University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
NO. 12
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WED. AUGUST 12, 1970
Linnell becomes director of newly-created research office
ROBERT UNNELL
Committee studies structure of LAS
With the resignation of Dean Robert Linnell, who will become the director of the Office of Institutional Studies, a committee was formed to study the structure of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Dr. William Spitzer, chairman of the Physics Department, heads a committee of four department chairmen who are studying how other colleges and universities have structured the administration of their LAS colleges and will make recommendations for changing USC’s.
Spitzer said he is also seeking the views of students who feel they have something to add. Students wishing to speak with the committee should call 746-2229 for an appointment.
In the past the dean of LAS has had more than 35 deans reporting direotly to him. Under these circumstances, Spitzer said, the “dean finds himself spending almost all of his time in functions and activities that could be handled by someone else. It has encouraged the dean to be nonacademic.”
He added that a criterion for the new structure will be that it stimulates concentration on academic progress.
“One of the dangers in doing this is to make sure that when the structure is reconstructed it is reconstructed in such a way that it does not impede academic progress,” Spitzer said.
“It also should be one which allows the faculty to spend all of their time on academic programs rather than worrying about administrative problems.”
At this stage, the committee is seeking the views of other people. Spitzer said he hopes the committee can recommend a new structure to the president soon so personnel can be hired during the 1970-71 academic year. In the interim period. Dr. Tohn Cantelon, director of the School of Religion, will be handling the LAS dean's job.
In order to determine what the best structure for USC’s College of Letters, Arts and Sciences would be the committee has been studying how it is done at other educational institutions.
Some have set ups like the one the university is currently trying to eliminate, where ail the department chairman report to one dean. Others, such as UC Irvine, split the college into completely autonomous schools, cach with their own dean. Some have a part-time dear, who holds down teaching assignments as well as the functions of dean. Ik tween
these plans, Spitzer said, are many variations.
“It is clear that there needs to be some kind of substructure under the dean, but it is unclear whether it should be one which goes across the whole college or one of divisions,” Spitzer said.
He added that the committee is studying the structure changes very carefully to avoid creating new problems while trying to solve old ones.
“If this is done properly, if a really workable and viable structure is set up and funded, then I think this might very possibly do a great deal for academic progress by relieving pressures and allowing administrative problems to be solved quickly and reasonably,” Spit-zcr said.
Robert Linnell, who took over as dean of the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences last year, has resigned from that position to become the director of the newly-created Office of Institutional Studies.
A new dean of LAS may not be appointed. A committee, headed by William Spitzer, chairman of the Physics Department, is studying the administrative structure of the college to determine how it should be handled.
The Office of Institutional Studies will be studying various aspects of the entire university and making recommendations for change directly to President John Hubbard.
Linnell said he and his staff would be an interface between the academic and business management sides of the university — trying to match the plans of the academic with the resources of the business side.
Linnell emphasized that his office would be a study and advisory center, not a decision-mak-ing body, which would function as a staff to the president. As a start the office will have three men — Linnell; Phillip Hawthorne, assistant dean of LAS and a senior systems analyst, and another who has not been named yet.
One aid the office will use in order to get the information the men need to suggest changes will be a computerized Management Information System. It will help them uncover the optimum use of resources—people, buildings and money— for any given situation, Linnell said.
A Management Information System Committee has already been set up to advise the Office of Institutional Studies and the President about the design of the computerized system. This group will be helping the office to decide what areas of the university system should receive top priority for studying.
Linnell had been working closely with former Vice-president Hubbard to set up the office. Linnell added that Dr. Milton Kloetzel, vice-presi-
dent of research and graduate affairs, had felt the need for this type of office for nearly five years. Over 100 other universities have already established offices similar to the Office for Institutional Studies.
Talking about the new office, Hubbard said:
“It is designed to provide the various facets of this university with the data they need for decision making and for planning. It will be developing alternative approaches to a given situation.”
Linnell said there would also be an opportunity for students to interact with his new office. One of the areas the group may study, which would directly involve students, is admission policies.
If the group does undertake this problem, one thing that might be done is to send questionnaires to students who have left the university. For those who graduated, questions concerning the adequacy of their preparation for professional jobs or graduate school might be asked. If a person drops out or transfers before receiving a degree, the office may ask what made him leave the university and how another school is satisfying his needs more fully.
Other areas that may be studied by the office include determining how big an institution the university wants to be and registration procedures. Linnell said he was concerned with students who enroll and then find they can’t get the classes they want. He said although the Registration Office had made quite a few improvements on its own, the university must match the requirements of students with the university’s ability to accomodate them.
Although the above may be some areas the Office of Institutional Studies may gather information about and provide alternative solutions for, Linnell emphasized that the office’s concern is as broad as the university.
ALL-VOLUNTEER ARMY
President, Congressmen talk of ending draft
By BERNARD BECK
Gradual steps are being taken toward the creation of an allvolunteer armed force, and such a force should become a reality after the United States has withdrawn or reduced its forces in Vietnam.
On Feb. 21, President Nixon received the report cf the Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force, headed by former Defense Secretary Thomas Gates. The Gates Commission concluded that the interests of the United States would be better served by an all-volunteer force rather than by the present mixed force of volunteers and draftees.
To reach this goal the commission recommended that certain immediate steps be taken, among them, substantial increases in the pay and benefits of first-term servicemen and officers and the creation of a standby draft machinery.
President Nixon, in a message to Congress on April 23, said that after careful consideration of many factors, the most important of which was the security of the United States, he supported the basic conclusion of the Gates Committee.
“From now on, the objective cf this administration is to reduce draft calls to zero, subject to the overriding considerations of national security,” Nixon said.
The President, however, disagreed with the Gates Commission when he said he expected it will be necessary for Congress to extend the authority of
the present draft law after its July 1, 1971 expiration date.
Among the Nixon administration’s moves to reduce draft calls to zero is a six percent pay raise already approved by Congress for all federal employees.
The President also proposed an additional 20 percent pay increase for enlisted men with less than two years of service and said he will include an additional $2 billion for added pay and other benefits in the 1972 budget to help attract and retain the personnel needed by the armed forces.
The President also ordered the Secretary of Defense to work towards expansion of programs which would increase enlistments and retentions. He also asked the secretary of defense to review the policies and practices of the military services to give new emphasis to recognition of the individual needs, aspirations and capabilities of all military personnel.
Nixon, however, maintained that no one can predict whether conscription can be ended. “It depends, in part, on the necessity of maintaining required military force levels to meet our commitments in Vietnam and elsewhere. It also depends on the degree to which the combination of military pay increases and enhanced benefits will attract and hold enough volunteers to maintain the forces we need, the attitude of young people toward military service, and the availability of jobs in the labor market.”
The President also directed
that no occupational or paternity deferments be granted, although those who presently hold such deferments would not lose them.
The President would also end deferments for all undergraduate students, although those who now hold such deferments would retain them. However, the President would need Con-
gressional approval to have the authority to bar all undergraduate deferments.
The President is also seeking a plan under which the draft call for each month would be on a national basis, with the same lottery sequence numbers called throughout the country at the same time.
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