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2 - Summer Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, June 21 1990

Single deadline made for admission requests

By P.M. JEFFRIES
Contributing Writer

A newly-announced admissions
deadline is going to make procras-
tination a bad move for incoming
undergraduate students.

Beginning this fall, the Office
of Undergraduate Admissions
will require that all application
materials for degree students be
submitted by a uniform deadline
of August 1.

This new deadline applies to in-
coming freshmen and transfer stu-
dents but will not apply to non—
degree students who enroll for a
maximum of eight credits.

The new policy will cut down
on confusion and help incoming
students get the classes they want
said Joseph Fink, director of ad—
missions.

“Before, there was never any
rigid application deadline. There
was one deadline for transcripts,
another for applications and yet

another for test scores." Fink said.
“Now prospective students will
submit everything before the ﬁnal
August 1 deadline.”

Fink hopes the new policy will
help students to get more of what
they want during registration.

“A group (in Undergraduate
Admissions) identified the prob-
lem that a number of people were
being admitted late,” he said.
“People would show up on Au-
gust 15 and want to be admitted,
but they wouldn’t be able to get
what they wanted. Housing would
be full and classes closed."

Richard Greissman, assistant to
the dean of Arts & Sciences, iden-
tified a problem as well.

“As the University’s largest
college. we have the biggest bulk
of transfer students," Greissman
said. “Ideally, they should get
their transcripts in before they ac~
tuallycometoUKsothatwecan
tell them ahead of time what cred-
it we can accept and what credit

we cannot accept. We need a
(uniform) deadline so that there is
time to do this."

Non-degree or non-traditional
students will not be subject to the
new deadline because of unusual
time constraints, Fink said.

Those students will register
through Evening/Weekend Pro-
gram registration, Aug. 15-18.

"There are a lot of parents as
well as University employees
who want to come back to col-
lege,” Fink said, “but they have
such hectic schedules that they
don’t know until the last minute
that they will be able to attend."

Fink also cautioned that the
people most likely to be tripped
up by the new deadline were
friends of previous late appli-
cants.

“The new deadline affects basi-
cally anybody who knew some-
one who got into UK at the last
minute," Fink said “Because it’s

those people who will be most
likely to try to get in late them-
selves.”

Undergraduate Admissions has
been informing potential appli-
cants over the phone as well as
through flyers, press releases and
public service announcements on
WUKY and WRFL, the campus
radio stations, in order to get the
message out about the change,
Fink said.

Under the new policy, most stu-
dents will be admitted in time to
pre-register for fall classes instead
of having to go through Add/Drop
after classes have started.

Fink indicated that the new
deadline was presented to and ap-
pr0ved by the UK Senate Council
earlier this year.

The Senate Council is the exec-
utive body of the University Sen-
ate, which establishes all academ-
ic policy and rules at UK.

Senate passes resolution calling for graduates’ lounge

By MYRNA MARCA
Staff Writer

The Student Government Asso-
ciation interim Senate issued a
call for a graduate students‘
lounge at their second meeting
Tuesday night.

The Senate unanimously passed

the resolution, sponsored by Sena-
tor Chris Payne, to establish the
lounge in one of the Student Cen-
ter’s mid-sized conference rooms.

Payne said the lounge would be
used by graduate students on a
temporary basis for a six-month
test period, during which it will
bemonitoredtoseeifaperma-
nent lounge is needed.

'I‘helomgewillbeopenfrom7
am. to 5 pm. to graduate stu-
dents only.

Itisintendedtobeanarea
where UK graduate students can
meet with their colleagues from
UK and across the country to dis-
cuss graduate issues.

Payne will go to the Student

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Activities Board of Directors this
Sunday with the support of the
resolution for the lounge’s estab-
lishment.

Payne said if the Board of Di-
rectors approves, he will go to
Student Center Dean Frank Harris
to get final approval and deter-
mine the specific details.

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Havice appointed director of Honors Program

UK associate professor Christine Havice was appointed direc-
tor of the UK Honors Program Tuesday by the Board of Trustees.

Sept 1, Havice will replace Raymond Betts. director of the
Gaines Center for the Humanities.

