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Vol. XLVIII, No. 20 The U of L tudent New paper February 18, 1977
CPHE meets
U of L ~nay lose
so1ne progran1s
By DEE WILSON
Accreditation of U of L's medical and
dental schools is in danger.
The staff of the Council on Public
Higher Education (CPHE) recommended
at the Jan. 19 meeting that all b_asic
science (medical) doctoral programs be
located at the University of Kentucky in
Lexington.
The council will consider the recom­mendation
at a special meeting March 30.
U of L President James G. Miller in the
January Council Report, a CPHE pub­lication
, said that "such action would
cost U of L some $3 million to $7 million
a year in federal research funds and
would threaten the university's medical
and dental school accreditation ."
U of L will lose a valuable power base
if the deli ate balance between UK and U
of L is upset. The entire university may
uffer as a result. The present facilities
would not be used to their full capacity
and "it would be harder to attract good
faculty," said School of Medicine Dean
Arthur Keeney, if the doctoral programs
were shifted to UK.
Revised Statutes - an amount of latitude
that can't be afforded by this state," said
Joseph Burgess, CPHE coordinator of
information services.
The question of shiftin~ all do.ctoral
programs to UK was caused by recent
quality evaluations which suggested pre­sent
doctoral programs range from fair to
excellent, said Burgess.
"There certainly could be more money
spent to fully develop the doctoral
programs but to achieve best cost
effectiveness we have to as:k if the state
can afford and does it need two full
programs," Burgess said.
The CPHE staff is conducting evalua­tions
to determine if the needs of the
Louisville area for doctoral training could
be met if all programs were offered by
UK.
Burgess said "distinct missions would
result in a better system" Snider said the
new missions would be "more definitive,
not more restrictive."
The need for the doctoral programs at
U of Las part of its "urban role" would
be recognized by the March 30 ~eeting,
(continued on pagE~ 2) Photograph by Mike Heitz
Frank Boese made his decision conrerning the $10 fee for intercolligiate sports last
week.
Millions of dollars were spent on the U
of L Health Sciences Center in downtown
Louisville several years ago. About $70
million is earmarked for the planned
hospital to be located adjacent to the new
facilities.
Johnson files gJ~ievance
Miller said Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. that
he was "planning a defense in a meeting
right now." He said that out of the 109
accredited American medical schools,
"1 08 have doctoral programs and the
109th is brand new. U of L would be the
only medical school without the pro- '
grams."
Keeney said the Ph.D. programs were
essential to improved patient care. "We
are committed to incorporating basic
science from the operating room to the
bedside," he said.
Unlike Miller, Keeney said after
"extensive hearings in Frankfort, absolute
unanimity" had been achieved on re­solving
the problem.
CPHE Executive Director Harry M.
Snider said if the U of L medical school
was jeopardized, "we would not make a
recommendation affecting either quality
or existence."
The CPHE recommendation is under
consideration by its Health Sciences
Advisory Committee. At its Feb. 4
meeting, this committee decided to
contact accreditation agencies and per­sons
involved for reactions and advice,
according to Snider. The recommen­dation
will be considered again by the
council at a special meeting March 30.
The recommendation .evolved from
CPHE decision to develop new mission
statements for state institutions.
The universities were "allowed to go
their own ways under current Kentucky
Committee to hear complaint
Gary Fox as Algernon and Sharon Black as Cecily star in Oscar Wilde's
"The Importance of Bei111g Ernest" in Belknap Theatre's Raincage.
By GARY MILLS
A grievance against Dr. John Dillon,
vice president for academic affairs,
was filed with the Tenure and Grievance
Committee of the Faculty ·Senate on
Jan . 18, 1977. The grievance was filed
by Dr. Alan Johnson, former dean of
· the graduate school.
If the committee decides in Johnson's
favor, he asks that Dillon be dismissed
from his position as vice president and
his tenured profess~rship.
Johnson filed a 172-page document
with the committee. The document,
according to Johnson, develops ''the
thesis that I may have been dismissed
from the position of graduate dean last
July without cause in an attempt to
cover up misconduct on the part of Dr.
Dillon and others."
A preliminary meeting of the com­mittee
was held on Feb. 12. The pur­pose
of 'the meeting was to hear pre­liminary
motions or arguments con­cerning
the jurisdiction of the commit­tee
over the grievance.
In a memo dated Jan. 31, 1977, to
President James G. Miller, Johnson
said he had several grievance docu­ments
to submit. "It must be obvious
to you (President Miller) that one of
these will be directed at you and others
will be directed at Drs. Driscoll, Aponte
and Slavin.''