Veritas, Vol. 13, No. 13, March 12, 1973

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volume 13, number 13
March 12,1973
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Stanford Presents Proposals for Changes In Charter for Faculty Governance
City and county public officials and members of the Florida legislature met with UM representatives and Miami business and professional leaders February 22, UM Legislators’ Day, to discuss: state revenue; financing higher education in Florida; and legal definitions of “Florida resident.” Top, President Stanford welcomes the guests and introduces members of the panel. Above left, Metro-Dade County Budget Director William Hampton (left) talks with Dr. Vergil Shipley, chairman, politics and public affairs. Above right, Emanuel M. Papper, M.D. (left), vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, meets with Representative Marshall Harris, chairman of appropriations committee of the Florida House of Representatives.
Fiscal 1971-72 Nets $232 Thousand Surplus — Not $1 Million
The actual sum available as “surplus” at the end of the 1971-1972 fiscal year was $231,995 and not $1.07 million as you may have gathered from reading recent reports in the press.
While revenues did exceed expenditures by $1,076,151 as reported, a total of $844,-156 of this amount was in “designated unrestricted current funds.”
As the financial report released by Vice President for Financial Affairs Eugene E. Cohen explains, “Designated current funds are those monies, both income and expense, which are designated by the Board of Trustees to be for certain specified purposes. The greater portion of the designated current funds for fiscal year 1971-72 are attributable to the classification termed ‘Hospitals and Clinics.’ This is principally the revenue and expense of the School of Medicine Professional Income Plan.” These funds are not available for the general operation of the University.
The excess of approximately $232 thousand was reduced by the setting aside of some $82 thousand as a reserve for medical liability insurance not covered by the Professional Income Plan of the School of Medicine. This reserve is a form of self-insurance to cover the $50,000 deductible aspect of the insurance carried and represents a considerable saving on premiums, Mr. Cohen explained.
With this deduction, the net excess of $150 thousand was added to the reserve fund for future contingencies, as reported by Dr. Stanford in the President’s Report released in October.
In his report, Mr. Cohen said: “In spite of increases in revenues during the 1971-1972 fiscal year, it proved to be a difficult financial year. A concerted effort and cooperation of all University of Miami personnel resulted in the operations being carried out within a balanced budget.
“Although conditions do not appear to be as favorable as in the year completed, it is
anticipated that the University of Miami will again operate on a balanced budget for the 1972-1973 fiscal year.
“It will be a year of searching for and finding the appropriate solutions to many of the University’s financial problems. The Administration will continue to work with the Board of Trustees in organizing the University for change and providing an environment for responsible progress.”
10—12 Sabbatical Leaves To Be Awarded Next Year
Sabbatical leaves for the 1973-74 academic year will be awarded to approximately the same number of faculty members as last year (10 to 12), President Stanford announced to the Faculty Senate during its February 26 meeting.
Regular agenda items discussed were:
•	Senate adopted as Class B legislation an amended statement on the reporting of mid-semester deficiency work (#73004).
This still needs approval by the president.
•	Senate adopted as Class D recommendation the following: “That, we request faculty voting representation on the Board of Trustees.”
In an information item, announcement was made that Dr. Raul DeGasperi, physiology and biophysics, has been elected to the Senate to complete the unexpired term of Dr. Thomas Scotti who has resigned from the University.
President Stanford addressed the Senate on his recommendations regarding University Governance. These recommendations are fully outlined in a separate story in this issue of Veritas.
Faculty members can obtain copies of legislation from Faculty Senate Secretary Susan Merriman, 284-3721.
President Stanford has presented to the Faculty Senate for its review his proposals for changes in the Charter for Faculty Governance resulting from the two-year study by the Task Force and Panel on University Governance. In presenting the draft, Dr. Stanford said he anticipates receiving comments from the Faculty Senate on the proposals before he presents them to the Board of Trustees April 11.
An ad hoc committee consisting of two Senators—Dr. Carroll Truss, psychology, and Dr. Don J. Latham, atmospheric science— and Dr. Herman Meyer, mathematics, volunteered to review the proposals and present their comments to the Senate Council at its March 12 meeting. The Faculty Senate will consider the report of the ad hoc committee and the recommendations of the Senate Council at its March 26 meeting.
