University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Bro. Raphael Wilson, C.S.C. Director of Admissions Rev. John E. Walsh, Notre Dame ' s new vice- president for academic affairs is now only two doors from his old office the Notre Dame Foundation. His experience in fund raising and in educational philosophy (He holds a Ph.D. in education from Yale.) are among the equip- ment he brought to his new position. Part of the responsibility he shares with Dr. Thomas E. Stewart, former head of the Depart- ment of Mathematics, whom he named as his associate vice-president. Dr. Stewart has been especially involved in directing Notre Dame ' s two foreign studies programs. Expansion to other areas possibly the East and South Amer- icais anticipated within the next five years. Father Walsh hopes that within the next five years there will be a major reshuffling of aca- demic facilities. The plan calls for the build- ing of a new Life Sciences Building, at which time the present Biology Department would be moved into the new building, and the Psychol- ogy Department would move to the present Bi- ology Building. It might also house some of the other social sciences. Growth in the graduate school is anticipated; undergraduate enrollment will remain as con- stant as possible. The University hopes to offer a full doctoral program in all of its departments within five years, with about twelve hundred graduate students. One of the chief responsibilities of the vice- president for academic affairs is the decision on faculty promotion and granting of tenure. Ordinarily a man has to be here three years even with the rank of Associate Professor or Full Professor before he gets tenure. The cri- teria used in this determination are the quality of his classroom instruction; his own research fresh and alive with the recent developments in his own field ; participation in the strength- ening of the academic program; the availability of the teacher to direct and open contact with individual students. Such contact can be almost as valuable as the classroom contact itself and this element is considered in faculty promotion. Brother Raphael Wilson, a biologist, was appointed as Director of Admissions in the summer of 1965. His major innovations are the increased use of recent alumni as interviewers, and a rewritten series of brochures explaining the University to applicants. 18

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Father Hesburgh characterizes his main func- tion as planning, as a need to ensure that the main course of the university is relevant, that the movement is upward. The best ways of ensuring this are the appointment of faculty and the admission of students. In both cases the general guidelines are set by the president, al- though the vice-presidents should feel free to act on their own power as if they were president for that area. The other element of the presidential duty is representing the. school to diverse groups- students, alumni, parents, national founda- tions. The representational area is a great part of this office ' s responsibility, Father Hesburgh says, because whether you want to or not, you become the representative of the university to all the alumni and to parents. Parents get concerned, and when they do they pick up the phone and call the president. Changes within the university are certainly not accomplished by simply giving an order and then proceeding to implement it. The in- troduction of change involves especially what Father Hesburgh has called a community of ef- fort, and enormous amounts of discussion. The Congregation of the Holy Cross does not directly influence the policies of the university. It is a kind of myth that the Congregation is a shadow government that sits back and runs the school. The executive vice-president, Rev. Edmund P. Joyce graduated from Notre Dame ' s College of Commerce in 1937 and entered the order in 1942. He was ordained in 1949 and was ap- pointed as executive vice-president in 1952. The office is sometimes laughingly called that of vice-president in charge of vice-presidents. It has overall authority and responsibility for the building program of the university. The vice-president also serves as the Chairman of the Faculty Board in control of athletics: Of course because athletics gets so much newspa- per print that ' s where you see my name a lot, but I suppose actually only one percent of my time is spent on athletics. Dr. George Shuster, the assistant to the presi- dent, has general responsibility for the newly developed Center for the Study of Man in Con- temporary Society. A former president of Hunter College, he came to Notre Dame in 1962. T ' Pi George N. Shuster Assistant to the President 17

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Rev. John E. Walsh, C.S.C. Vice-President for Academic Affairs Thomas E. Stewart Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs I 19