Volume 7, Issue 23 - March 13, 1985

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March 13, 1985

Seven Schools Into Three

MSC Reorganization Plan Announced

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MSC President Paul Magelli presented his reorganization plan Monday afternoon-but there were no surprises as be announced that Metro's seven schools would be consolidated into three. The proposal came after more than a

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were polled about the need for changes month of hearings between school in Metro's structure. officials and members of the departAccording to a document supplemenments to be affected by the changes. ting Magelli's speech, 60 percent of the The three schools will be: The School faculty and 30 percent of the of Letters, Arts and Sciences; the administrators and classified personnel School of Business; and the School of responded to the poll. Professional Studies. Those polled were proposed three The reorganization will mean that statements to which they had to either some administrative and non-academic agree or disagree. positions will be eliminated, while still The statements were: other now vacant positions won't be • (1) Some form of reorganization filled. should occur. Magelli said in his speech that it was • (2) The proposed plan should be necessary to come up with "strategieg implemented without inajor changes for increasing the quality of our col(although minor changes may occur). lege·, for preserving both professional and institutional integrity, and for • (3) Implementation of the nondiscovering the flexibility and.openness , ....:1cademic reorganization should occur and realize a savings of at least to manage change in a responsible and $45,000. responsive way." All of the seven ·schools responded "In this context," Magelli said, with agreement percentages in the 80s "e,ducators pretty well agree now that what is going to make the difference I and 90s except for the Sch.ool of Community and Human Services and the between colleges and universities that School of Professional Studies, •vi.th survive the present educational disaragreement ratios of 67 and 75 perC\~nt, mament and those that do not is respectively. quality." Of contract administrators and Before the reorganization proposal classified personnel, 97 percent agref-d ·was finalized, members of MSC's seven with the first statement. schools, - as well as contract Statement two r.eceived the lea: t administrators and classified personnel,

favorable response, with no one in the school of Community and Human services agreeing. The highest support ratio came in the School of Business, with 76 percent agreeing with statement two. Statement three received roughly the same support as statement one with one exception. Only about half of the contract administrators and classified personnel agreed with statement three. Magelli further called for faculty and administrators to look to the future for the answers to the academic questions of the 1980s. "Returning to the modus operandi of the 1950s to prepare for the 1990s," Magelli warned, "makes as much sense as trying to solve the arms race by building more bombs." "I hope that most of us do not long for the simplicity and the certitude of the past," Magelli continued. "It is easy to know what we would conserve. It is, alas, more difficult to know what we would create." He said this plan should realize a savings of nearly $250,000 from academic reorganization and another $500,000 from changes in non-instructional 0 areas.

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AHEC Selects Universal as Final ACT Vendor by Robert Davis News Edit-Or, The Metropolitan

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The AHEC Board of Directors selected Universal Elevator as the transportation company to build the automated guidway transit system that is to link Mile High Stadium with the campus. Acting on the recommendation of the Fixed Guidway Transit Committee-formed by the board to study ACT proposals-the board unanimously agreed to negotiate a contract with the company that ran the monorail system at the World Fair in New Orleans. . A contract could be signed and consttuction under way in as little as five weeks, according to J oAnn Soker, special projects coordinator for AHEC. Though all of the right of way consents have not been granted by authorities along the proposed route, Saker said negotiations with railroad and city officials are proceeding smoothly. Although off-campus talks are mov-

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JoAnn Soker discusses AGT plans with Auraria Board members. . ing along without complications, the board meeting, Monday, was not without some challenging moments from a disgruntled competitor. Cynthia Telep, representing Altrax

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Inc., a transit company that was disqualified by the board's review '::Ommittee, made what she called an "attempt to· clear up any misunderstandings before a contract was signed."

The Altrax system, according to Telep, would be less expensive for Auraria shidents because it would extend to the Tabor Center and draw from a larger downtown ridership than the other two proposed systems. Telep said the Altrax cars would travel 90 mph on the straight sections of the rail and could complete a one way trip in just under four minutes. She boasted a 5,000 person per hour capacity. "If you have a Michael Jackson concert the same night you have something else going.on over there (at the sports complex) we could handle it," Telep · said. One of the reasons Altrax was disqualified initially was that it didn't have an existing system in operation, a requirement the Auraria board established for all potential systems. Telep brought an engineer to testify that the system had run for about ten years on a 110 foot test track. The board listened to all the testimony from Telep and then cont. on pagr J.1


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