Chancellor fills in more of the organizational chart

In a March 7 letter to all faculty and staff members, Hemenway named people who will fill key positions in an administrative structure effective July 1.

Not all offices and individuals were identified. KU is conducting a search for a provost, the chief operating officer for the Lawrence campus, and many decisions about other offices have not been made, Hemenway said.

"I believe in the importance of communicating decisions that affect the university's faculty and staff as they are made," Hemenway said. "It is my hope that by sharing this information that those identified can now be included in the process of implementing the organizational change."

In January, Hemenway announced a new organizational structure for the university. Since then, an implementation team has worked with him to select people who will carry out many of the jobs he identified.

Throughout the fall semester, a 20-member team of faculty, staff and students advised Hemenway about changing KU's more-than-20-year-old organizational structure. Hemenway announced as priorities streamlining the administration, improving KU's use of technology, making the university more student centered and clearly defining individual job responsibilities.

In the reorganization, a position of vice chancellor for information services and dean of libraries was created. William J. Crowe, currently KU's dean of libraries, will hold that position. Computing services, Printing Services and Networking and Telecommunication Services, in addition to the libraries, will report to him. Crowe will report to the provost.

Positions reporting to the provost that have been filled are

• Associate provost for academic services - Kathleen A. McCluskey-Fawcett. Reporting to McCluskey-Fawcett will be the Office of Admissions, led by Deborah Sue Boulware; the Office of New Student Orientation, led by Kathryn N. Tuttle; the Office of the Registrar, led by Richard C. Morrell; and the University Scholarship Center, led by Martha H. Ruel. A new Office of Advising also will report to the associate provost.

• Associate provost for support services - Lindy Eakin. Reporting to Eakin will be the Office of the Budget, led by Richard L. McKinney; the Department of Human Resources, led by Marc Adin; the Office of the Comptroller, led by Kathe M. Shinham; the Department of Purchasing, led by Diane H. Goddard; the Department of Facilities Operations, led by Mike Richardson; and the Office of Environmental Safety, led by Mike Russell.

• Assistant provost - Sandra W. Gautt. She will be responsible for the Writing Center; the promotion and tenure, sabbatical leave and the distinguished professor appointment and review process; the Center for Teaching and Learning; and the ASTUTE Center.

• Assistant provost - Richard S. Givens. He will be responsible for university space assignment, lab and classroom equipment, the university's summer sessions, the Spencer Art Museum and the ROTC program.

• Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Recruitment - Maurice L. Bryan Jr.

• University ombudsman - Robert L. Shelton.

• Deans - A search continues for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean. The other deans will be Carl E. Locke Jr., engineering; Karen Symms Gallagher, education; Michael H. Hoeflich, law; Thomas Walter Sarowski, business; Ann T. Weick, social welfare; Peter G. Thompson, fine arts; John C. Gaunt, architecture and urban design; Jack E. Fincham, pharmacy; Mike Kautsch, journalism and mass communications; Robert J. Senecal, continuing education; Robert L. Stark, KU Regents Center; William J. Crowe, libraries; Andrew P. Debicki, graduate and international studies.

  Two deanships will be eliminated by July 1. The duties of the dean of educational services will be incorporated into those of the associate provost and those of the dean of international studies into those of the dean of graduate and international studies.

• Vice chancellor for student affairs - David A. Ambler. Reporting to Ambler will be the Office of Student Life, led by James R. Kitchen; the Department of Student Housing, led by Kenneth L. Stoner; the Kansas unions, led by James A. Long; the Student Health Center, led by James E. Strobl; the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services, led by Francis J. De Salvo Jr.; the Office of Student Financial Aid, led by Diane L. Del Buono; the University Placement Center, led by Terry E. Glenn.

• Vice chancellor for research and public service - Howard E. Mossberg (interim).

Offices such as the centers and institutes and the Kansas Geological Survey and Kansas Biological Survey will continue to report to the vice chancellor for research. The current reporting structure for the KU museums will continue.

Reporting directly to the chancellor's office will be the following:

Mary Burg, executive assistant and chief of staff; Robert Edwin Frederick, director of athletics; Victoria Thomas, general counsel; Richard L. Mann, university director of administration; Deborah J. Teeter, university director of institutional research; Tom Hutton, director of university relations; Marlin Rein, university director of budget and governmental relations. Burg served in a similar position for Hemenway at the University of Kentucky. She will join the staff April 15. KANU-FM, the university's public radio station, also will report to the Office of the Chancellor.