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LXXVII 1o. 665 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1967 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES Research ActivityBasic to Education: Van By ANN MUNSTER ing itself, "Does it want faculty "The first criterion in evalu- members who are teachers first ating research activities is how ef- and foremost and are only sec- fectively they relate to the ed- ondarily professionals-or does it ucation of students," contends want faculty members who are Dean Gordon Van Wylen of the actively contributing to the en- University's College of Engineer- gineering profession at the same ing. time that they carry out teaching He took this stand in an article duties?" entitled "Research in College of Summer employment of profes- Engineering - Some Whys and sors does not seem to be the an- Wherefores," which appeared re- swer to this dilemma. Comment- cently in the engineering school's ing on this alternative, Van Wyl- semi - annual publication, "In- en says, "a faculty member is genor." isolated from the real world during Van Wylen points out that the academic year, and becomes "since World War II, colleges of ignorant of what- is happening in engineering throughout the coun- industry. During the summer, it try have been placing more and follows, that faculty members feel more emphasis on research," a de- obligated to try to find out what's velopment stemming from the really going on in the industrial growth of graduate education in world, but don't have enough time engineering. He lists three justi- or gain enough actual experience fications for the participation of during a three or four month per- engineering schools in research ac- iod to do this. tivities. Van Wylen feels that this ap- First, "research provides an ex- proach of relying on work experi- cellent vehicle for the scholarly ence which is completely divorced and professional activities of the from teaching intensifies the al- college faculty. ready existing division between Van Wylen insists that no col- the classroom and research. "'This lege of engin'eering can avoid ask- division cannot make for excel- lence in education," adds Van Wylen. Van Wylen denies, however, that the division is creating seri- ous problems at the University, claiming that problems arise more often in smaller schools where professors necessarily have heavier teaching loads and less time for research. However, Van Wylen adds that University faculty is definitely pressured, by the trimester system, which forces many faculty mem- bers to pursue their classroom in- struction at such a breakneck pace that they lack adequate time for research. Van Wylen goes on to defend faculty research activities on the grounds that they more than any other kind of professional involve- ment, "enables the faculty mem- ber to keep,.most of his profes- sional activity on campus and in close association with the stu- dents." He contrast faculty members who engage in research "who are tremendously active as profession- als, either as consultants or in their own companies, but who have virtualy no time for teach- ing. Even their graduate students seldom see them; their classroom instruction is haphazard; and their contributions to department and colleges are perfunctory at best." Van Wylen also encourages fac- ulty members to "supplement their research with active consulting programs" because an engineering educator who does research but no consulting can still be isolated from ongoing technology. The College of Engineering has established a norm by which a faculty member holding a full time appointment can still do two ing problems. This opportunity is. most important, of course, to stu- dents at the doctorate level. Yet both undergraduates and M.S. candidates stand to benefit direct- ly from research work, particular- ly if the research involves experi- mentation." Van Wylen contends that "It is largely to encourage student par- ticipation that a college of engi- neering should think twice before taking on research programs that must be staffed by professional re- searchers without academic ap- pointments. Instead, a college should concentrate on programs that stimulate interaction between uei tc-u l amuly, iur fn"u+1---. - ed primarily to meeting specific Commenting on the sizable' needs. It does its assignments on number of engineering projects a task by task basis. It is not, undertaken by the University like science, devoted to knowledge which are related to the defense for the sake of knowledge." program, Van Wylen said, "though it many be unfortunate. many en- Regarding the possibility that a conflict with academic freedom might arisefrom conducting clas- sified research in colleges of en- gineering, Van Wylen says "To the greatest extent possible, academic freedom should include such re- search programs. This is not to say that no boundaries or limits should be placed on our research." For example, he considers research on biological warfare an inappro- priate project for a college of en- ~~~students and facultyfotecon days of consulting per month. megineering. mon purpos of-solvigemeang.g However, Vans Wylen adds that mo ups fsligma I- ful and currently important prob- Van Wylen said he values high- "our colleges can tolerate and i' lems. Professional research staff ly the right of the individual fac- should in fact encourage many members should be added only as ulty member to set the scope of different patterns of research ac- it It , p i c IPit.f 4.tf the ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ V he tome hs be-h ow r ah flth gineering developments are at present related to our defense pro- gram. A college which rules out every possibility of undertaking such research would automatically cut itself off from a significant measure of ongoing technology. Thereby it would prevent certain faculty members from keeping abreast of the state of their art. Moreover, it would prevent