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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1965)
Ring Around the Regents Berkeley Wants A United UC BERKELEY, Calif. (CPS) —A committee of the Faculty Senate of the University of California’s Berkeley campus has called for more campus autonomy within the state’s university system. The committee proposal sug gests a university of nine autono mous schools under a single Board of Regents. It would mean reducing the role of the univer sity president and greatly in creasing the role of the faculties and the chancellors on the indi vidual campuses. The University of California is now a system with nine indi vidual campuses, each with its own chancellor and each under the control of the president and the Board of Regents. The report was released by the committee chairman, Thomas Kent, at a press conference that was also attended by Martin Malia, chairman of the Academic Senate at Berkeley. Campus Commonwealth Kent said his committee advo cates a university in the form of individually chartered campuses where the individual "chancellor and the faculty senate work as partners in the common enter prise” of education. (Interviewed in Washington during last week’s meeting of the American Council on Educa tion, President Clark Kerr sharp ly opposed any commonwealth arrangement. "In a common wealth any member can withdraw at any time, and no one really wants that." Instead, Kerr pre ferred decentralization of the university along federal lines.) Plans Coming Kent said that the senate would continue to propose and make policies on each campus "in those Professor Publishes Article in Magazine M. Allan Kays, Assistant Pro fessor of Geology, has published an article in the September October 19G5 issue of "Economic Geology." 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The Kent committee reported that "an institution as compli cated as the University of Cali fornia cannot be operated per manently by the methods appro ! priatc to building it. "While in the past a certain measure of centralized direction may have been desirable, now such direction becomes a con straint on more subtle types of achievement,” Kent said. The day following the issuance of the report, Regent Donald Mc Laughlin said the report was "very interesting,” and that the regents would doubtless study it He added that the regents were | "much interested indeed, in pro moting more autonomy, but this is a complex problem.” r Advising More Personal In the past, the most any stu dent saw of his academic adviser was a passing signature and a hurried approval or disapproval of a class schedule. However, the University rec ognized a gap had developed be tween the students and faculty, forcing both to become dis oriented and a little confused. In an effort to close the student faculty academic gap, the Univer sity formed the Academic Advis ing center. Last July the center officially began operation for summer stu dents on a one-man basis. In September four other graduate students were added to the cen ter staff to accommodate the 1,200 students who have since used the advising center. The Academic Advising cen ter was formed to “try to main tain a close personal relation ship between faculty and stu dents despite the University’s size,” said the center’s director I'hil Schoggen. Schoggen took over as head of the center in September and has been “tre mendously pleased so far. The response over the campus has been extremely rewarding.” Schoggen pointed out that the purpose of the center is not so much to switch the responsibility for academic requirements from the student to the adviser, but more to present the student with complete information and impli cations of the academic require ments. i He emphasized that two staff members work at the advising center office eight hours a day to solve such problems as group University requirements, depart ment requirements, major re quirements, transfer students, and - implications of majors. The center also is responsible for reviewing student petitions : for waiver of academic require ments. Schoggen is head of the academic requirements commit tee. Schoggen enthusiastically add ed, “This is a significant effort to show this is a school where the undergraduate is important.” To Schoggen the plight of the undergraduate requires thorough advising and adviser selection. Adviser selection is a main ob jective of the center. However, Schoggen stressed the chief objective of the center is to offer undergraduates adequate counseling and presenting them with enough information concern ing academic requirements. PL-S Program THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 6:30—Huntley-Brinkley Report 7 :00—New Math for Parents 7:30—TBA 8 :30— Kaleidoscope 9:00—Poet’s Eye 9:30—Open Mind Employment U.S. Central Intelligence Agency A representative will interview graduate students and seniors on the University of Oregon campus on October 26, 27, and 28, 1965. A variety of academic disciplines are needed for employment in the United States and abroad. For information concerning these positions and to schedule an interview, apply immediately to the Placement Service, Susan Campbell Hall. A TWENTY# EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY SHOE SALE Middlin' heels Reg. 16.95-18.95 Little heels Reg. 12.95-15.95 THE SHOE CORNER
