University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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CV XHE jyVY»S. WV-K.}EI«.- 1933 The Plan of University Organization F. J. Kelly, Dean of University Administration. A MODERN state university is a good deal more than an institu- tion to offer instruction to students on its campus. It offers instruction by correspondence to non-residents; it helps to provide other means of adult education such as the supplying of package libraries and lecturers; it offers the trained services of its men and women in checking up modern practices in all sorts of industrial, agricultural, and educational affairs; it uses its technical apparatus to standardize instru- ments of common use throughout the state, such as electrical meters, gas analysis instruments, and the like. In short, the University is coming to be the center of trained services for the State. In addition it is expected to push out the boundaries of knowledge by careful research in all the fields covered by the departments in the institution. To perform all these types of service, a university re- quires a rather complex organization. To give any clear indication of the type of organization prevailing in the University of Kansas it is neces- sary to describe briefly the functions of the following groups or divi- sions of university activities. The General University Administration The officers having to do with the administration of the entire university are the following: The Chancellor, the Vice-President, the Dean of University Administration; the Dean cf Men, the Dean of Women, the Registrar, the Chief Clerk, the University Marshal, and the Publicity Director. The University Senate, composed of members of the teaching staff having a rank of professor or associate professor, exercises jurisdiction over many problems touching the interests of all the colleges and schools in the University. Much of the administration cf rules and regulations concerning matters of interest to the whole university is conducted by committees of the University Senate. Department of Buildings and Grounds Another group of activities university-wide in its scope concerns the buildings and grounds. This group of activities centers in the Super- intendent of Buildings and Grounds, who is directly in charge of the janitors, caretakers, watchmen, firemen, engineers, electricians, tele- phone operators, and the like. He secures all the general supplies and classroom furniture needed throughout the institution. He is Page h

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Ernest Hiram Lindley, Chancellor He feels that the university should connect itself with every citizen of the state in some way. He desires a sufficient force to n-ake the university serve the cities of the state, the health of the people, the welfare of the farmer and the business man, each in his own place of business. The Chancellor would make the university more than a schoolhouse; he would make it the super-servant of the people, a place of research, of advice, of information, of e.xpsrt and technical knowledge. A fine ideal that — but realizable. . . . Only an idealist can make dreams come true. And the new Chancellor of the university is an incorrigible idealist, with a great and profitable dream. — William Allen While. SIX years ago, Ernest Hiram Lindley was a professor of psychology at the University of Indiana. As he worked in his garden one eve- ning he received a telegram calling him to the West. After delivering a series of extension lectures to the business workers of Portland for Reed College, he was invited to spend some time with Washington State College as visiting professor. At this time Idaho was in need of a president for its university and Mr. Lindley was selected. His presi- dency of that university was a period of unusual growth, both in material expansion and in the place it came to occupy in the minds of the people. Doctor Lindley ' s administration continued for three years. During the last of these, Kansas was searching the country for the right man to head its own state university. Those in charge of the selec- tion decided that Doctor Lindley was needed in the Sunflower state. He accepted the chancellorship of the University of Kansas, taking up its duties July 15, 1920. His arrival was the signal for a great quickening of the state ' s interest in educational matters. Chancellor Lindley suffers nothing from an intimate view. He is a most gracious and congenial host. Of ready wit and an able phrase maker, he is a conveisationalist after the heart of Stevenson. There is nothing aloof about him either. Professors warm chairs outside his office door while he chats with a freshman. Dr. Lindley has been engaged in humanization work for industrial establishments, but practically his entire life has been in the shadow of a university. His great grandfather, a Quaker Abolitionist, freed his slaves and led the first migration out of North Carolina to Indiana. The chancellor was born at Paoli, Indiana, October 2, 1869. His great grandfather had helped to lay out the University of Indiana at Bloom- ington. Dr. Lindley became an instructor in philosophy and psychology at Indiana, continuing as professor until made president of the Uni- versity of Idaho in 1917. Page 3

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charged with keeping the buildings as well ventilated, heated and lighted as the equipment provided will allow, and the State supplies a special appropriation each year for repairs and permanent improve- ments. All requests to the Department of Buildings and Grounds for services which the departments need to pay for are made through the business office. General University Activities A group of activities not directly connected with any college, and yet definitely related with the work of instruction, includes athletics, military science, the library, museums, art collections, and the like. Each of these activities is designed to be under the direction of one head to be known as the director, except in the case of military science, which is organized in conformity with the regular requirements for reserve officers training corps units. Campus Services Certain services are maintained under the general direction of the University, but paid for in large part by the students or depart- ments using them. These are the stenographic bureau, the student health service, the University Commons, the Journalism Press, and the like. State Services The University maintains a long list of bureaus through which the trained men and women of the University give their services to the state at large. Many of the services are required by law from the appropriate departments. Some of them are mainly supported by fees, and others constitute a considerable charge on the University budget. Schools and Colleges The work of instruction in the University is, of course, the main purpose for which the University exists, and is offered in 56 departments. These are organized into schools or colleges to provide the best oppor- tunity for students to secure the courses they need in preparation for their life work. Page S