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MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE, APRIL 12. 1976

The University Senate met in regular session at 3:00 p.m., Monday, April
12, 1976, in the Court Room of the Law Building. Chairman Jewell presided.
Members absent: C. Dwight Auvenshine, Harry Barnard*, Charles E. Barnhart,
Betsy Barnum, Jerry M. Baskin*, Robert P. Belin, Norman P. Billups*, Robert N.
Bostrom, Joseph A. Bryant*, Hugh Burkett, H. Stuart Burness, Charles Byers*,
Carl Cabe*, W. Merle Carter, D. Kay Clawson, Michael C1awson*, Glenn B. Collins*,
Frank Colton*, Ronda S. Connaway*, Rhonda Crowdus, Vincent Davis*, Brian J. Dendle,
William H. Dennen*, Donald F. Diedrich*, Roland Due11*, Mary Duffy*, Anthony
Eardley, Fred Edmonds*, Roger Eichhorn*, Jane M. Emanuel*, Calvin B. Ernst*,
Robert 0. Evans*, Diane Eveland*, Bernard Fagan*, Paul G. Forand*, R. Fletcher
Gabbard*, Claudine Gartner, Dennis George, John L. Greenway*, Ward 0. Griffen*,
Joseph Hamburg, Bobby O. Hardin*, George W. Hardy, James Harralson*, Virgil
W. Hays*, Raymond R. Hornback, Patricia E. Horridge*, David Howard, Raymon D.
Johnson*, Joseph R. Jones, Don Kirkendall, James Knoblett*, A. Virginia Lane,
Samuel Lippincott*, Austin S. Litvak*, Donald L. Madden, Donald R. March,
William L. Matthews, Michael C. McCord, Susan A. McEvoy*, Marion E. McKenna*,
James Mctry*, Jacqueline A. Noonan*, James R. Ogletree*, Clayton Omvig*,
Leonard V. Packett, Janet Patterson, Margie Peak, David Peck*, Steven Petrey,
Ellen Roehrig*, David F. Ross, John S. Scarborough*, M. Lynn Spruill, John B.
Stephenson, J. Truman Stevens*, Sharon Stevens*, William C. Templeton*, John
Thrailki11*, Harold H. Traurig*, S. Sidney U1mer*, Earl Vastbinder*, John N.
Walker*, M. Stanley Wall, Julie Watkins*, Jesse L. Weil, Kennard Wellons*, Paul
A. Willis, William G. Winter, Fred Zechman.

The minutes of the regular meeting of March 8, 1976 were accepted as circulated.

Chairman Jewell recognized Dean Merrill Packer, College of Dentistry, who
presented the following Memorial Resolution on the death of Dr. Donald K. Carman.
Dean Packer directed that the Resolution be made a part of these minutes and that
copies be provided to the members of Dr. Carman's immediate family. Following
Dr. Packer's presentation of the Resolution, the Senators were asked to stand
for a moment of silence in tribute and respect to Dr. Carmen and in acceptance
of the Resolution.

Dr. Donald Kenneth Carman, born October 4, 1926, in Ironton, Ohio
passed away at his home in Lexington, Kentucky on March 16, 1976. Dr.
Carman spent the early years of his life in Russell, Kentucky where he
graduated from Russell High School in 1944.

After serving in the U.S. Navy for two years, Dr. Carman returned to
Kentucky to resume his education at Eastern Kentucky State College where
he was awarded a B.S. degree in 1950.

In 1951 he entered dental school at the University of Louisville,
receiving his D.M.D. degree in 1955. After maintaining a private dental
practice in Carrollton, Kentucky from 1955—64, Dr. Carman was appointed an
Instructor in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Kentucky
College of Dentistry.

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During this time, Dr. Carman also earned a Certificate in Periodontics which
was awarded to him in 1968. From 1968—69 he was granted leave of absence to
further his education at the University of Pennsylvania. \ ﬂ,

Dr. Carman returned to the University of Kentucky in 1969 to assume the
position of Director of the Postdoctoral Program in Periodontics. Later that \
year he was also appointed Acting Chairman of the Department and served in 1
that capacity until July 1, 1970.