“It’s a very challenging kind of job, and Bolts is a very difﬁcult
act to follow and a wonderful model for an exciting and innova-
tive director,” Havice said.

Currently, Havice is an associate professor of medieval art and
architecture. In 1970, she graduated from Ohio University with a
B.F.A. degree and summa cum laude honors.

Havice received her master’s degree from Pennsylvania State
University in 1973. Four years later. she earned her doctoral de-
gree from Pennsylvania State University.

Havice will also be handling another appointment. Last month,
she was named one of 31 educators nation-wide to receive a
1990-91 American Council on Education fellowship.

To help Havice handle both positions, James Chapman, assist-
ant chancellor of the Lexington Campus, will be the director of
the Honors Program on an acting basis while Havice fulﬁlls her
fellowship.

Logo placed on Medical Center

The Albert B. Chandler Medical Center has placed its logo on
the 10-story Transportation Tower that connects the existing hos-
pital to the new Critical Care Center.

“The logo is intended to be a common mark and identity for the
hospital,” said Caroline Bacbayan, director of planning.

The logo contains a cross which has the initials UK which can
be seen either right-side up or upside down, Bacbayan said.

The logo, which was placed on the building a couple of weeks
ago, has been used on stationary. prescriptions and publications
since 1987.

It was designed by Signature Inc. of Louisville, Ky.

Library dean named

Thomas J. Waldhart was named the dean of the College of Li-
brary and Information Science.

Waldhan, who has served as acting dean of the college since
July I. was appointed during Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meet-
mg.

A member of UK's faculty in 1970, Waldhart received a bache—
lor's degree in zoology and a master's degree in library science at
the University of Wisconsin.

The appointment is effective July 1.

Making life easier for incoming freshmen

The Student Government Association will begin distribution of
the annual “For Freshman Only Makin’ it Guide” during fresh-
men uientation.

The guide is aimed at making the adjustment to college easier
for freshmen. It includes articles about how to live with your
roommate and where to get advice about sex.

It also will povide phone numbers for various student organi-
ratiortsandallresidencehalls.11teltoursforfoodserviceloca-
tions are included along with the mom popular student hmgouts.

UK basketball captains selected

UK men’s head basketball coach Rick Pitino announced tint
Reggie Hutson. John Pelphrey and Deron Feldhaus have been
turned tit-captains for the 1990-91 basketball season.

Hansort. a senior forwad/center from Somerset. Ky., averaged
16.4pointspergameand7.l reboundslastseaon.

Meanwhile, Pelpltrey scored 13 points and delivaed 5.3 re-
boundspergarneforthe 14-14 Wildcats.

Feldhaus, a junior forward, ﬁnished third on the team in score
ing (14.4) and second in rebounding (6.7).

Compiled by Associated Editor Brian Jenr and Stay?“ Writer
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UK’s largest budget approved by BOT

By TONJA WILT
Editor in Chief

Promising to be a “turning
point" in the financial history of
UK, the Board of Trustees unani-
mously approved the university’s
largest operating budget on Tues-
day.

The $730 million Executive
Budget will fund the University at
88 percent and the Community
College System at 87.4 percent of
the Council on Higher Educa-
tion‘s recommended formula for
higher education spending. This
is an increase from last year’s 79
and 69 percent funding, respec-
tively.

“It is a good budget, from my
perspective. It is one that is obvi-
ously people oriented,” said UK
interim President Charles Weth-
ington. “Clearly, I see it as a tum-
ing point in that we do have a
budget this time which does kind
of turn the comer and does get
this University headed back in the
right direction."

The operating budget, up 11.4
percent overall. will include funds
for a 10 percent faculty-staff sala-
ry increase pool.

“I’m very pleased that we can
work with a 10 percent pool,"
Wethington said. “This is obvi-
ously much better titan we have
been able to do any time in the
past, and I simply think that we

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people oriented.”

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have been able to do a lot of good
things for a lot of people with this
budget.”

The pool will be utilized for fa-
culty promotions, merit increases
and also provide appropriate indi—
vidual minority and women's sal-
ary adjustments.

Although the larger pool will
move UK closer to salaries at
benchmark institutions, the Uni-
versity is still short $3,100, pro-
vided that benchmark salaries
only rise 5 percent

The salary pool does not solve
all of the problems. but it does
provide a sign of hope, Wething-
ton said.

