based on enroll• panded and perhaps even ab­ ton has said he wants UK to be ments. : .. {, __: . · a leading research institution. sorb the state's technical .. , ... Francis said if the Kentu~ky Tech system, which schools, UK supporters told On the other side, the other includes more than tv,'<;flloi.er)_technical school carnpus- Gov. Paul Patton::· seven regional universities •es, is tobe liroughi under· ·more Bill Francis; ·a Prestonsburg have long hungered for the community colleges and the -state control, UK should take over. lawyer and chairman of Advo­ Francis and the ACCESS group students they represent. To a cates for Community College support Patton's idea of making UK Excellence and Statewide Ser­ large degree, state funding for a major research school. but they vice - ACCESS - said the higher education is based on also want it to take on many other group made a pitch to Patton enrollments. higher-education roles. in a nearly hourlong meeting Francis said if the Kentucky Deputy Cabinet Secretary Ed Tuesday. Tech system, which includes F?rd, who attended the meeting, de­ The most important message more than two dozen technical clined to sa)' what Patton thought was that the community col­ school campuses, is to be about the ACCESS proposal. But he leges stay with UK, Francis brought under more state con­ noted the group's name was appro­ said. trol, UK should take over. priate. "That's exactlv what we're The community colleges, 14 Francis and the ACCESS for," Ford said. · campuses sprinkled across the group supports Patton's idea bf . Ford and Melissa Forsythe, Pat­ state that often feed students making UK a major research ton's press secretary, said the gov­ to UK, have become one of the school, but also want it to take ernor listened to the pitch but made central points in the brewing on many other higher educa­ no commitments. debate over -higher education tion roles. "The plan isn't --finished,"' that Patton is leading. · Deputy Cabinet secretary -Ed·· Forsythe said. Patton is to offer his specific The idea of taking com­ Ford, who attended the meet­ munity colleges away from UK proposals for higher education ing, declined to say what Pat­ overhaul to the Task Force on Post­ has been raised and the reac­ ton thought about the ACCESS. secondary Education by its April tion from suooorters of IJK has ,...,...,.'\T"\nC"".>l 'R.11f- ho nnta~ thn , ' ------.-- - The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, Marc~_14, 1997 on the Council shoilld ever be gions and·. !ndividuals "and I perceived as an advocate. am as guilty as anyone" of Patton's remarks were tele­ helping put.it together. vised to Elizabethtown;· Somer­ Each regional university set, Frankfort and Owensboro, should have a single specialty in addition to Ashland. Job of expertise based on economic providers and educators at­ needs of its region. He said tended at each location, but overlap and underutilization of only' a few of the estimated 100 courses makes the current sys­ participants chose to speak. tem inefficient. Harold Kelley of Ashland :Yet to eriaorse plan The governor defended the agreed with Patton that there Council on Higher Education, is too much overlap and inef­ :to separatelJK, ;:,_·.·. saying it was subject to con­ I ~ J .~ ,r.-.~. ~: ..;:• ficiency in the state in general. :coriunurli:!;y c6lleg~ stant political pressure and He cited Boyd County, with its I ,_,.., ·ti,;-~ • • _.,.~ second-guessing. He acknowl­ three school systems and three edged that it had the same :sy GEORGE WoLFFORD­ city governments, and said power to decertify college :OF THE. DAIL'rfNDEPENDENT those each need to be reduced courses as it had to approve :.:~.- ·l:.~r·· ..... to one each. ASHLAND -. Gov. Paul Pat­ them, but never does. Robert Bell, a former cabinet Ishmael Stevens of Ashland :ton callea:·.foi: . more effective Inc., who visited Patton in his ·management· of post-secondary member and Ashland Inc. ex­ ecutive who appeared with office two weeks ago in con­ education but stopped short junction with a school/work Thursday of endorsing a plan Patton, said when regionaliza­ tion of membership on the program calle!l Vision 21, said ·to take community colleges industry should have a larger .away from the University of Coun'cil replaced af!arge gov­ ernance, the body was "Bal­ role in- any reorganization of 'Kentucky. technical training. . In a video teleconference kanized." Patton said no one aired at four schools, including -Ashland Community College, __ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY, ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1997 ·Patton said Kentucky Tech - If a university decides to actually :the statewide system of voca­ · pursue a program further, it must . tional schools - needs to be 'make a more de:ailed presentation ·moved out of state govern­ roaramsI n bl before the counctl. ·ment," but did not elaborate... P Prather said she could not re­ Patton said there was . a call how many programs had been widespread perception that re­ · on pas_! advisory lists. "I know this ·moving the community college is more than there ever have been from UK's purview was his in· on colleges' before," she said. tent: · , "That perception may im· Prather said that sometimes, . pact the legislature, but I want programs stay on that list for years -to do what is right for all Ken­ without the university taking ac· tucky. I'll keep an open mind new wish list tion. That's because universities - ·until the debate has devel· which can't ask for a program that :oped." isn't on the list - want to play it He said who runs the Request follows criticism safe and hedge their bets. .schools was not important, But of the 74 programs on the "only a way to get to solutions. by newest list, only 22 had been sub­ , We must look for ·a structure Patton for duplication mitted before January 1997. that gives schools freedom yet By ANGIE MUHS Universities also said they in­ ·•directs them to work for all ' HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER tended to seek formal approval for ·the state." ' . Kentucky's public universities and colleges have a 61 of the 74 degree programs in He promised to add $100 mil· wish list of 74 new academic programs they'd like to 1997, ·Jion to the post-secondary bud­ start - two weeks after the governor criticized the The complete list ranges from get next year, "above inflation, ~igher education system for having too much duplica­ an associate degree in golf course even though it won't be easy." l!on. management at Western Kentucky A book-sized rj!portcompiled That list, scheduled to be presented to the Council University to doctoral degrees in by a consultant hired by the on Higher Education Monday, is raising some eye­ audiology and biopharmaceutical ·, Task Force 9n Post-Secondar.y brows and questions. engineering. Education and released last "It's an inordinately large num­ week critic;ized the accessi.bil- j ber," said Hilma Prather, the chair­ The University of Kentucky ity and quality of Kentuck'y's woman of the council's programs and the University of Louisville colleges and tech schools. / committee. also propose sharing a doctoral ,· Patton said Kentucky needs , The list - routinely presented to program in applied mathematics. to. develop a single "great, na- . the council twice a year - outlines They sought and received approval :tionally . recognized research all academic programs universities for their first joint doctoral degree, \institution" at the University are thinking of proposing. in social work, earlier this year. of Kentucky, "not to teach doc­ But a task force chaired by' Gov. Thirteen of the 74 programs tors, but to concentrate intel­ Paul Patton earlier this month released a report that, listed are a proposed expansion of :1ectual capacity in one place." m sharp language, faulted the public higher education a pilot program between West Ken­ . Simultaneously, he said, a system for "a high degree of duplication." tucky Tech and Paducah Commu­ system of lesser schools needs "The list certainly doesn't do anything to speak nity College that allowed students to be perfected that will train against that" perception, said Gary Cox, the council's to get a degree in technical studies the 70 percent of Kentucky's executive director. · after spending a year at each workers who don't need a four­ But Cox and Prather also emphasized that many of school. The community college sys­ year degree. the programs on the advisory list might never even be tem wants to make that partner­ · "We can't be what we want presented to the council for formal ship a statewide one. approval. · unless we have them both," he Some of the programs, though. •said. "Our experience has been that appeared to duplicate each other. He said companies would ex­ not all of these come forward," he For instance, four universitie$ - pand into states that trained said. During the last five years, the Louisville, Western. Eastern Ken­ the work force. "They can im­ council has approved 42 new pro­ tucky University and Morehead port their Ph.Ds." grams. It couldn't be determined State University - all proposed a He said Kentucky's present last night how many programs had master's degree in education ad­ college system was a product been suggested during that time. ministration. of political powers represent­ That advisory !)st - the one_ in ing the institutions. their re- r111nc.-t.nn ,...,,..,..,. •-- ______1 - _, • LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, MARCll 21. 1997 ll!afton dangles $12 million carrot to vote for a measure that hurts the Scorsone, D-Lexington. to Sf3parate 2-year colleges forecast community°colleges,'' Patton wrote. Jim Kerley, the president of Pus4 "If you, like me, are a champion of Hopkinsville Community College, BY ANGIE MUHS changes." the community colleges, I ask you said he also suspectea Patton might HERALD-LEAoEri 'Eiiuc,r,oN WRITER The issue of who should control to have faith, be patient, and wait seek a separation. But he said he Gov. Paul Patton is promising the community colleges and Ken­ until the whole picture is complete hoped Patton will reconsider. community colleges a significant tucky Tech post-secondary techni­ before you make a judgment about "I hope it's not just putting (the budget boost of nearly $12 million cal schools has surfaced as one of where your support lies." money) out there to get us to go and assuring their presidents that the potentially most contentious is­ Ben Carr, the chancellor of the along with separation," Kerley said. he wanis to "enhance, not diminish" sues in Patton's efforts to reform community college system, said "I still don't think that's the right the system - no matter who runs higher education. yesterday that he had not seen Pat­ way to go." it. UK officials have strenuously ton's letter and could not comment. Senate Democratic Floor Leader State Senate President Larry objected to proposals to put the Former Gov. Edward T. "Ned" David Karem, who met with Patton Saunders said last night that he community colleges under a sepa­ Breathitt, the chairman of the UK and other lawmakers on Wednes­ "fully expects" that' a draft circulat­ rate board, saying that such a ma­ board, also declined to comment. day, acknowledged that some ing among key legislators will pro­ neuver would do more harm than An additional $12 million would might view Patton's offer of more pose separating the community col­ good. The governor's office also amount to a 13 percent increase to money as a way of making a sepa­ leges from the University of Ken­ has received hundreds of letters ob­ the state's community colleges' ration more palatable. tucky and putting them under a jecting to the idea. budget - $88 million in 1997-98. "This certainly could be seen as new board. Backers of the idea argue that it Maysville Community College a chit you could throw out to Patton, in a separate letter to would improve coordination be­ President Jim Shires, who received them," said Karem, D-Louisville. legislators Wednesday, urged them tween the community colleges and Patton's letter yesterday morning, "But people will probably construe to keep an operi mind and not be Kentucky Tech, while allowing UK said "we certainly can use" the ad­ this in a lot of different ways." swayed by "a massive campaign ... to focus its efforts on improving ditional funding the governor sug- State Sen. Tim Shaughnessy by those who wish to retain the po­ upper-level offerings and research. gested. · said that he thought that the media litical power that the community Patton's letter to the legislators But Shires said he still had con- and lawmakers had focused too colleges represent.~ appears to agree with parts of that cerns. . much on the question of separating Saunders said yesterday that - theory. "I don't know that I'm going to community colleges. , based on the !ettet 'and prior meet­ "The preponderance of evidence change much of what I was going But Shaughnessy, D-Louisville, ings with Pattpn - he thinks the indicates that the community col­ to say in the letter I was writing also faulted UK's handling of the is­ govern\)r plans to seek a major leges and Kentucky T~ch should be him," he said. "I don't see (separa­ sue. He said he had been disap­ pointed that UK leaders hadn't of­ overhaul. 1,1...,, connected organizationally in such tion) as a panacea for all of higher "I ~n:1k h~ ',l1l!Y .\Je lea~ing (O· a way to promote efficiency and education's problems!' fered more vision about 'the univer­ ward seP,arating \ il1e commumty mote responsive service," Patton But state Sen. Ernesto Scorsone sity's future. colleges from UK, tliough he's not wrcite. said he thinks Patton "is going to "UK has been so defensive on said . it," said Saunders, D­ Bu\ he also said he considered suggest a new structure." the community colleges that they Louisville, who said he had not himself a community college sup­ "If the governor feels it's the liave missed an opportunity, and as seen the draft. "I think he's telling porter. only way, he's going to have a a result, they've lost respect in the us there are goi~g to be some · . "I would never ask a legislator tough task to convince people," said legislature," he said. lEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1997

Governor·.gives draft of sweeping proposal Among the ideas in the draft t~~ke_y legisl~tors ,document ■ The new coordinating body, .,.BY. ANGiEMW!S" ,~· ! . the Council oil Post-Secondary Edu­ HERALDUADER EtiiJcATION.WRITER'·• ' cation, would be made up of 12 Gov. Paul Patton's vision for the members and a chairman. They state's higher education system in­ would be selected by the governor volves major changes that would from candidates submitted by a treate an education landscape very higher education nominating com­ different from the one that exists to­ mission. The members would then day. be confirmed by both houses of the · Patton has suggested to key leg­ ·General Assembly. islators that the state create a dra­ ■ That council would be headed matically stronger coordinating by a president, who would be cho­ board, led by an executive who sen through a national search and would out-earn and out-rank univer­ would be the primary adviser to the sity presidents. governor on post-secondary educa­ Meanwhile, a new governing tion issues. board would run the state's Ken­ ■ °The council would appoint Community colleges·also would tucky Tech schools and community the members of the boards of all get extra money to bring their fund­ colleges, which would be removed universities and the new community ing in line with what other states from the Univers~ of Kentucky's and technical college board. It also spend on theii- systems," the plan control. · would approve programs, colleges' says. It does not give an exact dol­ His preliminary plan also envi­ missions and coordinate academic lar amount, but Patton earlier in the sions a bigger role for himself - •offerings and distance·_ learning, week had pledged an additional taking charge of a board that would ·among other duties: $11.7 million for the· system with more to follow. · have broad responsibility for long­ ■ Community colleges and the range planning and budgeting. Kentucky Tech post-secondary vo­ ■ Patton also wants to create a Those details and other propos­ cational schools would be separated Strategic Committee on Post-Sec­ als are contained in a draft of Pat­ from the University of Kentucky ondary Education, which would be ton's plan, which was obtained by and the state government, which chaired by the governor. Its other the Herald-Leader. now run them. Kentucky Tech's members would be five Executive Patton shared that draft propos­ schools also would be known as Branch officials chosen by the gov­ al with' several top legislators in technical colleges. ernor, the Speaker of the House the both the Senate and House Thur~­ · The two systems would not be Senate president, majority and' mi­ day and asked for tlieir thoughts on merged, but both would report to a nority floor leaders of both houses, the plan's components. : new board, which would be headed • and the chairman and president of Senate President Larry Saun­ by a president. Each system would the Council on Post-Secondary Edu­ ders, D-Louisville, confirmed yester­ have its own chancellor. cation. - day that he had received a copy of . ■ The plan stresses the idea of The strategic committee would the 14-page document and met with developing "strategic investment" oversee a long-range agenda ·and Patton for an hour yesterday to dis- funds. For instance, a "Research the budget process. It also would re­ cuss it. . Challenge Fund" would provide view accountability reports from the "It's very preliminary," said money to attract top professors and institutions. Saunders, who declined to discuss graduate students and for the Leonard Hardin, the chairman of his impressions of the proposaJs. • matching funds needed for some na­ the current Council on Higher Edu­ "It's just something that he's asking tional grants. cation, said that he had not seen the · for a response on from me and oth­ The plan also calls for a fund draft of Patton's proposals. ·ers." that would reward regional univer­ But he said many aspects of it The final version is expected sities for developing "Programs of did not surprise him. next week, Saunders said. Distinction." But it also warns that "It sounds like it's aggressive The plan that Patton ·puts forth the colleges would be required to _.and visionary," Hardin said. "It ·js likely to form the cornen,tone of demonstrate that they had reallocat­ sounds bold." any legislation_ for the special ses­ ed money from low-performing pro­ sion he has said he will call for May grams to those of higher priority. 5. DEGREES: 74 :new programs· on wish list ( c..__,d 'i) Cox said that was something the council would be mindful of. "The program advisory state­ ment shows everybody what every­ body else is proposing," he said. ''We'd probably suggest to the four institutions that they work togeth­ er." .LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1997 Uneven. funding for community colleges is questioned

HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT · Leader, Ben Carr, the community colleges' chancellor, The consultants advising Gov. Paul Patton's Ed Ford, Patton's deputy cabinet secretary said he had not seen the analysis or reviewed its task force on higher education reform are ques­ and chief higher education adviser, confirmed conclusions. tioning how the University of Kentucky divides that the analysis had been done as part of the But Carr said there were explanations for the up the state appropriation for the 14 community consultants' study. differences among the schools. For instance, a colleges. Ford said no conclusions had been reached. small college might have higher per-student The colleges received widely disparate But the wide range of amounts raised questions, funding because its fixed costs like building amounts of money per full-time student - rang- he said. maintenance also are spread among fewer stu­ ing from $8.153 at the smallest, Henderson Com- "! think it's very significant in that we have dents, he said. munity College, to $3,649 at Lexington Commu- no idea what the formula for the distribution of · "Some of those colleges at the top of the list nity College, according to an analysis of UK's these funds was, if not on a per-student basis," may have been at the bottom a few years ago," financial statements obtained by the Herald- he said. he said. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, ·Friday, March 21, 1997 Patf()n asks for open minds . . ...-~::<-:.., . ·- - - - - ... - Promises· millions to community colleges paign has been launched to Deborah Floyd, president of By MARK CHEUGREN win the support of legislators Prestonsburg Community Col­ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS by those who wish to retain lege, said the consensus on her the political power that the campus was to wait for Patton FRANKFORT - Gov. Paul liommµnity colleges repre• to release all his plans before Patton is going directly to the sent," Patton said. making judgments. University of Kentucky com­ ~ UK officials and supporters But Greg Stumbo, majority munity colleges, offering them have begun an advertising ef• leader in the General As­ millions more in state aid with (art to keep the UK ties to the sembly, appeared Thursday on an understanding that a community colleges and some the Floyd County campus to change in governance struc­ 4lterest groups have been cre­ say he would fight any effort ture is also needed. ated at the urging of UK to by Patton to separate com­ In letters to community .col­ lobby Patton, legislators and m unity colleges from UK. lege presidents this week, 'Pat­ the public. Stumbo also said he may ask ton played down the issue of 'Jimmy Jack Miller, who rep• the special session to offer jun­ changing who controls the resents Ashland Community ior and senior courses on two­ schools and emphasized he College teachers on that year campuses so residents wants to giv_e them more school's advisory board and all can get four-year degrees with· money and stature .. community college teachers on out leaving home. Patton met with some Demo­ Patton said a big piece of his the UK Board of Trustees, said reform package, which has not cratic senators on Wednesday he didn't want Patton to think and got some advice about yet been completed, will be to "that :,vhatever he throws out, , provide an additional $11.7 we'll Jump at because there's what a hard sell it will be to million in state financing to money attached to it. separate UK from its offspring. community colleges starting "If the structure isn't in the Sen. Joey Pendleton of Hop­ next fiscal year, · best interest of our students, kinsville said Patton heard "I can assure you that I then we can't SU.Pport it," he some opposition to the com­ want to enhance, not diminish, said.· · . munity college idea in the the community college sys­ But another ACC advisory meeting," but Sen. David Bo­ tem," Patton said.· board member, Dana Ladd , swell of Owensboro said it In a separate letter to legisla­ said he had "a lot of respect could have ·been·a good omen tors, Patton mentioned the for the governor for what he's for Patton that no senator money, but emphasized the trying to do for post-secondary voweq to vote_ against such a need to tie the community col­ education. I take his word he plan. · . leges and the Kentucky TECH hasn't made up his mind, and system of postsecondary voca­ now I'm very encouraged by GEORGE WOLFFORD, tional schools more closely. what he's saying about extra Independent staff writer, also "While I have not decided funding. contributed ·information to this definitely what I will propose, "I don't see any compelling story. to me the preponderance of the reason- to separate community evidence indicates that the colleges from the university, but I do see reasons why we community colleges -and Ky. should resolve the overlap be­ TECHshould lie connected or­ tween them and technical edu­ ganizationally in such a way cation. I'm not a suppporter of to promote efficiency and more separation." responsive service to the citi­ --ire· said he· doesn't yet buy zens and the businesses of Patton's notion that UK could Kentucky that they serve," become a world-class center by Patton said in the letter to leg­ being unburdened 6f the com- islators. munity colleges. c. As he did in a previous let­ ter, Patton pleaded with them to keep an open mind. Patton said he intends to call a spe­ cial session of the General As• sembly on May 5 and have a formal plan for restructuring higher education within the next three or four weeks. "As a result of my dis­ cussions of these options with various interest groups, it's ap- . , .... •-·•.,=·• «o·ER LEXINGTON KY,· ■ SUNDAY; MARCH.16, 1997 - Even so, most thiruniiere·wm, LEXINGTON n~ •· ' . have to be some paring back. Some of· the "low producers" Some duplicate:programs even acknowledge they might have to change how they do business. At Eastern, for exampl~ !lie for. eign language department· began lgr~q~1~i~S.few _-stll~~!!~:~-~: using interactive television to send ~-,.-,,:-,,,._ •-;~ ; But the issue.isn't a new one - German classes to Morehead State BY ANGIE MUHS and the Council on Higher Educa­ University, Brooks said. In return, HERAl.D-LEAOER EDUCATION WRITER tion knew about the program num­ Morehead will send an Italian class Three of the state's regional bers, said Gary Cox, its executive to Eastern, she said. universities offer associate degrees director. "I don't know that we can do it in drafting, but those programs A previous task force created all with distance learning," she combined graduated an average of by former Gov. Brereton Jones tried said. "But I do see pctential." only eight students a year over the to· tackle the duplication issue in past five years.'' . .- . 199( but Cox acknowledged that The state'.s _ two its efforts had fallen far short westernmost universi­ ,: .'.'We probably missed a great ties, Murray' State and opportunity to do more," he said. Western , Kentucky, "J'he institutions resisted it and both offer bachelor's d~­ they won." grees in library science. .· · One complicating factor is that But combined, they not all duplication is unnecessary. graduated an average P.olicy-makers want to make sure of on! y 10 students a that people in different parts of the year. • state can take classes in a sufficient Meanwhile, the Ken­ range of programs. tuckv Tech post-sec­ Some of the "low-performing" ondary schools share as programs also fall under the core many as 102 similar, if , liberal arts offerings that many not identical, programs with co~­ people would expect most schools munity colleges and regional uni­ ta have. versities. , Another catch is that looking at Those examples, culled from a raw numbers of graduates alone Herald-Leader computer analysis of doesn't always tell the whole story. data from Gov. Paul Patton's report Take subjects like foreign lan­ on the state's higher education sys­ guages - most of which were la­ tem show how ·duplication contin­ beled "low performers" in the con- ues 'to be a major problem in Ken­ sultant's report. . tucky's higher educati~n system~ '.fhat rankles Anne Brooks, the It's not as dramatic as the im­ chairwoman of Eastern Kentucky pending battle over who _should University's foreign language and control the state's community col· humanities department. leges. But the fight over which pro­ "There are a lot of people study­ grams should be eliminated could ing foreign languages that don't be just as messy as Patton embarks show up in those statistics," she on his quest to improve said. "What we need to be doing is the state's higher educa­ helping students recognize the val­ tion system. . ue.of continuing to study them in At some state um· college." versities 1 for instance, ,· The state's philosophy degree half of all bachelor's de­ programs also wound up on the gree programs graduatj! list. But at most schools, many un­ fewer than 10 studeri!s dergraduates have to take at least a year, according to the one course in that area, said Alan newspaper's analysis. B. Anderson, chairman of the West­ There also were 195 em ·Kentucky University philoso­ bachelor's and associate phy department. . degree programs tliat . "I think the basic justification had three or fewer grad­ for departments of philosophy is uates. the contribution they make to the Many of What the governor's university as a whole," he said. consultants called "low-producing" "Ninety percent of our classes can programs areti't the only one ,of be· (used as) general education re- their kind. · : · quirements." · " For example, the consultants And even in non-core classes, cQ11cluded in their report that sev~n there might be factors that the universities offer the same S!_X numbers alone don't explain. bachelo~s degree programs - b~t For instance, the state's records that if the total graduates were di­ list Western as offering an associ­ vided among the number of pro­ ate degree ·in cartography. In 1996, grams, the average was less than only one person earned that degree, ·10. ifi the repcrt said. The consultants did not spec · · But that's because the cartogra­ cally identify those programs. But phy curriculum almost exactly mir­ degree programs in French, Span­ rors the first two years of West­ ish, philosophy, physics, geography em's bachelor's degree in geogra­ and general drama and theater arts phy, said Wayne Hoffman, the de­ appeared to meet the criteria de- partment chairman. scribed in the repcrt. • Hoffman acknowledged that the Aims McGuinness,' one of the number of geography majors is consultants, said the situation had small - seven universities offered been .created because universities a degree, produdng a total of 73 had no incentives to get rid of pro- graduates in 1996. But that doesn't grams. . . . . mean that geography.should be cut, · "The underlying incentives m he said. · the system are not to grow by ~ub­ "Geography is a fundamental stitution," he said. "The mcent1ves science." he said. "It's a vital disci- are to grow new programs to grow plme.''------___ ,.1 __ .. _ .. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THE FORUM • SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1997 HIGHER.ED REFORM AND PRIVATE COLLEGES