During the l973~74 academic year Dr. Carman spent his sabbatical leave
in Fossano, Italy working with private dental practitioners in that area in
conjunction with an exchange program developed between the dentists of Fossano
and the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry.

Dr. Carman served on various college committees and served as a V.A.
consultant in Lexington, Kentucky and Huntington, West Virginia. He was
also a member of numerous national professional organizations. , f\
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r. Carman was well known and respected for his clinical contributions W
in the field of postdoctoral and continuing education. He was an outstanding
clinician who graciously and unselfishly shared his talents and abilities with
students as well as peers.

Dr. Jewell introduced President Singletary who spoke to the Senate as follows:

I thought it might be worthwhile to review with you a set of figures
that began with a certain grandeur and go down a prescribed path and lose ‘
some of their lustre along the way. These things tend to get blurred in
that long drawn—out process but I think they are of very real importance
to the institution and particularly to the faculty. And I think it is
worthwhile to review the process and the figures with you; even to say some— _
thing about the implications of them. ‘

First of all, as we submit a biennial budget request (understand, the
biennial request is something you keep distinct from the annual operating ,r\
budget. We build two annual operating budgets out of what is left of every e”.
biennial request that we submit) the evolution begins inside this institution
where we send out a call to Deans and Directors and receive back, after some
time, their requests. These are then looked at by the Vice Presidents, more
or less independently in their own bailiwicks, and the first set of prior—
itizing goes on. Then we come to deal with those Surviving matters in the
Cabinet where the Vice Presidents are there together; and we begin the very ‘
difficult process of deciding priorities, not within, but among. And ‘
ultimately we reach a point where that resolution either is completed or, I
having failed to reach agreement, goes to my office for a final decision. ‘
The biennial budget request that we ultimately agreed upon for the University
of Kentucky in this last go—round was 40.7 million dollars, which was one
of the largest requests that we have Submitted in recent years. This 40 '
million dollars was not just grabbed at somehow, nor was there an arbitrary
assignment of dollars or ceiling or anything else. It came from the fact I
that first of all we had in front of us certain fixed costs that had to be ‘Mi‘
met whether we got any new dollars. Those are the kinds of things that go
to Social Security increases, to retirement contributions for new people 1
coming on who have not been covered, and for the maintenance and operation
of new buildings that have been constructed and are going into operation.
The fact is when you are talking about fixed costs you are not talking about

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anything about which there is much of a judgment you can make. These
are costs that you have to meet.

In addition to that, we had put forward in the 40 million a request
for a 10 per cent increase in salaries for each year of the biennium. Further,
we had put forward a request for something in excess of a six per cent increase
in current expense dollars for the University.

Beyond that, there were some special concerns at this particular time.
The University was faced with a fairly serious fund loss problem — something
like 1.6 million dollars. To be somewhat more specific, the fund loss
problem was the result of the taking away of dollars that had come to us in
support of certain kinds of programs——these are federal dollars——and the
feds having indicated that they no longer had an interst in that particular
program, or some form of modification of the program. This struck hardest
in the Medical Center and, to some degree, in the Community College System,
and least of all, in the Division of Colleges. So for the first time, at
least since I have been here, we were faced with the problem of what to do
with the loss of something like 1.6 million dollars that was represented
by programs and people——in actual performance.

In addition to that, we had hoped that we could provide the funding
for the last step of the retirement program we began several years ago
which had as its objective the underwriting, or the provision, of a funded
retirement program for all categories of workers on the U.K. campus. As
you will remember, originally it was a faculty program and certain middle—
management people were included. Some years ago we started on this program
and we have broughtit along gradually and we hope with as little displace—
ment, as little shock in the system, as possible. This year is the last
installment. We will then have that program in being and operational.