many graduate students from pursuing significant research topics." The funding pattern for en- gineering projects, according to Van Wylen, is "probably quite typical." Ninety per cent of the funds are provided by the federal government, with the Department of Defense contributing about 60 per cent. The remainder comes from other federal agencies, indus- try, university funds and founda- tions and private agencies. Van Wylen says "there is much evidence that the federal funding is not going to increase very rap- Wyle n idly and may, in fact, decrease. The war in Vietnam has tended to divert funds from research to the production of military goods. Furthermore, there is a strong tendency to distribute federal funds for research more widely, in the interest of universities that do not have extensive research programs." To counter this tendency Van Wylen suggests that "much clos- er relations between industry and education can be developed through research programs." For example, the University has just established the Industrial Science Laboratory to increase its inter- action with industry and is also working with the Ford General Parts Division on manufacturing problems. "Also colleges of engineering should shift some of their empha- sis to the civilian segments of the Federal Establishment," added Van Wylen. He points out further that, "in these segments lie many of the challenging-even threat- ening-problems which have be- come part and parcel of this era of urbanization and population explosion." tivity and that the arrangement is norm and not an absolute boundary." The second reason Van Wylenl gives for the participation of col- leges of engineering in research is that "Research gives students an opportunity to learn by partici- pating in 'real,' ongoing engineer- Riot Victims tive§." The third reason Van Wylen gives for engineering cdllege re- search is "to contribute to the store of engineering knowledge- either directly or by way of find- ing new applications for existing knowledge." He points out that en- gineering as a profession is devot- is Ul eseU cl,u AU eel s al "at regular intervals and on their own, faculty researchers should carefully examine the value of their research to society as a' whole. Our research should be con- tingent with our 'value system, and our value system should not be hitched to the availability of funds."I t SOME 'TROUBLE SPOT S': Faculty Poll Shows Satisfaction Demand Say With Nature of Academic Duty InRebuilding By JILL CRABTREE Recently tabulated results of a poll of the University's academ- ic staff revealed a high degree of satisfaction with the nature and condition of academic duties. However, some trouble spots were identified. According to Vice-President for Academic Affairs Allen F. Smith, the poll was instigated by a stu- dent at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, who was writing his graduate thesis on the means and use of measuring de- grees of satisfaction. Codification and compilation of the data was handled by the Of- fice of Institutional Research, with the aid of technical consultants from the Institute for Social Re- search. The poll consisted of a 16-page questionnaire, which was sent out to the 5,518 members of the aca- demic staff last March. The ques- tionnaire was divided into three sections: "Conditions of Academ- ic Service," "Nature of Academic Service," and "What You Would S Most Like to Improve at the Uni- versity of Michigan." In the section on "Conditions of Academic Service," staff mem- bers were asked to indicate their degree of satisfaction with and the degree of importance they at- tached to each of 10 items on a scale of one to five. Some dissatisfaction was shown by the staff over certain aspects of the University's physical facili- ties. With the exception of rat- ings for "athletic and recreation- al facilities," the ratings for im- portance on all items were higher than the degree of satisfaction. However, all items, except for "social and food service facilities" and "parking facilities," were ranked above three on the satis- faction scale. The largest variance between satisfaction and importance was shown in the staff's rating of availability of funds and oppor- tunities for professional develop- ment. This showed up most graph- ically in the ratings for "availabil- ity of departmental research NEWS WIRE REGISTRATION MATERIALS for Graduate students plan- ning to enroll in the Fall Term may be picked up in the Rack- ham Building Aug. 2-25, and Aug.'28-31 from 8:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:04. Identification cards will be available in the Rackham Building at the times listed above. "GRANULATION" by Niccolo Castiglione will be premiered at the last concert in the Contemporary Directions series at 8:30 p.m. yiSaturday in the School of Music Recital Hall on North Campus. The work was written this year especially for this series. "Melted Ears" by Phil Winsor also will receive its world premiere. Winsor is currently holder of the Prix de Rome . * * * * THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC will present the Summer Session Chorus and Orchestra in a free concert conducted by Thomas Hilbish at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Hill Aud: The chorus will feature soprano Janise Harsanyi and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Mannion. * * * * THE BETTER EDUCATED you are, the more likely you are to stay alive on the highway. That is one implication of a recent University study on who uses seat belts. The study, directed by economics Prof. James N. Morgan and the University's Survey Research Center, found that the more educated a person is, the more likely he is to use a seat belt. Morgan's finding showed that three out of four persons with education beyond the bachelor's degree used seat belts at least some of the time. By contrast, in the U.S. population at large, only one person in four wore seat belts at least