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VOLUME 66, No. 13 MONDAY, JAN 13, 1976 TWO PIASTERS
UNIVERSHY ARC#«V*5
THE AMERICAN UNI VERSlTTIBSjTrAIN il WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Faculty to vote on changing hy-laAv^s
The faculty is scheduled to vote Thursday to change the university bylaws to add at least one participating student member to all university committees.
The by-law amendment committee recommended the change following a meeting Saturday afternoon. The committee also recommended that faculty members of the Appointment, Promotion and Tenure committee be elected by faculty vote.
In a 27-14 vote last week, the faculty approved student participation hi principle. The by-law amendment would let each committee determine how many students should participate and the High Board should determine how the students are to be selected.
The faculty defeated an amendment that would have excluded students from the APT and staff committees. It has not yet
been decided how the student members will be chosen or how many there will be on each committee.
Some faculty and administration members, including Dr. Abdel Khalek Allam, vice-president for student development, and Dr. Mohammed al-Nowai-hi, chairman of Arabic studies, spoke in opposition to the motion.
Dr. Allam said student members of the APT committee might not be able to give imbiased evaluations of a professor’s performance because, he said, no professor can succeed in pleasing all students.
Dr. Nowaihi said that student participation in evaluating professors should be concentrated on questionnaires distributed at the end of each term. He said students sitting on the APT committee might not feel as free
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Mr. William Harrison, the business manager for nearly two years now, has informed President Cecil K. Byrd that he will not renew his contract when h expires September 30, 1975.
He said he will be taking a new job in Egypt, and added that the announcement of his new post would be made later.
He said the new job had a wide-scope and would enable him to travel to many places. His reason for the early announcement of his resignation is to pve AUC as much time as possible to secure a replacement.
«It is not in my nature jto sit in one place for too long,» said Mr. Harrison. At the same time he expressed his sadness on leaving AUC. «I shall miss my friends and colleagues in AUC,» he added.
Mr. Harrison’s advice to the new business manager is to keep away from routine work, such as signing of many papers, and to concentrate more on the jDnancial problems of the
University. However, to avoid this according to Mr. Harrison, there must be some re-organization.
Just before working in AUC Mr. Harrison was working as an advisor on Ehiglish language text Education in Cairo. Prior books in the Ministry of to that, he worked for the Ford foundation. Mr. Har-
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to openly criticize professors as they would through anonymous questionnaires.
€l humbly believe that in OUT milieu, we can’t have students evaluate faculty members yet,» Dr. Nowaihi added. He also said that not all practices followed by American universities were necessarily suitable to Egypt.
Dr. Dean Batroukha, professor of mass communication, suggested the faculty elect members to sit on the APT and Staff committees. APT members are department chairmen and there are no faculty on the staff.
«We have not elected faculty members for the APT, and though I am for student representation, I believe it should come after faculty representation,* he said.
In other action, the faculty elected five professors to fill vacancies on the Budget Review Committee. They were Dr. Sa-lah el-Araby of ELI, Adli Bishay of the Science department, David Woodman of ^e English department, John Masson of Sociology and Anthropology, and John Drake of the management program.
The faculty also voted to recommend that the Budget Review committee invite to its meetings on a regular basis Carl Schieren. coordinator of external programs in the president’s office. His interest in and knowledge of budgetary matters were cited as justification for his participation <n the committee’s meetings.
AUC fund raiser appeals !o fac?iilly and staff
In a new fund raising move. University Provost Burt Wallace is asking for donation from faculty and administrators.
In a letter addressed to them Mr. Wallace says: «We are trying to raise at least $ 25,000,000 over the next ten years. These fim^ will be used to strengthen and improve the university by increasing the endowment, improving and expanding
educational programs, constructing and renovating facilities, increasing student financial aid, and improving salaries.
«Our success thus far has been encouraging, we have approximately $ 6,100,000 committed, primarily from the Boarf of Trustees.*
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Student exchange program may start this year
by BASMA NOUR
A ‘student exchange program’ for AUC undergraduates to study at American or other foreign universities for one year, is now being studied by AUC officials, according to Dr. Mohamed Abdel Khalek Allam, vice-president for student development, and Dr. Carl Schierreu, director of external programs.
The program could start as early as fall of 1975. The basic idea is a ‘give and take’: AUC students and the foreign students will change places for a year. The number of students will total 10-15 annually, although AUC intends to start with only 5-10. Elach student has a matching family abroad.
Each AUC student would receive credit for his stateside work as determined by the Undergraduate Committee upon his return. AUC will nominate students from among interested applicants and forward complete dossiers to the foreign institutions.
By now everyone is probably asking the ‘how much will all this cost?’ The family of the Egyptian student will pay the full expenses of the American student in Egypt, and the family of the American student will pay the full expenses of the Egyptian student in the United States. AUC will assist the Egyptian family by applying the local
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Byrd for top flight Dean of Faculties
by SALWA AFIFI
President Cecil Byrd told the Economics-Political Science Department that his highest priority at AUC is to appoint a top flight Dean of the Faculties who has experience in dealing with faculty members and who has had experience in living and working in a developing country.
«The position of Dean of the Faculties is even more important than the President’s,* Dr. Byi'd said.
He added that he would like to see the formation of a Faculty research committee to study and approve research proposals according to well thought-out criteria consistent with university objectives and priorities. ’This, he indicated, is of secondary priority only to the Dean of Faculties position.
The President made these marks at a meeting held last Saturday in the Trustees’ Room.
«I have no opposition
to change if it improves the quality of education at AUC:	teaching,	re-
search and better student preparation. But this must be done without undue disruption to the existing structure of AUC,» Byrd added.
Commenting on fund raising activities, he expressed strong conviction that such activities must be channelled through a centralized organization to avoid haphazard and sometimes conflicting and inconsistent goals.
The President reitreat-ed his objections to having administrators’ appointments go through APT (Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Ciom-mittee). 'The appointments of the president and vice-presidents should continue to be exempted from APT review. He sa‘d that the APT is a check on the president and should not be abolished before finding a better substitute.
In reviewing trustees’ allowances for adminis-
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