There are many other things in the way of special needs. As a result
of our unhappy experience in Journalism, we had budgeted specific funds for
certain actions to be taken in that area to help us meet the accreditation
problem. We had what appeared to us to be a compelling enrollment problem
in Business and Economics. The faculty loads were getting to the point
where we were having to show concern abOut possible accreditation problems
there. We were hopeful that we could continue to develop the technical
and occupational programs, in particular, in the Community College System,
plus a list of other things that I could give you, running all the way
from student aid matching funds, to all the others. The same kind of
inflation that is eating everything else up is also working on those who
are students in this institution. It is not just that we have more
students, but we also have more need, and as the costs go up that is
going to continue to be a problem. We were asked to deal with the question
of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics. The Title IX requirements of the
federal government had put us in a fairly severe position. We had made
some preliminary steps. I do not have any resolution for that problem
yet and I don't think anyone else does. It looms out there as one of the
really unresolved issues that is, I think, going to be something other than
just a casual or minor budgetary problem for the University. Another was the
matter of funding to expand the number of residency positions in the
Primary Care area. We even had some new programs in this special needs list.
Of particular interest to you would be the Master of Public Administration
program; the new doctoral program that you have heard something about at

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least up to now; the Criminal Justice program; the new technical and »
occupational programs in the Community College——not just to expand the
existing ones, but to create some different ones. ﬂy
The 40 million dollar request that we submitted was very carefully
documented and these were the kinds of things that went into that documen—
tation. According to the law and practice in Kentucky, that request went \
to the Council on Public Higher Education. The Council took our budget,
examined it, made a recommendation about it, and sent it on. Interestingly
enough, the Council on Public Higher Education recommended a figure of g
36.1 million dollars which I must say to you represented a very high per—
centage of the items we had asked for. They made some alterations. They
brought down the salary percentage in the second year and recommended some
enrichment and expansion for us. By and large, I Would go on record as
saying that the Council recommendation, as far as its intrinsic measurement
of what we put before thennwas fair and realistic. That raises the question: >
”If that was the case, what was all that flap when you were over there?”
We did have a flap. When I had our budget before the Council on Public 6Gi
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Higher Education I had perhaps my most unpleasant sessions since I have

been in this state. It did not run to the question of what they were
recommending for UK, in isolation. There was a much larger, and in the 1
long run, more serious problem involved than that. That was that what I 1
perceived was going on at the Council level, for whatever purposes, and l
whether wittingly or not, was a fundamental change in the funding patterns

of institutions of higher learning in Kentucky. That was an issue that had
never been debated. There had never been any agreement anywhere, to the '
best of my knowledge, about the justifiability of that. I felt that I had I

no choice but to raise that question and to demand or insist that the debate
focus on it and that some kind of answer be given. It was not a pleasant
moment; it was not a particularly charming atmosphere over there for the
several days that it went on. But I do think that we did succeed in what

I meant to do, which was to focus on the basic problem of the funding of
this University and the long—range implications that are built into the I
situation in which we find ourselves in this state. I keep reading speeches
in the papers that we can't afford to fund tw0 universities without lowering

the quality of both. That is a gibbon as far as I am concerned. I think g6;
anybody who takes a look at Kentucky knows that it will do well to fund W“
one_major public university. It is my view, expressed often, that it has

not yet done that. And I therefore am concerned when, regardless of the

rhetoric of the situation, the votes and the dollars go to do what I think

they are going to do. I really believe that if you tend just to spread it ;
around on some basis of formularized equality, or whatever you want to call i
it, the net result is less likelihood that you will ever have the one kind I
of university in the state that it is my hope, and has been a longer hope

and expectation for many of you. I think that is a central issue, an I
unavoidable issue and one that does not have much pleasantness built into it.

But I am going to continue to raise that issue. I don't know what Success it 2
will have, but I will tell you that it is important, not just to you and to me

and to those of us who spend Our lives here; it is important, in a very
fundamental sense, to the state of Kentucky that that question be addressed

and that there be some clear—cut understanding of what it is we are pro—

posing to do.

