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Vol. 73 No. 185
8 Pages
Wednesday, August 6, 1980
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
lubert addresses Academic Council
Chancellor names C System revision
search committee lllfel lauded in report
by SCOT K. MEYER
Battalion Staff
I ' A broad-based search committee to aid in the selection of a
newlexas A&M University president was announced Tuesday
by System Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert.
|§ The announcement highlighted a meeting of the University
ademic Council.
‘The scope and diversity of this committee is unpre-
dented,” Hubert said, “and this concept reflects the Board
Regents’ commitment to consider the perspective and
ishes of representatives of as many key groups as practical as
carries out its responsibility of selecting a new president for
is great University.”
Names of the 22 people who comprise the committee are
ingwithheld pending their notification. Hubert did, howev-
, specify the sources of some of the committee members. He
knowledged that in some cases the source of the memher
ould specify who that member was, but he declined to name
y names.
The committee will include:
—three members of the Board of Regents, one of whom will
Chairman Clyde Wells, who also will chair the committee;
— four members of the Texas A&M faculty, including one
ademic dean and at least two faculty members who are
isociate professors or higher;
— three students (the student body president, Corps com-
mnder and president of the Graduate Student Council);
— one member of the Association of Former Students;
— one trustee of the Texas A&M University Development
oundation;
— one member of the Texas A&M University at Galveston
oard of Visitors;
one member of the Texas A&M University System staff;
a president from one of the other three academic cam-
uses in the Texas A&M University System;
the chief executive officer of a college or university
utside the System;
— two representatives from business and industry;
— a state leader in the field of public education;
— three at-large members.
The search committee may also employ a professional con-
lulting firm to assist it. Hubert said a firm would be chosen
ithin 10 days.
Hubert said he hoped the members of the committee would
e notified by Thursday, when public announcement of their
ames could be made.
Although he set no timetable for the selection process,
ubert said he hoped the committee would hold its first
eeting by the end of August. He said he did not know how
long the search would take, but he said he and the regents
loped the process would be completed during the coming
icademic year, so that the new president could take office in
he summer of 1981.
| “A target date for the end of the search has not been set, ”
Hubert said. “With all things falling into place, it (completion
of the search) would probably be in the neighborhood of four to
i five months. That may be ambitious; I don’t know.”
' Hubert indicated that Acting President Charles Samson
would be considered for the permanent position, and that the
search would not exclude anyone.
I “It will be an intensive, nationwide search,” Hubert said.
Texas A&M System Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert
outlines the selection procedure to be used in choosing a
new University president at Tuesday’s Academic Coun-
Hubert listed the duties that the search committee would
have;
— study and make recommendations concerning the qualifi
cations established by the Board of Regents for the position;
— search for the best qualified persons for the position;
— prepare and publish appropriate announcements con
cerning the vacancy;
— arrange for qualified candidates to present their creden
tials;
— evaluate the credentials and references of the applicants;
— interview about seven persons, recommending a final list
cil meeting. Seated at left is Dr. Charles Samson, Texas
A&M acting president.
of at least five candidates to the Board of Regents for action.
Hubert stressed the advisory nature of the committee,
saying that the Board of Regents would have the right to accept
or reject any recommendation from the committee.
In other business, the Academic Council approved a propos
al to make all undergraduate courses in the University avail
able to students on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis.
The council also approved the degree candidates for sum
mer graduation exercises.
The council was slated to meet again today at 2 p.m. to
choose its delegates to the search committee.
by DILLARD STONE
Battalion Staff
Improved administration procedures have taken place since
the Texas A&M University System was reorganized in early
1980, Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert said Tuesday.
Hubert delivered a 26-page report to the Academic Council,
detailing the reasons behind and accomplishments of the reor
ganization plan instituted throughout the first part of this year.
Hubert listed five major improved procedures which the
reorganization has accomplished:
— An improved system of documenting communications
from System offices to the various parts of the System.
— Development of a standardized program for each part of
the System to use in presenting its 5-year master plan to the
Board of Regents.
