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Volume XLVII, No.4 A Univer ity of Loui ville New paper
Copyright 1975, The Louisville Cardinal
ptember 19, 1975
Biennial budget proposal
by D bby rave
U of L's biennial budget for 1976-7 ,
unanimously approved last Monday by
the of L B ard of Trustees, may cut
tuition c sts by as much a $300. The
budget, calling for a $100 decrease by
next year, and a $200 decrease by the
academic year of 1977-78, would reduce
tuition from its present rate of $780 to
$4 0 per year, a rate comparable to other
state universities.
Included in the two-year budget is a
request for $60.7 million in state funding
for the fiscal year 1976-77. This year the
University received $28 million in state
aid, less than half the amount requested
for next year.
$21.7 million of the request has been
appropriated as "catch-up' money ,
money which wi1l be used to fund
faculty, personnel, and other expenses in
order to bring U of L to a funding level
equitable with other state universities.
Another $4 million would be used to
replace "soft money", money supplied by
gifts and con tracts.
U of L officials feel that the current
practice of funding programs with the
"soft money" is not a good practice, as
many funds are ften designated for
express purposes, and could be cut off at
any time. Many of the University's basic
instructional programs are currently
supported by such funds.
Over $2 million is requested to cover
unfunded inflationary costs during the
1974-76 biennium, and nearly $6 million
is requested for cost of living increases
in the next fiscal year.$3.1 million is
appropriated for new programs. U of L's
new teaching hospital, which will replace
Louisville's General Hospital, would
receive $2.6 million, to be used for
planning of the new hospital and for its
"phasing in' . The Nursing Pr gram,
begun in the fall of 1 974, w uld receive
$306,000, and the remaining $174,900
would go to the Univer ity's Allied
Health Program.
The budget for 1976-77, a approved
by the Board of Trustees, t tals at $94
million, $60 million being in state aid.
The remainder of the budget is made up
of an estimated $10.5 million income in
tuition and fees, $3.9 million in auxiliary
enterprises, $15.5 in restricted funding,
and $3.7 million in other funding.
The 1977-78 budget calls for $70
million in state funding, out of a total
budget of $1 02 million. The increased
state funding will compensate for the
reduced tuition income of an estimated
$7.4 million, considerably lower than this
year's income of $11.9 in tuition and
fees.
The proposed budget will now be
ubmitted to the Kentucky Council on
Public Higher Education (CPHE), and
finally to the Kentucky General
Assembly in the spring of 1976.
President Miller expects that the
budget may be slightly reduced by CPHE,
because of their limit placed on
in f1 at ion a r y in creases. Financial
Vice-President Norbert Elbert has
computed a ten percent inflationary
increase for personnel, supplies,
equipment, and other items for the next
two years.
CPHE Executive Director A.D.
Albright has informed President Miller
that items other than personnel will be
restricted to an eight percent increase,
which may mean an overall reduction of
some $630,000, according to Elbert.
The CPHE will make the final
recommendations on how much money
each state university should receive.
Photograph by Carl Maupin
A banjo-player tunes up for a concert at the Belknap Folk Festival.
Photograph by Michat.-1 Brohm
Under the proposed master plan the School of Music (shown here by architect's
model) would he constructed on the north edge of Belknap Campus.
Trustees take action
by Steve Wingfield
The University of Louisville Board of
Trustees last Monday approved the
long-range facilities master plan of the
university (a special pullout section on
the master plan begins on page l 3 ),
approved the interim academic master
plan and approved final plans for the new
School of Music Building.
The trustees also selected Frank
Campbell Jr. as chairman of the board for
the coming year. lie succeeds Dr. lloyt
Gardner, who was chairman for the past
year.
ampbell is vice-president and chief
engineer of the Louisvil le Water Co and
has been a university trustee since July
1972.
The board also selected Ben J. Talbott
Jr. as vice chairman of the board. Samuel
II. Klein as treasurer and /\. Wallace
Grafton a secretary.
The new School of Music building will
be built on the north west edge of
Belknap ampus. The School of Music is
presently located on tlte Shelby Campus.
The new facility, to cost
approximately $9.4 mi1lion, will be a
three story, mostly brick, building and
contain approximately 150,000 square
feet of space.
To be built ncx t to Unitas Tower, the
building will feature a recital hal l, a large
music library, teaching studios, many
rehearsal rooms and several lecture halls.
The plans will now be submitted to the
Kentucky Council on Public llighcr
Education for funding and approval.
David Lee, director of the office of
Facilities Management , estimate<.l
construction will begin next fa ll with the
completion of the building to come
sometime in I 978.
Two new members of the board were
sworn in Monday. They arc I r. Theodore
Logan Jr. , the new president of the
Faculty Senate, an<.l Joe Fowler, the
acting President of the Student
Government Association.
Fowler will remain a trustee only
temporarily. Special elections to fill the
unexpired term of former SG/\ President
Creg Price will be held next week, and
the new President will become u trustee
ut the October meetmg of the bourd.
The Boar<.l or Trustees also approved
the nomination or James K . Feibleman us
l3ingham Professor of the llurn~niti~c.; for
the spring semester of I 976.
Feibleman, the author 01 36 books in
the field of philosophy, was a profcs·;·>~
of philo ophy at Tulane niversity in
New Orleans for 32 years. Fcibleman has
also published over 160 articles in pro­fessional
journals.
Feibleman will teach courses 1n
p'1ilosophy and the humanities at of L
next spring.
In another personnel action, the board
named Jimmy L. llatficld <.lirector of the
Center for Business an<.l Economic
Research. The appointmcn t is retroactive
to Sept. I.
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