“I saw us moving continually
downward in our ability to at-
tract and retain good faculty and
staff," he said. “It also, I believe,
has given some hope to a lot of
people that things are going to be
better in terms of the ﬁnancial
picture of this University."

The 14 community colleges
will beneﬁt from a 20 percent in-
crease of $9.8 million, with only
one percent for earmarked appro-

priations. With this money 105
new full-time and 34 part-time in.
structors will be added.

Other areas of concentration for
budget expenditures include fur-
thering research, graduate and
professional education; building
renovation and the addition of
safety features; and upgrading
UK's supercomputer.

A $19.5 million tuition and fee
increase will accompany the new
budget, which takes effect July 1.

“We have no authority to do
anything but implement the tui-
tion." Wethington said. Tui-
tion increases are always a prob—
lem for us and I personally would
like to see us keep tuition low.”

Many times after a new budget
is established. it is cut. However,
Wethington believes this won’t be
the case for UK in the next two
years.

“I think this budget for all of
higher ed says more to me at
least than just the one year bud-
get. It does say that the people in
the state, the governor. the Gener-
al Assembly are interested in sup-
porting higher ed.“ Wethington
said. “Once you have the interest
and the ability to fund higher ed
being expressed, then I think it's
much easier to keep that support
going than if you don’t have it."

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4 - Summer Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, June 21, 1990

Program offers opportunity

for catching up on work

By DEVIN S. JOHNSON
Contributing Writer

While most students are spend—
ing their summer basking in the
sun, the students in SOAR are at-
tempting to get ahead of the
game.

The eight-week Superinten-
dents’ Occupational and Academ-
ic Retreat (SOAR) program is de-
signed to help students in grades
eight, nine and 10 to catch up aca»
demically, and gain work experi-
ence.

“It’s a quality program run by
quality people for quality stu—
dents,” said Tania Crawford, a
fourth year counselor at SOAR.

Students are recommended
from 23 different counties around
Kentucky by school counselors
and are determined eligible by the
Job Training Partnership Act

(JTPA) based on income and aca—
demic needs.

Once the students are deter-
mined eligible, they are granted a
federally funded scholarship
worth $3,050 to attend SOAR.
The scholarships pay for room,
board, books, tuition, fees and
health insurance for the summer.

SOAR, which began in 1986 at
UK, was derived from a similar
program in Texas. The UK pro-
gram has hosted about 480 stu-
dents since beginning with 114
this summer.

“The first was really a pilot
project,” said Sue Ecker, director
of SOAR. “But it has evolved
into a much better program.”

Students who take part in
SOAR have a wide range of op-
portunities including improving
study skills and earning money.

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spend the first half of their day in
classes learning English, math
and reading; and learning about
computers. Through these classes,
the teen-agers can earn elective
credits which count towards their
high school diploma, Ecker said.

The teachers in SOAR are Ken-
tucky certiﬁed and have experi-
ence with middle school-age stu-
dents.

“We work with hall directors,
teaching staff. the Education De-
partment and Educational Psy-
chology Department," Ecker
said.

And the students appreciate the
help and determination of the
teachers.

“When you don’t want to do
something, the teachers make you
do it, like they’re trying to help
you,” said Tom Perry, a 15-year-
old student from Ludlow, Ky.

After classes, students go to
work. Each student is assigned a
work site where they perform var-
ious ofﬁce jobs and are paid mini-
mum wage. By the end of the pro-
gram each student will cam
almost $500.

But work and study are not the

only aspects of the program. The
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well. Every evening the program
offers elective classes which in-
clude karate, dance and perform-
ing ans.

To develop better social skills
and meet new people. many stu-
dents like going to malls and at-

tending dances.

“I love it!" said Stacy Boggs,
15, of Raceland, Ky. “It's an op-
portunity to meet a lot of new
friends."

Each weekend. the students
take educational and entertaining
ﬁeld u'ips. These include trips to
Mammoth Cave, the Kentucky
Horse Park and the Louisville
Zoo.