.. BY MICHAEL F. ADAMS ,.. · . ... -- / riie-;;,,Her' is' president al c:,.;;;· Coli~~;:;,;' .;h;·.-a 'ai ·perc~; ~;dii~ii~~ rate. ·No other · Related io this issue, I would noie that one Danville, Ky. · business or agency in thintate could survive thing the publics and piivates share in Ken­ · with that kind of track record. tucky is the condition of being undercapital­ ENTUCKY has an opportunity: this If Kentuckians want to 'get the most bang ized. We pursue a low tuition strategy at our year to have a profoundly important for their buck and want to see a dramatic public universities, we have a low tax and \ve discussion and, ultimately, a vote increase in quality, they ought to channel are home to a limited number of Fortune 500 about the future of higher education inK our state .. As we approach that discussion funds to the students and let the students corporations. The first two realities have con­ and vote, Kentucky's independent colleges make choices. If you want an example, just tributed to the third one, and, taken together. have some important contributions to make. look at the most successful educational pro- the end result is that the economic spinoff First, those of us in the independent sector gram in the history of the world -the GI•Bill from our public universities in no way com­ have no fight- with the public institutions. We following World War II. Thousands of young pares with what we see immediately north of are not adversaries, and, in fact, each of us is men and women gained access to higher edu­ the Ohio River in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and dependent on the other. As president of Centre cation, and colleges and universities became . Pennsylvania. College, I have a real stake in the health of Ken- highly responsive· to issues of quality and The group most under-represented in this tucky's public colleges and universities. competition. · discussion in Kentucky are those men and Over the year.a, the public and private What we need in Kentucky is a new GI women who have finished their secondary schools have developed a symbiotic relation- Bill .. education but are not enrolled in a baccalau­ ship. Al Centre, we feel that we are more Third, the University of Kentucky needs in­ reate program. These are the young people competitive - more alert and responsive - centives to become a flagship research uni­ interested in technical training or remedial because we know that the public universities versity, and the University of Louisville needs education. We ought to be able to give them are just down the road, luring what they need, but not through students with costs that are about \;?':-::-:'::'"'. ,,,: !:~~ -w_,,;C'/c, "',;';_hy:-, ._(···,,~:;.:, .. •si\Y~-- ,.. ': ,· ,:,;· .. , '. \.,,~_,::c .. ,· •·· • baccalaureate institutions. one-fifth of ours. And we believe "Cci.mpetitio11 and yar,if!ty help ensure . , ,. v These are the Kentuckians that the public system has be­ most at risk in terms of educa­ come quality-conscious precisely ·. excellence in higher education .... States. that tion and future employment. because Centre is here, offering And they may be the most af- students the very best in under­ ''.,a.re kn:q}Y~\;of.havitjlf't~~ b_est .§yste.Ills .of,:;,t,,,. fected by our decisions about graduate education. Competition ,high~.r :~~}!,cation are the st~testhat 'h~ve_;a· how to govern the community and variety help ensure excel­ colleges and the Kentucky Tech ·: healthy r~presi:ntatiqn o,f priv11t,e_,c0Uf!g¢s:,.. ': '' system. · lence in higher education. In fact, ,,, < • . , ,,,, ·' -~. -·~-~.,- .• throughout our nation, the states Finally, the best' bargains· in that are known for having the · Kentucky today are the Kentucky best systems of higher education are the incentives to become a major'urban research Tuition Grant (KTG) and the College Access states that have a healthy representation of university. Quit trying to be the world's larg­ Program (CAP) grants. This year. 22.000 private colleges and universities. est community college and, instead, become Kentuckians are pursuing their higher educa­ Second, Kentucky's single biggest problem what we really need: Universities where fac­ tion at private colleges and universities. The is that we are using taxpayer money to fund · ulty are encouraged and supported in doing KTG provides a grant for those who have fi­ institutions instead of students. The bulk of the kind of research that adds to the world's nancial need, and the state funds expended money spent in Kentucky on higher educa- body of important knowledge and, often, for that program come to an average of S600 tion goes to the two major universities and spins out into economic development. per student. Yet if those 22,000 students en­ eight regionals to keep their tuition artificial- Face the facts: The whole state is held rolled in tlie state's public universities, the ly low. Students get that tuition subsidy back by the lack of research money for facul­ actual cost to taxpayers would be around whether their parents make $I0,000 a year or ty at UK and U of L. Time and again other $4,300 per student. The mathematics is clear: S!00,000. And a student can continue to get states have learned that economic develop­ Kentucky's private schools are saving the the tuition subsidy for an indefinite period of ment follows brainpower. I recently talked state around $90 million per year. time. In fact, because university appropri- with a friend from Georgia Tech who noted That's a testament to KTG, yet it and CAP ations are based on student "body count," that three new companies have.been founded (which provides additional assistance to stu­ there is no financial incentive for any Ken-· in Atlanta in recent months on the basis of dents wtth high financial need) should be ex­ tucky university to see its students graduate. research and development activities at the panded and enhanced. The state is in the situa­ In essence, we have cultivated a system university. tion of giving private college students a grant that encourages bureaucracy and growth Frankly, I would favor straightforward in- that is dramatically undervalued. while offering without regard to quality. . centives. If UK raised $1 million for an en- public school students an education that is dra­ How might we correct this? The fairest thing dowed faculty chair, then the state would matically underpriced. The net result is that, 'at right now would be to agree to fund four or match it. Many states are doing this and even Kentucky's private institutions, we sometimes four-and-one-half years of college education matching such gifts at private colleges. feel as if we have to fight for the opportunity to for any qualified Kentuckian - to meet the Increased subsidies for graduate students attract Kentucky residents to our excellent fa­ needs of those who genuinely need financial are needed to attract the best and the bright­ cilities and educational programs - while UK. assistance, but not subsidize the middle and est to our universities. Let's quit subsidizing with its artificially low tuition, is gi,ing educa­ upper class. And to make it clear that a student so many undergraduates who don't even tion away. Is that what we want in Kentucky­ ought to be able to get an undergraduate de- need our help. And we can use that money at subsidies for those who don't need them? gree in approximatefy four years. It's nuts to the ivaduate level. Otherwise, we'll continue Kentuckians need to decide what we want. subsidize students for six years. And it's nuts to to slip farther and farther behind our neigh­ then pursue it. directly subsidize an educational system that bors to the north. Special to The Courier-Jol•rnal • The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, March 16, 1997 standpoint, the community colleges probably do a: better job at p_roviding_ efficient, .·quaiiff.eductffori"•:fo":,thciu~ · : saii'as~o{:~sttidents than' any . ofii'e'Fiifglier edu'i:atl'on entity in the state. 'If ft•s· working, then ·don't try to fix it. · A report compiled by the clearly is the one, statewide Governance is·bound to be National Center for Higher university that can "fill this the most controversial aspect Education Management has role. No doubt some Univer­ of any reform plan proposed correctly identified the most sity of · Louisville officials by the governor. The current serious problems with higher would disagree, but they system of having each state education "in Kentucky. The would be wrong. challenge - both politically university operate separate We agree with the gover­ with its own governing and practically =-:- .is approv­ nor's call to separate the ing, reforms that 'will ef­ board simply is not working. state's postsecondary vo­ The governor seems to be fectively attack those -prob­ cational education schools lems. leaning toward creating a from the Workforce De­ more independent Council Gov. Paul Patton has an velopment Cabinet. When the obligation to those involved on Higher Education with vocational schools were much more power to· oversee in higher education, to mem­ moved from the Kentucky bers of the General Assembly the actions of the individual and most of all, to the people Board of Education to the universities. That may work, of Kentucky to release his then-new Workforce De­ but we favor the creation of higher education plan - and velopment Cabinet during one board to oversee UK and soon. the administration of former the University of Louisville, The · governor has said he Gov. Wallace Wilkinson, it and another board to govern will have a "rough draft" of was hoped the schools would the regional universities. his proposals in time for the be given the attention they However, whatever April 15 meeting of the task deserve and need. But that changes the governor pro­ force studying higher educa­ hasn't happened. Vocational poses, he needs to inform the tion in Kentucky. However, education remains the neg­ people of them well in ad­ that's only three weeks be­ lected step-sister of postsec­ vance of the May 5 session. fore Patton says he will call ondary education in Ken­ The Kentucky Education Re­ legislators to Frankfort on tucky. form Act was approved May 5 for a special session We are less supportive of quickly in 1990 with little on higher education reform. separating the community public debate. That should More time than that is need­ colleges from UK and com­ not happen with higher edu­ ed for legislators and the bining them with the vo­ cation reform. A full, open public to closely study and cational schools. From our and lively debate is needed. fully debate the proposals. The independent report gives the governor more than enough fodder to make a strong argument on the need for reform. Kentucky's system_ of state universities, community colleges and VO· cational schools is frag­ mented, driven too much by politics and fosters competi­ tion rather than cooperation, the report said. · Exactly so. That's similar to what this newspaper and many others in Kentucky have been saying for more than a decade. Paul Patton deserves much credit for being the first governor to have the courage to even at­ tempt to reform higher edu­ cation. But what reforms does he have in mind? The governor has yet to fully tell us. We agree with much of what Patton has been saying about higher education. Ken­ tucky · does need a major re­ search university that can compare favorably to the University of North Carolina and Indiana University, and the University of Kentucky - LEXINGTOtfHERALDWDER, LExiNGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1997 No reason to worry. between the schools must be ripped i"Combiilii\!fc611eges ana te~ schools is"best solution· . down:The combined system the~ 0 0 must be given the funding, power • -: .•• _,,;,__ , f.: · .. • · • • • with Kentucky, Patton now says, 1s : Kentucky's co~umty col- that our people have too few skills, and autonomy to fill that broad : leges and t~ical schools not enough educatio1i. And he's area between a high school diploma : ~e scared to dickens about right. We are all going to have to and a college degree. _ . :what will become of them. . think for a· living. These schools have the most im­ : The colle~es and scho?ls have The st<1te's eight universities portant job in higher education. To :alway~ been JUSt above dirt on the alone won't change Kentuckt They hold the community colleges , :educational totem pole. When some- don't have the money, they aren't hostage to the political dem~nds of :one sars reform, they hear budget prepared to do the kind of training the University of Kentucky 1s a :C?ts, d)m1mshed power, less pres- needed by· companies like Siemens, waste. To separate these schools ,tige. Bill Huston, the former Secre- nor are they set up to re-train from each other trashes logic. And :tary of the W?rkfor~e Deve\opment adults. to condemn these schools to a sec­ ·:Cabinet descnbe? his techmcal. Community colleges and techni- ond-class status behind the univer­ :schools a~ "the little baStard_ chi}- cal schools can do these jobs. But· sities will produce nothing but low :dren t_hat,?ad never been paid any they need help. The artificial barrier wages. ;attention. . Still, the technical schools don't ,want to be merged with community LEXINGTON ·HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1997 .colleges. Merger would only further diminish their status, the tech -schools argue; it would cost more New incentives : and would be less effective. Com- : bining the schools would be a JJniversities' hefty course offerings need a diet plan '."grievous mistake," according_~o a ,paper written by the Governo: s istance doesn't mean much Murray State University, for exam :Council on Vocational Education. anymore. pie, both have library science ma­ . Meanwhile, the state's 14 com­ D Italian tile makers and jors. The two programs in these j munity colleges appear content leather designers respond instantly neighboring schools graduate an ,with their home within the Univer­ -ro market demands in New York average of 10 students a year. :sity of Kentucky system. The co~­ and Tokyo. Apparel makers in New Nobody is saying the state :munity college presidents say their Hampshire, Portugal and Brazil needs only one history department ·schools benefit from the UK's re- .change their machinery in response one geography faculty, one sociolo . sources - its research capabilities ·to the latest fashions that make a gy major. The problem is that ·and faculty expertise. hit on the runways in Paris and Mi­ schools have no reason to ever "Recurring attacks on this struc­ lan . think about trimming programs. . ture," the community college presi- It is so easy these days to trans­ What Patton's consultants follII :dents write, "simply drains re- port images, information and peo­ in their study is that schools have :sources, including time and ener- ·j:lJe, that few institutions worry single incentive: attract more stu- ,gy., " about distance. dents. Schools do tm : It's unanimous. Everyone wants "'.~ Except in Ken­ by putting together : to stay as is - except "as is" isn't tucky's outdated sys­ The state needs all-you-can-eat buffet :good enough. . tem of higher educa- to dangle a new kind of classes. , We saw that a few years ago m .tion, where it.seems . ,J­ of bait before "The underlying 'Western Kentucky, at the Siemens 'tl-.ere,It.' has to be a · · the schools, colleges incentives in the sys­ · plant in Franklin. Siemens wanted ./1/:hool and a program and universities . tem are not to grow . training for its workers that was ,within a day's horse­ Universities should by substitution," con -both technical and academic. To ad­ back ride of every be rewarded for· sultant Aimes vanced manufacturers, vocational residence. What we excellent teaching, McGuinness told the ;~ducation means schooling_ in have is the post-sec- ·service and research, Herald-Leader's Ang- irhetoric, theory, mathematics, not on the· size 9.ndary school equiva- - of their course . ie Muhs. "The incen­ ).physics, teamwork, computer pro­ lent of kudzu, with offerings. . tives are to grow ne\• '.gramming and statistics. They look-alike schools arid programs to grow : want the best of what botl_l tl_l~ _ . programs covering new students." . technical schools and community the landscape with The state needs t< colleges have to offer. the intensity of tp.e all-consuming dangle a new kind of bait before Siemens found the kind of train­ southern vine. · the schools, colleges and universi­ ing it needed for its apprentice .- The easiest place to see duplica­ ties. Universities should be reward­ workers at the Kentucky Advanced .t4on is between the University of · ed for excellent teaching, service Technology Center in Bowling Kentucky's 14 community colleges and research, not on the size of Green, one of the state's two dozen and the state's score of technical their course offerings. technical schools. But the technolo­ schools. Many towns have both -Schools should be given an in­ gy center is a unique institution. tech school and community college centive to collaborate, to share in­ Few other· schools or communi­ i:1assroom. structors and programs. Eastern ty colleges provide that kind of And those schools and colleges and Morehead, for example, share soup-to-nuts education. They all often teach the same subjects. Al­ German and Italian instructors. It's should. Technical schools and com­ though the two groups of schools an exception today that should be­ munity colleges now have the same will swear all the way to Paducah come commonplace. mission. that they have different missions, The state needs more sharing of Gov. Paul Patton first tried to they share 102 programs. programs and teachers, less compe­ buy an economic future, trading Consultants hired by Gov. Paul tition for students. More work on millions in tax breaks for a few Patton have found similar overlaps making sch??ls better. and less con h11sinf'SSPS. Hf''s rPRli7Pn hP rm1't ,...,..,.,....,..,,. •1...~ ~.__...__, _ _C_L,_ - • •,• LEXINGTON HERALD-LEAOER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1997 Macy grabs chance to coach at Morehead BY RICK BAILEY Kyle Macy "We'll expect a lot from,our play­ • HERALl>UADER STAFF WRITER ers. We'll not lose due to lack of Conceding he is takiiig',a pay ,cut to ■ Age:·39 preparation, and we'll not lose _be­ ■ Hometown: Peru, Ind. enter a new ·careedield, former University cause of lack of effort," he said. ■ Family: wife, Tina; daughters, of Kentucky All-American Ky.le Macy ac­ Mallory and Meredith. Eaglin said Macy's personality cepted the Morehead State University ■ Playing hlghllghts: Indiana Mr, was a perfect fit for Morehead. "His men's basketball coaching job yesterday Basketball: All,American at Kentucky honesty attracted people, and his to pursue a lifelong dream. and member of 1978 national willingness to admit that he didn't "People say I have no coaching experi­ championship team; played seven years in the NBA for Phoenix, Indiana know everything was refreshing to -ence, but I grew up in a coaching family," me. Sometimes coaches' confidence said Macy, one of the most popular play­ and Chicago; played three years in Italy. is bigger than it needs to be. Play­ ers in UK history. "I've been on the bench ers will work hard for him and will was ■ Post-playing career: seven years as since I 4 and sitting beside my father. radio and TV analyst, including four want to come to Morehead." This was my opportunity to get involved years on UK radio broadcasts; sum­ in- coaching~" . . - mer basketball camp director; banker; One obstacle to Macy's coach­ Macy, who begins his duties April 1, athletic flooring business. ing career was removed by More­ succeeds Dick Fick, whose contract was head recently. He doesn't have a not renewed. The"terms · of Macy's con­ master's degree, which was re­ tract have not been made final. four with Kentucky radio broad­ quired for the head coaching posi: The Eagles were 8-19 last season, casts. He has been a correspondent tion until the rule was changed to Fick's sixth, and finished in a tie for last banking officer with Central Bank make a master's preferred .. place in the Ohio Valley Conference. and Trust Co. for four years. He Macy wasn't considered for the "There's no doubt in my mind Kyle has run a summer basketball camp Eastern Kentucky job in 1992 ·be­ knows his X's and O's," Morehead Presi­ for 16 years and has an athletic cause he lacked the degree. Eaglin dent Ronald Eaglin said. "It's tough to flooring business called Sports called the requirement "an archaic make a decision like this at his age, but he Court. rule." · had a willingness to do that. At this point, Kyle is the person for us. I think he will Macy expects to keep his camp Macy's name surfaced after the and possibly Sports Court, he said. make a great coach." 1995-96 season amid rumors that Macy, 39, was chosen over four other Macy, whose father, Bob, was a Morehead would buy out the final candidates who were inter-viewed by a se­ high school coach in Indiana, had year of Fick's contract. When the lection committee and met with various to accept a pay cut to realize his university tried to reassign Fick, he campus groups, Morehead officials and coaching ambition, but he said it resisted and coached his final sea­ · community leaders over the last several was worth it. "For me, it was the son. days. opportunity to get involved in Macy has accepted a job that The finalists included: coaching." · · hasn't been kind to Eagles coaches ■ Louisville assistant coach Jerry Macy said he hopes to generate in the last two decades. Eaves. A former Cardinals star, he joined financial support in returning ex­ First Bob Wright and then Bill the U of L staff this year after serving as citement to Morehead basketball. an assistant with the NBA's New Jersey Harrell came from the high-school Nets. "Attendance has died down ranks in the 1960s and early '70s and had modest success following " ■ Jeff Burkhamer, a former some," he said, "and we need to get Morehead assistant now coaching good crowds in there to be competi­ longtime coach Bobby Laughlin. ai Santa Fe Community College in tive in a very tough conference. They shared three Ohio Valley Con­ :Gainesville, Fla. That was one of my concerns going ference championships before mov­ in. 1 feel confident there is support." ing on. Jack Schalow, an assistant ~ ■ Leighton McC~ary, coach at Eaglin received letters backing on Dale Brown's staff at LSU, was :J'ICAA Division II Grand Canyon Macy, he said. "One man had sea- · 4-19 in his fourth year and did not _College in Phoenix, Ariz. He has · son tickets 20-plus years, and he return. taken the Antelopes to post-season play. fell away. He wrote a strong letter Morehead made two NCAA that if Kyle was coach he would re­ Tournament appearances and won ·■ Wayne Breeden, coach at new and buy more tickets. He an OVC title in Wayne Martin's ~shland Paul Blazer High School. would feel proud to come. A lot of nine years. After his departure, '.!je has been a graduate assistant at people want Kyle to be successful." Tommy Gaither was 52-64 in four (l(entucky and Eastern Kentucky Macy promised an \IP·tempo of­ years. Fick was 64-101, the i£!.t;d was head coach at Lindsey fense to please players and fans losingest coach in Morehead histo­ :.wilson-College. . ry, ~ with a solid foundation on defense. =: Breeden had been rumored to lie !\forehead's top assistant if Wacy got the job. Breeden, attend­ :illg the Boys' State Basketball The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Saturday, March 15, 1997 "foumament yesterday, would not ;,mment but said he might have an