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When the Council's recommendation moved over to become part of the Governor's '3
#9 executive budget that was passed by the General Assembly, we emerged with a 20.8 “
million dollar budget increase for the biennium,r0ughly half. In other words,
the budget we submitted from the campus, until finally acted upon, was, in effect, <
cut in half. The 10 per cent salary figure was reduced to five per cent both ‘
\ years and the additional dollars over and beyond that were placed in specific 1
‘ categories of program enrichment or expansion, some of which I will mention to you. ‘
, At this point, I shift gears a little bit and when I am talking to you W
' now about the consequences or the implications of that budget, I am beginning 'd
to talk about a document that we have not yet put before the Board of Trustees l

. but plan to do so on the 6th of May. That is the operating budget for the I
l University beginning July 1. Implicit in that document are a number of things 1
that were clearly implicit in the action taken on our budget. First of all,
the average salary increase is five per cent. There will be some funds but ‘
not anything near the 6.4 per cent that we had originally hoped to provide for ;q
F\ current expense. I say this because I believe the current expense budget is "
6%. getting particularly difficult for us. We have to go year after year without
X‘ much change in that, both in the volume and the cost. We will be funding the
r costs — Social Security, retirement systems, M & 0 dollars. We are going to
include the last step of the staffs' funded retirement program. There will be

I some expansion of existing programs in the technical and vocational areas in

‘ the Community Colleges. We were able to get the funds to expand the number of
l , residency positions in the primary care area in the Medical Center. We did

I get some student aid matching money. We did, indeed, receive funding for the
Labor Research Center in the College of Business and Economics, and the list 1
could go on and on. What I am saying to you is that the 20 million dollar ‘ n
figure put back upon us the question of having to select the priorities among I H
our priorities which is an old habit that all of us are accustomed to. The
I most serious single consequence goes back to the fund loss problem, and we y 1 g
are, in a sense, still struggling with how we are going to be able to handle i
‘ the Medical Center fund loss problem. It is our intention and our effort, 3 p i

up to this point, to do this with a minimal amount of stress in terms of 1 l

program and personnel.

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, should be interesting to you. The state appropriation will account for 11.6

1 million of those dollars and the University's own sources of income will

‘ generate the remaining 9.2 million. This is sort of in proportion of what y

I the state's portion of the budget is. About 44 per cent of the University's
L { budget comes from the state's appropriation.

_ I would also like to add a word of information to you about the capital :
I construction program which is a different thing because you are not there ‘ _ d
‘ talking about recurring dollars. You are talking about one—shot money for j n
, bricks and mortar. This was not as tight a budget in terms of capital con— j, 'd
' struction dollars, as it was in terms of operating dollars. I hope you ; d
understand that difference. A recurring dollar is one that has to be there 7%
every year from then on. The other is a one—shot thing that carries nothing 3
other than an M & O requirement. We will have a number of projects under 5
way here and throughout the Community College System. The planning, and ,
indeed in some cases, the construction, will be begun in the biennium ahead
of us. You know that we have a number of projects under way now that are m
not included in this. They are carried over from another time. The Fine 5}
Arts Building is in the planning stage with a bid date of late summer; the w
Lexington Technical Institute over on Cooper Drive is well under way; the

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Tobacco and Health Institute out on the old farm is under way; a gaping hole

across the street from the Medical Center where the old Jeff Davis School [
used to be; and the Learning Resources Building. I don't know if Dean CF
McKenna is here but I will observe to all of you that somehow that building l'ﬂh
has now gotten to be called the Nursing Building and I consider that a ‘<
tribute to Dean McKenna. It is going to be a substantial building; and the
Brown—Sanders Center for the Study of the Biologically Aging is also going \
to be on this same approximate site. Those are projects that are already !
funded or for which approval has been given and which are at one or another
stage of planning or development. In addition to these, in the biennium l
ahead of us, there are a number of things that will get under way. The V
largest single item, and the one that is going to take the largest amount of
planning, will be the Primary Care addition to the University Hospital. And

that will also go in-thearea across the street from the Medical Center. '
Another very substantial project is the building of the Southwest Jefferson
Community College to be operated as a branch of the Jefferson Community College.
There are already a rather substantial number of students enrolled in that

