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Cooperative research needed to help cities
A more cooperative research
effort is required if universities
are to improve their record of
helping cities with their problems,
contends Prof. R. E. Thomas of
A&M.
“The reason universities have
been somewhat ineffective in the
cities is not that their researchers
have failed to do their jobs, but
rather that they have not been
working together,“ Dr. Thomas
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As director of TAMU’s new
Center for Urban Programs, he
thinks that situation can be
changed, particularly in such
areas as municipal systems man
agement, information systems and
law enforcement.
The A&M facility will approach
city problems in the same manner
as it has its research in various
phases of the space program:
through an interdisciplinary ef
fort.
“In the case of the space pro
gram, it was basically a matter
of getting different types of sci
entists and engineers together to
solve problems of a technological
nature,” the former aerospace en
gineering professor explains.
“With the cities, it will be a
matter of getting almost every
body together — the engineers,
urban planners, economists, edu-
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cators, psychologists, sociologists
and management specialists,
among others.”
The Center for Urban Programs
was established in just this man
ner—as a university-wide effort,
Dr. Thomas emphasizes. For ad
ministrative purposes, it operates
as part of the College of Engi
neering’s Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station.
In conjunction with the center’s
establishment, an Urban Program
Council was formed with repre
sentatives from throughout the
university, as well as from Prairie
View A&M College, part of the
A&M System.
These representatives from var
ious fields provide advice regard
ing problem areas in which the
university’s capabilities can best
be put to work.
“We certainly can’t solve all
the problems,” Dr. Thomas readi
ly admits, “but there are many
which fall within our areas of
expertise, and these are the ones
we plan to attack with a well
coordinated effort in which we
bring to bear whatever resources
are necessary to get the job
done.”
One of the center’s first under
takings has been development of
a continuing education program
in municipal systems manage
ment, directed at such agencies
as the police, fire and parks and
recreation departments and the
tax assessors office.
“Our Texas Engineering Ex
tension Service performs some
excellent work in this area, but
primarily at the technician super
visory level,” Dr. Thomas points
out. “We are looking at the de
partment head level — the fire
chief, the police chief and pos
sibly the assistant city manager.”
San Antonio has offered itself
as the “test tube” city for a short
course we are developing to deal
with systems management.
The center also is developing
a short course for airport man
agers. The course will be offered
for the first time next spring.
Working through the center,
Barton, Rowe win
Upjohn awards
Tommy Jack Barton of Cam
eron and Nancy F. Rowe of San
Antonio have been presented Up
john Awards for outstanding
clinical proficiency as graduating
students in veterinary medicine
at A&M.
The awards were presented at
a dinner sponsored by The Upjohn
Co., a pharmaceutical firm.
Barton received the award for
outstanding clinical proficiency in
large animal clinics. Miss Rowe
was honored for her work in small
animal clinics.
TAMU personnel have teamed;
to help the City of Dallas
a study of an integrated cg|
munication system.
“This work may lead us i
new areas, such as law enfo;
ment and criminal justice," 1
Thomas notes, pointing out (Is
is a widespread belief thati
vanced technology has had ■
impact on law enforcement ti
practically any other munici)
field.
“We see law enforcement i
being one of the fields most 15
for the type of services we
provide,” he adds.
Still another center projecti
volved helping the Waco pel
school system lower the
student cost of its new computi
assisted teaching program.
An area in which the ten,
might become active is in ta
information systems, taking
formation from the files ofn
ious municipal agencies and|i
ting it in a central system.
“There’s no doubt that a mi
prehensive system can impm
city services,” Dr. Thomas noa
The tax assessor, for exam;i
may have information that
police department needs, thepi
fessor points out, but under®
existing systems there is mi
rect means for sharing suchp:
lie information.
Among other problems wh
the center may soon involve
self are solid-waste manage®
and inner-city decay.
“The solid-waste problems
be solved,” Dr. Thomas enp!
sizes. “Since it can no longer
burned and only so much can!
buried, it will have to be
cycled.”
“Solid wastes should be loot;
at as a resource and not as
liability,” he reasons.
Turning to the inner-city d«
problem, Dr. Thomas said 1
center is already assembling!
formation in an attempt to get!
the heart of the problem.
“It’s generally considered it
the main problem revolves aroti
transportation, but we thinks
much more complex,” he obsera
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