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Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, October 26, 1983 X Research continued from page 1 Martejl said the system at I exas A&M is not set up to sti mulate research. “We put too much emphasis on undergraduate programs, and we often neglect graduate programs,” he said. “Many de partments acquire faculty who can only teach at the undergra duate level.” As a result, he said many of the teachers here are not in terested in research, and that is why the University is trying to hire faculty who have already made advancements in re search. “We need to start some where,” he said. “We can’t wait for our own faculty to make re search advancements because it can take 30 years before a per son is recognized for his re search.” Martell said another problem with the system is that the Uni versity does not budget money for research as it does for athle tic or acadeniic programs. Martell said the committee strongly advises that the Univer sity devise some sort of research policy since Texas A&M has never had an overall institution al strategy or policy for research. The University has relied pri marily upon the experiment sta tions and the research founda tion to provide leadership, prog rams and funding. The closest the Universtiy has come to developing a position to oversee all aspects of research was the creation of the Office of University Research. But Martell said this organi zation has had little impact be cause of the lack of funding, staff and administrative respon sibility for the active promotion of University research. He said the absence of a well- defined mission has produced an “aura of uncertainty” about research. After many studies, the com mittee issued a report in Octo ber 1982. I bis final report has now been made available for inspec tion by members of the faculty and stall. C.opies have been sent to all department heads. The committee made the fol- STARSHIP SHOPS Manor East Mall & Culpepper Plaza C^a/uiU- Halloween i» almost shopNown Crepe paper Streamers lowing recommendations: • The University must reaf firm its resolve that, in addition to good teaching, one of its main objectives is the further develop ment of excellence in research on the part of its faculty. There must be incentives for scholarly achievement. The faculty and administration must under stand, that for both existing and new faculty, promotion, tenure and salary will be based to a large extent on demonstrated re search. • The University should cre ate the position of vice president or associate vice president for research to act on behalf of the president and the provost in all research matters. • An early assignment of the University administrator for re search should be to conduct a study concerning the relative roles and missions of the Texas A&M Research Foundation, the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, and the I exas Transportation Institute. Curricula for Saudis developed at A&M by Louis Hilgartner Battalion Reporter Texas A&M faculty mem bers and graduate students are playing an important role in the education of Saudi Ara bian students in an effort to “Saudi-ize” the middle- technical jobs in Saudi Arabia, Dr. Clarence Dockweiler, associate professor of curricu lum and instruction, says. The program is an effort to increase the number of Saudis working in areas such as labor atory assistance, surveying, in spection, drafting and corro sion control. Consultants from the Ara bian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) and other educa tors are writing curriculum and training materials on “mid-tech” jobs for young Saudis, Dockweiler saicl. Dockweiler, who returned from Saudi Arabia to begin classes this semester, said the program still is in the early stages and probably won’t lx? completed until 1985. Several Texas A&M professors and graduate students remain in Saudi Arabia writing training materials for the program. The Saudi students cur rently participating in the program are working on a pilot basis, since only a few of the instructional curricula have been completed. Part of the program in volves teaching English to all students, since the business language of Saudi Arabia is English. This will be done pri marily by ARAMCO. Dr. John Hunt, former director of the marine educa tion sea grant, is now working for ARAMCO and is bringing in Aggies to help write the cur riculum. There are; Aggies working for Atj] CO now. So far, the p headed almost exchiindil Americans and B the program progressen be expanded to indudefe K, expatriates and morcSn !< and other Arabs askd L Pakistanis and Sri lanbj [< It’s hard to measurt r kind of direct benefit [ < l 'niversity is goinguj I s f rom this, Dockweileraij |1 “It gives us the cm f sp af write curricula we’verTwi it' done before," he said. I are i Most people donit it, he said, but mam(iMI members are on a 12 contract. 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