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the Louisville Cardinal
VoL XLV No. 26 Room 117, Otter ~1, Louisville, Ky. 40208 Aprill2, 1974
Memphis Beck
and Jim ·Webb
of the Fall
·City Ramblers
perform for -a
crowd at the
Humanities
building
during a
midday mad­
·ness presenta­tion
Wednes­day,
Rayburn appointed
University College dean
University College has a new dean,
effective September 1.
The appointment of Dr. Wendell G.
Rayburn as University College dean was
announced April 3 · during a news
conference at the office of U of L
president Dr. James G. Miller.
Dr. Rayburn, 44, is currently associatt·
dean for academic SJ.ipportive programs at
the University of Detroit. He is
responsible there for academic advising,
orientation, the university counselling
center, the educational opportunity
program and special developmental
programs. He also serves as dean for
freshman students.
In announcing the appointment, Dr.
Miller said: "The appointment of Wendell
Rayburn as dean of University Colelge
should serve to renew the pledge of the
University of Louisville to provide quality
education for every serious, qualified
student. I want University College to be
the most idealistic and innovative unit of
the University, where educational dreams
can be turned into realities for students
whose lives the University has never
touched before. This is the mission and
the challenge I have given Dr. Rayburn,
and I am confident that he will meet this
challenge." A Detroit native, Dr.
Rayburn has been ·an administrator at the
University of Detroit siilce 1968. Prior to
that time he was a teacher in the Detroit
public schools and English instructor fo-r
the U.S. Armed Forces Institute. He is
also a member of the part-time faculty at
Wayne State University, Detroit.
The program that Dr. Rayburn heads
at the University of Detroit is aimed at
improving a student's chances of staying
in school through counselling, tutoring,
remedial teaching programs and career
guidance. Each of the 900 freshmen
participate in the program , which has
reduced the student drop out rate by 15
percent in the two years of the programs'
existence.
Wendell
G.
Rayburn
Dr. Rayburn is active in national and
local personnel and guidance associations,
and is a member of the board of directors
of the Metro-East Methadone Drug
Treatment Center in Detroit. He is also an
active member of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.
At the University of Detroit, Dr.
Tuition decrease announced by Ford Rayburn took part in the school's first
in-depth study of admission policy. He
also participated in a wide-ranging study
of University governance as a member of
the executive board of the university
senate.
by Jim McGo~m
Kentucky Governor Wendell H. Ford -­announced
last week that tuition for
most undergraduate students at the
University of Louisville will drop $100
ann~y for each of the next two years.
The governor said he is now sure that
sufficient state funds are available to
financ.e the cuts. It had been feared that
not enough money would be available for
additional cuts beyond the $25 reduction
already promised by state officials in
February.
The additional sis cut will lower u of
L tuition for undergraduate students
living in Kentucky and carrying a fulltime
load to $850 next Fall, and $750 the
following Fall.
Funds for the tuition reductions are in
;addition to the $3.6 million increase in
., :the U of L budget announced. by
Governor Ford in February of this year.
That increase was earmarked by the
governor as replacement money for the
anticipated loss of City of Louisville and
Jefferson County support over the next
biennium.
Vice-President for Financial Affairs
Norbert Elbert estimated that the tuition
cuts will cost the state an additional $3.6
million over the next two years, bringing
the total of state support for U of L to
approximately $50.7 million for the
biennium.
Although still only an estimated
three-quarters of the university's original
biennium request, the $50.7 million
ftgure represents a near 20 percent
increase over the state's previously
allocated budget for U of L.
-President James G. Miller said he was
heartened by the tuition decrease and the
announced enrollment figures for this
semester (up 9 percent). "While
The new ecumen­ical
center on
Barbee gave a
sneak preview
Wednesday of the
new centen
facilities. The
building is
scheduled for
completion · in
·August of 1974. ·
everything else is going up, our tuition is
coming down. We expect to continue our
rapid growth next year, and we believe
this is quite significant," said Miller.
Applications for next fall are already
running at least five percent ahead of last
year's total, according to Ray Stines,
Director of Admissions.
The tuition reductions were given final
approval in a Wednesday meeting of the .
(Continued on page 2)
Dr. Rayburn is the second dean for
U.C. since it was established as a separate
school in 1957. He replaces Dr. William
C. Huffman who resigned as U.C. dean
last year to become vice president of the
University of Louisville Foundation. Dr. ·
Roger Geeslin, professor of mathematics,
has served as acting dean since Dr.
Jiuffman's resignation.