Mass Media (Newspaper) - March 22, 1977, Boston, Massachusetts THE MASS MEDIA Volume XI No 22 University at Boston Tuesday March 22 1977 Administrations Scheme Tears at Fabric by Paul Adams There are some developments that are happening on this campus which could add up to a total restructuring of as we know it These events when looked on separately and unrelated seem har but when viewed as a con plan can only lead to a new and unpromising approach to education here In recent weeks it has been an by the administration of this university that certain part time and nontenured faculty would not have their contracts If you take into account the move of free period to later in the day allowing the remaining faculty to take on more of a course load we can begin to understand the magnitude of this vast turing If the graduate program is finally put into full effect it would only seem logical that in the near future not only will the class sizes be considerably larger but that you may be taught by a graduate student working on his masters with only a professor as a course advisor These moves alone would ham per a close contact that is vitally needed between student and News Analysis renewed because of budget cuts This would mean on its own merits that the extra load of students would have to be taken up by the remaining faculty This would in an almost impossible task for any professor to undertake But if you add to this the recent an at a meeting of UMB Budget Committee on March 7th that the day has since passed when faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences CAS expect to teach small introductory classes you begin to see the impact This information was passed along by Chancellor Carlo Golino who also stated that we could expect the tearing down of some walls to make classrooms larger so that lec tures could contain students in the hundreds rather than more in line with the present level that borders around 25 to 1 professor And with the arbitrary move by the administration con the free period without the consent of the university assembly this can only be seen as the ad ministrations determination to bring about these measures under any circumstances with or without student faculty or governance ap proval These few measures seem in complete for the conspiracy that I am proposing but if you think back to the debates about the merger these measures said to be unrealistic and that the students and faculty were overreacting to the merger move Also President Woods refusal to bargain in good faith with the newly elected faculty union can only be construed as a delaying tactic to allow the univer page 19 Acting Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Fuad Safwat believes that the CLA may have its enrollment reduced photo by AI Gineitis Fall CLA Enrollment Threatened by Robert G The College of Liberal Arts may have its enrollment reduced by as many as 600 students reports Fuad Safwat Dean of the CLA The reduction if it occurs will take effect next semester Safwat went on to say that the College of Professional Studies and the College of Public and Com munity Service would each in crease its enrollment by 100 students The CLA decrease is the result of the level funding of the UMass budget Because of inflation level funding has the same effect as a budget cutback The increase in the number of students in the CPS and the will be done without a matching in crease of resources funds of the colleges Dean Safwa did not ex plain how this feat would be ac Internship Program May Close by Keith F Wetterman Ms Joanne Ross Director of the Internship Program at UMass has learned that she will lose her position on August 1 of this year Ms Sandy Warren Field Coor Counselor is also losing her job The termination of Ms Ross and Ms Warren is to place the whole office of the In in The closing date of this semesters Internship Program is August 27 1977 All agencies currently involved in the program will receive memos from Ms Ross informing them of the possibility of the programs closing The agencies Faculty Wood Dead End Confrontation rO II I By Elaine Amass President Wood attended the faculty meeting held Friday reiterated his statement regarding his refusal to negotiate with the FSU and then took questions from the faculty In his statement Wood cited lack of judicial precedent for unions in the state higher education sector and that the in of department heads and parttime faculty in the FSU bargaining unit was a problem Wood claimed the inclusion of chairmen would be difficult to He called his refusal to negotiate the only way photo by Ken Stevens policy the case could be brought to court He did not make it clear why the case has to be brought to court at all since the State Labor Relations Board has already determined the composition of the bargaining unit is valid Although Woods refusal to bargain con an unfair labor practice according to some Union mem bers the FSU is reluctant to take the case to court since this is a costly and time consuming process Professor Brill accused of delaying tactics and of spending already in fighting the union money that could have been spent to prevent a proposed cut of 600 students and 3540 faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts next year Brill also disputed Woods assertions about the composition of the bargaining unit Brill contended that no court would overturn the ruling since it was the decision of the full board and only racial or sexual discrimination were grounds for overturning the full board Professor Gagnon wanted President Wood to commit himself to a transfer of funds from the Amherst campus to the Boston campus to guarantee faculty hirings for next fall President Woods response was that we will consider the options that are available and that he will Dead End page 12 will be requested to consider students into their next years budgets in hopes of a solution being found for the continuance of the program 55 students are presently enrolled in the Internship Program A variety of other students and student organizations are also ser ved by it these include and the Womens Center Pure research internships are in the planning stage and Ross hopes to have them started before she leaves the University Students that are now being recruited into the program are told that its a good chance the In Program wont exist next semester Ms Ross has been employed at the University for MX years For the firs five years she was the director of the University Year to Action Program On her MM year she became director of tin In Program Internship page I1 On the Inside Seniors Page 4 Africa at a Glance Page Porgy and Bess Page 17
