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ARDINAL Volume XLVI , No.7 The U of L Student Newspaper Copyright 1975, The Louisville Cardinal October 10, 1975 U of L denied; then granted s12 million for hospital by Steve W ingfaeld The Council on Public Higher Education approved Wednesday a request for $12 million in additional funds for construction of the new University of Louisville teaching hospital. The Council had refused approval of the request at the Tuesday section of its meeting. U of L President James G. Miller said that immediate approval of the additional funds was necessary in order to proceed with planning so the university would not lose an $8 million federal grant for construction of an ambulatory care building. The $12 million is to fund cost overruns on the project. At the Tuesday section of the meeting, Miller himself made the motion for approval of the additional funds. The motion died for lack of a second. Both days of the meeting were held on U of L's Belknap Campus. Wednesday, however, state commissioner of Finance and Administration William Scent made an unscheduled visit to the Council meeting. Scent said he came to the meeting "at the direction of Governor (Julian) Carroll." Scent said the governor "would like to ask the council to please let us go ahead and proceed with the project. Most certainly," he added, "if time permitted, we would review it with the Council." Scent pointed out that the $12 million was for cost overruns and not for expansion of academic programs. He said, "If at any time you can point out to us that this involves academic programs, we '11 take it back to you." "He (Gov. Carroll) has been advised," Scent said, "like I'm advising you, there is no time. I wish we had the time to go into it and examine thoroughly the question, but we don't have any choice." Scent said he had been assured of the cost overruns by U of L officials, his own department and by the state Bureau of Facilities Management. Miller said the $12 million, which brings the total cost of the hospital project to $64 million, was to be used in the following ways. 1) $6 million to pay for increased construction costs which were caused by inflation. 2) $2.5 million to pay for increased costs of necessary land acquisition. 3) $2.6 million for a tunnel connecting the new university hospital and the steam and chilled water plant operated by other hospitals in the area. 4) $157,000 for the development of the health sciences center master plan. 5) $245,000 to acquire the staff to prepare educational and facilities programs at the new hospital. 6) $500,000 for the graveling of parking lots until the parking deck is completed. Miller said several attempts to cut the cost of the new facility have been made, including reducing the size of the hospital by about 5,000 square feet. Scent said, "We did everything we could to push the cost down. The people who know told me it was all they could cut before reducing the scale of the project too much." Miller said, "We are hoping to build a total medical center, not just provide health care to the community." Council member J.P. Ruark said that approval of the fund request would not follow the regular procedure of the Council. He said, "It was thrown in our laps yesterday and we didn't know the problem existed." Scent also said, "he (Gov. Carroll) does not want to be accused of making an end run on the Council" by forcing the approval of the request. He added "The governor believes in the Council and he is not going to allow anyone to bypass the Council." Phc)toli[faJ:•h bv Michael Brohm The U of L Homecoming game takes place tomorrow at Fairgrounds Stadium. ' A preview of the game is on page 19. Photograph by Mike Heitz CPHE Chairman Barney Tucker and executive A.P. Albright preside at last week's meeting. Before the approval of the request, hospital make it impossible for the Council member David Grisson said the council not to review the situation." cost of the hospital would be $170,000 Grissom then made the motion of grant per bed. (The planned hospital wi11 have "conditional" approval to the $12 million 380 primary care beds.) Grisson said, "I request with the understanding the know of no hospital in this country Council would have the opportunity to which costs $170,000 per bed." He also study the project further. said, "TI1e academic functions of the . The motion passed unanimously. Speed School risks losing accreditation by Debby Graves Speed Scientific School may be in danger of losing its accreditation, unless it receives "a major infusion of funds," according to the Consultants Report on Engineering Education in Kentucky. The report, read Tuesday at the CPHE meeting at U of L, found the faculty at Speed to be marginally adequate," the laboratories to contain a "high percentage of semi-obsolete equipment" and library facilities to be inadequate. Consulting Engineer L.E. Grinter read from the report that; . . . "the next ECPD (Engineer's Council for