program, the citizens there have come forward with a piece of land, and the ‘
Governor has committed to build the facility and to move on with the further
development of that. I think it is reasonable to expect us to begin the Fﬁﬁ"
addition to the Law School and we visualize an addition to this building that

will free up space down below us. Our Law Library needs to expand. We are

getting to the point there where accreditation problems are going to begin '
to threaten us. We need to expand that Library space and in order to do that

we must have space somewhere else for any number of things——for offices, for
classrooms, for a student lounge, and study space and we visualize that pro— I
ject as one that can conceivably get well under way during this biennium.

In the Community Colleges we have projects at Somerset, at Henderson, at
Hopkinsville, an addition to the Library at Jefferson, a wing on the

Madisonville Community College campus, a student center activities building '
at Paducah, and a list of what I will describe to you as minor improvements — {
renovations — in the entire Community College System. In addition to these ‘
there is a figure in there for an agricultural project at the West Kentucky '
Substation at Princeton. {

I give you this more in the way of a review than anything else but a,
I would not have you say privately to yourselves or with much comfort to Mﬂ‘
your colleagues all this great emphasis on brick and mortar and nothing \
else. As a matter of fact we have had a budget this time around with which V
the tightest dollar was the recurring operating dollar. It was basically ‘
that fundamental. We have had a budget request that was cut roughly in half. ‘
We have been given what I can describe to you only as being a very tight [
operating budget with somewhat easier access this time to capital construction,
not out of the University's bonding capability. We are not going to involve
additional debt service for the institution. It is going to come out of {
capital grants.

What then, by way of summary and conclusion do I want to say all this
means. It means a continuation of what I have been saying to you from time
to time that hasn't changed, that we are having a fairly lean time of it.
It means that we have problems. It means that we are in competition, and J
increasingly keen competition, with other government interests. I don't i?
think it is any secret to anybody here that public elementary and second- ‘4‘
ary education was a matter of great concern to this Legislature. And,
aside from our own interests, it is very hard to argue with that in Kentucky-

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laying their claims on the state dollar. This comes also at a time when
633%; the economic condition is, at best, ambivalent. Kentucky has been luckier,
\ in my opinion, than many states. While our productivity and income from
the coal—producing regions and other things have been helpful to us,
institutions such as this one cannot escape the advances of the inflation—
ary thrust that you are all familiar with. There are also attitudes that
are very strong; a feeling, in general, that higher education has been
well cared for somehow and it is somebody elses turn. And there are grave
expressions that are tied directly to one aspect of our mission — a great
tendency in our time to want to emphasize the vocational aspect of higher
education. There is no doubt in my mind that the American people have
always seen their higher education as having to do with the improvement of
the life style, of the possibility of preparing one for some kind of job.
‘ I think we would do well to remember that there has always been another
ge. 5 side of that coin — namely, that any higher education worthy of its name
oughttXDdeal not just with how to make a living but what kind of life ‘
(a. you choose to live and what kind of human being you choose to be. I, b
4" for one, am at a loss to say how you would put a price tag on that. I
I will tell you it will be a much poorer society if and when that is ever
\ lOSt.

? There are many other areas of legitimate interest in the state which are

If those are problems, I would conclude by saying that in spite of
our problems, we are going to handle our fixed costs; we are going to have ‘
’ salary increases of five per cent each year. There are going to be others j
‘ who are going to do better because they are going to have more money to do '
better but I will tell you this, so that you will not misunderstand me,
I the next time we go into the Legislature, and that date is fairly precise,
the number one priority of this institution is going to be its fixed costs
l as they always must be. The number two priority of this institution, which
is to say is its number one priority, where you have any choice, is to face
the problem of deterioration of support for this University and, very
specifically, the impact on the salaries paid at this institution. Nobody ;
‘ is going to be able to avoid the implications of it. If there are those '3
of you here, or those of you on this faculty not here, who think that we
‘ are not concerned about that I want to put your minds to rest. We are
ﬁ‘ concerned about it and we intend to have our say about it. The fact of the
matter is that the five per cent for these next two years is more likely
\ to be an approximation of inflationary costs than the raises have been in
the last few years when the rate has been considerably higher, although
it is quite possible——at least I am one of those who believe that it is
quite possible——that we may be on the verge of another rather substantial
inflationary jump in this country in which case the gap that we are con—
cerned about is going to widen. The most I can say, in other words, about
your salary and the benefits package is that at least we are going to have
something. If you can take any consolation from knowing not just that
there are some institutions doing better than you but some doing worse, I
‘ can tell you that is happening in this country as well. '

