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Faculty organizes first senate by Mary Kate Cooney The Administrative Council last week accepted a faculty proposal for the establishment and organization of a faculty senate. Acting immediately upon the Administration's ap proval, the faculty, at a March 26 meeting, nominated mem bers for a nominations com mittee. This committee will submit to the faculty, the nominees for the chairman ships of the thirteen standing committees provided for in the faculty proposal. The proposed structure was drawn up by a Task Force Committee including: Dr. Mi chael Fortune, English depart ment chairman; Gordon Goetemann, art department; Mrs. Robert Matasar, political science department; Sister Ce- ceilia Moran, math depart ment; and Sister St. George Thompson, education depart ment. Explained Dr. Fortune: We were commissioned by the fac ulty to set up a structure by which the faculty could identi fy itself in helping to create policy. The committee presented their proposal to the March 12 faculty meeting where it was accepted and submitted to the Administration for approval. The faculty structure in cludes an executive council, a senate and thirteen standing committees covering areas of faculty interest. The executive council is composed of a faculty chair man, a vice - chairman and heads of the thirteen commit tees, ail of whom are elected by faculty vote. The executive council sets the agenda for each senate meeting and acts as a liaison with the Adminis tration. Senate membership extends to full time faculty with the rank of instructor or above with the exclusion of admin istrators. The senate debates and votes on suggested policy. If passed by majority vote, the policy is sent to the adminis tration for ratification. The Task Force proposal provides for thirteen commit tees, suggesting areas of in terest for each. However, the proposal states: This desig nation of domain for the stand ing committees is not intended to be definitive. It is to be ex pected that once the commit tees are in operation they will continually interpret their own raison d'etre in the light of circumstances. The thirteen committees are: Long Range Goals, Calendar and Schedule, Curriculum, Admissions Poli cies and Entrance Scholar ships, Academic Affairs, Fac ulty Research, Rank, Tenure, Promotion, Faculty Welfare, (Continued on page 4) Sr. Cramer resigns as dean of students vol. xxxvm Mundelein College, Chicago, 111., 60626, April 5, 1968 No. 16 Academic conference marks BVM centennial celebration The Sisters of Charity, BVM, celebrate 100 years of service to the city with a program dedicated to The Future of Education, April 7 at 3 p.m. in the College Theatre. The program features three out standing educators: Paul Good man, Robert Maynard Hutch- ins, and Margaret Elizabeth Sewell. cyclopedia Britannica, Inc. and is president of the Fund of the Republic, Inc. A prominent au thority on higher education, Hutchins is the author of The Higher Learning in America, The Conflict in Education, and Some Observations on Ameri can Education. The third participant in the program, Margaret Elizabeth Sewell, chairman of the Ben- salem Experimental College of Fordham University, holds a doctorate degree in modern languages from Cambridge University. Indian-born, Mrs. Sewell has taught at Vassar, Ohio State,and Princeton. Her works include The Human Metaphor and a volume of po etry, Signs and Cities. Centennial Celebration The speakers will present for mal papers on the future of education after which they will join in an exchange of ideas moderated by Sister Mary Ann Ida Gannon. All those attend ing the lecture are invited to a public reception in Coffey Hall honoring the guests. Miss Sewell will remain on campus through April 8 to meet infor mally with faculty and stu dents. She will climax her visit with a Monday afternoon poetry reading. After 13 years as dean of students, Sister Mary Cramer will resign Aug. 15. Before re suming teaching, she may take a year's sabbatical to study, according to Sister Ann Ida Gannon, college president. Sister Cramer, who has hoped to return to teaching since 1965, has been chairman of the faculty-student commit tee on cultural affairs for the past 10 years. Since 1966 she has also headed the scholar ship committee. Commenting on changes in student life since 1955, Sister noted that the most dramatic has been the shift from a com muter to a resident college. The influx of students from all over the country as well as foreign countries, Sister added, has greatly affected college programming. Not only have freshmen orientation and Big Sister activities changed, but also the social calendar and food service as well. Tackling the area of student freedom, Sister coraptented that students are ready to ac cept the responsibilities of greater freedom. Responsible student demands for greater autonomy have been carefully considered and implemented wherever possible, she added. Sister also noted a decline of interest in traditional types of student organizations, although this decline has been counterbalanced by the will ingness of many to become involved in real life situa tions, such as tutoring, civil rights and politics. Sister Cramer has been an active member of both the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors and the Illinois Association of Women Deans. She was on the pro gram at both national and state conventions of the two organizations and served as treasurer for the Illinois state convention. She attended Mundelein one year before entering the BVM community. After earning a B.A. degree from Clarke Col lege, she received a master's in American history from Loy ola University. In 1953 she was appointed a full-time faculty member here. Robert Maynard Hutchins Paul Goodman received his doctorate degree from the Uni versity of Chicago where he also was a faculty member. Chosen a Knapp Distinguished Scholar in Urban Affairs in 1964 Goodman is a fellow of the New York and Cleveland Institutes for Gestalt Therapy and a member of the Colum bia University Seminar on the City. A social studies expert, Goodman is the author of Growing Up Absurd, and Like a Conquered Province: The Moral Ambiguity of America. Robert Maynard Hutchins, the second guest speaker, for mer president and chancellor of the University of Chicago for 22 years is also a former associate director of the Ford Foundation in Pasedena, Cali fornia. Today, he is chairman of the Board of Editors of En- President announces tuition increase; cites rising salary, operating costs Sister Ann Ida Gannon, president, an nounced that the 1968-69 tuition will be 1,270, an increase of 150 over last year. According to Sister, the chief reason for the tuition raise is the increase of faculty sal aries and the general increase of operating costs. For these reasons, she said, a tuition increase can be expected every year. When planning next year's educational costs, the president estimated the full pro jected amount for faculty salaries and stu dent services. In order to keep the tuition increase down, however, she reduced the maintenance allocation to the minimum. For example, she eliminated the purchasing of fluorescent lights for the classroom, new fur niture, and other physical improvements. She hopes to meet the 50 difference be tween the projected 200 per student increase in educational costs and the 150 tuition raise by outside contributions. Sister emphasized that none of the tuition dollar goes toward the Learning Resource Center fund or the running of the dormitories. The entire tuition dollar goes only to those areas of the college that directly involve the education of the student. Paul Crafton, director of Financial Assist ance, stressed that any Mundelein College student with demonstrated need may be sure of receiving aid, if requested, through the Financial Aid Office. The PCS (Parents' Con fidential Statement) continues to be relied upon as the document which reports to us the expected family contribution for meeting the student's college expenses. If it is less than our budget of costs then we expect to provide the difference. Presently 600 students, nearly two-thirds of the student body, receive financial aid totaling 715,751.00, with the average amount of aid per student of 1,210. Mr. Crafton pointed out that if these students still show a need, their financial assistance will auto matically be increased. VH' Librorg Public Sanka* I t'1' , StuMnt 3 rv J I 111 T t rrvrr V* r fAointtnonce Oth r SaWm i ond Btncl.t* If. t THE ALLOCATION OF the tuition dollar is based on a na tional survey of liberal arts colleges financed by the Fund for the Advancement of Edu cation. Sister Ann Ida Gannon, president, approximates the College's budget using this sur vey as a guide.-.-
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1968-04-05 (1)
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