Doge Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, December 4, 1971 Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, December 4, 1971 BUDGET SQUEEZE Courses By JOHN MITCHELL Counselors in the economics de- partment begin signing b 1 a n k course selection forms for juniors and seniors in that department over a week before advance clas- sification began Oct. 25. "How else can they assure, es- pecially in the light of the budget cut, that we will get the courses we want," said one economics ma- jor. The action of this department re- flects the apprehension of a grow- ing number of University students close due to lack of _ I 1 resources and faculty that advance classifi-( to reserve course selections one I sity budget would increase the al- area of advanced classification,"j rj .,. ... ..,..., ..,, ...... _ .,..,..... _ .. _ _....... - _.. , _ ... _ ... - __ - ., .,,, .,..._.o .... .....,.... _ _ ... _ .. _ ..., cation is a first come, first served proposition. This conclusion was supported again this fall as 148 courses closed before the winter term advance classification ses- sion ended Wednesday. "Although we have set keeping courses open at a high priority level this year," LSA Dean Frank Rhodes said, "there are just not enough resources available to keep all courses open." When begun, the advance classi- fication period enabled a student term before the courses were to be taught. A student could be re- asonably assured of a place in the courses he selected. For the past several semesters, however, the number bf courses closing before all students have registered has mushroomed, with 200 course closings before the be- ginning of last winter's term, 116 during the preclassification period for the fall term of 1971 and 148 for this winter's term. The fear that a reduced Univer- ready large number of early course closings witnessed during the pre- classification sessions brought over half of the 22,000 students to pre- classify in the first week of the six week program, according to John Stewart, director of registration. But Rhodes feels that the fear of fiscal squeeze causing a further rash of course closings is, for at this year at least, premature. "The low budget has created some very serious problems in the Departments threatened by budget cutbacks (Continued from page 1) complaints one year ago that LSA was not receiving allocations com- mensurate with its growth, seems to have changed his mind. "Among the University's col- leges," he now says, "I think the literary college is the hardest pressed. I don't think its funding ever caught up with its growth between 1964 and 1969." Smith also cites a decline in re- search funds at the literary college -which he attributes to the gen- erally sluggish economy. This has resulted in the assumption by some departments of faculty sal- aries that had previously been paid by research grants. Faculty members and deans are hesitant to speculate which units were hit -the hardest by the fi- nancial belt-tightening,band many were not even aware that some, units were excused from making their total cutback. LSA Dean Frank Rhodes, ap- pointed only last summer, says simply that "in LSA now, budgets are so tight that there is no room for imagination." Associate LSA Dean Alfred Suss- man, who served as acting dean prior to Rhodes' appointment, says he thinks several LSA departments are particularly hard-pressed fi- nancially. These include mathe- matics, psychology, chemistry, economics and anthropology de- partments. Since these fields are so di- verse, theories that one or more categories of departments have been especially 'hard hit by the austere budget tend to be dis- pelled. The natural sciences, however, have faced some unique problems. Chemistry, for example, is ex- periencing serious problems in ac- commodating increased enroll- ments in its introductory courses, notes Prof. Robert Taylor, asso- ciate chemistry department chair- man. Because of the strict limi- tations on seating students in lab- oratoryareas, he says, enrollment must increase an entire section at a time - as opposed to standard lecture courses which have flexible section sizes. Botany and zoology have ex- perienced similar problems with botany-zoology 106 providing the most evident example of a lack of space and facilities. Its enroll- ment has skyrocketed from 40 stu- dents to over 500 in eight years causing shortages of laboratory fa- cilities each year. And because equipment funds across the University have been "frozen" in anticipation of pos- sible state budget cutbacks this year, efforts to make physical im- provements will be severely ham- pered. "Since budget funds are inade- quate in equipment and building improvement areas, and natural sciences have most of the labora- tories," Smith says, "it would be very natural if they were hurting ment chairman, says the "direct effect" was much less noticeable. In this department - the largest in the literary college - the size of the faculty has not been re- duced, though some cuts were ab- sorbed by filling vacated positions with lower-paid, less experienced instructors. The major administrative bud- get problem in the next five years will be how to survive times of fi- nancial austerity relatively un- scathed. To this end, the Uni- versity is working to set a system of priorities in order to most ef- fectively appropriate its funds. But it is uncertain what roles the faculty and students will have in advising the administration on the formulation of these priorities. TOMORROW: The growing trend toward faculty-input in budgetary decision-making. Rhodes said, "but we still have enough money available to main- tain our present status, at least' for this semester." "The departments have not been forced to close any courses or sec- tions except in the case of facul- ty resignations," he continues, but then again we have not been able to add any new courses. "The immediate problem," Rhodes adds, "is that the budget leaves no room for imagination." Rhodes notes that although the money was available to expand some sections in overloaded curses this year, if the budget squeeze continues, this may be the last year before the limit is reached on "belt tightening." "If the sparce budget continues," Rhodes said, "the University will follow the path of slow deteriora- tion." "Courses will have to be cut, equipment will soon be dated, and, the overall academic atmosphere will decline." 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