announcementa Monday.. Morehead hopes :. "\\"avne Breeden has a lot of ;!loor experience," Eaglin said. :They'll make a great team." Macy's the man :: Former Kentucky coach 1oe B. By MARK MAYNARD accepted MSU President Ro­ ~all also has been mentioned as a nald Eaglin's offer to coach j;ossible consultant to his former OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT the Eagles. :All-America guard and member of 'Tm very excited about E!all's 1978 national championship SALT LAKE CITY the opportunity and the ~mat Kentucky. Morehead State Universitv will turn to Ky le Macy, a challenge ahead," said :'. ~lacy hopes to explore the pas- . former University of Ken­ Macy, who will officially as­ slbilitY. "Someone with that much tucky All-American, to re­ sume coaching duties on knowiedge and experience ... if he vive its basketball fortunes. April 1. "Actually, they had ivould be interested we would defi­ Macy made official Friday to have a date on the con­ nitely like to work that out if possi­ night what had been ru­ tract. The reality is that ble." mored for months when, on B,- accepti'ng a four-year con­ live Lexington television, he SEE MACY tract. Macy will be leaving a suc­ ► cessful business career. He has been in radio and television seven Macy's contract at Morehead Macy isn't prom1smg an - ► Macy is for four years, which he said 1 overnight fix, but he does (c.r,1 +- d.) was a fair number, ·promise to be active in the "Anything Jess would have community. once ( get back to Kentucky, been hard to accomplish our , I'lLdo· some··roundation _and "We need to get the fans , ..... A-- d. ,·k··-~•·t, ... goals," he said. _ back in . the arena," he said. ~gr01111 wor ,':.-¥°~"'•, .... r)_~r-,1· ..- . ·Macy"s coachmg styJiiwill be "We want ·every home game to Macy replaces flamboyant for the Eagles to be uptempo be an event in the community. · Dick Fick, ·who··was fired after offensively and aggressively To get the program turned five seasons as the Eagles' defensi ve!y. around and be competitive and head coach. Fick's outlandish "We'll try to get a little mix successful in "the OVC, you've style brought Morehead na~ of some 'of the players coming got to develop a home-court ad­ tional notoriety, but he failed back and some new players vantage. It's going to take to win an Ohio Valley Confer­ coming-in," he said. "There's a swome time, but we hope to do ence championship. Fick en­ Jot of good high school talent it." joyed only one winning season in the state of Kentucky." (1994-95), when he was OVC Co-Coach of the Year, The Eagles were 8-19 last season and have Jost 30 con­ The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, March 18, 1997 secutive road games, including 20 in the OVC. The last time Morehead went to the NCAA The Macy era Tournament was in 1984 under coach Wayne Martin. Macy will finish his fourth Former UK star and Ashland coach season as the color commenta­ tor on the UK Radio Network. combine to revive MSU program "Fortunately, with the way that is, it's kind of weekend This time the rumor mill ever, he is the son of a col­ work, so during the week I can got it right: Former Univer­ lege coach, and he has played do Morehead State work," he sity of Kentucky basketball for some excellent coaches. said. All-American Kyle Macy is While great players do not al­ Macy hasn't named his staff the men's new basketball ways make great coaches, yet, but it's expected that Ash­ coach at Morehead State Uni­ Macy ..was. a. fundamentally land's Wayne Breeden will be versity, and Ashland Tomcat sound player who overcame his top assistant coach. Breeden has coached the Tom­ coach Wayne Breeden has physical limitations to be­ cats for the past five seasons joined Macy as his top as-_ come a star. He was the type and took them to the state sistant. Let us hope the two of player who often makes a championship game last can combine their talents to good coach. March. "I have some ideas in return winning· ways - and There is no question that the back of my head but noth­ fans - to MSU basketball. Breeden can coach. At Ash­ ing's been finalized," Macy Macy's name began being land, Breeden built on the said. "The past couple of mentioned as the leading weeks have been more just get­ success begun during former ting my own position finalized, candidate for the MSU job Tomcat coach Jeff Hall's The next week or two we'll be within days after university brief tenure, and he re­ working on the staff." officials announced the color­ established Ashland's reputa­ Macy, who has never been ful but unsuccessful Dick tion as one of the regioin's an assistant or head coach, Fick would not be rehired for premiere basketball pro­ helped Kentucky to the 1978 a sixth season. Rumors soon grams. The Tomcats aver­ national championship and let­ began to circulate that tered three years for coach Joe aged 24 wins a season during B. Hall. Macy was a two-time Breeden, a long-time friend Breeden's five years, twice All-American and still holds of Macy's and a former head won the 16th region, and ad­ the record in career free throw coach at tiny Lindsey Wilson vanced to the state champi­ percentage (89.0 percent) and College, would join Macy at onship game in 1996. Ash­ season free throw percentage .Morehead. land's loss is Morehead's (91.2). He is also the No. 5 ca­ Macy was a superb basket­ gain. reer assists leader (470) and ball player, leading UK to a just this season had his jersey Macy's name recognition retired by UK. · national title under Coach and Breeden's contacts Macy played seven unevent­ Joe B. Hall in 1978. He went among high school coaches ful years in the NBA for the on to an uneventful seven­ should boost MSU's recruit­ Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls year career in the National ing. Just having the popular and Indiana Pacers, and then Basketball Association and Macy on the sidelines should three years in Italy before re­ played two years of profes­ help bring the fans back to turing to Lexington to live with his wife, Tina. They have sional ball in Italy before re­ Morehead games. two daughters, Mallory and turning to Lexington. For the · . No one should expect an Meredith. past four seasons, Macy has immediate turn around for a Macy doesn't look at his Jack been sharing his knowledge team coming off of a dismal of coaching experience as a of the game as color com­ 8-19 season, but the Macy­ major drawback. mentator on the UK radio Breed en combination "I kind of feel like I've been network. grooming for a coaching posi­ breathes new life into the tion since I was 4 years old Can Kyle Macy coach? No program. Here's hoping the and my father was a college one knows. He has never Macy era at MSU is a win­ coach and I was sitting right coached on any level. How- ning one. next to him on the bench," Macy said. "It doesn't concern me much. "My situation is a little dif­ ferent than a college student who just graduates and gets their first coaching job." The Daily~lndependent'. Ashland, Kentucky, Saturday, March 15, 1997 Breeden coy about

'hi~,~ ~,Q~chtng futqre - ·,,~-td --< :::r Last year, Breeden guided By ROCKY STANLEY'~ - . "0 OFTHE DAILY INDEPENDENT. Ashland to the State Tourna­ O> ment championship game for ~ the first time since 1962. :i" LEXINGTON - Ashland C. Ashland swept the KABC basketball coach· Wayne 'C ~ "(1) Breeden was a ·popular man awards as Tomcat guard Chad :::, Braley was honored as the C. . in Rupp Arena on Friday. (1) 16th Region's top senior. ('0 ::, At halftime of the Paints­ :-> "I think for Chad Braley to ville-Harrison County quar­ if;' telfmal game,- Breeden re­ receive an award chosen by :::r coaches in the 16th Region ::,co ceived an award from the speaks highly of him as a play­ _c. Kentucky Association of ~ er," Breeden said, Basketball Coaches as the Braley transferred from is::, 16th Region's top coach. ('0 Huntington St. Joe after his C But that's not what - junior year and was a catalyst ~" caused him to be a media in the Tomcats' success this target. season. He was Ashland's sec­ s: Earlier Friday, former Uni­ 0 ond-leading scorer with 15 ::, versity of Kentucky great Kyle C. points per game. O> Macy was named head basket­ "I wish I had the chance to = ::< ·. ball coach at Morehead State s: coach him for more than one , I l O> University. season," Breeden· said. "Chad's ~ Breeden, who also inter­ a very fine player and an even ":::r I-' viewed for that job, is consid­ more outstanding young man -.J ered a top candidate to join off the court." Braley's award O· I-' (!:) Macy's staff. carries with it an automatic (!:) "I'm very happy to be coach­ invitation to the Kentucky All­ -.J .ing the Ashland Tomcats," Star tryouts. ~- Breeden said Friday night. "A Breeden and Braley, along ti-ii lot of coaching opportunities with winners from the state's are being presented to me other 15· regions, were pre­ JIii right now. sented with pieces of cut-glass. "I plan to make a decision and announcement shortly." More cheers CfJ Breeden received the KABC Greenup County's cheerlead­ award for the · second time in ers added another award to three years. He directed the their seemingly endless list. Tomcats to a 26-4 record and GCHS received the 1997 22-game winning streak this KAPOS Cheerleading Award season. for competition by squads en­ "It's quite ·an honor to be tered in this year's tourna­ ment. s= chosen by your peers for an award such as this," Breeden Greenup County previously said. won the award in 1985 and '91. C'

lEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, lEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1997 ~ !'I'm very excited to become a part of the Morehead State Univer­ 'Breeden jo~ sity basketball program with Coach ('0 Kyle Macy," Breeden said. "I've Macy's staff ·· known Coach Macy for many years, and there's no doubt in my mind that he is the man to rebuild the Ea­ ~ at Morehead gles basketball program." Breeden, a native of Mount ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington, also has been an assis­ ~ MOREHEAD- New Morehead : tant coach at Kentucky, George Ma­ State basketball coach Kyle Macy son and Eastern Kentucky. He has selected veteran college and spent two seasons as head coach at high school coach Wayne Breeden Lindsey Wilson. ~ as an assistant coach, the school an­ Breeden holds bachelor's and nounoed yesterday. · master's degrees from UK. Breeden, the first assistant named to Macy's staff, has coached ~ for five years at Ashland Paul Blaz­ er High School, where he compiled a 123-41 record. He led the Tomcats to the runner-up spot in the 1996 boys' State High School Tournament LEXINGTON HERAlD-LfADER; LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MAftCH 16, 1997 ample, the dependence of funding on en­ who have manual, musical, kinesthetic, c . rollment is a detriment to a strong and se- spatial rather than language or mathemat 1 lective research university.) · • cal dexterity, and then guiae them int, My committment to UK is strong. I am programs of study and practice-that .wil -;LETTERS a native Kentuckian who knows something prepare them for a life's work in whicl about Kentucky politics and who is an they-will use their God-given skills. Afte - i avid UK Wildcats fan. I have been on the all;:..we:all can't··be rocket ·scientists o. wenure'"works.,- mathematics faculty· for more than 30 William 'Faulkners. Somebody has t, • .. ~'"•· •f• ,., ', •~ ~ -l{~r• •:,~~ years: I am fed up with the political pres­ make things, and somebody has to provid, sures that drive education in Kentucky. entertainment for us. · when· it ls based on· We are fortunate to have a governor who is willing to try io make drastic and As for Webster's satirical colum~ or t_eac~g excellence needed changes. There are some points page E3: Yes, in spite of KERA, nepotisrr .. f:, On Feli. fo, contributing columnist that have been published about his plan is still strong in small, rural counties. The l)evin Osbourn made many valid points that cause me trouble; but I am assuming only cure is to do away with at least ha!J --about reforming higher education in Ken­ that changes will 'be made in an environ­ of Kentucky's counties, preferably three­ i:ucky. I especially agree with him that ment that will allow all parties• involved in quarters. I'm told it -will never happen. great teachers should be "recognized, re­ higher education - maybe even university Well, they·said too that wfd never get to ·warded financially, promoted, nurtured faculty- to have their·say;· · · . ·. the moon, didn't they? ·-';:, t _,,, •'i-:'· ""J not know whether it was UK offi. of· incomprehensible to me," he cials - was spreading misinforma• said. · to urg!t:1 tion to students. ■■■ For instance. tuition won't Herald-Leader staff writer Bill division change under his plan and neither Estep conhibtiled to this teport. The University of'Ken_;-: tucky is': opposed· to:ill:(: idea and. has been . rui\.,; ning radio and televisio~ i comm~rcials extolli)lg'J the curi'ent system.- " : ... :fj Hend~rson Go~miity 1 College· President Pat~ Lake s:aiii neither_ ·side\ was persuaded by. the ; other at . the :meeting.! ..:I;... ) ~,,_-, .;; .-'\'•a,-,",'.-,\•?',',; touay. ,. '\ .·· 4 , ,.,,".," , •.,,,.,J 'Uike';saiii· "the'.:'bom;/l mu.nity.:. colleges. '.:lin_' 1t:"l, with 'UI0is important'-'to their students. · · , ,". ·, · · ,/ "They\exptess prefer,;,; ence,·'.•;.·,:gfi!trtfreqlllln!J lately. ~•:•~·tliat, the,\;tr .. scripts' ahd,dipJgipas''fut • Univ'er'~itf 9r::'K~" tu. c~,--Im__ W 1.1.li;U\e-~u­\.1" ~-•· ._.,_,,-~, '•'" m. r erv 1 ew.,•, ·,,.,,,,.,, •~ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1997 High remedial ~ourse rate found· at Kentucky colleges

BY MARK R. CHELLGREN '',.' ,,'!".°-<-,. '; ,.._,-;f,- ~'. _; C•:?:.- •/f'.,J- \. < ~ . <' _,.•:.• :~:,' -~?tf•;;/~"'• ',',!., '..r •',- \ i) /,< ,~. /'.'..~ l' ~"'." ., ' •"-•'-''\ °: :;.. ',, . AssOCIATED PRESS FRANKFORT - A substantial \a:refili:transrer;madei=eamer::;:1 number of Kentucky high school r-~(,:,, it f:~i~:sfJ:;'1~~,:,i' -.;A-'".~ 'rf;'"J;,i,r;;rJ {)t{P?':J.r~;r--1';_ ,"-! .... ~}Y_ i1/~.1,;5-.;• -"t,~ ;' · •J-,_-}CW;}jt graduates who went on to college in (tietwe'en::: -¢·u.Blie :ffltlversitiesP1~ the state were apparently unpre­ : i;'.'-;,;c_;:iat,W',.;_'°'. :,:,~:'~"~;:i,:;td//\ :,,: £ ":: ,: ',;{:;,.,3,·""-:,1 pared and required remedial cours­ ,;::,/:;;,-,;,;, _~~·ASSOc(ATEDJ'RESS-{1! ..}'!;_,tfi-.:\1Ftlie~'prOgnimS 1 ;Coinrnittee. of,:th~ ~ es. ",';,i·F~(?~):} '.'J~1f,a1Jf§~ ~- ~pticil,: '.acknowledged 'if,: was,. According to a study released 'the first time, s.tudents 'wli'oattend . hariler, and•1 took1onger to reach·,. yesterday by the Council on Higher i>ne''ptibliccoilege.od1iii~ersltyiin<-,\ne agreeni'~iif than might:'seem: Education, one-third of the Ken­ tucky students attending a public '!{entl!~Y::,fiiJ;, 1?'e,'.~~iji:~;:t!i~Y(: ''reasoi)ablfr?':fc\Jat .w~: r~~ai'¾e~- ; ,.,~transfe_rfcte,dJ~ t<> ,oth~::il)y~,:<,t,r~n~~e~ ~n:'the status, qtiq,• th17t, university took a remedial course tutions. ·- -- ,: ;' .. _ ,,'"".:;./,- ·-::" ;; ' , · : cliiiµge· 1s. difficult, that's•w:hat ,t for their first math course and 16 But there are still a number cif'" says,"-· Prather said.· _· ·:, : ,, percent took a remedial English ·conditions, and -getting,credif for- . '.[;The refusal,by ,force,tublic". ing complaint by students. And'.if: lish. -imi~ersities (wi1 eJetg t>UOl•:.".._gra uae:,,:'J'!Jt'f,,:~ -,. ·:, •, ---..t".::;·~_&_ ,t, ,, , · · ,_ ·r~ ·· -,,_ • • •· • , ·-:,, .. : ,,;, · ·' •'"'-"·' , • '." ~(;i4 cation is not in the business to con­ Versities·and.·14 commun1ty'col, · ·.:,,·The study concluded there 1s duct remedial education," said ,feges_.will eacli: giyf c~~ff to/6Q' _alriiost no's\l~h 'thing as the 'mi~'J Hilma Prather, chairman of the pro­ toreicourse ·tredit-'h'ciurs, iri '188 : tional four:year,,degi-ee.' ,. •·.: ;· grams committee of the council. . pro'gfams; 1'1\e·first.55 were ap•··;;-·; :·The sfudy::£6und that it'toolf Council member 'Joe Bill Camp­ proved yesterday.by.the 1Coupcil ,.an average of'll.2 semesters:for. bell said universities are going to · on Higher Education, . ..-,, ··•j'c_, .. .'students enrolled in the 1994-95 eventually have to decide they will · '. ' -"It really:is 'an ironclad guar, school year fo graduate, .and while. not offer remedial programs and not antee for. students," said 1,'ony most bachelor's· degree programs: accept students who need them. That Newberry of',the University of· -require 120 to 130 credit hqurs for; will put the burden on high schools . Kentucky community college sys- 1m1duation, the. average stullent where it belongs, Campbell said. ·tern:--' ·s::"·, . :. ·;,,.'}ir:f,aiiemptedJ56,6hoursandeained In other items, the council yes­ ·: · The guarantee,:.: tl\'ougfi,:~i,;;.': ,'.141'7 hoifrs:"' \' ,· : : .::, . ',, ;'.\,'. terday: good only' if'.the entire ·60,hour ·, . The . sf!idy·' considered ciiily'. ■ Approved distribution of an package of bas.ic ecjµcati,oi} ;ind .. factors_that•";eie attributable to_ additional $2.6 million to the eight major-area courses are.completed:' ''the ·studeriLand' •cited ·reasons universities for achieving Anything shorfof.that, of:in addi?'. .'siicli' as:.poor'..acadeiiiic prepara'."' performance goals. It is the only tion to it, might not.be recogniied 'Sliol'i,':changing'of majors, out_siae monev in the $757 million General tiy-another institution. - , ·.. ' ',; eIIJploymenfand pursuifofa'dou: Funct' budget for higher education ' Hilma Prather;_ chairmaiiKof" ble.major:: .;;,.,,, ', ' , ,,.. , ,· tied to the universities actually : • ';-; .. --~.rf,'.._ ,~v:. ~,.. ;-.~;ft-

HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT under pressure from the federal But Coleman and KSU President FRANKFORT - The Council government. Mary L. Smith questioned the coun­ on Higher Education yesterday This year's new plan also cil's decision to delav action on a moved ahead with a plan that marks a shift, in that some of its plan to enhance Kentucky State. would require Kentucky public uni­ measurements will now apply at Charles Whitehead, the council, versities to do a better job in keep­ the system level - meaning that member who chaired the committee ing black students enrolled and all institutions will have to make that drafted the plan, asked for the helping them graduate. progress for any to receive credit delay; citing issues that had arisen. But the council also moved to The Rev. Louis Coleman; a Shel­ Whitehead did not elaborate put another part of the plan - im­ byville civil rights activist, praised and said after the meeting that he provements to Kentucky State Uni­ the new plan's emphasis on gradua­ had not had a chance to discuss the versity - on hold indefinitely. tion rates and retention rates. matter with other committee mem­ The Kentucky Plan for Equal "We need to stop this revolving bers. Opportunities is a five-year plan door process of students entering Smith said she did not know that broadly oversees universities' the university in September and what Whitehead's concerns were. affirmative-action efforts. It is an then you don't ever hear from them "I was very surprised that it outgrowth of desegregation plan- again after the first semester," Cole­ happened," she said. ''I'm just wait­ I ning that the state began in 1982 man said. ing to see what happens next." IHE COUHll:R-JOUHNAL • 1\11:I\HUCK.Y • TUESDAY, MAHCH 25, 1997 compared with a recommended aver­ age of 8.4 semesters. Students who enrolled part time as -S,(3te smooths path to bachelor's degree~ freshmen required, on average, 4.1 se­ mesters more than full-time students loss of credit. cies should have been worked out to graduate. Students over age 25. New policies help That step, made in response to a Jong ago. He said the main obstacle took 1.4 semesters longer to complete Jaw passed last year, should have "a FINDINGS OF THE STUDY has been the attitude of higher educa­ degrees than students of traditional ! major impact on time (required to tion officials who had stymied earlier college age. transfer students earn) a degree in the near future," ■ 1994-95 graduates were enrolled an average of 11.2 semes­ efforts to attain transfer policies and Among school-related reasons for said Roger Sugarman, the council's ters. common course-numbering policies. the delays, the study cites confusing keep their credits associate directorfor research and ac­ ■ The average bachelor's degree program requires 129 semes­ "They do not talk to each other; ·course requirements, problems in countability. ter hours, or about 8.4 semesters of work. they do not cooperate with each oth­ transferring from school to school By MICHAEL JENNINGS The study released yesterday shows er," said Shaughnessy, D-Jefferson­ and inadequate advising. Student-re­ ■ The average graduate earned 142 hours while altempting 157 The Courier-Journal that the typical student at a Kentucky town. "They never have, and if it's lated factors include changes in ma­ p11blic university takes 11.2 semesters hours over 4.8 years. left up to themselves, they won't." jors, employment, pursuit of double FRANKFORT, Ky. - As it received to complete a bach.elor's degree. In ■ Part-time students took an average of 4.1 semesters longer to Council Executive Director Gary majors and course-taking for personal a report showing that the typical Ken­ doing so, he or she typically takes 28 finish their degree than full-time students. · Cox said council members agreed interest. tucky university student takes three hours more in course work than the ■ Non-traditional students took an average of 1.4 semesters with Shaughnessy's goal. His legisla­ Sugarman cited a pair• of studies · extra semesters to complete a four­ 129 hours required - at a cost to the longer to finish ·their degrees than traditional students. tion "gave us the leverage we needed that suggest Kentucky students take year degree, a state agency took ac­ state of $28 million over the past 10 to get this done, to be frank about it," longer to graduate than those in other tion yesterday that should help thou- years. BY MARC NORTON, THE COURIER-JOURNAL Cox said. states. A separate council report sands graduate faster. . ·Transfer agreements coverinS the The report on time taken to earn a found that 37 percent of Kentucky ., The Kentucky Council on Higher first two years of college work m all versiiy to another. Kentucky. Council Executive Director degree tracked the college careers of students who enrolled as freshman in Education, which commissioned the major fields must be in place by next The transfer policies approved yes­ Gary Cox said the massive effort in­ 7,273 students who earned bachelor's 1989 had graduated after six years, report, approved a set of common fall. Those agreements will smooth terday cover majors in business, com­ volved made it impossi6Je to develop degrees during 1994-95. It shows they while in a national sample, 77 percent course requirements that would en­ the path to a bachelor's degree for the munications, education, the health policies in all fields at once. took an average of 11.2 semesters, of degree-seekers had graduated after able students in the most popular ma­ 7,000 students who transfer annually professions and the social sciences, But state Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, just five years. he said. jors to transfer after two years from from a state community college to a which together account for about 40 who pushed through the law requir­ If Kentucky is to remain economi­ one state school to another with no state university or from one state uni- percent of all transfer students in ing transfer agreements, said the poli- cally competitive, "we need to make sure that more students leave college THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1997 with a degree in their hands," he said. lie saio most other states show '.'.relatively little concern" about the lime ~tudents take to earn degrees. _Vote delayed on KSU. section of education plan He said Kentucky could try to reduce that time by cutting back on course By MICHAEL JENNINGS special legislative session on higher ing over the plan, "and I thought ev­ plans since 1982, it also strengthens requirements and charging students The Courier-Journal education. erything was in ·shape," Smith said. the emphasis on ensuring that African more for additional courses, but he , Charles Whitehead of Ashland, The Rev. Louis Coleman, an advocate Americans stay in school and gradu­ urged the council to retain flexibility. The state Council on Higher Educa­ chairman of the Committee on Equal for KSU and for civil rights generally, ate. On averai:e. students at the Univer­ tion yesterday approved the provi­ Opportunities, said he asked for the criticized Whitehead for acting at the Jackson said the new plan is de­ sity of Lomsville and Northern Ken­ sions of a new equal-oppo_rtunity plan postponement on KSU because of last minute and not revealing the rea­ signed to be open to revision in re­ tucky University took longer than stu­ that affects Kentucky's seven tradi­ "some governance issues" that were son. sponse to the changing lej1al climate dents at other schools to earn de­ tionally white universities. brought to his attention over the "The community has a right to surrounding affirmative action at pub­ grees. Sugarman called that under­ But, at the request of the head of weekend. He would not elaborate but know why" the enhancement meas­ lic universities. Since last summer, he standable, because those schools en­ the panel that hammered otit the five­ said he would try to convene the pan­ ures were called into question, Cole­ said, the equal opportunities panel re­ roll many part-time and older stu­ peatedly sought guidance from the dents. year plan, the council withheld ap­ el this week to discuss the concerns. man said. "We happen to think the U.S. Department of Education's office proval of the part that affects Ken­ KSU President Mary Smith said in plan is bigger than one person." Gary Greider, U of L's vice presi­ of civil rights but didn't get it. ~ent for student _services agreed, say­ tucky State University, the state's . an interview she was "in the dark" The equal-opportunity plan puts Given the status of federal court only historically black university. about what the concerns might be. So pressure on traditionally white uni­ mg about one-third of the university's lawsuits dealing with university affir­ students attend part time and nearly The council put on hold the .plan's was Sherron Jackson, the council versities to cooperate to keep the en­ mative action plans elsewhere, "I call for continued efforts to build 80 percent hold jobs. Their average staff member who worked on the rollment of African-American high think that we really won't have clarity age is over 27, he said. KSU's strength and for more specific plan. school graduates at current or higher in this area for another six or eight While mani of them drop in and .goals to be developed after a planned The committee spent months labor- levels. The latest in a series of state months," he said. · out of schoo , "they are very tena­ cious," he said. 0 You give them enough time and they get it done." ·LEXING!ON HERALo-1.EADER,'LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1997 0 :1 -e;·s:,rD qar·,·:.·• ...... c.hi.~•D\.rice.;.ttag.;:~j$._ . -, ,; " ,,. ... , 795. million.:., . fi , .,:,-;1 .-~.:: A·'·f.'~ .!~f · f!,) .....J.'· ~ : ',' .,_ ' ~. •' · , . . ·