Basically, the proposals for change presented by Dr. Stanford are limited to the “faculty sharing principle” embodied in the current Charter for Faculty Governance, which Dr. Stanford noted “has occasionally placed the President in the position of apparently lacking exclusive decision-making authority in areas for which the Board holds the President solely accountable under the Corporate Bylaws of the University.
The document outlining the proposed changes states, “As I have often said, it would be unthinkable for the University not to rely upon faculty judgment in matters of academic policy, curriculum, course and degree requirements, academic standards, etc. A similar case can be made for the consultation with students in the areas of extra-curricular activities, operation of the Student Union, policies for residence hall operation, etc. Each of these groups has expertise which should be utilized by the administration in developing policies to guide curricular and extracurricular operations.
“However, we must be mindful that consultation, if not clearly defined and contained within limits, can deteriorate into ineffectual decision-making through postponement or actual default. In this era of emerging financial austerity and growing concern of many groups within the University to become involved in its governance, we must seek to define more clearly our lines of authority and to focus responsibility at key points within our organizational structure. All segments of the University—its faculty, its students, its staff, and its administration—do and should contribute to the governance of the University in the widest sense of that term. However, it is the President of the University to whom the Trustees have entrusted the broad responsibility for the general operation of the University.”
Dr. Stanford noted that the recommendations of the Task Force and of those who presented their reactions to the Task Force’s Report presented him with three basic alternatives to major structural changes in governance: “a) to recommend to the Board that we retain intact our present governance structure, including the Faculty Senate; b) to recommend that we accept the Task Force’s proposals, including the establishment of a unicameral senate representing the entire University community and the elimination of the Faculty Senate; or c) to recommend that we retain the essence of our current structure of governance, but that we modify the Charter for Faculty Governance by incorporating the most appropriate of the recommendations of the Task Force and of various members of our University com-
munity.” It is this last alternative course of action which Dr. Stanford recommends.
In order to define more clearly the boundaries of faculty shared responsibility, and thus to clarify and ameliorate decision-making processes, Dr. Stanford proposed five changes in Article III, paragraph 3.1 of the Charter for Faculty Governance:
“The University faculty is authorized to share with the President in the enactment of regulations and the formulation of rules for the immediate government of the University pertaining to:
1.	Now reads: “the future development of the University.” Recommended: “the future development of the University’s academic facilities and programs.”
2.	Now reads: “the general welfare of the University.” Recommended: “matters which directly affect the academic process of the University and matters which immediately affect the welfare of the faculty.”
3.	Now reads: “student conduct and activities.” Recommended: “student classroom conduct and curricular activities.”
4.	Now reads: “the University budget.” Recommended: “This should be clarified and defined to provide that the faculty is empowered to confer with the President regarding the establishment of levels of faculty compensation, including salaries and fringe benefits, before the budget of the University is constructed and approved.” (The spirit
of this clarification is reflected in the Bylaws of the Charter for Faculty Governance.)
5.	Now reads: “the appointment and retention of administrative officers.” Recommended: “the appointment and retention of academic deans and academic department chairmen.”
Dr. Stanford told the Faculty Senate members, “I believe the five proposed amendments as outlined . . . will portray more accurately the sensitive relationship between that which the authors of the Bylaws of the Charter for Faculty Governance have termed the ‘desirability of faculty involvement in governance’ and the ‘need for keeping administrative officers free to provide progressive leadership, to carry out expeditiously existing policies, and to meet the day by day needs of the University.’ ”
Tuition, Fee Changes
For the record, tuition and fee changes effective September 1973 are as follows:
	72-73	73-74
Undergraduate tuition (per semester)	$1,150	$1,250
Full-time graduate, law, medical tuition (per semester)	$1,150	$1,300
Graduate tuition * (per credit hour)	$84	$100
Undergraduate, graduate admission fee	$20	$25
Law, medical admission fee	$20	$35
Health and guidance services fee	$25	$30
Course change fee	$5	$10
Married students’ rent $10 per mo. increase		
20-meal board plan (per semester)	$283.90	$293.90
15-meal board plan (per semester)	$253.76	$262.08
* Applies to less than 12 and more than 16 credits.