Professional Development) inspection, which occurs in 1977, may result in adverse accreditation action if conditions are not improved rather sharply." The four major programs at Speed School; civil, electrical, chemica 1, and mechanical engineering, are presently professiona11y accredited. New programs, added since 1969, have not been accredited. It was noted in the report that accreditation for one interdisciplinary program, environmental engineering, had been requested but was not received. Ginter, reading from the report also stated that; "In adopting the concept of a professional school at the masters level, Speed accepted the responsitility of providing advanced level education for nearly all of its students. Whether or not. . . Speed School had given adequate consideration to the unique ,demands and higher costs of a fifth-year education was not clear tb the consultants." In a telephone interview Wednesday, Dr. Harry Saxe, Dean of Speed School stated that; "Unless we get a significant increase of funds in the ncar future, there is a severe chance that our accreditation is in danger. Very frankly, there may be some problems with it." Dean Saxe's budget request, incorporated into U of L's overa11 biennial budget proposal, is a request for over $700,000 in "catch-up" funding for Speed SchooL Saxe has also requested approximately $150,000 of funding to replace "soft money" from gifts and grants currently supporting various programs. Saxe estimates that nearly a quarter of a million doJiars in "soft money" is currently supporting programs at Speed. Dean Saxe says that "he would agree with most of the consultants' findings," and hopes for a significant increase in state funding within the biennium. The report, compiled by three consulting engineers, is part of an overalJ study of the engineering educational system in Kentucky. After the report was made Tuesday at the CPHE meeting, President Miller stated that ;"The fact is that we have a number of potential accreditation problems in several of our colleges and schools.:_ We have had similar repo'rts in our law school, business school and in parts of Health Science. There are needs everywhere. They are massive needs when you add them up."
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Title | The Louisville Cardinal, October 10, 1975. |
Volume | XLVII |
Issue | 7 |
Description | The University of Louisville’s undergraduate newspaper. The title of this publication has varied over the years, but with the exception of the period 1928-1930, when it was known as the U. of L. News, the title has always been a variation of The Cardinal. |
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Date Original | 1975-10-10 |
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Full Text | ARDINAL Volume XLVI , No.7 The U of L Student Newspaper Copyright 1975, The Louisville Cardinal October 10, 1975 U of L denied; then granted s12 million for hospital by Steve W ingfaeld The Council on Public Higher Education approved Wednesday a request for $12 million in additional funds for construction of the new University of Louisville teaching hospital. The Council had refused approval of the request at the Tuesday section of its meeting. U of L President James G. Miller said that immediate approval of the additional funds was necessary in order to proceed with planning so the university would not lose an $8 million federal grant for construction of an ambulatory care building. The $12 million is to fund cost overruns on the project. At the Tuesday section of the meeting, Miller himself made the motion for approval of the additional funds. The motion died for lack of a second. Both days of the meeting were held on U of L's Belknap Campus. Wednesday, however, state commissioner of Finance and Administration William Scent made an unscheduled visit to the Council meeting. Scent said he came to the meeting "at the direction of Governor (Julian) Carroll." Scent said the governor "would like to ask the council to please let us go ahead and proceed with the project. Most certainly," he added, "if time permitted, we would review it with the Council." Scent pointed out that the $12 million was for cost overruns and not for expansion of academic programs. He said, "If at any time you can point out to us that this involves academic programs, we '11 take it back to you." "He (Gov. Carroll) has been advised," Scent said, "like I'm advising you, there is no time. I wish we had the time to go into it and examine thoroughly the question, but we don't have any choice." Scent said he had been assured of the cost overruns by U of L officials, his own department and by the state Bureau of Facilities Management. Miller said the $12 million, which brings the total cost of the hospital project to $64 million, was to be used in the following ways. 1) $6 million to pay for increased construction costs which were caused by inflation. 2) $2.5 million to pay for increased costs of necessary land acquisition. 