JJK offers~.estimafJ':on cost of reaching top-20 rating rese~~~\~~~~h~t would cost money, UK 11·· · ; .' · ·• ' · ,;,,·.'.. · officials say. They cited some of the fol- •· ~,..,,__,_ ·1,-,:- •.,;·••• BY ANDIE MUHS' , told a delegation of community college lowing needs, along with these costs: THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1997 ~ ": .':, .,\HrnALI>-~EADER EoubAnoN WRITER presidents that his mind was "99 percent" ■ UK would have to hire 640 addition- Illness ·1eads ex-WKU head· to retire early ,, ' The i.Jniveisify of Kentucky has put a made up to push for a separation, Paduc- al faculty members, the report concludes. ·'price tag on what it would. take to make it ah Community College Pr,esident Len That assumes that each new faculty mem- JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi State University President Donald Zacharias, a former president of Western K~ntucky University, will the. ···a'top-~0.reiearch·institution. O'Hara said. ber would attracf $250,000 in research resign at the end of the year because of liis multiple sclerosis. ET. :. Try~$7,95 million - more than the One of the rationales cited for moving grants each year - $160 million total. "I do hope very sincerely that I can help show that people (with ,. • ·(,,state _appropriation this year to the entire the community colleges away from UK is But hiring that many faculty, assum- MS) can function, that you can do a quality job, and with the support 1,•The text.of U~.·\'""systein: cif eight state universities and 14 that doing so would allow the university ing an annual salary and. benefits of of triends and others, you can lead a great life," he said. :-'.l'reslde,nt ':'.':;,· i(,i;o/nmuhity.colleges, ; . , • · to focus its attention and resources on be- $80,000, would cost a total of $51.2 million Zacharias, 61, was president of WKU from 1979 to 1985, when he :Cherles,T,.,. ·. ;- ,_.·:•:!:J: 10f that' moneri$691 million would be coming a top research institution. eacn year; the report said. The faculty went to Mississippi. He said yesterday that after consulting with his WethlngtonJr.s:··.... ·-;;._., ·- ttn·' 'd' t UK' BtWth· t d' t tht'tnh' I Id d t I d doctors last week, he decided to push his retirement announcement ,l#tter,t~Go"f/.,:;,'_'.:a,,o~.e:~e.m\'.es. ~n/, acco_r mg._o s u e mg on 1spu e~ a ts a so wou nee suppor personne, an ahead about six months. · l'aul Patton Is !' ••--Y,figures;·But $104 nilllion '(l'Ould be needed letter to Patton, saying that the governor graduate student assistants that would A hospital Slay last week and speculation on his health led Zachari­ \'on UK's.i.Vorld '-/\~;'e\iefy.'yfu. :' !')' '.' : · . . . . . has not pledged to provide the kind of ad- cost $25.6 million each year, it said: as to disclose that he has the neurological disorder. r,·,w1 that I would propose some­ thing that is not in the best in­ terests of the place that I went to school and the place that my children went to school?" Patton said. Patton said he didn't seek the political battle over strip­ ping the community colleges, but would take it on reluc­ tantly to improve workforce ·training in the state. "Governor, I think you 're just ill-advised," Wethington said. "I think you're not talking to the group that ... are most important to us, and that is the students that are being served by the community col­ leges .... Don't strip away the opportunity for a person oi rel­ atively poor means in West Kentucky or East Kentucky to start in (UK) when he or she may not be able to come onto T ,....,;_..,.4,.,._ ,_,.. 1...... ;_ ... :1-1.. u 1,,,.,. l£XJNGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. ■ WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26, 1997 One former governor's_ view ott1 proposals for higher education .. BY BRERETON -C: JONES cation, without regard to regional·. t is highly appropriate that we - . turf _wars; and should be given the 1 focus on meaningful improve­ authority to make the decisions to Iment for our vocational/techni­ accomplish this goal. cal schools, our colleges and our This council should also be · universities. I commend tlje gover- . charged with the responsibility of nor and many leaders around the coordinating the vocational schools · commonwealtli for tlie focus they •and the community colleges. I are putting on this subject. The agree that we ·should have a chan­ time is right to make a significant cellor of the vocational system, but investment in education. We know I strongly disagree with taking the that the future of our young people community colleges away from the depends upon the quality of their University of Kentucky. The fight education and we know that such to do this will be so divisive that it qua! ity cannot be achieved without . will monopolize the debate and a significant investment. We also jeopardize the best opportunity for know, that this administration start­ higher education in many years. ed with the biggest surplus in his­ Besides that, it is fundamentally tory (more than $300 million) so it the wrong thing to do. Why trade makes sense to do it now, rather community colleges run by e

•,- ~ r·_;: ,, ,...,_7 MM~>.K~ntucky students ~-~1±-.] taljj~f!gt~~medial progra11J.s .., ---~;,:~,'.'il - F:,:,' , ,~:~- '" .!' , ,t •,• f , • • • o. ·· ·, ,.- -,;, · · -• ~· going to eventually have to de- education··that is tied to· the,· By~l:ri:~i;Jt_;iti-,1?,1t clde they will'not offer•i'eme-· 1 universities actually reachipgf THE Asspc!ATID PRE~- '.;- .. · .: • dial programs and not accept some measurable objective>;,,·, ··• -- · -~ ,•. ,_., .. ·.:;: students who need· the1h. ·That ' ►The performance goals'and i FRANKFORT - A substan- will put the bl}rden on high the ·weight attached to., each \ tial number of Kentucky high schools w~ere. it _belo_ngs, are actually determined 'iiy Hfo•: school graduates who went on Campbell said. . . Institutions themselves for the to college in Kentucky were In other items, the council most part. apparently unprepared for the on Mond~y: ►Heard that the universities'' task and required remedial ► Appointed members of a . courses. committee that is to advise on and community colleges have . According to a study re- the subject of a regional edu- already proposed 74 new d~­ · leased Monday by the Council cation center in the Jackson gree programs. Some council tjn Higher ·Education,' one- Purchase. . , members said they were con-. third of the Kentucky students The council's appointment terned about the relative!Y: attending a public university Monday of the 10 members of large number, while others· took a remedial course for the committee was in keepil)g said it was most important' their first math course and 16 with the inability of Murray that the programs were actu­ percent took a remedial En- State University and Paducah ally going to be useful to some­ glish course. Community College to agree one. ,, At community colleges, 72 on much of anything these ► "I think that's our concern percent of the first math class- days. The regional center was here, that we just don't keep es were remedial and 12 per- part of a deal imposed on the getting bigger and bigger and cent in English. two institutions when they expanding," Prather said. .- : The figures troubled mem- could not work out their own ► Received a report that fac- , bers of the council. agreement on providing engi- "! feel very strongly higher neering education in the area. ulty salaries at Kentucky uni- education is not in the busi- ►Approved the distribution versities and colleges for the ness to conduct remedial edu- of $2.6 million in additional current school year ranged cation," said Hilma Prather, funding to the eight universi- from 87.4 percent (Morehead chairman of the programs ties for achieving their per- State University) at bench­ committee of the council. formance goals. It is the only mark institutions to 103.2 per- Cou_ncil member Joe Bill money in the $757 million Gen- cent (Eastern Kentucky Uni­ Campbell said universities are era! Fund budget for higher versity.) Higner education panel adopts plan to give credit where due "It really is an ironclad other in Kentucky has been a;_ By MMIK R. CIIEu.OREH guarantee for students," said longstanding complaint by stu- · THE AsSOCIATID PRESS Tony Newberry of the Uni­ den ts. And it was related to an-· versity of Kentucky Com­ other council study released FRANKFORT - This fall for munity College System. Monday about why students the first time, students who at­ The guarantee, though, is are taking longer to graduate.· tend one public college or uni­ only good if the entire 60-hour The study concluded there is versity in Kentucky will be as­ package of basic education and almost no such thing as the sured they will be able to major-area courses are com­ traditional four-year degree. transfer credits to other insti­ pleted. Anything short of that, The study found that it took tutions. or in addition to it, may not be an average of 11.2 semesters But there are still a number recognized by another institu­ for students enrolled in the of conditions, and for many tion, even something as basic 1994-95 school year to gradu­ students, getting credit for as an introductory history or ate, and while most bachelor's courses they have taken else­ English class. degree programs require 120 to where is still liable to be a hit­ Hilma Prather, chairman of 130 credit hours for gradua­ and-miss proposition. the programs committee of the tion, the average student at­ It took a law to force public council, acknowledged it was tempted 156.6 hours and universities and community harder and took longer to earned 141.7 hours. colleges to recognize even the reach lhe agreement than basic courses taught at other might seem reasonable. "That institutions. Eventually, the we remain entrenched in the eight universities and 14 com­ slalus quo, that change is dif­ munity colleges will each give ficult, lhat's what it says," credit to 60 core course credit Prather said. hours in 188 programs. The The refusal by one public in­ first 55 were approved Mon­ stitution in Kentucky to give day. credit for a course from an- •The Daily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, March 25, 1997- Scli2q~I~~i~~merger wouldn!t.bother _ ACQ:l:Jrsr,(scnools)· .are'· -8ij-: in- _· 1da to reach high school stu- " - . '"tl-" ,. •·- --- · .·. -·· -,.· · dents· and encourage them to day ~? was not at all a~-:_ :;J!;l! J',~,!!)<,used on that, a~d · attend his institution - a dual tated about proposals to /lj~t{a.P_Rp>~cg sh?!Jl~. ~e. as, enrollment program and a change the way Kentucky's · -tnt~nere as elsewhere. 10th-grade placement test with colleges are governed. r::,~a~}11aji{'he ·_sp'ends one:tliird advice on how to correct their Robert Khoury, now dis- ::\J;f~~/4:."Y~t¥-; t~~ on '.crises,. weaknesses. · trict vice president for aca- '''9:1\e.;tp:jfdcon:·managenielit~arid "You want to recruit," he demic affairs at Hillsborough fil1_•_.I~_i;h_,.,.__ .::_J!_._-hd ___ :g,._n_ le_,_bead~hexti~e-rnHale said, "but you need to focus on Community College in rJ band members and war orphans, high school records but don't make came to less than $1 million last year. top scores on the tests used in Na- ..: ___ 1 •I'-...!~ ,.._L_I ___ - I •• Mot.E ➔ ,\J,J-~J µ._.:,.\• (c..,..:;I 'd) THE COURIER-JOURNAL-. WEONE~Q_~Y. MA_RCH 26, 1997 League and Duke - that have a sur­ fsome;toff';~~~:,;. tucky;"wh'ere. the American College plus of sterling applicants, Martin r- - ~"- ...!-.,,/.'~~,,. Test is the dominant· college-entry said. Public universities have ·in­ test, McKune said. creased the pressure ori private col­ William-Hall,-a consultant to pri­ leges by pl_unging into llie bidding 1studeiifs.,·•-o·~, .. : vate colleges, said becoming one of game, he said. _ · _ ., • •• • -a • , •• •-· •::.,,, .:~ \• th1!"14,000 Merit Scholarship finalists· "I mean - let's admii it ...:. Har­ named annually also depends on the vard's not our comp-etition" for tal­ willingness of high school-counselors ented freshmen, Martin said. "The !cannot: get::~: to -complete· the· necessary paper­ University of Kentucky is." . work: "lt:puts.a. tremendous burden Bellarmine, a private college in on those counselors•for the sake of a Louisville, awarded five Bellarmine 1past--1st·;tes't few students," he said.- Scholarships last fall. They pay full I ~ - • ., • •• ,· - '. Once a student becomes a finalist, tuition - SI0,200 a year - plus a :ay MICHAEL JENNINGS'. -''. taking· the final step -to a National study-abroad stipend wonh at least :The Courier~JournBI -·· : /. l ~ Merit Scholarship maybe even more $3.000. Another· 175 freshmen re­ I ~•·•. ~ t~•- of a fluke. A finalist may get a lucra­ ceived Monsignor. Horrigan Scholar­ : -'To those untutored in the ways col, tive scholarship, a small one or none ships. wonh $4,000 to $28,000 over :1eges scout for academic talent, Mon­ at all depending on the college. four years. · · 'nica VanDyke might seem a· hot Ed Willces, Bellarmine's vice presi­ :propeny. . SOME . COLLEGES; including dent for enrollment management, ~• ;She graduated first in her class of the University of Kentucky, boast an­ said both scholarships are less than •more than 400 at Nonhmont High nually about their rankings in the 10 years old. Today, academic schol­ :sl:hool in Clayion, Ohio. She did well number of freshman Merit Scholars arships go to ·more than half of Bel­ ;QJ\ college-entry tests. enrolled. McKune said such school­ larmine's freshmen, and they "have ;_:~But none of that served to get her to-school comparisons are deceptive definitely improved the quality of our :uie kind of attention from colleges because schools differ in whether incoming class," he said. •that many students with less stellar they sponsor Merit Scholarships and, But most colleges "won't be able :high school records receive. if they do, how many. to go much funher" with using aca­ : "A lot of schools contacted me for About 3.900 Merit Scholarships are demic scholarships as a recruitment 1admission," said Van Dyke, who ex~ conferred annually by colleges and tool, Wilkes said. "Thetre almost at :pects to graduate summa cum laude universities under an agreement with the saturation point, I thmk." :trom Bellarmine College in Louisville the National Merit Scholarship Corp. •in May. "But schools across· the McKune said a finalist can't win an I :country were not offering me schol­ institutional award from a -school I ~a~hips by any means.'' "unless the student list$ that school : '.::cTHE PROBLEM for VanDyke as his first-choice" during the schol­ ;was her score on the Preliminary arship screening process. •SAT1National Merit Scholarship IVY LEAGUE universities and :Qualifying Test. That test is the gate­ some other elite colleges confer none •way to consideration for National of these institutional awards because :Merit Scholarships, and she found they aren't part of the Merit Scholar­ ;herself shut out. ship network. , VanDyke's experience illustrates The National Merit Scholarship :how the test-centered nature of Na­ Corp. itself annually bestows 2,000 tional Merit Scholarship competition scholarships. each wonh $2.000, and shon-changes many superior stu- some other companies and founda­ :ctents. t tions award National Merit Scholar­ ' High school'students typically take ships to about 1.100 other National :the PSAT in the fall of their junior Merit finalists. most of them children ;year. Colleges buy lists of students of their own employees. Ironically, •who score above specified levels on McKune said, the scholarships re­ :the test and send out teaser letters. quiring the highest achievement - : . "The amount of mail those stu- those the National Merit Scholarship 1dents receive - it's almost unbeliev­ Corp. bestows - are worth the least :aeie." said Kate Johnson, advising financially. •coordinator for the University of National Merit Scholarship selec­ ; Kentucky's honors program. tion "isn't representative, if you will, ' VanDyke's high school record was of all the best people that are out enough to attract scholarship offers there." McKune said. . from four schools. Her Bellarmine Hall said he advises colleges to be Scholarship paid full tuition and a leery of the National Merit program. $4,000 stipend for foreign study. - It is, he said, "the most byzantine. ar­ But she still feels frustrated by the cane process you've ever heard of." way colleges stampede· after students who rise in National Merit competi­ tion. "It seems like semifinalists and finalists for National Merit basically get their ticket written for where they want to go." she said. "And high school performance goes secondary to that." TOM MCKUNE, director of ad­ vising at Centre College. has a daughter who won a Nat10nal Merit Scholarship worth $500 a year from Wake Forest University, a private school in Winston-Salem, N.C. Yet he's skeptical about the way Merit Scholars are chosen and by the em­ phasis some schools place on recruit- ing them. . Advancing from semifinalist to fi­ nalist requires a strong high school record, a good score on the Scholas­ tic Assessment Test and a principal's recommendation. But "the whole en­ try to it is via one test," and the PSAT isn't even given at some rural high schools in states, including Ken- Mtt.'"c.J, 1. 7, 1,11 q I~;;_;;)- q- 16 - 3 M:.:U Clip :::heet MSU ARCHIVES A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STA TE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY, MARCH 27. 1997 PATION'S PLAN Patton: Improve Gov. Paul Patton's plan for postsecondary education includes: ■ Stronger coordination of the state universities, in order to referee turf battles and prevent duplication, college research, and long-range planning overseen by a new board of state officials and legislators, headed by the governor. ■ Making the University worker training of Kentucky a Top 20 research university in 20 . years, and enabling the The cop would be a strengthened University of Louisville to Council on Higher Education, which "The University of Kentucky needs become nationally would be renamed the Council on to be known for great basketball Postsecondary Education. Its mem­ recognized in selected areas. bers would be appointed by the gov­ and great scholarship." ernor. It would "eliminate dupfica­ ■ Using satellite links - Gov. Paul Patton tion, wasteful competition and turf and computers to allow the battles." but would not " micro-man­ six regional universities to By ROBERT T. GARRETT state alter its higher-education sys­ age" the eight state universities, he pool their course offerings and RICHARD WILSON tem and catch up with the rest of the said. The council president's salary, and concentrate on quality The Courier-Journal nation. visibility and prestige would eclipse undergraduate and First, he noted that 44 percent of those of university presidents. master s degree programs. LEXINGTON, Ky. - Citing the state's adult population lacks the A major goal would be to make the ■ Stnpp,ng the the bleak history of public edu­ literacy skills to " effectively complete University of Kentucky a nationally communrty colleges from cation in Kentucky, Gov. Paul a job application or r ead an instruc­ acclaimed research hub. UK. They and the state's Parton yesterday offered a plan tional manual." technical schools would be to reform higher education by Second. Kentucky lags the nation PATTON DISPUTED recent run by an 11-member claims bv UK President Charles boosting research at the state's in the percenta~e oi adults who have board that responds to Wethington that ta king UK into the two largest universities and im­ a college education. regional worker-training Iop 20 universities in resea rch would proving worker training. Third, while the state has in­ priorities. require a minimum increase in UK's " We can no longer afford to creased the public's access to hiiher funding of $795 million. sit idly by as our best and education. its system is inefficient, WHAT'S NEXT brightest students continue plagued with unnecessary duplication The governor ruled out raising tax­ es to meet the goal of making UK a Patton will explain his their yea rly exodus to institu­ and "fosters competition rather than plan to the Task Force on top research center, meaning it could tions m other states that offer cooperation," he said. Postsecondary Education more highly ra nked programs only be done through a slow and WHAT IS Patton's plan? First, to painful reallocation of existing state April 14 and 15, then draft and opportunities," Panon said a bill for submission to the on statewide television as he have a plan - an overall set of goals. revenues or much-improved private General Assembly at a began trying to sell the public They would be adopted with heavy fund-raising - a spinoff of the in­ participation by the legislature and creased entrepreneurship that re­ special session scheduled on a changea college system. for May 5. Patton said his main thrust would be regularly reviewed by the search generates. is at the top and bottom rungs governor and legislative leaders on a " The University of Kentucky needs of the educational ladder after Strategic Committee on Postsecon­ to be known for great basketball and INSIDE hiih school : expanding and dary Education (SCOPE) that Patton great scholarship," Patton said. "I am REACTION: Key raising the quality of doctoral­ would create. determined that 20 years from now players In the education level research at the universi­ Patton has proposed to then put a the University of Kentucky will be community are ties of Kentucky and Louisville, big cop on the block to watch the recognized throughout the nation ~s complimentary and and improving training of the universities and colleges. and make concerned. labor force at community col­ sure they obey the state's strategic leges and technical schools in plan. dozens of counties. Patton said research grants EDUCATIONAL LEVELS D High school graduates are a source of jobs ano new talent that Kentucky hasn't Figures are 1994 U.S. Census Burea1;1 II College graduates tap1:ed sufficiently. He said estimates for population 25 and older ,n businesses have given the state Kentucky and surrounding states. failing grades when it comes to training workers who have the "skills to survive in the new and rapidly changing modem iCD economy." As expected, part of the remedy Patton proposed for work-force training - and the most controversial - is to smp the 14 community colleges from UK. Patton has said he will call lawmakers into special session May 5 to consider his legislation. Admitting he didn't intend to make higher education his top priority when he ran for gover­ nor in 1995, Patton said he was yet another "job development iovemor" who ended up real­ izing he has to become •·an education governor" to suc­ ceed at raising Kentuckians' incomes. Patton said it is urgent the

