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Changes mark administrative year By Kevin McKenna Daily Trojan Editor American universities, like other institutions, are not usually given to rapid and radical change. And no one would accuse USC of going against this general rule. As a private university, and probably more wary of change than most others, substantive change has usually been slow and deliberate. The academic calendar has been de- bated for years, but without results. The mediocre standing of faculty com- pensation and the library holdings have been bemoaned since time immemorial, yet improvements have been slow in coming. But when USC officials decided in 1975 to reorganize the university ' s ad- ministrative structure, the groundwork was laid with uncharacteristic swiftness and the plans were carried out post haste. The seeds of the massive reorgani- zation were planted in the preceding academic year, when the executive committee of the President ' s Advisory Council, acting upon the mandate of President John R. Hubbard, estab- lished a task force on academic ad- ministration. Its charge: ... to engage in a thorough study of USC ' s academic ad- ministration, particularly as it affects the appropriate development of gradu- ate education, and to make recom- mendations as to the structure most appropriate for this university in carry- ing out its educational mission. The task force, under the chairman- ship of Jackson Cope, Bing professor of English, formulated a response to this charge in a report to the President ' s Advisory Council. The document, dubbed the Cope Report, urged among other things the establishment of the position of pro- vost, responsible for academic and stu- dent affairs, and the addition of an ex- ecutive vice-president within the office of the president, to help carry out the continuously expanding functions of that office. During the ensuing summer, Hub- bard named Houston I. Flournoy, the former state controller and Republican gubernatori al candidate in 1974 who had since been named a university pro- fessor, to study the substance of the
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Cope Report and recommend plans for its implementation. While Flournoy ' s precise recom- mendations in the matter were not dis- closed, it was subsequently made clear that the task force report was to be carried out significantly. After a weekend retreat in Septem- ber with a number of top university ad- ministrators and academic deans at which Hubbard delineated his plans, he announced at least the beginning of the administrative shakeup at the annual faculty breakfast later that month. The first — and not entirely unex- pected — result was the appointment of Zohrab A. Kaprielian as executive vice- president. Kaprielian, dean of the School of Engineering for the past six years, had previously served as vice-president for academic administration and research. Although nominally only one of a num- ber of vice-presidents at the university, he had long been acknowledged as the most influential administrator under Hubbard. Kaprielian ' s new duties were essen- tially the same as in his previous position - as Hubbard described them, the responsibility for long-range academic planning and the overall administration of research and resource management. And Hubbard was lavish in his praise of his right-hand man: I have been among the fortunate, for from the early CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 LEFT President John R. Hubbard; RIGHT: Houston I. Flournoy. . »«;Nf t9 r«» - rA
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