— Development of a systematic and orderly flow of legal
services to the System.
— Delegation of authority to System chief executive officers
in the areas of personnel appointments, contract negotiations
and budgetary matters.
— Development of a system to provide job descriptions and
evaluations of administrative officers throughout the System.
Hubert said he felt the System structure now in place was in
accordance with a directive from the Board of Regents, a
directive which told him to “develop an organization that is
structurally sound and durable; one which will not require
revision with subsequent changes in personnel ....”
Historically, the System has had conflicts between the chan
cellor’s office and the office of the University president. That
conflict has caused the resignation of a chancellor and reassign
ment of a president in the past eighteen months.
Another directive which Hubert considered in the reorgani
zation, he said, was one which ordered him to “review all rules
and procedures to assure that they provide effective programs
Four major rationale accompanied the reorganization re
commendations made to the Board in January, Hubert said.
First, each agency of the System is a distinctive organiza
tional entity, with its own goals and purposes. Within this
context, each agency should report to the Board in as direct
fashion as possible. The lines of communication are now
straightforward and well-defined, Hubert said.
Second, Hubert said, the revision “clearly locates each part
of the System as a distinct political, fiscal and programmatic
entity — and accountability for the accomplishment of purpose
and mission is fixed and certain. ” This is accomplished, Hubert
said, without any adverse affects on the cooperative relation
ships inherent in the System.
Third, the chief executive officer of each agency is to devote
full-time energies to administeringhis agency. This is in keep
ing with the philosophy that the System is too complex for any
one man to handle, Hubert said.
Last, the new structure is stable, Hubert said. “An organiza
tional framework has been designed which need not change
with subsequent changes in personnel .... the new organiza
tion offers the possibility of stability and endurance for some
time to come.”
Hubert added that the transition to the new organization
was accomplished “without a single work function delayed or
impaired, ” and that any deterrent to accomplishment of Sys
tem goals was likely to be caused by personnel problems rather
than organizational ones.
Biennium hearings this week
Salaries key budget item
by DILLARD STONE
Battalion Staff
Creating a scale of salaries competitive with those in private
business was a key item addressed by Texas A&M University
System Chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert Tuesday in opening
remarks made before a budgetary review panel.
Representatives from the Legislative Budget Board and the
Governor’s Office are on the Texas A&M campus this week to
begin reviewing the 1981-83 biennium budget request of the
System.
Representatives of the various System institutions are
appearing before the panel to present and justify their request
for general revenue appropriations. The total System request
is $624 million.
“I’m convinced that it would be difficult for anybody to
argue successfully that the salaries of state employees in higher
education have kept up with the general rate of inflation in
recent years,” Hubert said.
“ Nor have they kept up with salary increases in commerce
and industry in general. State employees have suffered a loss of
real income because their salaries have not increased as rapidly
as the value of the dollar decreased,” he said.
“We’re requesting salary increases of 20.1 percent in the
first year of the biennium, and an additional 12.6percentin the
second year,” Hubert said. This increase tracks the increase
recommended by the Coordinating Board, Texas College and
University System, regarding faculty salaries in academic in-
i stitutions, he said.
Hubert said the budget proposal for the most part attempted
to stay within budget request guidelines from the governor.
He added that the formula rates set by the Coordinating Board
for the upcoming appropriation bill are a “substantial improve
ment” over the formulae used for the 1981 budget.
Hubert cited Coordinating Board figures which said the
1 1982 formulae will yield a 20 percent increase over the 1981
appropriations, and the 1983 formulae will yield a 12.1 percent
increase.
Many appropriated items in the budget request are based on
formulae which the Coordinating Board establishes. Teaching
salaries, for example, are based on a computation involving
how many and what kind of credit hours are taught at a
university.
“In the main, we’ve not exceeded these reference points in
our request,” Hubert said. He said two examples where the
established formulae were inadequate, though, were Moody
College (Texas A&M University at Galveston) and Texas A&M
University, where expansion and growth created a situation
where the institutions were “adversely affected by the use of a
fixed-base period.”