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one of the top 20· public universities in America.·· . The University oi Louisville '.'must also be a generator of intellectual en­ ergy" and win national acclaim in re­ search fields closely linked to the lo­ cal economy, Patton said. The state's six regional universities must create "programs of distinc­ tion," Patton said. That will require paring the degree programs that each now offers - many of which have very low enrollment. Patton urged use of technology that would allow students at far-flung locations to take the same under­ graduate or master's degree classes. Each regional university should "use the resources and talents of the other regionals to provide a broad-based academic selection to the region it serves," he said. THE HOTTEST potato in Pat­ ton's plan is to detach the 14 commu­ nity colleges now run by UK and place them and the state's 24 postse­ condary technical schools under a new Kentucky Communitv and Tech­ nical College System. The system would be headed by a president and two chancellors. Referring to the community col­ leges, Patton said that UK "did a great job of nurturing that child" and that he does "not want to detract at all from the job the university has done." But Patton said the economy needs workers with customized training that can be offered and performed more quickly than at traditional col­ leges or the tech schools. Both insti­ tutions have stumbled over one an­ other trying to fulfill the new market need, and are "duplicative and need­ lessly competitive," Patton said. He said United Parcel Seivice, the largest employer in the state, and other businesses have complained that Kentucky's "bifurcated system" of work-force training is sluggish and confusing to workers, who complain of difficulty in transferring credits from one institution to the other. State Workforce Development Sec­ retary Rodney "Biz" Cain, whose agency would lose the tech schools if Patton's plan passes, said it's still rare for a town's community college and its tech school to work together in serving students. "In way the majority of the cases, we are not able to have a cooperative effort," said Cain, a Patton appointee. Patton said that "until that system independent and flexible, and in a is structurally joined in a way that position ... where they can and will ABOUT A YEAR ago, Patton will ensure cooperation and reduce cooperate without fighting." said, he and his wife played host to turf battles, it will not seive business­ Patton rejected giving UK and the eight presidential scholars from Ken­ es in Kentucky well." tech schools more time to show they tucky at the Governor's Mansion. The governor said he'd stake his can work together, saying the institu­ They were appalled to learn, he said, reputation to a promise that his new tions would stall until another gover­ that none of the scholars. whom he system would better seive communi­ nor took office and then revert to described as "eight of the most bril­ ty-college students, "without an in­ their old habits. liant students to come out of Ken­ crease in ·tuition.'' P~tton, ~ho has talked_ of ch~nging tucky's high schools," were going to BUT WETHINGTON, who the mcenuves under which umversi­ attend an in-state college. hailed most parts of Patton's plan, ties, colleges and tech schools oper­ "This experience spurred me on to said there is no reason to strip UK of ate, provided scant detail yesterday pursue this reform." Patton said." ... the two-year colleges. He said that of what changes he would make in My plan will help to ensure that gift­ the higher-education funding formu­ UK had run them successfully, and ed young people have pre-eminent that students and business and gov­ la. ernment leaders held them in high The governor proposed six "strate­ research institutions and centers of regard. gic investment and incentive funds" excellence nearbv so ihat we no If Patton's plan is approved, Weth­ but did not say how much money he longer have to export our best and ington added, it will create "layers woul~ recommend be placed in them. brightest." upon layers of bureaucracy in Frank­ He said he wants the new Council on fort created at a high cost to the tax­ Postsec_ondary Education to set prior­ payers of the state. . .. We don't ities for spending the additional $100 think Kentuckians need or want million he expects to provide the sys­ this." tem by the year 2000. Wethington said UK will "take our As "a gesture of good faith," Pat­ case to the people of Kentucky and ton will shift $36 million of additional to their elected leaders, the members funds into postsecondary education of the General Assembly." in the budget year that begins July I. But Patton called severinf. the Patton admitted it will be difficult community colleges crucial to, his to pass his package intact. Asked if plan. he would compromise. he said he "I certainly did not invite a politi­ doesn't want "to draw a line in the cal fight," Patton said. "But I have sand" and is open to being persuad­ reached the inescapable conclusion ed he's mistaken in some areas. that the community colleges and Kentuckv Tech both need to be made THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1997 ... ------COLLEGE VISITS UK added community colleges Gov. Paul Patton is visiting most of the state's community colleges to to· statewide mission in 1964 discuss his plan to reform The 14 community colleges began growing political clout of the four re­ post-secondary education. All as two municipal junior colleges, in gional universities the state then had. times are local. Ashland and Paducah, in the late (Today it has six.) Today: 9 a.m., 1930s. The community college system be- Prestonsburg Community The University of Kentucky opened gan operation on July I, 1964. . College; 11 :30 a.m., Hazard· "university centers" in Covington in Its subsequent expansion to 14 Community College; 1 :30 1948; Ashland, 1957; Fort Knox, 1959; sites was driven largely by politics. p.m, Cumberland Community and Cumberland and Henderson, For example, when then-Gov. Louie College. 1960 .• B. Nunn in 1968 needed lawmakers' Amid strong lobbying by other votes for his proposed 2-cent increase Tomorrow: 8 a.m., communities that also wanted cen­ Somerset Community in the sales tax in 1968, he used the ters, then-Gov. Bert)'. Combs named lure of a new college to obtain critical College; 10:30 a.m., a commission that recommended five votes. In 1986, then-House Speaker Elizabethtown Community more sites. The 1962 General Assem­ Don Blandford, a Daviess County College. bly approved the sites, and passed a Democrat, helped win approval of a . Monday: 8 a.m., law calling for them and the five ex­ community college for Owensboro. Owensboro Community· isting centers to be "comprehensive Patton's plan marks the first seri­ College; 10 a.m., Henderson community colleges." ous threat to UK's operation of the Community College; 2 p.m., Combs argue □ that UK should have community colleges. Hopkinsville Community the colleges under its wing because it More than two decades ago, two College; 4 p.m., Paducah is the onfy Kentucky university with a studies recommended separating the Community College. statewide mission; doing so would colleges from UK and operating them Tuesday: 2:30 p.m., shield the colleges from the political alongside the state's technical interference and patronage hiring schools. But bills proposing to do so Jefferson Community plaguing many school districts; and College. have never received serious consider­ UK needed a boost to fend off the ation in the legislature.

THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1997 REACTION Plan draws compliments, concern BvTOM LOFTUS Kent~cky State valved specifically in the Board of The Courier-Journal University Trustees at UK/' he said. President Mary Rep. Stan Cave, the Lexington Re­ FRANKFORT, Ky. - The initial Smith said publican who chairs the House Repub­ i;eacrion to Gov. Paul Patton's plan Patton "has lican caucus, said he has yet to hear a to reform Kentucky postsecondary vision and it's logical case to be made for taking the education was almost universally left up to the community colleges away from UK. complimentarv yesterday. rest of us to And Cave said Patton's victory in win­ The depth ·of Patton's analysis of get on board ning workers' compensation reforms the issue was praised as well as his to help make last December does not mean he's po­ identification of problems - and his this plan litically invincible on higher educa- • determination to solve them. work," tion. "Comp was a boulder on the But after giving Patton his due, mountaintop waiting to be pushed some key players in the higher edu­ all decided on facts. not emotions. and off," he said. "I believe this governor cation community, particularly legis­ that everyone acts for the betterment is yet politically untested." of higher education." lators who must approve the plan, SENATE REPUBLICAN Leader voiced concerns about aspects of it. Senate President Larry Saunders. Dan Kelly, of Springfield, said he• University of Kentucky President D-Louisville. said the major hurdle agreed with Patton's goals, such as Charles Wethington Jr. repeated his Patton must clear in the chamber is improving technical training, but disagreement with Patton over re­ his proposal to remove the community didn't understand how the suggestion movmg the community colleges from colleges from UK and place them un­ to take the community colle~es from UK. Yet Wethington struck a more der a new board that would also over­ see technical schools. UK has gotten so much attention. diplomatic tone than he did Monday "I'm very concerned about what ef­ on the issue and said he strongly "Can the governor cpnvince the leg­ islature that in order to accomplish all fect turbulence from that debate could supports the governor's commitment have on the overall plan," he said. to make UK one of the nation's top this, we have to take the community colleges away from UK? The jury's out Sen. Nick Kafoglis, D-Bowling 20 research universities. Green, said he thinks that the gover­ Other state university presidents on that. I think it'll be difficult to do, but not impossible," said Saunders, nor will likely draw broader support had no immediate reservations. from the higher education community "I think he (Patton) has vision and who said he has not made up his mind on that question. when it considers Patton's statement it's left up to the rest of us to get on that he'll push for more funding for board to help make this plan work," Two legislators from Fayette Coun­ ty were among those who expressed higher education, but only if basic re­ said Kentucky State University Presi­ form is enilacted. dent Mary Smith .. immediate concern with the plan. Sen. Ernesto Scorsone, D-Lexing­ "Does the higher education commu­ University of Louisville President nity want a governor who is going to John Shumaker said, "l am particu­ ton, said, "We ought to be looking to larly pleased wi\h his (Patton's) chal­ coordinate the programs, and I don't be a strong advocate for higher educa­ think it's necessary to rip the commu­ tion, willing to put more money into lenge for univer~ities to raise private nity colleges away from UK to accom­ higher education and improve it at all dollars to improve quality and to pro­ plish coordination." levels? Or does it want a governor mote research and development." Scorsone also said the plan seems who's been rebuffed, whose proposal LEGISLATORS, WHO will con­ to "inject more politics into the sys­ has been rejected, and is not going to sider the plan at a special session in tem" by creating a board involving the be an advocate for higher education?" May, praised Patton's determination governor and legislative leaders that Kafoglis asked. but were cautious about the outcome. would provide direction for a new Kafoglis also said he thought Patton Jim Callahan of Wilder, chairman of Council on Postsecondary Education. is helping himself by arguing that his the House Democratic caucus, said, "I think it's kind of a throwback to the plan is crucial to improving the state's "My main concern is only that this is old days when the governor was so in- economy. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1997 Maysville college students unload on Patto:n

By JOSEPH GERTH would lose access to UK's library, In- gree, they'd go to a vo-tech school." The Courier-Journal ternet service and computer labs. Toni Whaley, 38. student govern­ "Has anyone told you those things ment president, said students are MAYSVILLE, Ky. - On his. first would happen?" Patton asked Mc­ worried that Patton's plan will lower stop of a tour of the state's communi- Clure. He told her that the services the quality of their education and de­ ty colleges, Gov. Paul Patton braced would continue and that accredita­ value their diplomas. himself. · tion was not based on an alliance Gary Devaughn, a communications "Let me have it," Patton told the with UK but on the faculty's merits. instructor, said he was insulted when crowd at Maysville Community Col- Other concerns were that Patton's Patton said that a representative of Iege yesterday after outlining his plan plan would turn the schools into a United Parcel Service had written to sever the colleges from the Umver- system of . vocational schools and him a letter saying the community sity of Kentucky. "I'm tou~her than would strip any prestige the commu- college system doesn't meet UPS's an old Pike County hillbilly.' nity college system gets from UK. needs. They didn't hesitate. "Why people go here is they want "He's saying we can't even train Deena McClure, a 24-year-old a degree from the University of Ken­ students to be mail sorters or truck nursing student, said she was wor- tucky," said Delilah Poe, a I9-year­ drivers." Devaughn said. "To say that ried that her student loans would old environmental technology stu­ we can't meet the needs of an indus­ come due if the school lost its ac- dent. try in the area is complete misinfor­ creditation and worried that students "If thi,y wanted a technology de- mation:• The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Wednesday, March 26, 1997 Patton releases higher-e·d plan The •boiling dispute over the The Prichard Committee for By MARK R. CHELLGREN fate of the community colleges THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Academic Excellence, the Ad­ has overshadowed virtually ev­ vocates for Higher Education erything else Patton has float­ and the chamber have formed LEXINGTON - Gov. Paul ed. Job Quality Education Strate­ Patton said today Kentucky UK has begun waging a con­ gies for Today to emphasize needs a higher education sys­ ventional and propaganda war, the connection between eco­ tem that is not driven by poli­ taking advantage of its free air nomic development and educa­ time during Wildcat basketball tics, but rather by a vision for tion beyond high school. an improved citizenry and broadcasts to promote its re­ economy prepared for the fu­ tention of the community col­ ture. leges. GEORGE WOLFFORD, During an appearance on UK has also organized its Independent senior writer, far-flung alumni and supporter contributed information to this statewide television to of­ story. ficially unveil his plan to over­ network. haul Kentucky's education sys­ Patton planned to follow the televised appearance by a se- tem beyond high school, Pat­ ries of appearances at com­ ton began what will be a munity colleges, which have Highlights treacherous, tedious process of become the battleground in of Patton p_lan trying to convince the public postsecondary education. and the General Assembly of Patton was to travel to com­ Highlights of Gov. Paul the need for change. munity colleges at Ashland Patton's plan to overhaul "We in Kentucky have a fun­ and Maysville today. Thursday higher education: damental choice to make. Do will take Patton to Prestons­ ► Establish Council on we want a postsecondary edu­ burg and Hazard. On Friday, Postsecondary Educa­ cation system with no overall the itinerary will be Somerset tion. strategic agenda - a system ► Council to set strate­ serving whichever institution and Elizabethtown. There will gic direction for higher or region of the state or par­ be a full day Monday with education and hire presi­ ticular politician which hap­ stops at Owensboro. Hender­ dent for entire system. son, Madisonville, Hopkins­ pens to be most powerful at a ► Establish Community point in time? Alternatively, ville and Paducah. The Jef­ and Technical College ferson Community College in System. do we want a system of higher Louisville will be the site on education that executes a long­ ► System to govern ex­ Tuesday. isting community col­ term strategic agenda which His stop in Ashland today serves the people and busi­ leges and Kentucky disrupted the scheduled visit TECH schools. nesses in every part of our of Dr. Angeline Dvorak, the state?" Patton asked in the in­ ► System board to hire last of six candidates for presi­ president to oversee col­ troduction to his report re­ dency at Ashland Community leased today. leges and schools. College. Students who protest ► Separate chancellor Patton said Kentucky now Patton's plan spread the word has the first kind of system, for community colleges. this morning they would gath­ ► Remove Kentucky but needs the second. er outside the school to make Tech from direct state One of the critical elements him aware of their feelings. government oversight. of Patton's plan is to merge the Wethington drew indirect ► Create various funds University of Kentucky com­ support from former Gov. Bre­ to emphasize research, munity college system with reton Jones, who called for excellence. technology the Kentucky TECH vocational strengthening the Council on and facilities. school system. __ _ Higher Education but keeping A new governing board the community colleges at- would coordinate the kind of tached to UK. basic and technical education But Patton did get strong beyond high school that serves support from the Kentucky the population that will not get Chamber of Commerce, which bachelor's degrees and needs said it will wait before endors­ continuing education. ing whatever specific plan UK has already drawn a line comes from the administra­ in the sand. with President tion. Charles Wethington calling the plan "fundamentally flawed." ' . LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1997 Patton takes higher education plan to state Highlights of the governor's proposal Here are some highlights of Gov, Paul Patton's plan to change post-secondary education. It would: ■ Revamp the Council on Higher Education and give it more power. ■ Create a committee that Patton would head to oversee broad budgeting and Some students, strategic planning. That board would work with the new council. ■ Separate the community colleges from UK and the Kentucky Tech schools legislators say from'the state government. They would not be merged, but both would report to' a newly created hoard and president. they're skeptical ■ Provide $36 million in the next budget year, mainly to make the colleges more financially equal. Patton also says he would give the system $12 million BY ANGIE MUHS now for targeted investments, and eventually add $100 million a year to its HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER overall budget. Gov. Paul Patton yesterday took to the airwaves and to the sky community colleges, where he met balked at the community college as he tackled what may be the with a decidedly icy reaction. separation, but Senate President biggest political sell in his career Patton's impassioned speech Larry Saunders called that idea - convincing Kentuckians that the about how he came to his conclu­ "difficult but not impossible" to state's higher education system sions didn't sway Maysville Com­ sell. needs a radical overhaul. munity College student Deena Mc­ Sen. Nick Kafoglis, said Patton . But by the end of the day, he Clure, a nursing major who hopes had convinced him that separating had encountered skepticism and re­ to graduate in a. year. the community colleges was neces­ sistance from some community col­ McClure. 24, of Flemingsburg, sary. lege students and legislators. His peppered Patton with questions. "I'm not willing to support the plan, though, picked up support Would she still receive her student status quo," said Kafoglis, D-Bowl­ from several business and educa- loan? she asked. And she said she ing Green. "lt seems to me the pur­ tional leaders. wondered about resources such as pose of community colleges a,nd the In a morning computer access and library ser­ purpose of UK are very different speech carried vices that UK now provides. and we need to make that distinct." live on Kentucky Patton told McClure that she· Several other lawmakers, Educational Tele­ wouldn't see any difference in her though, said they did not support v1s10n, Patton education because the college the plan. told his audience that the state would still be accredited. He as­ Rep. Herbie Deskins, D­ could not improve its economy or sured her that she would have ac­ Pikeville, said the governor's plan standard of living if it did not im­ cess to all the current resources - is off-base and unneeded. prove its higher education system. and more. "There's no crisis that we can He left almost immediately af­ But McClure wasn't buying it. see in the legislature," he said. terward for a helicopter trip to the "I didn't think he answered a "There doesn't seem to be any out­ hearts of opposition to his plan - single question I had," she said. "He cry from the general public that community colleges, which he wants to change everything all of a higher education needs to be re­ wants to separate from the Univer­ sudden, but he's not giving people formed and particularly that com­ sity of Kentucky. enough time." munity colleges should be stripped Patton reiterated that he be­ Patton told the crowd of about from UK." lieves doing that is a "fundamen­ 150 at Maysville that they would Wethington insisted that UK tal" part of his reform effort. fare better under an independent had run the community colleges "I realize what a profound system. Repeatedly, he stressed well, and that its statewide mission change I am proposing, but 1 have that his plan would not merge them made it crucial and logical for it to concluded that it is absolutely nec­ with Kentucky Tech schools. keep control. essary," he said. At some points, Patton also "The General Assembly has At one point. Patton compared seemed to suggest that UK had not been a friend of community col­ the community colleges to a child been as supportive of the system as leges in the past," Wethington said. that UK had reared but had now it could have been - while still "I don't know why they wouldn't be grown up. "The child is 35 years saying that he "reveres" UK, from a friend of community colleges in old," he said. "It is time for the Uni­ which he graduated. the future." versity of Kentucky to move on and "You are 8 percent of the Uni­ But Patton said he would not conquer other fields." versity of Kentucky's budget, but back down because of political Several components of his plan certainly you represent 50 percent pressure. He told the crowd in - restructuring the Council on of their political power," Patton Maysville that if his plan passed, Higher Education and putting more said. "But when someone comes to time would prove its worth. money into the state's universities Frankfort to lobby, using the politi­ "l guarantee you, if this is done, or colleges - have drawn relative­ cal power you all repre$ent, they four vears from now vou won't ly little or muted opposition. ought to be talking about getting want to go back." he said. But the community college is­ you more funding." sue will produce a fierce and bitter Legislators' reaction to Patton's Herald-Leader••• staff writer Cha, political battle. UK President proposals was cautious. Several Carlton contributed to this report. Charles T. Wethington Jr., who clashed with Patton during a tele­ vised news show on Monday, promised yesterday in an afternoon press conference that UK would be marshaling its formidable lobbying machine. "For more than 30 years, the University of Kentucky community college system has been one of our state's great success stories," Wethington said. "We wonder why anyone would want to harm these colleges." If Patton needed further proof of the resistance to his plan. he en­ countered it head-on in afternoon visits to Ashland and Maysville LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. ■ THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1997 \~~X~gt9,f,{i\,~r~~i~~f~!,·:: .. ;~gue' C~S~'l9t~~~~J!t~¢¢: 1 ,:;;}ttk ., ~.: .: ',, :~-~•-'~:~·~,l~~!J:1n~~~;~r~i1:i:~\~.s\'~"!.~?TJ :{ •'·f/ 3 '• 'Tireigb;ernor anct'ethe president'of thiiUruveislty 6f Kentiiclty .y~; terday-sparred over.how. much itcosts·to'buy excellence, ·: '. · . · · . Gov. Paul ·Patton sbarplyr (juestionedJ:JILPri)siclent Charles·.T: Wethirigton's recent assertion that;UK wimla need $795 million in state. money ''7'. mar~ than the whole system ri9w gets - in order to become 'aTo 20:researcbuniv~ity,.,>· ·:··, ....• '. · •, ·J. , ,",·,,. ··, · 1 ! Patton said lie had: been ·,1:rati\.et'sµrpri§"~faiic1Jconcerned", by . Wethfogfqn's report, which" Wit~ seribdhim ahd;]egislators Jasfw,eek,. and'thouglit.that it neei:]ed t~ ~ evalyated)ri more d~tiiil, . . .:._ a, · .. •, . '; ·"lam riohmder tlfo iriipression'that,it:would takidhatkind·of mon­ ·ey,''. Pattorisaid'. "What Ithin!