July 7 and 8 is designated Par-
ents' Weekend. Students‘ parents
are invited to spend an all paid
weekend at UK with their chil-
dren. Younger brothers or sisters
are not allowed to attend so the
students can spend quality time
with just their parents, Ecker said.

Some of the most needed peo-
ple in SOAR are the counselors.

“The residence counselors have
the toughest jobs of all,” Ecker
said. ‘Thcy live with them. they
experience their ups and downs,
their joys and their frustrations,
their homesickness. We have a
great residential staff ."

When asked why they do it,
Danny Graves, a second year
counselor. said, “Because I love
people. I can't think of anything
better lo do than to relate to
young people”

Summer Kentucky Kernel, Thursday. June 21, 1990 - 5

Task force expected to continue recycling effort

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Tests show recycling popular at UK

By GREGORY A. HALL
Executive Editpr

Members of the University
community are helping UK clean
up its act through a pilot recycling
program which last September.

After establishing the pilot pro-
gram, Vice Chancellor of Admin-
istration Jack Blanton said that his
ofﬁce received as many as 11
calls daily from people wanting to
use the bins.

And the recycling effort is ex-
pected to increase.

“Recycling is going to be a big
item for the University in the
19903,” Blanton said.

However. a few kinks still re-
maintobeironedout—oneof
them being the cost to recycle.

“We are relatively conﬁdent
that we are going to have to subsi-
dize," Blanton said. “We hope
that we can contract this service
out in a break-even way.”

Hopefully, UK will reach the
point where recycling will be
proﬁtable and that someone will
pay to take away recyclable prod-
ucts.

"I would think it would become
proﬁtable as the landﬁll (dump-
ing) costs go higher.” said Autry
Bradshaw, a UK administrator
who is expected to oversee the re-
cycling efforts.

Costs could be deferred if stu-
dents help.

“I would like to get as much
student involvement as possible,”
Bradshaw said.

However, the three-year recy-
cling program at the University of
Colorado has yet to make any
prof its. Bradshaw said.

White paper, which does not
have staples. colors or adhesives,
is expected to be one of the mon-
ey makers for the recycling pro-

gram. These baser substances
must be soned out of the load at
the plant or at UK.

The need for recycling con-
vinced former UK President Da-
vid Roselle to establish a Waste
Management Task Force. To fur-
ther the recycling effort the task
force will make a recommenda-
tion to interim President Charles
Wethington about waste manage-
ment with the ﬁnal report done
by Labor Day.

“The major thrust of the (task
force's) recommendation may be
recycling. but it is also waste
management."

Blanton said UK pays about
$200,000 to dispose of toxic
wastes. The committee is likely
to call for an assessment of how
much toxic chemicals the labora-
tories use. Trimming excess or-
dering along with sharing chemi-
cals are ways Blanton said UK
can cut costs and minimize
waste.

The call for recycling has also
reached state government

Recently, Gov. Wallace Wil-
kinson, who said he may call the
legislature into special session to
discuss environmental concerns.
issued an executive order con-
eeming waste management

Wilkinson mandated that small
cardboard ﬁling boxes be placed
on every desk of state agencies to
collect white paper.

When the boxes are emptied,
the white paper is sorted and then
recycled.

It is uncertain whether that ap-
plies to UK. but Blanton said the
University will comply.

“There is a market for white
paper," Blanton said. “We are
confident that we are going to
recommend that a little (card-
board) folder wrll go on every
desk in the University.“

A similar program, sponsored
by Students Against the Environ-
ment and SGA. was conducted in
the Patterson Ofﬁce Tower. David
Beeler and Tommy Dowler. who
headed the program. collected
uash on four floors of the build-
ing since January. and recently
began collecting on the ﬁfth ﬂoor.

Beeler said that one person co-
ordinated each lloor’s efforts.
Weekly the boxes are emptied
into a 32-gallon trash can. paid
for by the Student Government
Association.

They then sift through the paper
getting rid of staples, mailing la-
bels and glossy paper. Finally, the
pure paper is taken to the recy-
cling center.

UK's rough paper, which in-
cludes plastic bags. toilet paper
and paper towels, is bought recy-
cled. The recycled paper is about
the same price as the newer prod-
ucts, Fields said.

