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Coyle Capresident search has costbetween Sept. 27 ami Dee. 13.• Regent Milton Pesbek, Klkhorn. $82.40 for five trips through Nov. 8.• UW-Rjver Falls physical education professor Emagene Nelson, $858.47 for seven trips, the bulk of it for air fare from Minneapolis to Madison.* UW-Stevens Point Professor Robert Baruch, $149.18, most of it for mileage.* UW-Milwaukee Professor Reginald llorsman, $58.25 for mileage for two meetings,All the* participants have not yet submitted vouchers, and the committee's two out-of-state chancellors will have (heir expenses paid from funds at theirBy JOHN WELTEROf Th* CnpfJoi Tfm« stoff ;About $2,(XX) lias been spent so far in the search for a new president of the University of Wisconsin system, most of tt on trawl by members of the system-wide selection committee.Vouchers submitted to UW Central Administration by committee members between mid-Sept ember when the committee was formed and mid-January show that $1,792.30 in reimbursements was requested for mileage, meals and lodging by five committee members.UW Senior Vice President Donald Smith estimates that the $2,000 represents two-thirds of the final total cost of the search.“I'd call It an extraordinarily low-cost massive nation-wide search, Smithsaid.Of the 17 members on the committee, six are based in Madison and have submitted no vouchers. Regents John Lavine of Chippewa Falls, Joyce Erd-man of Short-wood Hills, Frank Pelisek and Bertram McNamara of Milwaukee also asked for no reimbursements.The costs have been kept down because the committee is not interviewing candidates from about 230 applications or nominations it received.institutions rather than UW Central Administration.PI at levi He chemistry Professor Italph Curtis said his vouchers for the nine meetings held so far have not worked their way through to the central office. He said his reimbursement for themileage in the state car he uses would work out to about $200, figuring 140-mUe round trips at the state rate of 14 cents per mile.UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Werner Baum has sometimes car-pooled with Horsmann for trips to Madison, but he estimates he would request about $167 for seven trips he had made alone so far.Smith said the costs of placing ads for a new UW head in national educational journals and for renting a computerized typewriter to send letters to candidates are the only other identifiable costs so far.Still, he estimates the final bill for the search committee's worn will be about $3,000.Smith also estimates he has made “two or three hundred telephone calls for the committee. The instate calls can Ik made on the UW’s WATS (wide area telecommunications service) iine at cheajier rates, he said.*'ln all they might average to under one dollar a call, he said.
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Madison Capital Times
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Feb 04, 1977
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