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¥.II?".?'.-.' =.S';/,'Pe' j ';'.'.<'I ,-,y -,:t •·. ,,,•,•L '.,!-",.'· •; ·,,- . 4 _ ...... fatton ,to keep power "'.RROP.C)SEl>,GOVERNING"STRUCTUREt:{i j:This.is'Govl'Pai.il Pattoh'splanJorreofgarilzing Kentucliy:s·pubUp_'Ul)iyj,i~itle ~o p~~~·,c;ollege trustees i:~\i~llt~~!:;~~i~~f:~~ ~l~~i~~~~~:~ :. B~ ROBER;T: ~ . . . \ne ~~on pl~n al~o ~ouid'.~i-~af~-··· :iifa't1.ii#:olr...-,i.lr.ti:-.ud.'amlb~c, · •Ii, o·; ,,,, ~f:~,~~[ ~~~~s, and RICHARD WILSON',.'. .. ,_; ·· a president as the counc1!'s chief ex- )l!!~ni~lf,,fali:ru;,lirdl~1nm:> Council on. ' CPE president0 and The Courier-Journal "' ,' : ·. ecutive. The council pres1den\ wo'!ld ~ Appointive I'• ' , · ,.-,?,· " ·, · Postsecondary chairman · be paid more than the um".ersity power over ,' ' Education a.;;;;;;;;;,;;;;;;,.. ___, ·FRANKFORT,iKy. '::.. In his final presidents and would be the chief ad- boanls . r . ,1 higher-education plan, Gov. Paul vacate for higher,education in Ken-I 1 ~ Power over budget and Patton quietly dropped his earlier tucky and the top adviser on the sub- · • ! ~ academic programs idea of giving tlie governor's power ject to governors and legislators. 1 to appomt university trustees to a The council would work closely 1 beefed-up state Council on Higher with a new "strategic committee" - Kentucky University University ol Boards al Education. headed by tlje governor and includ- Community and ol Kentucky Louisville Regents tor The _plan leaves the appointment ing eight top lawmakers - to set Ca~:g:n~::em· Board of Board of Regionals power m the ~ovemor's hands. goals for the system. . .Board Trustees Truslees Patton's aides said privately yes- HOUSE Speaker Jody Richards ofl-----' I terday that Patton didri't feel strong- Bowii'ng Green and House budget 1 ,.. Eastern Kentucky University ly about the proposal and that, after d • 1 K ky s u · ·1y he heard arguments against it from chief Harry Moberly of Richmon Chancellor - entuc tate mvers1 two prominent House Democrats, he separately raised objections t(! givin~ Community Chancellor - Morehead State University jettisoned the idea. the councilthe power to appomt um- College System Ky Tech ., , . _ - Murray State University . Tb I t · t h h versi~trustees (14 colie9es) (26 schools) ·. : •.' .'., ., :.. ' .;, - Northern Kentucky University how ePatton as -mmu courted e clawmakers ange sows be- Mo erly sa'1d· R'1chards ''had a lot , -· ,.,";i~,I''•-at;t,f,-~-· .• ,.. """ We st- em Ken Ill ckyU. · mvers ity'" f0re he put the finishing touches on of toncerns about it." RiC:hards could -{~¾':~~ft r:r;J:t;f};;1Jti}Ji·'fitf:4l:~ffjf'!l.!4.J§i~f¥/:)[~h:;,ti,tp/"i_:··~,,~--;,}?t.,, his plan, on which ·be has staked his not be reached. governorship. Patton bas said he'll Moberly, who heads the House. Ap- accept further suggestions and re- · propriations and Revenue 'Commttte.e finements to bis plan, especially and works at Eastern Kentucky Um- from legislators. versity, said he told Patton his orig\- A practical side-effect of the gov- nal plan would make the council emor's retaining th: power to ap-, president "just an absolute czar." · LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. FRIDAY, MARCH 28, Moberly said that, though Pa~on ■ point university'trustees and regents would,have given the power to p1~k ' !5 that it may hasten Patton's ability,_ trusiees and regents to the counctl, tf he so chooses, to force the depar­ ture of University of Kentucky Presi­ its president "would essentially be rKey legislator\. dent Charles Wethington. ' the one, as a practical matter, ap, Wethington and Patton appear to · pointing the boards of regents of the be lockeif in a .political battle over institutions." §trongly opposes· the .governor's attempt to strip UK Patton's plan already would elevate of 1ts 14 community colleges and the council's authority over the uni­ place them and the state's technical versities' budget and finances, Mo­ schools under a new board charged berly noted. He said he asked Patton, fatto~ proposal with overseeing work-force training, "Did we really want somebody with By the end of his term, in Decem­ that much power in the system? ... ber 1999, Patton will have had the That was the red flag that I raised." Qomniunity college idea chance to appoint 10 of the 20 UK Senate President Larry Saunders, trustees. As the first modem gover­ D-Louisville, said he as.rees that Pat­ nor allowed to seek successive four­ ton should keep the ability to al'point 'ill-advised,' Stumbo says year terms, Patton, if re-elected, the boards at the eight state universi­ could have working control of the ties. BY LEE MUELLER UK board early in his second term. "I think it makes the plan better," EASTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU Patton, who continued·selling his Saunders said. "It's more palatable - .. PRESTONSBURG - Gov. Paul Patton had reform plan yesterday on three com­ that the governor retams that liarely left Prestonsburg Community College's audi­ munity-college campuses, could not pow~r." be reached for comment. torium yesterday when a powerful state lawmaker Patton's aides have said he bad UNDER BOTH his tentative and labeled the -gpvernor's higher-education reform the idea of giving.up_ bis board-ap- final blueprints, Patton would retain plan "ill-ad~" a nominating panel created in 1992 Meanwhile, Patton, who has proposed severing pointment power in January, while by the legislature and his predeces­ the state's 14 community colleges from the Univer­ thinking about ways to win respect sor, Brereton Jones. for the often-isnored council. Somei ., · sity of Kentucky, took a .small In an attempt at merit selection of step back from that controversial of Patton's advisers liked the symboi-1 university board members, who in ism of the governor's giving up the past often have been big political proposal yesterday: He said Lex­ something, even as he asked the um­ givers, the nominating panel screens ington Community College could versities to shed old structures and potential board members and gives remairi· under UK. habits and embrace his vision of · "Lexington Communjty Col­ higher-quality colleges. the governor three names for each vacancy he gets to fill. (A 'few such lege is a unique case," Patton YESTERDAY Patton's higher­ seats are elected by faculty, students said. "There are reasons why education consultant, Aims McGuin­ and staff.) Lexington Community College ness Jr. of Boulder, Colo., said Patton Danville banker Louis Prichard, should remain part of UK." He dropped the idea after deciding he al­ whom Jones named as one of the ready had suggested enough boosts original heads of the nominating did not elaborate. in the standing and clout of the coun­ group, said he doesn't object to Pat­ Patton· Patton's plan to separate the cil, which Patton wants renamed the ton's decision to keep the appoint­ • other community colleges - in- Council on Postsecondary Education. ment power. clilding the one at Prestonsburg - drew criticism It will be smaller, "have a more "If you want to really, totally, total­ ii:om House Majority Leader Greg Stumbo. clearly focused mission,.and strong­ ly separate the appearance of politi­ The General Assembly will meet May 5 to con­ er ties to the legislature, McGuinness cal influence through appointments," sider the governor's proposals for reforming post- said. "He decided those things would having the council make the appoint­ secondary education. ' . be sufficient to give it, .. stature." ments makes sense, Prichard said. The governor's proposal would re­ "It's far from won," ·said Stumbo, D-Prestons­ But Prichard said political influence burg, after Patton ended a question-and-answer · duce from 17 to 13 the number of hasn't been a problem in the nomi­ council members. He would continue nating.panel's deliberations because session. "I don't think there's near enough support to appoint them, but they would have tn ho. .,.,..,i,;-.,..,1, a.. .. .,1,._ ••------' neither Jones nor Patton has "been SEE PATTON, AS board. Also, former-advisory board· -~ATTQ~(P~erful legis\~tor' says · chairman H.B: "Buddy" "Fitzpatrick I pledged his support. ~~~~g off colleges 'ill-a~vised'. "I appreciate it," Patton told Fitzpatrick. "It's a courageous i FROM PAGE ONE· . . "l don't think there's near stand, I'll tell you." . i~ the legislature to pa~ this plan,! ~n?,ugh support in ei!her chamber, Both Fitzpatrick and Sammons ·litt ... he (Patton) has got a lot of sought to oust PCC President Debo- weapons." . but like I say, he'; got a lot of rah Floyd last year, but UK offi- : : Instead of cutting UK's ties to weapons," Stumbo said. · cials steadfastly supported Floyd c(lmmunity colleges, Stumbo said Patton's plan drew support despite a no-confidence vote. P,atton ought to enhance the rela­ from some students and at least The pair's support for Patton tjonship by developing a program one faculty member, John Sam- "didn't surprise me," Floyd said, ...... not new colleges - that would mans, ."_!)1em!!_ei:_ of PCC's advisory smiling. "I expected that." . ahow students to receive four-year d~grees from UK at the community The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, March 27, 1997 colleges. • · ;, On the sec- ---,----~ @d day of a five­ "I don't cmY tour of the think there's ctJmmunity col­ near enough l~e system, Pat­ support In ACC visit trih · visited Pre­ either chain-: ' s't'onsburg, Haz­ ber, but like :jfd and Cumber­ ll!hd. At each I say, he's '1!0P, the mes­ got a lot of s,age - and weapons." turbulent many objections GREG STUMBO decried "distorted truth" being tb it - remained Patton spread to defeat his proposals. the same. -----• Patton said that more than : Hand-lettered signs in the • • half of UK's political clout qowded Prestonsburg auditorium comes from the community r~ad: "We Are True to the Big receives colleges, but they get only 8 tr and "No Separation from percent of its funding. I Amy Noble, 25, a student· at expected "Under the leadership of my Southeast Community College's ex­ university, the funding for tension campus in. Whitesburg, · ·community colleges has gone sµggested Patton was attempting opposition down horribly," he said. 19 turn the community colleges into Pointing to opposition \'.Ocational schools. . thrown in his face as he trav­ By GEORGE WOLFFORD i "We did not choqse to go to vo­ els to community colleges, he tech," she said. "We warited to go OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT said "If they've got the clout to community college. That's our to stand up and openly defy a cboice to make, not yours." ASHLAND- Gov. Paul Pat­ governor, they could have :~ Patton told the audience yester- ton's first stop on a week-long used that clout to get money $y: "l cannot compete with the tour to promote his higl)er ed­ for the community colleges, elJlotionalism associated with the ucation restructuring plan was something they have not nµme of the University- of Ken­ a tumultuous one Wednesday done." ·· J n:icky. But I have to argue based on in front of a packed audito­ He told the crowd that no facts and based on logic. And the rium at Ashland Community other state in America follows truth of the matter is this campu_s College. the same plan of community will be better off." Students picketed his entry college governance that Ken­ : . As it exists, the community col­ · and some shouted complaints tucky does. "Ten years from l~ge system:is inefficient-and is not and questions at him during now, everyone. involved in helpmg the state enough to prepare the hour he stood on the hall's this change will understand." residents for jobs, he said. stage explaining his proposal Patton is proposing that the Patto_n said his plan would give and urging his listeners to community colleges and state community colleges and vocational­ give it a chance. vocational schools operate technical schools responsibility for Patton got a calmer recep­ under the same governing developing workers for local jobs tion at Maysville Community board, making them "indepen­ · · and would try to make UK a world­ College later in the afternoon. · dent and flexible. This is not ~a class research school. He spoke at Prestonsburg merger. We wanf to establis But Stumbo, generally acknowl­ Community College this morn­ two different entities with, edged as one of the state's most ing. common source ofauthority." powerful legislators, said Patton His critics at ACC were most Patton said universities are failed in Prestonsburg to answer upset about the part of his student's questions or show proof by nature slow to. change, as plan that would separate the are the fields of study they of the need to change. community colleges from their "There's no smoking gun .. longstanding affiliation with teach. Community colleges,­ Stumbo said. ' geared to local needs - par­ the University of Kentucky. "I cion·t think b·ecause UPS Patton said his plan would ticularly in training for em­ wants to teach us Box Stacking 101 ployment - need flexibility to give community colleges and we should change the communit,· make rapid changes. college system," he said. "Thafs vo-tech schools responsibility He said the Council on High­ not evidence." for developing workers for er Education, which is sup­ Stopping Patton's plan. howev­ jobs, and make the University posed to have oversight now of er, is another matter, Stumbo said. of Kentucky a world-class re- post-secondary education, is Both he and the governor allud­ ineffective because politicians ed to Patton's success last vear in search school. Many in the audience at don't listen to It. \ passing workers' compensaiion re­ l The funding proposal the fo1;11 legislation despite vocal oppo­ ACC didn't accept his data as council makes to the General s11Ion from labor and some legisla-· fact and he took issue with Assembly every two years Is tors. , some who challenged him. ~•an impossible wish list that For the higher-education fight, Patton told nursing students, has no meaning, he said. "You ·Patton. will use his influence over represented by Tera Duty, that pick and choose (items from state spending to further his plan. ACC degrees would remain as the list) by what Institution Stumbo sai_d - holding everything you choose to favor that year." from hospital expansions to road valid and valuable as they are improvements: ··hostage on this is- today, "even though someone .. r• • • • ._ -- .. _1..J ...... MH'foronth;_" He ' "It's Indisputable tliat what -'lll~I.., - we have now Is a system .of au­ ACC students consider them­ tonomous Institutions that ·sel ves part of that near- pretty much: do ~what 'they niariiacal hoop tradition. _ ~an t. "~-- h e sa·1d•'=•···~ ~t::-:~,;,.~:<1- L":~~fi:·lf1 · . · Why has Patton decided to . ·• -. l confront this emotional audi­ Most of the facts he cited ence? ·came from a study released. "I think they deserve to two weeks ago. Nick Ghas­ have answers," he said. "I de­ somlans, a psychology profes- 1 serve to face them eyeball-to­ sor, argued that the study fails eyeball." to credit community colleges , Rick Leake, a business in­ with continuing education that , structor at -·Ace, said he saw makes up a third of their Patton's trip here as an unso­ workload. · • ,." · licited "hour of his time, Ghassomlans also said Pat­ which I find offensive because ton condemned dupllcatlon of we paid for It. , classwork at community col­ "I saw a lot of his points that leges a slap at regional univer­ were valid," Leake said, "but I sities guilty of the same fault. think the governor has an ar­ Not all his listeners at ACC rogant, brash attitude that faulted Patton's plan. Danny ]Jj:_ \~ .. Y¢C~W says 'No one else has enough tJt>lilg,,sup ,Mahan, a history professor, ,;fposa1!t11e . education to make these deci­ :praised the governor's "cour­ ,r _lf'f';R~--=P""" -·- ,>':'' sions so let's go on to some­ '.age in addressing this Issue ... : -;1,v¾ _ap1er, "· .. "· _ e:, thing else,' and I don't think in the demagoguery you faced . '.: 'i: epre"s e il't'iFt'rve'',t'r.ofu7':· that flies very well. ;•;JBarclstown;i'cafiea""t!ie'1ef-'' here." "" • • ,. '._ ~-- > ·>·$~. ' ' ->"~ ' 'f . { "It's not what he said, it's ·.·fortto push:the"pfoposal Mahan did ask why so many ··:ti·'•" how he said it." '( in't' 0rl-,.,.. -··-.,:-bl''\;,c.\c;•t_'l;>' radical changes were being ~4;\"> - 1 ,~Y'.i,r~??,~~~-~E;•:;:LB?tl\,. Four legislators at the talk sought at one time and how · ,,. ,iHe. sa1iLhe,Jomed,Pat,,? voiced varying stances before they would affect ACC's associ­ 0~~;.tQI)t~Jlt8ithi ~:~1oecau.sei.i_fti llstenlng to Patton. · ate degrees. . . . ~"'(eeJ;'its::soiiietning~tlilif{,1 Rep. Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Patton said a partial ap­ 5;\sl}9uld'kliei'cio.ne:•tiia'tsi1.~ Hook, said he commended Pat­ \Winilalile::,r believe.in ,if: ton for having courage "to at­ proach would only delay reso- 0, '.""-!?•'4\...,_'1~ t~"",·.· ,.",,,«o.c,, Ys>··"')t· 4 """ 1u tlon of Kentucky's educa- !~:;~~-·;;;~1;;•:fit~~1;~'%Y>J:;,@N;;:>S!·"t~~\~+:'¥:it tack a tough issue, to come - . - ._ ------. that much." here to meet the people, with Uonal problems. Rapier said he was not work­ their emotions, face to face. I He told Mahan that what ing the Senate for ,Patton and understand the (educational) went on at ACC had nothing to didn't know how the plan structure and we all agree do with UK and that transfer- I would fare there. · there needs to be some reform ability .of credits · had been -Patton told. hostile- listeners in accountability, access and mandated by the legislature. \ at Ashland Community College streamlining the process. The · "A community college is just that taxpayers want efficiency community colleges deserve as respectable as a university, and economy and support the flexibility. but the people on the main · kind of changes he wants. "Add to that, the governor is campus don't think you are a Patton said that trying to trying to elevate vocational ed­ college," he said. I· separate the community col­ ucation to a higher level and At Prestonsburg this morn­ leges from the University of make it more flexible within ing, about 400 people turned Kentucky might cost him a the region. That's . what he's out ·for 1ne -governor: Many in second term as governor. He Is trying to do for community that crowd said they wanted to the first governor eligible to colleges, but whether this Is remain part of the·~ system, succeed himself. the way to do it I'm not sure. "I'd rather be remembered I'm keeping an open mind." but the tone of the ,session was· as a one-term governor who calmer tlian at ACC. ! i ,.i · Rep. Hobie Anderson, R· made a difference than a two­ Russell, said it would be hard Patto)l's reception. at: term governor who just went Maysville Community College for him, as a-former ACC stu­ along." dent, to consider separating it Wednesday afternoon was also As a politician he's been from UK. more orderly, with no protest used to using emotion to win Rep. John Vincent, R­ signs. Tina Baker, public rela­ debates. Now he's trying to Ashland, said he found no sup­ tions director for the school, counter emotion with loglo-­ port from his Ashland con­ said about 175 people came. and facts. stituency to vote for separa­ "We had late notice and by ACC Interim president tion, "11nd just look at this out­ 3:30, when he got here, most Roger Noe, an ex-lawmaker pouring (by students) here." classes are over," she said. and career community college Sen. Walter Blevins, D-West administrator, introduced Pat­ Liberty, like. Adkins, said he ton at ACC. But he said he was trying to keep an open didn't favor the plan. He said mind about the issue. "the time ls never right to "I want to give the governor sever ACC from UK." a chance to see what he's try­ The governor is even under ing to do. What I see is that stronger attack from UK Presi­ most of. the students and 65 dent Charles Wethington, who percent or the faculty oppose ·caUecr-Patton's plan "funda­ it, and when you see that mentally flawed." much support, it plays on a Patton admitted his tour to politician's mind." promote the plan came at an inopportune time - when UK's men's basketball team is preparing for the Final Four and emotional attachments to •UK are running high. I sance, who left' in Decemli~r to The Dally l(ldepeQ_den,t;·Ashland; Kentucky, Thursday, March 27, 1997 take over presidency of Cen- · tral Florida Community Col- ·6tff);1:o oa'~cruldida te 1.ege at Oc~a:;• .. : . ( 0 •• • · • •f~,. , • ,• , ; • . , The ACC. search committee

0 will now collect input from the predicts·- change . faculty and advisory board. That committee can study fur­ ther, including making trips to coming at ACC . __ finalists' campuses, but that ------r movement in other institu­ step has not been scheduled. By GEORGE WoLFFORD tions where she has worked. The top three names will be OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT That career includes four years as faculty administrator sent to Dr. Ben Carr, UK's ASHLAND - The sixth j at Michigan State University. chancellor for community col• and final candidate for the • and five years at Enterprise, leges, who will interview the presidency of Ashland Com­ Ala., State Junior College. three and select a new presi· munity College was upstaged ACC is looking for a suc­ dent.· · Wednesday by. Gov. Paul Pat­ cessor to Charles "Chick" Das• ton's visit to campus and stu­ dent protest of his plan to separate the community col­ leges from the University of LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1997 Kentucky. But Angeline Dvorak, dean of arts and sciences of Jack­ son, Tenn., Community Col­ lege, seemed not at all miffed by the turn of events. She ad­ ~t's not just the ticRet justed her schedule with the school and listened as Patton appealed for understanding of , l,egislators get tickets now, vote on UK plan in May his plan. t's a no-brainer - unless you're are asked to decide UK's future, Even before Patton spoke Wednesday afternoon, a Kentucky legislator given to constitutes a tonflict of interest. Dvorak let interviewers Iself-induced bouts of blindness That's obvious to most everyone know she understood the whenever the word "ethics" is ut­ but legislators like House Speaker issue and believed the pro­ tered. Pro Tern Larry Clark. The . posal would be adopted, soon­ Gov. Paul Patton and University Loujsville Democrat said it was er or later.· of Kentucky President Charles "parochial" for the Herald-Leader to "Even if it doesn't go over Wethington Jr. are playing one-on­ even ask about a possible conflict. :his time, it's a sleeping giant one for the future of Kentucky Of course, access to Final Four hat will have to be addressed n the future," she said. higher education in general and tickets may not sway any legisla­ And when times like that 1'.JK's community colleges in partic­ tor's vote cqme May. If that were iome, ACC will ·need an advo­ ular. The referees in this game are all it took, the tickets UK provided cate in the president's chair the 138 members of the General As­ to Patton (paid for out of his own - the kind of leader she has sembly. Come May, their whistles pocket) might end the whole com­ been, she said - to "take a will decide the winner. munity college debate; and that's lead and control the school's . Meanwhile, Rick Pitino and the · not likely. · ,destiny. . nealthy remainder of his Unbeliev­ On the other hand, we would "I'm an advocate, trained and spirited, and I am a part ~bles are trying to repeat the glory note that this state's recent history of last year's Untouchables, whose includes instances of legislative of my coinmunity. You can't success dimmed our memories of votes being sold for sums that ap­ fake it. I will lobby every day" the Unforgettables. (Was that Nat pear paltry in comparison to the for my college. King Cole's backup band?) value a UK fan might place on She said when the change fi­ Like a million other Blue-bleed­ these tickets. · nally comes, "the way it is ing Kentuckians, some of our legis­ We would also note a report in handled in the early days may lators think it would be just cooler The (Louisville) Courier-Journal that m·ake Ashland , a · model for than cool to cheer the home team UK declined a fads offer to make a either schools in · the state, if on from choice Hoosier Dome seats $10,000 donation to the Blue and t:Bis school can take control of this weekend. What sets the sena­ White Basketball Scholarship Club ifS own future.". She said poli­ cy and structur~_w~!]Id have to tors and representatives apart, how­ in exchange for two good seats in ~ver, is the fact that their wishes Indianapolis this weekend. The rea­ be adjus"ted to meet any I changes that occur. liave a way of coming true. son UK gave for rejecting the offer Dvorak said she was at­ If a legislator wants Final Four was that ticket preference is given tracted to the ACC job by the tickets, UK will "try to make them to longtime donors, many of whom school's mission statement, available," according to a universi­ have contributed more than $10,000 which puts students up front ty spokesman, just as UK made over the years. She said management style NCAA regional tickets available to So, available Final Four seats falls into two categories: man· General Assembly members. - like the season tickets UK makes agement, which is how well an Oh. the tickets aren't free. Law­ organization is run; and lead· available to lawmakers - are ership, "which is where we makers have to pay face value for worth considerably more than face take a school and why, and them. But it still amounts to a spe­ value to the university. It's doubtful that is centered in principle, of cial favor. By virtue of their office, UK would forego that money if it which trust is the strongest lawmakers are afforded an opportu­ didn't expect to earn some legisla­ motivator." nity cherished by, but denied to, tive goodwill in exchange for it's Dvorak, who holds ]I law de­ thousands upon thousands of Cat favored treatment of lawmakers. gree as well as a doctorate, two fans across the commonwealth. Does that create a conflict of in­ masters' and a bachelor's in English, said personal in• Such special treatment. coming terest for legislators? As we said, terests in technology had put just a few weeks before lawmakers it's a no-brainPr J.J ,-.o-c,-. -,-_, 0 -, . . M:::;U ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1997 ■ EDITORIALS Everyone loses, so everyone wins If UK gives up community colleges, what will regional universities sacrifice? v~rybody has to lose in order for everybody to and to build "extended" campuses up every pike and wm. holler; they win some new money and a system of gov­ E That's the nail that connects all the boards in ernance that diminishes the power of the biggest hog the new house Gov. Paul Patton wants to build for in the trough, the University of Kentucky. higher education. Everybody gives so everybody gets. In the week since the state learned· about Patton's The two, if kept in one package, go together like salt plan, the discussion has gotten lopsided. There's been on meat. too much talk about what UK and the community col­ The University of Kentucky gives up its communi­ leges are losing, too little realization of what these in­ ty colleges (and the political reach that comes with stitutions gain. having 14 campuses statewide); it gains the money and attention that help it become a more focused research And there has too much of a sense that the regional institution. universities (Morehead, Eastern, Murray, Western, The community cci!leges and technical schools lose Northern and Kentucky State) are slipping clean off the their present homes (respectively, UK and the Work­ hook. Patton's plan doesn't specify what programs force Development Cabinet); they win more money, an these schools will give up, what classes they will can­ enhanced status, and ·the political power of having cel, whether these schools should also lose the commu­ campuses in every region of the state. nity colleges associated with their institutions. The regional universities lose the independence that The regional universities have to lose, too, in order has allowed them to create new programs and majors, for this formula to sum.