Meanwhile the University
spends about $800.(X)0 yearly on
non-recycled bond paper. The
cost for recycled bond is about 15
percent higher, Fields said.

The task force only covers the
Lexington Campus. but the recy-
cling effort will likely spread
throughout the UK system.

“I don‘t drink there‘s any great
doubt that each community col-
lege is going to have to initiate
their own waste management pro
gram." Blanton said.

Bradshaw has already begun
work in waste management at the
community college level. Mays-
villc Community College has al»
ready expressed some interest in a
recycling program. Although
Maysvrllc has no local recycling
firm. there is a possibility of ink
mg the malenals to Brown
County Recycling in Ohio.

By GREGORY A. HALL
Executive Editor

Recycling programs at UK
may surprise those skeptics who
wonder if environmental efforts
will go beyond Earth Day.

UK ofﬁcials have extended a
two-month pilot recycling pro-
gram, and have adopted two oth-
er pilot programs.

The original recycling pro-
gram, which concluded May 31.
has been extended for six
months, said Surplus Property
Administrator Autry Bradshaw.

The Waste Management Task
Force, which was created by for-
mer UK President David Roselle
last August. voted June 11 to
submit a letter recommending a
pemianent campus recycling pro—
gram to interim President Charles
Wethington this month. The fi-
nal, expanded report is expected
to reach Wethington by Labor
Day for a decision.

“At this point I feel that they
will do a university-wide recy-
cling," Bradshaw said.

McVey Hall and the Albert B.
Chandler Medical Center are the
new sites for the similar pilot
programs.

Dumpsters where paper waste
is deposited will remain located
in the parking lot across from

Blazer Hall and along
Ave, near Haggin Hull.

UK is currently a leader in the
recycling industry among other
state institutions.

“Within the state of Kentucky I
would say we are doing as much
or more (than othersi," Bradshaw
said.

The pilot program has been so
successful that the number of
newspapers collected was so over-
whelming that the bins were filled
almost daily.

However, paying to empty the
bins daily is not cost efficient,
said Vice Chancellor for Adminis-
tration Jack Blanton.

”There is so much of it and the
technology has not caught up with
it (to make old newsprint cost ef-
fective)," Blanton said. But the
University‘s “sense of environ-
mental obligation" fuels the rccy~
cling efforts.

To help ease the problem, Har-
ry Gordon Scrap Materials Inc.
which will lease four-chambered
dumpsters to UK. will provrde a
separate bin for aluminum cans,
freeing up an extra bin for news-
papers. Othcr bins are for mixed
paper and glass.

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two four~chambercd dumpstcrs
were provided free of charge by
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6 - Summer Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, June 21, 1990

FROM FIRST STUDENT To FIRST DEAN

Johnson beat Day Law to enter UK

By GREGORY A. HALL
Executive Editor

in 1948, UK’s first black student
faced a situation similar to that of
many careervoriented adults of the
l990s — he wanted to return to col-
lege.

However, his purpose was not to
ﬁnish a degree. The objective for Ly-
man T. Johnson was to defeat the
Day Law, which mandated segrega-
tion in higher education, and to open
the doors of UK for all blacks.

When he enrolled as a graduate
student in 1949, Johnson already had
begun a teaching career.

“I was fairly well established as a
seasoned teacher at Louisville's Cen-
tral High School at the time,” John-
son said. He was a rank one teacher
with two years of graduate study be-
yond college.

“Winning my case and going there
that summer was to open the place
for the young folks,“ Johnson said.
“It wasn‘t for me."

“He stuck his neck way out to get
them there," said John T. Smith, a
former UK administrator and one of
the ﬁrst blacks to receive a graduate
degree.

Johnson applied for admission to
UK in 1948, but was turned down.
He lost an appeal to the Board of
Trustees and then took his case to
court and won in March 1949.

“The whole climate (of the state)
was segregation," Johnson said.
“They thought I should go to a black
school. Some blacks took the attitude
that I was butting my head against a
stone wall. So, I had to fight both the
whites and the blacks.“

Johnson blamed the Day Law and

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Lyman Johnson (right) and the president of Kentucky State Col-
lege, R.B. Atwood, leaving federal district court in Lexington after
victory in Johnson's suit to gain admission to UK’s graduate

school in 1949.

the legislators of the Kentucky Gen-
eral Assembly who passed it in the
early 19005 for building the barrier
to state universities (Blacks attended
Kentucky State University in Frank-
fort, Ky., during segregation).

