Page 2 - The Michigan Doily - Tuesday, July 12, 1983 Nat. Resources faces 25% budget reduction (Continued from*Page 1) The school had a 1982-1983 general fund budget of $2.3 million. By deciding to eliminate freshman and sophomore classes, school officials took a step toward improving its image as a gateway for students with lesser qualifications than students in the rest of the University. For years natural resources students have had lower grade point averages and SAT scores than their LSA counterparts, but now they will be admitted into LSA and then transfer to the school in their junior year. Although the school must reduce the number of its faculty members from 36 to 27 in the next five years, Frye said he did not anticipate that any tenured faculty members would have to be fired. He said the reductions would be achieved through "normal turnover, relocation, voluntary resignation, and early retirement." Associate Prof. Paul Nowak said he was not surprised that the plan calls for cutting a substantial amount by reducing faculty: "When you look at the budget, it's got to be faculty. What else is there?" he said. Nowak said the uncertainty of the school's future is reflected by the fact that some faculty members are thinking about heading for other universities. "I assume a number of others are looking, but I haven't heard any say they're leaving," he said. Professor Paul Webb, a member of the transition team who prepared the report for Frye, said the term "volun- tary resignation" which Frye used in the report was not an attempt to eliminate faculty members by "squeezing them out." Frye explained voluntary retiremen- ts meant "there may be people who will decide the school is no longer the best environment for them. "We've had some resignations and I'm speculating that there will be more," he added. The recommendation by Frye and the transition team is very different than the first budget panel report in its em- phasis on making natural resources a professional school preparing students for the job market rather than a research institute for Ph.D candidates. To that end the plan recommends reducing the Ph.D program and in- creasing the Master's degree program. The plan does call, however, for faculty in the school to pick up their research efforts - one of the charges against the school that first led to the review. Frye wrote in his plan that the school's more productive researchers will be rewarded. The program recommendations will now go before the school's faculty, which will further discuss the plan, ac-. cording to James Crowfoot, the school's dean. "I don't think the faculty will be able to come up with a better plan," Frye said. I think the faculty will find it is ... the best possibility that exists." The budget review of the school is part of a five-year-plan at the University to cut $20 million from low-priority area and transfer it to "higher-priority" areas. TODAY Drop/add deadline TF YOU'RE thinking of changing your summer term class schedules, Itoday is your last chance. Students who drop or add classes after today will have to pay a $10 fee, and will receive a "W" on their transcripts. Engineering students have an extra week - their last day for dropping or adding courses is July 19. CRISP will be open today from 7:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. HAPPENINGS TUESDAY Performances School of Music - Organ recital, Michele Johns, 8 p.m., Alexander Music Bldg., EMU. Meetings Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship -7 p.m., 1619 S. University. Society of Christian Engineers - Brown bag meeting, noon, 315 W. Engin. His House Christian Fellowship - Fellowship and Bible study, 7:30 p.m., 925 E. Ann. Ann Arbor Go Club - 7-11 p.m., 1433 Mason. 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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Sister Patti Shaw, Michigan Interfaith Committee on Central American Human Rights, noon, Conference Ri.2, League. Miscellaneous WCBN - "Radio Free Lawyer," 6p.m., 88.3 FM. Music - Open tower carillon demonstration, 4-5 p.m., Burton Tower. The Michigean Daily Vol. XCIII, No. 21-S Tuesday, July 12, 1983 Frye proposes 18% cut in Art School budget (Continuedfrom Page l) Board of Regents this week, and although they are not required to vote. on the recommendation, they could change or prevent the reduction if they strongly object, Frye said. A REVIEW panel which made initial recommendations on the school in December charged that the art programs are not nationally recognized and therefore not "truly distinguished." The panel also charged that the art school was isolated from central cam- pus and recommended an increase in the number of non-art students taking. art classes. Frye's proposal falls midway bet- ween the panel's recommendation for a 10 to 15 percent cut and the key Univer- sity budget committee's report ad- vising a 25 percent cut. AN 18 percent cut was the largest Frye could endorse because a bigger reduction would drop too many stud- ents and the University would risk losing tuition money. The objectives of Frye's proposed cuts would include : " better integration of the School of Art with other programs such as LSA; " Reducing the art school's un- dergraduate enrollment; * maintaining the number of graduate students while trying to recruit better qualified applicamts; * attracting more nationally known visiting faculty members and 9 reducing the number of programs the school offers in order to strengthen others. The proposal would allow the school to "provide a very good, although somewhat smaller program in Visual Art for both general and professional students," Frye said in his recommen- dations. UNDE THE proposal art school administrators will have to develop a plan for the school that is consistent with Frye's objectives. Art School Dean George Bayliss refused to comment on the recommen- dation until the Regents meet Thur- sday. Wendel Heers, associate dean, said the review has already caused a drop in enrollment for fall. But Wendel said he doesn't know of any faculty members who have left because of the cuts. An 18 percent reduction to the school is "very ill-advised," said William Car- ter, art school professor. "AFTER ALL this time to think about it (Frye) came up with a wrong decision," Carter said. "He could have been a hero." The proposed cuts have discouraged transfer students from other University departments as well as potential freshmen, Carter said Art School Prof. William Lewis said many faculty members could leave if they feel their job security is. threatened by the proposed cuts. 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