Texas A&M University was scheduled to present its $289
million, two-year request at a hearing today at 9 a.m. The
University’s request includes $133,730,217 for fiscal 1982 and
$155,342,898 for fiscal 1983. The 1982 figure represents a $44
million increase over the fiscal 1981 appropriation. The asked-
for increase over the two-year period is 66.7 percent.
The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas
Forest Service had their budget hearings Tuesday afternoon.
Other hearings slated for today were for Tarleton State Univer
sity at 11 a.m., the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic
Laboratory at 1 p. m., the Texas Agricultural Extension Service
at 2:30 p.m. and the Rodent and Predatory Animal Control
Service at 4 p.m.
Thursday’s schedule includes hearings for Prairie View
A&M University at 8:30 a.m., Texas A&M University at Gal
veston at 10:30 a.m., the Texas Engineering Experiment Sta
tion and Texas Transportation Institute at 1 p. m. and the Texas
Engineering Extension Service at 3 p.m.
The budget hearings are the first step in the process which
will eventually secure a two-year operating budget for the
Texas A&M System.
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udget request breakdown
his is a table showing the 1981 appropriated budget, and the 1982 and 1983 requests for the institutions and agencies
oftheTexas A&M System.
1981
1982
1983
appropriation
request
request
Texas A&M University
$93,200,704
$133,730,217
$155,342,898
Texas A&M-Galveston
3,301,404
29,752,226
11,395,349 •
Tarleton State University
6,816,207
8,440,020
9,522,498
Prairie View A&M
11,595,249
33,272,414
29,309,830
Texas Agricutural Experiment Station
26,735,456
36,347,864
39,483,793
Rodent and Predatory Animal Control Service
1,606,459
2,511,088
2,666,686
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
9,914,659
13,413,524
14,760,049
Texas Engineering Extension Service
1,264,527
8,117,306
4,210,959
Texas Vorest Service
4,776,279
8,757,082
9,490,564
Vjstem Administration
1,132,425
2,620,336
2,955,834
Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
1,194,550
2,788,444
2,040,990
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A University employee uses a cardboard box to protect mid-80s, a welcome relief from the heat of the past
herself from the rain as she walks to her car in Tuesday’s month,
rain. The afternoon shower left temperatures in the
Allen flooding Jamaica
United Press International
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Allen, its 170-mph
winds only slightly weakened by an assault on Haiti’s moun
tains, slashed at the northeast coast of Jamaica today where
residents fled massive flooding for higher ground.
Rising water covered roads along the bay at Kingston early
today and the repeated explosion of transformers on power
poles could be heard over the howling winds. There were no
immediate reports of casualties.
Beverly Lewis in the Office of Disaster Preparedness said
many roads in Kingston had been blocked by fallen utility
poles, and live wires were popping in the streets along the
waterfront.
Allen made a slight shift to the north late Tuesday, causing
officials to order a hurried evacuation of posh resort areas along
the northern coast. However, the area was reported safe from
the harshest of Allen’s winds early today.
Lewis said the small parishes of St. Thomas and Portland, on
the less densly populated northeast corner ofthe island nation,
were expected to get the worst of the hurricane’s fury.
People fled the massive flooding on the northeast coast and
crammed into emergency shelters on higher ground.
Communications systems remained intact over most of the
island, but intermittent power failures were reported fre
quently. As an emergency measure, radio stations were
allowed on the air only one at a time to update residents on the
storm.
Lewis said more than 100 schools, churches, community
centers and the like had been opened as shelters in the two
provinces. Volunteers pressed every car, bus and truck into
the evacuation effort, she said.
The hurricane, which killed at least 20 people in its slash
across the Windward Islands, hit the southwestern tip of Haiti
with its peak winds of 170 mph, but lost some power over the
mountains.
It still packed a deadly punch of sustained winds up to 135
mph, whirling around a 30-mile wide center and reaching up to
60 miles out.