We are going to have some enrichment and expansion of some existing
/’| programs. We are going to have some few new programs. Most important, and
R“ I find myself being very uneasy about this prospect, I do not foresee that
" we are going to have any significant cutback either in programs or personnel.
I While that may sound like a very modest goal for many of you, I will tell
l you that it is one that is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain in
the times that we are in, and those of you who keep your ties open to other
‘ institutions will do well to listen to some of those tales of woe that are

coming.

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At the risk of sounding gratuitous in a way I don't want to be, we ‘
are in a different age and it is properly called ”the age of the crunch." *IM
I think you already know it. I think I have a right for you to know it ‘VL
and to understand it. I don't expect you to like it. I do not ask you i
to like it. I do ask you to be aware of it, to be sensitive to those
forces at play in this society in our time that keep higher education in
a state of flux and change just as everything else is in a state of flux ~ [
and change. I do not ask you to like it. I do ask you to continue to
provide what only you can provide and that is the kind and level of teaching, ‘
the kind and level and quality of scholarship, the kind and types of service
that you are uniguely fitted to provide so that we may go on doing what I
think it is our role to do and that is to keep trying and not just, in the
words of the old cliche, to make this a better institution than we found it [
but, more specifically, to help us as we go on bringing this institution, ‘
and it has been brought. It is a far different institution than it was two
decades ago. Help keep that movement. It does not have to be in dazzling
new programs. It does not have to be done in terms of ”I have X numbers I
of dollars to purloin a new dean and let him do whatever his or her thing m‘
is.” It does, though, go back to the fundamentals and they do not change ’m
very much. They run to the very heart and soul of this institution, that l
is the teaching, that is the research, and that is the service that has
helped bring it to where it is now and make it possible for us to go yet a
distance and I am not prepared to say what that distance is.

Thank you. [
President Singletary was given an ovation by the Senators. I
Chairman Jewell made the following report to the Senate: i

There are two or three comments I want to make to bring you up to date .
on what the Senate Council has been doing and what the Senate is going to be
doing at the May 3rd meeting.

At the May 3rd meeting there will be a report by the Academic Ombudsman ,
presented, as tradition has it, in person, live. The Committees of the RM‘
Senate are making reports which will be circulated to you, in writing, \
between now and then and the Chairmen will be present to answer any questions I
you may have. This seems to be more expeditious than having them read the
reports, which you can read as well yourself. We will also have some business I
from the Admissions and Academic Standards Committee. We will be acting on an 1
amendment to the Governing Regulations which essentially will clarify the way [
the academic year is defined. This will come up at the May meeting of the
Board of Trustees. I

The Senate Council recently voted on the election of a Chairperson—elect,
who serves as Acting Chairperson if that becomes necessary, and who takes |
office as Chairperson of the Senate Council on the first of January, 1977.

That chairperson-elect is Professor Constance P. Wilson of the College of
Social Professions. '

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Dr. Jewell recognized Professor Paul Oberst. On behalf of the Senate Council ‘rﬁ‘
Professor Oberst presented a motion that the Senate recommend to the President the ‘
establishment of one—year research professorships as soon as possible and that the

Minutes of the University Senate, April 12, 1976 — cont 4067

University give priority to the goal of establishing permanent research pro—
] fessorships as funds become available. These proposals had been developed by
I the Research Committee and were circulated to the faculty under date of March
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