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1997 ' _ This would improve chances that the arts departments graduate fewer than -10 \ a on s overall Pllll_l :vould represent a b~oad seg- students a year. It is going to take as P tt ment of op1ruon. But 1t would raise the tough council, with full official backing, - ; danger of regional political pressures to bell those cats. :'II7iS J rather than p~ote<:ting the overall commit' Patton needs also to explain why·the · Plan Sho' YY I tee from political mterference_ · · ·-' community colleges would be better .. The governor would also change the served under the control of a separate .• name of the Council of Higher Education ' governing board than under UK's super-··: to the Council on Postsecondary Educa-. ··· vision, as at present. Why will bo~ the_ . Courage ' tioil, which has the appearance of chang- community colleges and the vocational­ I ing the name without changing the sub- .. technological schools be better.off under stance. The new council would supposed- ' a common supervisory agency? Some fear. not C1 anty ly ride herd on making sure that duplica- such a supervisory merger would enrich :_ .. - tion, fights over budget and jurisdiction _ the curriculum of the tech schools; oth~ : ou have to give Gov. Paul Patton '. '. I and needless competition were ended. fear it would weaken the academic em- : credit for courage and vision in his -· Again, problems arise. The existing phasis in the community colleges. · _. , Yplan to reform the state's post-sec- council was created to do just this - end Will the proposed realignment make , ondary education system. If he can put costly and needless duplication; but no it easier to transfer credits from the com- , his ideas into a more understandable sooner had its members been appointed , munity colleges to full-time universities, __ form, and persuade the legislature to en- : than the legislature started whittling both public and private? UK's proponents act that form into law, he will carve him- , away at its power to do its job. What is contend that the current arrangement en­ self a lasting place in Kentucky history. ·: to keep a future kgislature from doing courages community college graduates to But first he must prove to the satis- : the same thing to the new council? , attend UK for their final two years. Sup- faction of the people that his plan off~ . The governor is certainly right in his :: , porters of.change argue that only a small reform that achieves improvement in the· assertion that Kentucky higher education• percentage of such grads '-fewer t:ha/l • quality, and not just change in the stiuc: :; ; will never be highly regarded Ln:til U:e , 10 percent- go on to UK now. · -- ture, of our university system. For the . state has a ~t-rate ~~ un1vers1ty , . We should all be thankful that we f\: last week, he has been beating the school:' on a \eve! with ~uC:11 mstit1;1nons as North· nally have a'governor willing ~o ~-\he bushes trying to sell his plan, and it •has' · · Carolma and Michigan. It 1s also clear improvement of higher C?ucati~n his_ · becom~ evident that . · .. ' 1 that the University of Kentucky should main program, and who 1s putting his ca­ while people approve ._: , be the focus of such development reer cin the block to attain that improve- ·• 1is idea in general, they But that will arouse violent protest ment Let's hope he can make his pro­ lo not know what his and political turf wars if colleges with du- gram clear !n the weeks to come. Jlan is in detail plicating programs are required to surretl-' · In response to ques- der some of them. And will future legisla- :ions, the governor has tors be willing to appropriate the sub-· - ndicated that he really stantially larger budgets to UK that will "" foes not have a de- be required? ... ailed plan, and the JOHN ED Political interference has prevented ask of shaping that PEA ·" the existing council from controlling du, .: ilan will be given to a ' _ RC~-- ,,,,, plicatiorL As a result, we have two dental" :ommittee, including HERALD-lEADER ., schools, where we need-one at most; ~:.: nembers of the Iegisla- COLUMNIST ,,;,: law schools, where one would suffice; .. • ;;,- ure, and will be re- .: two, and possibly three, engineering "'' •iewed periodically. schools where one is needed. Some liberal · TiiE,COURIER-JOURNAL • THE FORUM'• SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1997 her of Commerce and University of Lou­ ' : isville -activist. "Sometimes you come to · The Senate may pose the greater obsta- the crosshairs of political life and you've cle/ Senate districts are larger and thus got to- do what is right, regardless of po­ Patton an d hi S more likely to include a community ,col- litical ramifications," Stone said. "If we ' lege or other UK satellite, and the Senate blow it this time, I don't know when we ·. Don t . is more difficult to navigate politically be- would resurrect this kind of opportunity Plan cause it has been splintered by the Janu­ (to make the two largest schools leading ary coup pulled off by Republicans and research institutions). This goes beyond •. ate· five renegade Democrats. For various rea­ partisan politics." • Underestlill sons, Patton could get a majority of the Patton is lucky that no Republican has renegades. but the Republicans are an- surfaced as a likely opponent for 1999. f other story .. There is more action m his own party, l" th er O th em Republican Leader - or, more de­ where former Gov. Brereton Jones has e scriptively, Plurality Leader- Dan Kelly taken public exception to the communi­ of Springfield has called the community• ty-college plan, -leading many of his own RANKFORT, Ky. - In his inaugu­ college issue a distraction. Also, it would supporters to think he will try to ride the ral address in December 1995, do Republicans no political good to hand issue back into the governorship. Paul Patton said he wanted histo­ Patton a victory much larger than the Patton seems to fear none of these F ry to call him the governor who one they helped give him on comp. That shoals and rapids. · "laid the foundation of change in post-sec­ would make him all the more powerful in In a remarkable life: he has given him­ ondary education that brought Kentucky the 1998 General Assembly, the 1998 leg­ self many to~gh jobs, from digging coal out of the backwoods of economic oppor­ islative elections and the 1999 election, t~ st~rtmg his own company to setting tunity." when Patton says he will seek re-elec­ hts sights on the governorship from an At the time, even those close to Patton tion. isolated bailiwick almost 20 years ago. had little idea of what he had in mind. To This is no time for Republicans to He won those battles, and others. ! some, his references think politically, says Jefferson County ~--~---. · to a topic little men- Don't sell him short. tioned in his cam­ paign seemed to be a last-minute stab at saying something sig­ nificant. The otherwise THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1997 mundane . nature of the speech made an­ other apparent inser­ tion stand out. It was AL from poet Robert Bigher-~d plar(_;: CROSS Browning: 11A m~n's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" · Both references A lot of change'.;~ have turned out to be telling. Patton may have reached beyond his grasp last week by proposing a sweeping higher-educa­ tion plan that would, among many other things, take the state's commumty col' for little money:: leges from the University of Kentucky. Patton says he will stake his reputa­ tion that the plan would better serve Kentucky, his administration's community-college students, whom UK Schools that .drive to make state government otficials are scaring into near-hysteria more efficient, in part by incorpo­ (their 'predecessors must be amused at try new ways rating modem technology. the idea of encouraging. campus demon­ THE SIX investment and inc~~­ strations). But Patton also may be stak­ would get funds tive funds would promote research; ing his governorship, or at least much of excellence; access to learning .for his political capital. By ROBERT T. GARRETT non-traditional or isolated students; He is facing what may be the state's and RICHARD WILSON maintenance of campuses; intra-ie­ most powerful lobby, a university that The Courier-Journal gional cooperation on work,force reaches into every. comer of the state training; and improvements in· stu- with colleges, alumni, extension agents FRANKFORT, Ky. _ Gov. Paul dents' abilities to obtain loans and and basketball. Under the Wildcat sports P It · d lin $35 mill' · earn degrees swiftly. --,n: contract, UK is using public resources mediately,a on IS andang ang eventual ,ontotal im- of State universities will have to.re- (not tax money, it says, but free air _time $100 million a year; in new money think their priorities, and econo­ from broadcasters) for a TV and radio ad as the carrot to win passage of' his mize to cough up the necel;~ary campaign that promotes its link to the higher-education reform plan. matching money to compete,• for community colleges. Patton had better But the stick is this: There won't grants from some of the incentive hope that some directors of the Kentucky be any new money for state col- funds, said Patton's higher-educa­ Chamber of Commerce get over their leges, Patton says, if his plan tion guru, Aims McGuinness Jr. of misgivings about the community-college doesn't pass. Boulder, Colo. ·-· plan and raise money for a counter-cam­ Some lawmakers were unim- "Using the margins to 11et paign, much as they did to pass his work­ pressed with Patton's threat last change" is McGuinness' descnp­ ers' compensation reforms last fall. week - contained in a memo giv- tion of how competing for a (ew Patton is approaching higher education en to the legislature's budget-re- million dollars here and there can in much the same way he did workers' view subcommittee on education. transform the behavior of Kiln- comp - intense study to master the sub­ "He can certainly indicate that tucky's public university system, ject, then one-on-one lobbying- of ~egisla­ • · t · I d t which will cost state taxpayers tors prior to a special session. He h~s new h es gomg o passionate ya voca e nearly,$ million this yelll';i:\· for these funds if he gets his plan, 760 . hands to help him, .such as former lfouse and if he doesn't, he's not going Similar incentive' funds in ,O~io, Majority Whip Kenny Rapier, and former to'.'' urge new spending, said Sen, !'le!' Yorlt and 9t~er stat"l!.'~i!v_e top Senate ·aide Pans Hopkins, but they ate• Minority Leader Dan Kelly, R- ,1mp~~ved !he q!Jality ofryhjlll1!lll­ will mainly count votes, not get votes: And Springfield. "But it is the General - vers1ties, Mc~mnness swd. "-:--- getting them won't be .easy, because un­ Assembly that has .to appropriate Th~ sums mv!Jlved· are-no~pec- like comp, this is an issue that could inter­ money in: the end." essl!fily staggenng. The Ohio_.~e- est a relatively large segment of the elec­ Patton made two big spending lectiVe Excellence. Program Spent torate. choices in his higher-ed plan: · less than $30 '!ltlhon a y~ar from House Majority Leader Greg Stumbo, . edi t . 1983-91, accord mg to Ohio s .Board whose hometown of Prestonsburg has a ■ He ~ h o~! t o !floye nnm a er.1 of Regents~ · · community college, has come out against to funding e9mo/ . for state co • McGuinness said a $30 -million the plan. Some wonder if Stumbo is giving teiies _and '!1'1"ers1ties. The. yard- research challenge fund at,:\.he ·. constituents lip service, but would·he _risk. Stick 1s ,then: counterparts, m the State University of New York sys­ a second defeat like the one· he suffered South and M1~":est. The pnce tag? tern was the nudge its Buffalo_•cam• on workers' comp? Maybe, if he thought it N_early $20 million annually. pus needed to win more outside wouldn't hurt his ·chances of being floor . ■ He chose to award new _mo~ey grants and move into the top ecb.e· leader. But what.if Patton promised to call . 1!1 the future, but -only to msti~- fon,. of research schools .. S~­ another special session on heal_th care, for tions that c_hange therr way~. Six .Buffalo_ recently won acceP.t_an_-~ which Stumbo, many othef lawmakers prQposed. ''mvestmenf and mcen- the American Associaiion. of ,¼11/­ and some powerful lobbyists are clamor.• tive funds'.'. ii~~- to be the c~talyst. vei:sities, ah. elite group, be ~.\1:J~ ·ing? The House would be in order; so to Patton would boost spending "That's an example of the: 'I!!»" speak. without raising_ laxes. He assumes . , /: . ~c;:: ) steady econonuc growth and sub- '. , ____ ... ;i,:,SeeJSIDY stantial savings· from EMPOWER · ·. ""'·'"" .,_.;_• ...--...... ~. - .. t_,. ___ ~ '."••••~~.. ..•. ~ HIGHER-EDUCATION FUNDING PLAN This is the new money Gov. Paul Patton is proposing to give the universities, colleges and technical schools for the fiscal year starting July 1 - if the legislature passes his higher-education reform plan.

Total $35,352,100 New ways would win schools money Continued "II doesn't make any difference if schools receive $11 million in neiv they've got one person in the pro­ money so they can buy badly needed of change the governor's talking gram, they're going to keep teaching equipment. Patton's plan offers only about," he .added. that course," said Long, a member of $3 million for that in fiscal 1998. · On Wednesday, when he unveiled the House budget r.anel. "It's hard for Kelly said another GOP conce~ his plan, Patton recommended mak­ me to believe they re going to change he'll relay to Patton is for the gover­ ing "a down payment" of $12 million very easily. It's going to have to be a nor to make sure community college toward two of the six funds in the fis­ major incentive." professors receive a significant pay cal year that begins July I. McGuinness said, "In the future boost "before you venture out in\o 11 A · RESEARCH challenJle fund, you could expect a very high percent­ new programs. • ~ Patton said, would divide its mitial $6 age of the new money would go out House Speaker Pro Tern Larry million pot by sending $4 million to through these funds." Clark, an Okolona Democrat with the_ University of Kentucky and $2 He said Patton would defer to the strong ties to Patton, complained th4t million to the University of Louisville. state Counctt on Higher Education, the governor's proposal "is not very The other $6 million would go into which would be strengthened and re­ kind" to U of Lin dividing the $35 mil­ an excellence fund for Kentucky's six named under his plan, to make rec­ lion in new money in fiscal 1998. U ljf . regional universities. ommendations on how to set up the L would receive $2.7 million. To draw money from this fund, six funds and how much money to "They're going to have to make it'll schools would have to come up with put in them. McGuinness said the per­ better financial package before , I matching amounts and show they had centages used initially to divide re­ think the Louisville delegation will switched money from "low producti­ search money between UK and U of buy into it," Clark said. vity/low priority pror,ams" to "pro­ L, or to apportion the regionals' man• House Majority Whip Joe Barrows, grams of distinction. ' ey, wouldn't necessarily be used in fu. D-Versailles, said he told Patton aides Patton's budget memo estimates ture years. at Thursday's budget-subcommitt~ that in the fund's first year, Eastern He acknowledged that preordaining hearing that Patton isn't proposing Kentucky University would receive the shares each institution receives enough money to win over wavering $1.45 million; Western Kentucky Uni­ works against the funds' underlying lawmakers. Barrows noted that Pat­ versity, $1.4 million: Murray State idea of competition. ton's plan to strip UK of its communi­ University, $1.06 million; Morehead WHILE PATTON enjoys better ty colleges has provoked strong oppo­ State University, $865,000; Northern relations with the legislature than oth• sition among some UK backers. _. Kentucky University, $737,000: and er recent governors, his spending pro­ But if Patton had offered UK, say, Kentucky Stale University, $480,000. posals are far from sacred in lawmak­ $300 million more to become a top Rep. Marshall Long, D-Shelbyville, ers' eyes. research university, Barrows said fa. expressed skepticism that the awards Kelly said Senate Republicans, who cetiously, "I think at that point you Patton's fund can offer would be now share power with five maverick might see their trustees tell their large enough to deter the· regional Democrats in the upper chamber, president, 'You know, these commu­ scliools from offering as many proposed in their alternative budget nity colleges might not be all they're courses and degrees as they can. last year that the state's technical cracked up to be."' ·

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1997 41~~-alSso~iatioii fights Patton plan· ·- ' . - . · !.. · ,BY· ANGIE MUHS tact their state representatives and The letter contends that "the ,':-°"'f1ERALD-lEADER EliuCATJoN WRITER senators - listing their names, value of associate degrees and col- .•· ,.T.he University~of'Kentucky's phone numbers, addresses and e- lege credits earned from a commu­ alumni association has issued the mail addresses. . nity college would be severely first call to battle in the fight for The letter was sent to 90,000 weakened if that degree did not the state's community:colleges. UK graduates in Kentucky, said come from the University of Ken- :fhe group began sending let- Hank Thompson, alumni associa- tucky. tets io t!K graduates throughout tion national president . . . · . .. "All of us lose if the communi­ ·the state this"week; jtist aday after· · ""We wanted to do something ty colleges are taken away from Gov. •P,aut Patto.h. iµin9un_ced· his. · to'... mobilize the.' 'aliiirini,".~aid .PK." the letter reads, wjtJi:'that' ·,p1a11lfo::talcei.tlle:comm\ihlty"·coP:· Thompson, ofLouisville ...... :: :\1';, .. sentence underliiled•for eiripliasit: .. ile!:es'ffom:;uK'and.ptifthem under.·• .. , -.;i:Thompsori said' he :aid' .not'.~ .. •:-: Even the. letter's envelo~'lier­ t§'~re'lii:i;jfd;'J£:,i:ftit'f5!,,:~;o7;>"'.!i!j,.,.. kriow how ·much, the.. mai!i'iig ..cost. ..: ii1#1it_s;-'rn¢ssage: "Save yoi\r ·QI(~ ;t,~rtJnbelievab1e'as.ifmay'sotuid;-!' UK Alumni · Associatioii ·. staff' ·ccimnuinify colleges!-· reads"'a' 1fg~;~e)a~(Woi-!sW;dll!lll\ge the• .. members were in IIidianaP9lis and ... ~tateri\~1_1t ne~t· to ihe·_retll11l•·ad{ ,Uiii~rsitytl>lfKehtiti:li:yiilnd•put· could notbe readied." ... , ·:'i'.:I~ .. ;;;;);l"dfess; . : -~+l':~('i;'i{•;i,Lc.:-J<:!iis,\~· l\ilill:er' edticatiorr !iittou and all ,, · '· But at 29¼ ceriis apiei:e '::.::.: the",.. .. i~This i{just one of i'na~y i'efJ Kentuckians/a£'.iisk;". the·. letter amount of postage on one such let- forts, but I think it'll have an· ini-. says:· •·:;,o\..i~'""·""·1:',:.:,:,,.;-: · ter - that would work out to pact," Thompson said. "Every-lit0 "i::::The:Jetier-tirgesalilihni to con- nearly $27,000 in postage. tie bit helps."· .,_ J, ' r' ·,-:. ~ .,..__ . ' 1907 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 29, - vowed to fight that aspect of the "I think faculty here really pl<41. want to support what the . "There's a good bit of disap­ community college faculty COmriluriity pointment that the university ap­ . want, and there's been pears to be focused on this one is­ some confusion about that." sue." said history professor George DEBORAH POWELL Herring. "A lot of us feel we may chairwoman Ct,11ege$··,, already be in kind of a lose-lose sit• pathology department I uation, and that's the greatest medical school fear."' Wethington. in an electronic some faculty leaders and plans to mail message to faculty members meet with the full senate on April earlier in the week, urged them to 7. diyiding. ::: oppose what he called "dismember­ I Schach said she thinks faculty ing the University of Kentucky in ways that would be tragic for the members' opinions vary widely on citizens of the Commonwealth." whether the community colleges have any effect on UK's ability to -He noted that he expected to succeed as a research university. UK-~ faCllttyV ' • :;~-• read and hear conflicting view­ ~-1 points. "We are confident, however, "It's still split," said Schach, .·. BY ANGIE M_DHS . . ~ ; thar the prevailing views of the who said she isn't convinced that HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER ., ~ University community will under­ UK has to shed the community col­ The battle over whether the University of Ken; score the· vision of a united and leges to achieve in research. tucky ought to keep running commm1ity colleges is comprehensive University of Ken­ provoking a schism of its own on the Lexingto~ "You have a contingent of fac­ tucky when informed about the ulty who think the community col· campus. • facts and considerate of future leges have weighed us down from Faculty members there have needs and realities," Wethington being a research institution, and eagerly embraced Gov. Paul Pat­ wrote. you have ·a contingent that doesn't ton's goal for UK to become a na• think they have been," she said. tionally known research m1iversi­ ·-Another group of faculty mem· ty. But opinion is mixed on Pat­ bers also has drafted a resolution Other faculty members also ton's proposal to separate the foi;tlie state Senate, supporting want to get a better sense of the commm1ity c;olleges from UK. Palfun's goals, especially increas­ community college faculty's views "Of the 20 or so people I've irig'.'l)K's prominence in research before deciding, Powell said. and~duate programs. discussed it with, I haven't talked "I think faculty here really to anyone who favors keeping ]'art of the reason for the reso­ want to support what the commu­ them under our control," said UK .. lutioilc-was that the community col­ nity college faculty want, and mathematics professor Don Coleman. "I'm just s~ll lege issue was dominating the de­ there's been some confusion about not convinced." - , bate and faculty members hope it that," she said. But other faculty members say they're on the won:robscure other issues, said Pe­ fence or don't see the need for breaking the two S:fe· ter Perry, a mathematics professor But one UK faculty member tems apart. . .; who, helped write the resolution. compared the community college There's also great concern that the content101;1s issue to a corporation selling off issue is obscuring others in the reform effort. And · "I hope in the discussion, the vi­ one part of its operations to focus people on both sides question UK President Charles sioi1 of a better University of Ken­ on its main mission. T. Wethington Jr.'s handling of the matter. Sorlie tucky. is not lost," said Perry. He wonder whether it's wise for Wethington to enga~e said he doesn't have enough infor­ "We feel the president is on the in such a public fight with the governor. ~ mation yet to decide on the commu­ wrong track," said mathematics Wethington, who started •his career in the com· nity.college issue. professor Brauch Fugat_e. "This is a mm1ity college system and headed it before becom­ '. Deborah Powell, chairwoman of chance to go forward, and to sacri­ ing UK's president, has vehemently opposed t~e thf.pathology department in the fice it to hang on to the community idea of separating the community colleges 34d medical school, said she also has colleges doesn't seem like a good "'!fl heard many faeulty members say idea." they don't want one issue to ob­ Regardless of their point of scure all others. view, some faculty members think 'u. -"I'm really hoping we get some Wethington's battle with the gover­ resolution of it one way or the oth­ nor can't be good for UK in the er, so we can move forward on the long run. main issue of making UK better," "I haven't heard any faculty she said. say that it's wonderful that we're Jan Schach, the chairwoman of fighting with the governor," said the University Senate Council, said Carolyn Bratt, a law professor and that Wethington has met with former faculty trustee.

LEXINGTON HERALD-lEAOER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 29,, 1997 Governor IS ~g his propos~ ... directly to i;riemtiers of UK board·· .I .'•.,':::::., . . -· , ..• - . - ··- - . -- HERAi.CK.EADER STAFF REPORT It estimated that it would take a Gov. Paul Patton is taking his one-time investment of $691 million "In return for this increased plans to change the University of and an additional $104 million state funding, I am asking that the Kentucky straight to the people every year to pnt UK among the university refocus its mission as who run the school. Top 20 in research universities. the state's flagship university," Pat· Patton will appear at the UK · ''The letter causes me serious ton wrote. board meeting-Tuesday afternoon concern because it indicates the Former Gov. Edward T. "Ned" to speak about his proposal to re­ university cannot elevate its sta- Breathitt said yesterday that he form higher education. . tus," Patton wrote. had not yet seen Patton's letter, but In a letter to board members I · Patton also ·reiterated to the UK looked forward to the meeting. yesterday, Patton does not specifF board members that ·he wantea to . ·,"We're delighted to have him.~ .. · cally mention community colleges, provide UK with more money, espe-· Breathitt said. "We're always glad' which he wants to· separate from cially to help it · attract top re­ to hear from the governor." · , .. : UK. . searchers . . But 'the governor continued· to question a letter, written Jiy ,:UK, .President'Char!es T-,:W~tbingt_oqJf,:, LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1997 Patton decides to keep power to name trustees ' AsSOCIATED PRESS more clearly focused mission" and FRANKFORT - Gov. Paul stronger ties to the legislature, (") Patton jettisoned the idea of giv­ McGuinness said. "He decided ::,' ing the governor's power to ap­ those things would be sufficient ::,"'. point university trustees to the to give it ... stature." ~ state Council on Higher Education The governor's proposal (I) after talking with two prominent would reduce from 17 to 13 the House Democrats, aides say. number of council members. He Patton aides said Thursday would continue to appoint them, that the governor didn't feel but they would have to be· con­ strongly about the proposal and firmed by the House and the Sen­ quietly left it out of his final high­ ate. er-education plan after the law­ . House Speaker Jody Richards makers expressed reservations. of Bowling Green and House bud, The last-minute change shows get chief Harry Moberly of Rich­ how Patton courted lawmakers. mond separately raised objections before he put the finishing touch­ to giving the council the power to es on his plan. Patton has said appoint university trustees. he' 11 accept further suggestions Moberly said Richards "had a and reJinements, ~pecially from lot of .concerns about it." Richards legislators. could not be reached. Patton's aides have said he Moberly, who heads the had the idea of giving up his House Appropriations and Rev­ board-appointment power in Janu­ enue Committee and works at ary, while thinking about ways to Eastern Kentucky University, win respect for the often-ignored said he told Patton his original council. plan would make the council pres­ Patton's higl\er-education con­ ident "just an absolute czar." sultant, Aims McGuinness Jr. of Senate President Larry Saun­ Boulder, Colo.. said Patton ders. D-Louisville, said he agrees dropped the idea after deciding he that the governor should keep the already had suggested enough ability to appoint the boards at boosts in the standing and clout the eight state universities. of the council, which Patton "I think it makes the plan bet­ wants renamed the Council on ter," Saunders said. "It's more Post-secondary Education. palatable that the governor re­ It will be smaller, "have a tains that power."

