Department to drop leisure
studies major
By Laura Pelner
Campus
Editor
At their meeting Friday, the board of trustees
approved a proposal to change the name of a department in the School
of Liberal Arts, the department of health, kinesiology and leisure studies
will now be called the department of health and kinesiology.
Thomas Templin, head of the department, wrote in
a letter to Provost Sally Frost Mason that the department has changed
a lot in the last three years. To that end, he said the most significant
change is removing the leisure studies major from the undergraduate
program to better reflect what the department does.
"Faculty resources were limited, student enrollments
were very small and the number of majors in the program was small as
well," Templin wrote. "The decision to eliminate the program could no
longer be delayed and the faculty made this difficult decision in the
fall of 1997."
Hiring architects
The board of trustees approved hiring two architects
for two projects, though both are associated with Discover Park, an
area that will house science and engineering oriented facilities.
Flad & Associates of Madison, Wis., was hired
to begin plans for the Biosciences/Engineering research laboratory.
The project budget is $15 million, which will come from gift funds.
Goody Clancy & Associates of Boston was hired
to create plans for the Center for Entrepreneurship, which will include
a lecture room and a facility to house laboratories, meeting rooms and
a café. The project budget is $7 million, which will also come
from gift funds.
Both the motions the board passed Friday call for
the architects to only begin making design plans. Different proposals
will be made in the future for project approval.
Faculty survey results
Lawrence Glickman, professor of epidemiology and
environmental health, briefly presented to the trustees Friday the results
of a faculty survey conducted last year.
The survey had about 300 questions and 876 faculty
members participated, Glickman said. He said the full results would
be released this week.
According to the survey results, Purdue faculty
is interested in recruiting and retaining preeminent faculty, and two-thirds
of the respondents said getting good faculty could be a problem in the
future.
Glickman said two-thirds of Purdue faculty also
reported working between 41 and 60 hours a week, and one-fourth reported
working more than 60 hours a week. The faculty said they spend the majority
of their time teaching or working on academic-related activities.
"Purdue faculty highly value teaching and are pleased
with the balance between teaching and research," Glickman said.
The survey results will be posted on the Internet
soon.
Posthumous degree
The board of trustees approved creating a posthumous
degree for Mihee Yi, a student from Racine, Wis., who was a senior in
political science.
Yi was only one course short of fulfilling her
graduation requirements when she was killed in an automobile accident
May 31, 2001.
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