In 1949 during the summer ses-
sion, Johnson took three courses in
graduate school including two histo-

ry courses and one government
course.

“I think they were fairly competi-
tive to what you will get at any grad-
uate school," Johnson said. "They
worked the hell out of me. I knew
that l was on trial. I think I was an
overachiever.“

If the courses and instructors were

fair, Johnson said that if he didn't
pass. neither would any of the other
students.

But he did pass and Johnson said
that he faced no harassment while
on campus.

“They treated me with such cour-
tesy and respect,” he said. “They
didn‘t coddle me."

At ﬁrst the University was appre—
hensive, Johnson said, because it
was ruled by Judge H. Church Ford
that UK President Herman Donovan
would be held in contempt if there
were any complaints.

“I have no way of knowing why
they treated me nice overnight,“
Johnson said.

However, there existed some seg-
regation attempts on campus that
summer.

One of those instances occurred at
the Law Library. A table was set
aside with a “reserved" sign placed
on it.

Johnson asked why the table was
reserved for him and the attendant
said it was done in case the other
students took up all the other places,
there would be a spot for him.

He then told her that she needed
to put a sign up for every student

“I don’t want more than equal
treatment," Johnson said. “1 just sat
down at another table."

There also were a number of cross
burnings.

The most noticeable incident was
in front of the Administration Build-
mg.

“That was the one that you could
not deny that it was burned." John-
son said. “I don't have any reason to
believe that it was done by anybody
connected at the University."

Percentage of Black Students to Total Enrollment

University of Kentucky

FALL 1986

3.01%

FALL 1987 FALL 1988 FALL 1989

0 °/o

| - Enrollment year

Information Soucre: University of Kentucky Headcount Enrollment
Ottice of Planning and Budget 6/19/90

Community College System
FALL1986 FALL1987 FALL1988 FALL 1939

6.7 °/o

0 °/o

6 % 6 °/o

- - Black Students

FALL 1988 TOTAL UK STUDENTS
22,824

TOTAL BLACK
710

FALL 1989 TOTAL UK STUDENTS
22,957

TOTAL BLACK
691

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Lyman Johnson teaching at Louisvrlle's CeMral High School.

Summer ended, and Johnson went
back to Central. Frequently students
would report to him concerning the
the integration status at UK.

“It was grudgingly done and fairly
well measured not to do more than
what they had to do." Johnson said.

As Johnson looks back. after re-
cently celebrating his 84th binhday,
he feels satisﬁed.

“I can delineate the changes that
have taken place in seven decades,"
Johnson said. “A marvelous part of
cxolution has taken place

Summer Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, June 21, 1990 - 7

Education reforms challenge new dean

By GREGORY A. HALL
Executive Editor

In the recent legislative session
Kentucky took innovative steps to
reform the education system. UK re-
sponded to those changes by naming
the new Dean of the College of Edu-
cation.

J. John Harris Ill, UK‘s ﬁrst black
college dean, replaces eight-year
dean Edgar Sagan.

Harris, whose work concents
school administration, applauded the
overhauling of Kentucky’s school
system.

“It’s clear to me that Kentucky has
taken a step in the right direction,”
Harris said. “1 only wish that other
states were becoming as aggressive,
as assertive, as pro-active relative to
what is occurring in higher educa-
tion as well as public education.

“It seems to me that in 1990, no
other discipline in the area of higher
education has more at stake than the
ﬁeld of education.”

Harris received his doctorate in
education from the University of
Michigan. He was previously the ed-
ucation dean at Cleveland State Uni-
versity in Cleveland. Ohio and
served as a department chair at Indi-
ana University.

UK administrative ofﬁcials said
Harris was chosen to help the Uni-
versity adjust to the Educational Re-
form Act of 1990.

“We expect the University of Ken-
tucky, and in particular, the Univer-
sity of Kentucky College of Educa-

J. JOHN HARRIS III

tion to take