THt COURIER-JOURNAL• SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1997 UK goes on offensive to keep 2-year colleges

placed under a new board. Officials, alumni use Patton went on statewide TV Wednesday to unveil his broad­ ads, letters, Internet based reform plan for higher educa­ tion and then hit the road, taking his to rouse opposition case to seven community colleges. The tour has garnered widespread By RICHARD WILSON publicity and several favorable and ROBERT T. GARRETT newspaper editorials. The Courier-Journal Patton and his aides are hopeful that the state Chamber of Commerce LEXINGTON, Ky. - While its and business leaders will raise man­ basketball team is in Indianapolis ey for an ad campaign in support of for the Final Four, the University of the governor's plan. Patton is sched­ Kentucky has been waging another uled to meet with the chamber's high-stakes fight back home. board on Tuesday, as well as with University and alumni leaders the UK board of trustees. have been airing TV and radio ads, But, said Andrew "Skipper" Mar­ writing letters, posting Internet mes• tin, Patton's chief of staff, "We sure sages and printing lapel buttons, all do not have the machinery that the with the message: Keep our commu- university has got." nity colleges. The UK offensive is aimed primar- The goal of their full-court press ily at lawmakers, who will decide is to stop Gov. Paul Patton's plan to whether Patton's proposals become strif the 14 colleges from UK. law during a special session starting I the colleges go, UK President May 5. Charles Wethington wrote in a com- While they have been hearing puter message to faculty this week, about the issue for weeks, they're what's next? UK's agricultural exten- likely to hear even more in the days sion seryice? Its geology department, ahead. . . . . or even, the m_edical sclipo,\? ·'"~"" . .;J.!I{,has put a warning .on i~s Inter- Patton has liegun ·lils own cam,, net. page that the .community col­ paign to persuade lawmakers and leges are being threatened. It urges the public that, to improve worker people to contact Patton and law- training in Kentucky, the community ( ) colleges and the state's post-secon- See UK dary te.~hni=~- ~~~o:~~s, ~~~uld. "b.':_ ➔ · UK pulls out all stops in fight to keep community,. colleges··:.

Continued A series of pro-community-college the 14 community colleges, use free tribute a three-page fact sheet. • cent weeks, said House budget com-' rallies also is planned. air time that by contractual arrange- Martin dismissed a warning Thurs­ mittee Chairman Harry Moberly, D­ makers. "If only 1O percent Last week Wethington and UK's ment must be provided to UK by sta- day by House Majority Leader Greg Richmond. UK is also firing up its in-state three chancellors sent all faculty tions that have bought the rights to Stumbo, an opponent of stripping the "He's talking to everybody he can alumni. of the people members a lengthy computer mes­ broadcast its basketball and football colleges from UK. Stumbo, D-Pres­ get on the phone," Moberly said. - LETTERS FROM national alum­ sage arguing, among other thin~s, games. The TV ads must air seven tonsburg, said that Patton "has a lot "The governor spends his weekends , answer the call that UK's statewide responsibilities ni President Hank Thompson are in times a week in priµie time from Jan- of_ weapons" and_would ho!~ every­ on the phone. He's a haraer worker, 1 the mail to 90,000 UK graduates urg­ and contact their would be undercut if the school lost uary through early April and the ra- thmg_ from hospital expans10n$. \O than anybody I know." · ing them to contact lawmakers to the community colleges. dio ads must run 15 times'weekly. . road improvements "hostage on this Moberly, who works ,.at Eastern ·' "Make no mistake about it, if a issue." "let them know r.ou strongly oppose legislators, it will Dennis Fleming, general counsel to "We'll only do what's right and le- Kentucky _University and is a sup-" any move that will ... seriously dam- part of UK can be stripped away be stunning." through politiFal action, any other the governor, circulated a memo last gal," Martin said. "We're just going porter of the governor's plan, said, · age the university." . week that said "the magnitude state- to tell the message, That's all we're "A month ago I knew more than he "If only 10 percent of the people part of it can be dismembered also," Hank Thompson, UK's they said. wide is staggering." Fleming ques- going to do," did" about higher education. But Pat­ answer the call and contact their leg­ tioned "the use of these commercials ton has mastered the subject, he said. islators, it will be stunning," sa:id national alumni president BERNIE VONDERHEIDE, UK's for political purposes." He wrote, "If STATE CHAMBER of Com­ "He's taught me some things" in re- M Thompson, a Louisville businessman. public relations director, said UK's you wanted to air TV and radio to merce official Andrew Down said the cent days, Moberly said, "We hope to let legislators know that sidered, . lobbyin~ effort is usin~ no tax mon­ counter UK, it would cost you group has discussed promoting Pat­ . In spite of emotions on both sides, one body of people is passionate But the UK blitz doesn't stop there. ey, "This is very defimtely with pri­ $96,100,00 per week," ton's plan with a Lomsville advertis­ about this." Media kits extolling the colleges' vate funds, donations from alumni in~ and public relations firm: But he Martin said participants in the debate '. Each letter gives legislators' home successes have been mailed to about and friends." MARTIN, PATTON'S chief of said no final decision will be made need to "relax. We're just talking and e-mail addresses and telephone 400 Kentucky newspaper, radio and He said UK is trying only to make staff, said "a ton of misinformation" until the chamber's board decides about educating our young people. numbers. TV outlets. Also, UK boosters attend­ information available on the issue about the governor's plan is being whether to endorse it. ,, What's wonderful about !his is we've ·· A TV ad featuring a community ing the NCAA Final Four games to­ "so that the public can mak.e their spread in an "orchestrated effort" by "We've put together possibilities. elevated the question of higher edu-· college student arguin~ the schools' day will be greeted by students pass­ own decision, and if they care, tell "somebody," He stopped short of ac­ But as far as pullin~ the trigger and cation in Keniucky as ~igh as it's merits is being shown m prime time ing out lapel buttons saying, "Keep their governmental leaders what they cusing UK of wrongdoing. But to off we go, no," he said. ever been in Kentucky lti§t01y. ' in the state's major TV markets. Pro­ Us I. UK and our community col­ think." counter all the rumors, he said, the Patton also has been selling his "Everyone now is discussing high- duction of another ad is being con- leges." The TV and radio spots, which tout governor's office has begun to dis- pla11 one-on-one to legislators in re- er education." ' · · '

~ 0 :::, ~ C ~ "O C :c"' <("' r- .., a, C a, a, 'O '"1 C a, 0 C. (") a, 'O .c .s ~ >, :;:"' 'O ,c"' :::, U) a, r.c The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, March 28, 1997 Plan won't fly, Stumbo ... says ·a computer lab. That's just not ,_go~g to1~appen." Negative receptions continue in Prestonsburg , Son;i~ stu~ents q,uestioned "I haven't seen any evidence "We did not choose to go to · whether the communitY. col­ By ALLEN G. BREED that shows that this has been vo-tech," she said. "We wanted leges, would be able to attract THE' ASSOCIATED PRESS flawed," he said. "I don't think to go to community college: , quality instructors without the that the legislature is con­ That's our choice to make, not ·-prestige of the UK name and PRESTONSBURG House vinced .... I just don't see that yours." -whet.her their degrees' and Majority· Leader Qreg Stumbo there's a smoking gun there to Patton said linking the com­ credits wotil~ mean as much. says Gov. Paul Patton's plan to dictate that kind of change'." munity colleges with· the vo­ Patton said ·the colleges were sever the 14 community col­ But Stumbo watched in De­ tech schools would help each accredited on the strength of leges from the University of cember as Patton steamrolled area school tailor its training their ~wn programs and fac­ Kentucky does not have opposition in his fight to get a to fit its work force needs. ulty, not the UK connection. enough legislative support to workers' compensation bill "It's going to be able to rep­ "I cannot compete with the pass. passed. And he said Patton is resent itself," he said of the · emotionalism associated with Patton told students and fac­ holding everything from hospi­ school. "It's going to be able to the name of the University of ulty at Prestonsburg Com­ t.al expansions to blacktop : come to Frankfort and lobby Kentucky,'' he said. "But I munity College on Thursday "hostage on this Issue." for money for itself, and it's have to argue based on facts that the current system is inef­ "I don't think there's near going to be able to respond to and based on logic. And the ficient an~ isn't helping the enough support in e_ither ·. the businesses of this particu­ truth of the matter is this cam­ state enough -to prepare its cit­ chamber," Stumbo said, "But : lar region as it is." pus will be _better off, the stu­ "Weil, ·in Letcher County, dents will be better off, this izens for economic growth. like I say, he's got a lot of faculty will be better off, this Patton wan ts to give com­ weapons." what businesses?" asked Myra Rudd, secretary of the student region will be better off, be­ munity le o 11 e g es and . Wednesday, former state cause you will be independent. vocational-technical schools re­ Rep. Kenny Rapier, Patton's government at Southeast. "What industry?" And you will be able to much sponsibility for developing point man on the plan in the more influence your destiny." workers for jobs, and try -to House, said he thought pros­ PCC President Deborah Floyd said she was concerned Tammy Butcher, vice presi­ make the University of Ken­ pects for the plan's passage dent of student government at tucky a world-class research there looked good. He said he about the services that UK pro­ vides to the community col­ Southeast in Whitesburg, said school. thought the battle for the plan Patton can't hope to increase But Stumbo, a Prestonsburg in the upcoming May 5 special leges, such as libraries, com­ puter systems, financial aid the level of excellence at the Democrat who is one of the session of the General As­ state's post-secondary schools General Assembly's most pow­ sembly looked "winnable" in and legal services, payroll and purchasing. until he irons out problems erful legislators, called Pat­ the house. with the elementary and sec­ ton's plan "ill-advised," and PCC was the third com- 1 "It's like being a Siamese ondary schools. said that he hasn't shown munity college Patton visited ' twin,' she said. "Do you share "Well, therfs another major proof of tlie need to change. on a trip across the state to / the same organs? ... Whatever change that was made in -Ken­ "I don't think because UPS stump for his plan. And he got , we do should be done to im­ tucky that's still controver­ (United Parcel Service) wants the same reaction there that · prove our service to the com­ sial," he said, referring to the to teach us Box Stacking 101 he encountered Wednesday in munity and the students." Kentucky Education Reform we should change the com­ Ashland and Maysville. The community colleges con­ Act of 1990. munity college system," Stum­ Amy Noble, a student at tract with UK for those ser­ One student asked why UK bo said following Patton's Southeast Community College vices, and Patton said state can't just offer four-year de­ question-and-answer session. in Whitesburg, suggested Pat­ law mandates that UK provide gree programs at the com­ "That's not evidence." ton was trying to turn the them. munity colleges. Stumbo won­ Stumbo S\lid Patton's insis­ community colleges into vo­ "You _won't be caught with­ dered the same thing. tence that most people agree tech schools. out a library," Patton said. Stumbo said per capita in­ on the neerl for change is mis­ "You won't be caught without co_me, educational levels and m11,1 .... ,1 --····-·-...... ~ ...... LJSLJ~n. Ll;/\ll'll.llU!'l, nr. ■ IVIUNUAY. MARCH .:.11, 1!::t!::t7 The habit of building things be­ !I COMMENTARY got the l:1( Athletics Association - fore having anything to go into a creation separate from the umver­ them - or come out of them, in the sity when convenient, a critical case of educated students - is in­ piece when needed - to divert grained at UK. :UK liQrary_ money to pay the debt service. The recent case of the universi­ This is the same athletics asso­ ty's agricultural experimental farm ciation which has voted to expand is another example. Thanks to the flashy toy Commonwealth Stadium to build largesse of the state, UK has a new more seats to go unfilled on fall Sat­ farm in Woodford County alongslde urdays and look into construction U.S. 60. But it also has its old farm, for 'tots' in of a new basketball arena at a pro­ which it refused to give up. jected cost more than double that of At the old farm, there is one the new library. tenant, nothini; going in and pre­ high places And so, the pillar to Wething­ cious little commg out. It is sort of a ton's presidency rises - an ·expen­ real estate developer's approach to sive duplicative structure built intellectual stimulation and re- BY MARK R. CHELLGREN search. · ASSOCIATED PRESS with little or no regard for its real usefulness that in many ways mim­ So it is perhaps understandable Just off the main campus at the ics the entire public university sys­ that one of Wethington's sugges­ University of Kentucky, in an area tem in Kentucky. tions to Gov. Paul Patton is that UK that used to be a student ghetto, absorb the Kentucky Tech voca­ there is a monument under con­ In a real irony, UK students have been asked to contribute to tional school system. struction. It is the academic equivalent of Some would argue it is_ a monu­ actually buying books and the oth­ er things that will go into the li­ the theory that more is better, as ment to academia, a new library opposed to better being better. · . that will serve as a storehouse and brary. distribution center for the accurim­ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1997 lated knowledge of a proud com­ monwealth and its flagship univer­ sity.• Colleges scramble for Others see it as a masterpiece of academic and bureaucratic· conceit, a palace designed to ·exalt its more raw material builders, rather than those who will use it. overnment is deeply involved in other"), they are discounting tuitions, ad- A bit of the history.of the new higher education, "a remarkably un- vertising sushi and waffle bars in the stu- UK library may provide some con­ Gwatched industry,'' according to dent unions and prime cable service in the text to the emerging debate over a Anne Matthews. Her new book, which may dorms where, Matthews says, some stu- reform of the higher education sys­ make educators wish she were not watch- dents hibernate for days "eating red tem in Kentucky and the role the ing, should be a sobering read ·for govern- licorice and channel-surfing." Some institu- University of Kentucky considers ment officials. lions send bounty hunters abroad in search its right. In Bright College Years: Inside the of wealthy foreigners. A new library had long been on American Campus Today, Matthews, who Only 25 percent of undergraduates are UK's wish list. And when Charles teaches in New York University's graduate liberal arts majors. Twenty five percent are Wethington became president, he journalism program, business majors, most of the rest are on made it a personal quest. · casts a cool eye on an vocational tracks such as health care, and But universities are not sup­ industry• that employs primary and secondary education. The av- posed to go around spending huge 2.5 million people (more erage student does about 29 hours a week sums of money on new buildings than the auto, steel and of schoolwork, down from about 60 hours without approval of the General As­ textile industries com- in the early 1960s. sembly. The theory behind this bined) and constitutes There is a widening chasm between check and balance is fairly sound. "an archipelago nation- faculty formed in a print culture and stu- It is. after.all, not really the uni­ within-a-nation, two -=...... 1 dents produced by a wired world. versity's money to spend. It is the thousand islands in the Matthews says it is shocking to hear un- taxpayers' money, and the constitu­ social sea." A professor's GEORGE dergraduates try to read 19th century · tion makes it fairly clear the legisla­ daughter, she feels affec- WILL prose, Elizabethan English is like Sanskrit ture has the sole authority to decide tion for that nation but ---~-- and "Shakespeare courses rely heavily on · how taxpayer money is spent. · paints a melancholy pie- SYNDICATED in-class movies." She tells of an art history . Plus, even if the money to build lure. COLUMNIST professor showing students a slide of a comes from someplace else, in theo­ Higher education Rubens painting. . ry, eventually, somebody _has to has, she says, grown every year since Har- Student: "What's the story line on this pay to keep the building open, vard's founding, "a three-hundred-sixty- thing?" · · lighted, cleaned, heated. That some­ year winning streak." In 1946 there were Professor: "It doesn't have one. It's a body, inevitably, becomes the tax­ 2.4 million students on campuses: in 1960, 17th century portrait." payer. 32 million; in 1970, 7.5 million. Today 9 Student: "It doesn't move at all?" Put more simply, the idea is million people attend 2,125 four-year insti- Professor: "Unfortunately, no." that somebody has to look out for tutions (595 public, 1,530 private) full time Student: "But I can't see things if \l)ey the big picture. · . and several million more part time. don't move." · _. .;,r.;;e'-" ·· :"ti!i ·, :And this was going to be quite· They are taking their time, an average The- market for Ph.D:S is glutted: {)ply a building - $42 mi\lion worth of of almost six years to earn a baccalaureate two in five get academic jobs. There are a · chandeliers, soaring atria and degree. Half who matriculate will not grad- million.Ph.D.s without academic employ- maybe even some space for a few uate. One in four freshmen will never be- ment, and some are in academia only as . books. Perhaps not Constantine the come a sophomore. Institutional endow- "freeway flyers," driving between adjunct · Great's Imperial Library at Byzan­ ments total more than $100 billion - more appointments on several campuses, paid tium, but certainly Byzantine in it~ than Belgium's GDP - but 60 percent of perhaps $1,000 a course,_ with no be11efits own right - the Commonwealth the total belongs to 50 schools. And all but or faculty prerogatives. Adjunct faculty, Library. 50 or so elite schools are, Matthews says, l'vlatthews writes, are the.field hands of But there was a problem. While increasingly desperate for even marginal academia and "are thought to account for the General Assembly once upon a· and unprepared students. Only one student 40 or even 50 percent of all face-to-face ur;-. time approved planning for the ll­ in five fits the stereotype of a student - dergraduate teaching now, as opposed to lirary, it did not authorize or fi­ under 22, enrolled full time and living on 22. percent in the early 1970s." nance its construction. In theory, campus. The student population is increas- But, then, the market for college gradu- tbat meant UK was not al!owed_ (o ingly female, adult, local (four gf five enroll . atei is saturated: an· estimated 20 percent" : build it. But there is theory and in their home state) ·and in d~bt::There are. work in jobs· that cloiiofreally require a '. there is practice. · . : q -;;;;1,;;; .:.,1 $26 billion in college loans and half of all __ degree. _ '· _.'.:.::~:'~. 0§::'·~".:::~ .. , : · Without a legal way to get what students graduate with significant debts; Says Matthews, '.'A third of Domino's if wanted, UK found what might be some of which will last until their children pizza-delivery drivers in the Washington,_ called an "extralegal" way to get are college age. . ~·· -,·-·· , .... • ,D.C~,area have B.A.s.~..A.help.wanted ad __ what it wanted. It persuaded the city;of Lexington-to sell"bonds·and: for;;~ :a:.~}!t~e~~jf·n··~1j~t~+.-.;~.;t;fl$e:;[s~14~irll:e·_:,; not only lowering standards:(reqiwJng __ ,;,J;;md.the_llQ;!_lty to lifts.SO pounds. ·. · " nnhr "~ ri11lcP in f"\r'\A l-,.,",:i ., ,.l-,,.,.1.. :.., tl~n '"·- · ---·· .., ___ "'- ---- ,.. The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, March 30, 1997 Some cheat to obtain college .. ,aid··-,;~:1~:r. ~ the matter. Hopkl11s U11lv!!r111ty, Soltil! also Some c1111ell! were! l!llt'lll!ln4o: ~ By STEVE StECKLOW Federid h1vestlgators say feat' lawsuits 1111d the.Jus11 or Otte, ur th~. ,Pell grlint(t"" THE WALL STREIT JOURNAL cases of financial-aid fraud top stude11t prus~~cto.'' bth~r me:uH ~t1liily, j\\r.Jl'!W•}n~cl»i,o like this are grnwing. "That's nid ofl1duls 1111y, fll1ttllles - W@n. t to 11. atUrlf!.llt When Nicholas Bissell Iii something that, unfot-tunately, Whe11 they do 1111d a ctrne of who reported · lilcoltte tci J,lto ~ applied for financial aid at we're seeing more and more cheatl11g, some 1111y; they usu- IRS or $La 1ttllllu11 for th~ YJ11Jr, Western Connecticut State of," says Gary Mathison, an in- ally don't bother to tell the td- Thi! audit fouttrl 1ttorl! th1111 aoo ~ University, he was rejected. vestigator for the Department ucat!on 1:lep11rt111e11t, tilthough gr1111t redplenta who litid, · , ca He attended for a semester, of Education: Jim Briggs, a · they at·e SUJ.lJ.ltlSed itl . do. Stl der11t11ted their· fuiitlly litilo then transferred to Catholic former In tern al Revenue Set- whell II federal progr!ltn ls !11- by mote thlltt i $100,bOO, .i\11" U1iiversity of America in vice agent who has trained aid valved. Ma11y 11ld offlditls be- ttlril l!Stl11111t!!d thilt $1711. '·­ Washington. There he re­ officers at Harvard and other lieve the dep11rt1tte11t wott't ll011 !11 utidedi!rved ti'!dlirilf P ~ ceived $4,400 In grants and universities, adds: "The higher pursue cases of Just II few gr11itts wet~ · nWllrdM ftli' 'r; $9,912 in federal loans over the cost of the institution, the thousand dollars lll1YWIIY. The school yenr, • . -' ca three years. ;'!:~ r-- more pervasive It is." upshot is that wllett a fllmlly is Other fa1ttlll~il, whlle.11ilt · a, Q.) What changed? Bissell's a, Yet little of it is caught. Ad- caught lyfllg 011 an aid applica- sortlilg lo l'lllslrlc11tlo11 1 . • · ..-; mother, Jean, lied the second ministrators say they almost tlon, Usually the Wtlt'st that pushlttg · the ettvelope, hlllll time around. She submitted 0 ~ never try to verify that tax Call happe11 Is th11t It v,,011't get by !1111111dlll experts· who'll 01 phony tax returns to Catholic .c 00 documents submitted in sup- the 11ld or wlll be llsked to re• vide 111111resslve 11dvlce oti•!( e University that indicated sho port of students' aid applica- turn aid 11lve11 ltt a11 earller to extr11ct . 11111xl111u111 011!1~ ro had no savings, when, in fact, ::;; tions are authentic, 11or do · ,year, . ·.. ·. aid, 111 ."The l'rlllcett111 ltev she had $80,000. they aggressively pursue faltti- . Yet It ls.. by nci:'-tnelll!S II vie- Studeril Adv11ttt11eil C1uldcf· 0 0 ~ Although Mrs. Bissell de­ lies they suspect of cheating. tlmless ctlltte, · Slttlle nid , Payl11gfor Ctill~gl!,"-ct1tid u ~ ::, scribed the scheme at length "Colleges don't do a11ything 111011ey Is llmlted, the !users kallttatt A, Chlltly, bo11~tii;' · -C last year in testimony in open because they're all afraid that whel1 nppl.lc1111ts thent 11re the $4,000. tu!Ucitt 11r11nt fo;, ~ 00 court, Catholic University has they're gol11g to look bad to the needy famllles Whtl complete daughter or 11 - has audited ~.a 1111111011 1995-90 gram, whlth dm!stt't lttif -c C recipte11ts or Fell gra11ls, n pto- about assets. "It's Ilka ::, gralll ill which the Uttltetl Ch1111y obserVl!9, "'1'het~'MC (/) 0 (I) = States gives tultltltt ltttJ11eY to terehce lletWl!t!l1 !Ill! 11vold' .c I- undergraduate students. Audi- 1111d tax av11Slt111, 't'llli !l ~ tors asked the l11ter1111I Rev- a11ce is perrettlY 11!1!111 11it :. enue Set·vice to co111pate faltl- evaslo11 is fraud," . · '::• • lly il1cotne Its stated 011 th!! aid AbtJUt h11lf of U,B, U applicat1011s with l11co111e as graduate students get 9, ~ reported to the ms, About 4.4 for111 of n1111ncl111 uld, 11 to r Q.) percent of the ra111ilies had u11- $50 bllllon II Yl!llr !11 1oa1111:;0 d • dershtted their lncoltle, grallts, •.~ · ~