3) $2.6 million for a tunnel connecting the new university hospital and the steam and chilled water plant operated by other hospitals in the area. 4) $157,000 for the development of the health sciences center master plan. 5) $245,000 to acquire the staff to prepare educational and facilities programs at the new hospital. 6) $500,000 for the graveling of parking lots until the parking deck is completed. Miller said several attempts to cut the cost of the new facility have been made, including reducing the size of the hospital by about 5,000 square feet. Scent said, "We did everything we could to push the cost down. The people who know told me it was all they could cut before reducing the scale of the project too much." Miller said, "We are hoping to build a total medical center, not just provide health care to the community." Council member J.P. Ruark said that approval of the fund request would not follow the regular procedure of the Council. He said, "It was thrown in our laps yesterday and we didn't know the problem existed." Scent also said, "he (Gov. Carroll) does not want to be accused of making an end run on the Council" by forcing the approval of the request. He added "The governor believes in the Council and he is not going to allow anyone to bypass the Council." Phc)toli[faJ:•h bv Michael Brohm The U of L Homecoming game takes place tomorrow at Fairgrounds Stadium. ' A preview of the game is on page 19. Photograph by Mike Heitz CPHE Chairman Barney Tucker and executive A.P. Albright preside at last week's meeting. Before the approval of the request, hospital make it impossible for the Council member David Grisson said the council not to review the situation." cost of the hospital would be $170,000 Grissom then made the motion of grant per bed. (The planned hospital wi11 have "conditional" approval to the $12 million 380 primary care beds.) Grisson said, "I request with the understanding the know of no hospital in this country Council would have the opportunity to which costs $170,000 per bed." He also study the project further. said, "TI1e academic functions of the . The motion passed unanimously. Speed School risks losing accreditation by Debby Graves Speed Scientific School may be in danger of losing its accreditation, unless it receives "a major infusion of funds," according to the Consultants Report on Engineering Education in Kentucky. The report, read Tuesday at the CPHE meeting at U of L, found the faculty at Speed to be marginally adequate," the laboratories to contain a "high percentage of semi-obsolete equipment" and library facilities to be inadequate. Consulting Engineer L.E. Grinter read from the report that; . . . "the next ECPD (Engineer's Council for Professional Development) inspection, which occurs in 1977, may result in adverse accreditation action if conditions are not improved rather sharply." The four major programs at Speed School; civil, electrical, chemica 1, and mechanical engineering, are presently professiona11y accredited. New programs, added since 1969, have not been accredited. It was noted in the report that accreditation for one interdisciplinary program, environmental engineering, had been requested but was not received. Ginter, reading from the report also stated that; "In adopting the concept of a professional school at the masters level, Speed accepted the responsitility of providing advanced level education for nearly all of its students. Whether or not. . . Speed School had given adequate consideration to the unique ,demands and higher costs of a fifth-year education was not clear tb the consultants." In a telephone interview Wednesday, Dr. Harry Saxe, Dean of Speed School stated that; "Unless we get a significant increase of funds in the ncar future, there is a severe chance that our accreditation is in danger. Very frankly, there may be some problems with it." Dean Saxe's budget request, incorporated into U of L's overa11 biennial budget proposal, is a request for over $700,000 in "catch-up" funding for Speed SchooL Saxe has also requested approximately $150,000 of funding to replace "soft money" from gifts and grants currently supporting various programs. Saxe estimates that nearly a quarter of a million doJiars in "soft money" is currently supporting programs at Speed. Dean Saxe says that "he would agree with most of the consultants' findings," and hopes for a significant increase in state funding within the biennium. The report, compiled by three consulting engineers, is part of an overalJ study of the engineering educational system in Kentucky. After the report was made Tuesday at the CPHE meeting, President Miller stated that ;"The fact is that we have a number of potential accreditation problems in several of our colleges and schools.:_ We have had similar repo'rts in our law school, business school and in parts of Health Science. There are needs everywhere. They are massive needs when you add them up." |
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