some of the time. * * * , INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN LEGAL scholar Otto Kahn- Freund will deliver the 17th series of Thomas M. Cooley lectures at the Law School in September. The Oxford professor will present five public lectures on "Recent Developments in Contract Law: Reflections on Legal Methods in England and in the United States." Prof. Kahn-Freund has been president of the International Society for. Labor Law and Social Legislation and co-editor of funds," which rated 4.30 on im- portance and only 2.85 on satis- faction. The aspect of conditions of academic service which received the strongest endorsement from{ the staff was "independence and freedom." Five factors were listed here: Freedom to speak, teach, bonduct research, and write in the field of your competence; freedom to se- lect the content of your courses; freedom to determine the courses you want to teach; freedom to de- cide on your teaching methods, and freedom to choose the direc- tion. of your research if funds are available. Teaching Fellowsj With the exception of freedom to determine the courses one is to teach, satisfaction scores were all above 4.. Under the general heading of communication, 'least satisfaction among staff members was express- ed over communication between departments, and the greatest satisfaction for communication from the individual to his depart- ment chairman. In the questions on the "Na- ture of Academic Service," a sum- mary of the results indicates that the staff is satisfied with the amount of time spent on teach- ing, would like to spend a little less time on administrative activ- ities, a little more on sponsored research, substantially more on in- dividual scholarly and creative work, and slightly more on pro- fessional activities outside the campu& In the final section of the ques- tionnaire, staff members were asked to list aspects of the Uni- versity they would most like to improve. In a breakdown of the r a t i n g s between professorial ranks, teaching fellows, research assistants and research associates, the professorial group indicated they would most like to improve physical facilities, funds for pro- fessional development, present salary potential, and present cur- riculum. Salary Improvement All of the other three groupsr gave "present salary" as the item they most wanted improved, with "physical facilities" in second place. Salary potential ranked third. Smith said a resume of the re- sults of the survey will be sent to staff members in late fall. Break- downs of the data by schools and colleges will be sent to the ap- propriate deans and directors for their use in developing future policies.' Smith said he was generally pleased with the degree of satis- faction shown by members of the staff. "In spite of the many pro- blems that cross my desk," he said, "morale seems pretty good, especially on things which are very important, such as the right to express oneself." He said that many of the find- 500 Detroiters.Name Grievance Committee To Present Cases DETROIT (P) - The residents . of Detroit's riot-devastated near West Side are demanding control over the rebuilding of their burn- ed and pillaged neighborhoods. About 500 persons, !mostly Ne- gro, met Wednesday night in the City-County building to discuss grievances in the aftermath of the riot and ended up naming a committee to present their de- mands to city officials. And a near West Side neigh- borhood planning group, formed more than a year ago, is strug- gling to keep its voice from being drowned out in the clamor over plans to rebuild the area. The meeting Wednesday was called in response to the naming of the New Detroit Committee by Mayor Jerome Cavanagh and Gov. George Romney. Rebuilding Effort The committee, chaired by Jos- eph L. Hudson Jr., head of De- troit's largest department store, is charged with organizing the re-x building effort. The committee has been crit- icized from a number of quarters for not having enough residents from the riot areas among its members. The Rev. Albert Cleage, a Negro militant, said at the meeting: "Our committee will tell Hudson and Cavanagh and Romney andl LBJ what we want done in the city of Detroit. These people here! at the meeting are speaking for all black people in the city of Detroit." The planning group, the Vir- ginia Parks Citizens Rehabilita- tion Commitee, has been working with the city for over a year to plan development in the near West Side. Only One Member Urge Delay hr Contract Ratification Teachers May Seek Agreement Without Further Negotiations By ANN MUNSTER Donald Newsted, president of the Ann Arbor Teacher's Asso- ciation, last night asked all teach- ers who have not voted on the master teachers' contract for the coming year not to do so. Negotiators for the Ann Arbor Board of Education and the AATA had agreed on a contract in late July, but recent developments have thrown new light on this agreement. Last week the attorney for the board gave an opinion that the board's working capital reserve is illegal and must be spent within the coming fiscal year. This means the board has more money that could be paid to the teachers. The main concerns of the teach- ers are now fringe benefits and working conditions. Speaking to a meeting of the teachers last night, Newsted said that while the "meeting was orig- inally called to ratify. the con- tract," the discovery of the illegal reserve changes the situation. Re-opening Negotiations At the board of education meet- ing on Wednesday, negotiators for the teachers asked if the board By WALLACE IMMEN The Kresge Hearing Institute, a part of the University Hospital complex, is pioneering in research on the causes and cures of deaf- ness through a "bank" for tem- poral bones. Most hearing losses are caused by defects in the structure of the inner ear, which is embedded in the hard temporal bones of the human skull. The bone cannot be removed from a living person be- cause it is connected to the brain and for years scientists had been unable to learn a great deal about -Associated Press POSSIBLE CONFLICT IN CONGO' A white mercenary officer talks to civilians in B akavu, in the Congo, when Major Jean Schramm, a Belgian-born mercenary, has given Congolese President Joseph Mobutu 10 days to discuss with him the future of the country. If Mobutu refuses, Schramm said, he would consider organizing a marching on the capital, Kinshasa. REGIONAL BANKS:. ,Bone PledgesAid Scientists In Study of Hearing Losses But only one of its members, it. the Rev. Robert L. Potts, its chair- Its removal and study after man, is on the New Detroit panel. death, do not give the researcher There was no immediate indi-an accurate knowledge of how to cation the committee appointed correlate abnormalities found in a at Wednesday night's meeting is specimen and their effects on working %yith the Virginia Parks hearing. Researchers realize that committee. only through a highly organized The Virginia Parks committee group effort could enough data be Theits rglaninarP theVcompiled on temporal bones which Parks Citizens Service Corp. were have been willed to science. formed over a year ago in re- One of the First spose to reports the area would The Kresge Institute became be torn down by urban renewal one of the first in a network of bretrn don y ra27 regional "Bone Banks" period- projects. ically recording the hearing ability The Virginia Parks corporation of people who have pledged bones, now operates with a fulltime co- and keeping track of donors as ordinator and a $23,000 a year they change residences. One of the planning budget. biggest drawbacks to the study of Other Developments the inner ear is that specimens de- In other developments, Detroit compose if not preserved within 24 faces the possibility of losing both hours after death. At the time the Negro director of its antipov- of death a doctor at one of the erty d the highest regional centers is always close ranking Negro in the police de- enough to remove the bones from partment. - any donor. Each says his leavin, which in Financed chiefly by the Deaf- .Eahsn h ness Research Foundation and the f f 3 } f 1 velopment of microsurgical tech- A donor may will his temporal wouldconsider re-opening the niques to cure certain diseases bones at any time during his life negotiations. Board President Hazen Schumacher said he would caused by the calcification of the by signing a simple agreement. consult the board attorney about bones within the ear. There are two Bone Banks in this. Rewarding work at the Kresge Michigan, one at the University's The teachers have been in the Institute in growing this bone in Kresge Hearing Research Insti- process of ratifying the contract an artificial environment has tute and the other at Ford Hos- by sending in to the AATA ballots given researchers a much clearer pital in Detroit. Dr. Frank Ritter, accepting or rejecting it. The con- understanding of the development director of the Kresge operation, tract was concluded Aug. 1, and of diseases in the ear. Records ob- reports the program is proceed- teachers have been free to vote tained through s 1o w motion ing satisfactorily but will not gain since then. However, many did photography and cell activity full momentum for several years not see the contract until the last studies have been used to inter- because although many thousands few days. Spret the process of disease de- have pledged into the program, Newsted last night urged the velopment, suggesting n e w most of them will be alive for teachers not to vote on the con- methods of treatment. many more years. tract. A majority of the teachers must vote to ratify to have the " " ~contract accepted. Senate Votes 18.1 Million Compromise He said that at the time of the negotiations, the teachers had con- , Co I sented to certain compromises, be- Allotment To Teacher Corps not he adeuae ds. cause they thought the board did not ave adequatefud. WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - That angered Corps Director However, the release of the cap- The Senate voted last week to give Richard Graham, who said the cut ital reserve would'provide enough the Teacher Corps $18.1 million of would knock out programs in Iney domdthe teachers hid man ciie whch av ben trninal demands. The teachers had a requested $33 million, but other- many cities which have been torn asked for $2.1 million, but the wise made few major changes in by riots this summer. The appro- package agreed upon by the ne- appropriations for higher educa- priation would allow the Corps to gotiators was $1.58 million. tion as passed by the House. send out 1,100 trainees instead of Newsted said yesterday that a The $12.7 billion appropriation the planned 2,100. reopening of negotiations would for the Department of Health, mean that "a lot of months' work Education and Welfare gives -Other Provisions would be going down the drain." slightly less than $4 billion for Among other major higher edu- "We are nowhere near ratifica- education, of which $1.6 billion is cation provisions in the bill: tion," he said, "if we stick to- for higher education. The bill -The Senate voted $600,000 of gether here we will have some passed 80-4, now goes to a con- a requested $20.8 million for pro- strength." ference committee to work out grams authorized by the Inter- 'Best in State' differences with the House bill. national Education Act of 1966. "Our salary package is -going The only major debate was over The act provides grants for grad- to be one of the best in the state." the Teacher Corps, which sends uate programs in international Newsted said that "the con- specially trained college students, studies and research and improve- tract was negotiated in good most of them working on master's ment in undergraduate curricula faith," and that "this still re- degrees, into slum areas to teach. in international affairs. The $600,-- mains true." r r C i ;I