News Scrapbook 1979

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LOS ANGELES TIMES AUG 14 1979 USD Selects Education Dean A 47-year-old Marquette University associate dean has been named dean of the University of San Diego's school gf.. e~tion. ward F. DeRoche succeeds Father William E. Elliott, who is now vicar of education for the Diocese of San Diego. DeRoche has written seven books and dozens of articles and has produced educational television programs. He holds a doctorate in curriculum and administration from the University of Connecticut and two master degrees. At Marquette in Wisconsin, he served as education professor, associate dean of education and deaprtment chairman for administration and curriculum.

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SU I NEWS Wednesday, August 8 1979 On the classical side, the Thouvenel Quartet, resident string quartet for the Community Arts Chamber Music Workshop, will offer a benefit concert on Aug. 10, 8 p.m. at 'Ciwing H:th llnjygrsjty of San Diego~ The program consist of quartet compos1bons by Mozart, Ernst Krenek, and Beethoven. Tickets are $5, a donation that goes for a scholarship fund. Call 295-21 for more information.

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Vi iting Ensemble, the Thouvenel Sering Quartet will perform Mozart's Quartet in F Maior, K. 590; Beethoven's "Serioso," Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95; and String Quartet No. 2, Op. 8 by Ernst Krenek, Friday, August IO, 8 p.m., Camino Hall, usp Alcala P;u-~291-6480.

"Why Women Aren't l\laklng It in Sao Diego" will be discussed by Carol Morris, Faixersitv of San D1e~o business administration school assistant professor, at t e Women in Communications meeting Fnday noon at the Seven Seas Lodge.

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lcl5~ Tr~ ~. Au.El. 1~:~ Mc lroy Resigns as {hancellor of UCSD Embattled Administrator Will Return to Teaching After Leaving Post Next Year

Tuesday, August 14, 1979

THE SAN DIEG

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CHANGE DATES FROM '60S College Heads Have Little Security·

"Well under five years." or the chancellors of the nine University of California campuses, only three - Dame! G. Aldrich of UC Irvine, James H. Meyer of UC Davis and Charles E. Young of UCLA - have survived longer than 10 years. The other six were appointed in the early to late 1970s. The same is true of the California State University and College system, where only three - John F. Pfau at San Bernardino, Ellis B. ~TcCune at Hayward and James W. Cleary at Northridge - of the 19 university or college presidents have endured a decade or more. "Once upon a time, these jobs were quite secure," said Clark Kerr, cha1rman of the Carnegie Council on Higher Education in Berkeley. "You used to say the appointments were for life. Today, the average is five to six years." Kerr, former president of the UC system, was himself fired by the university regents in 1967, at least partly as a result of his handling of student demonstrations at UC Berkeley three years before. "As of 1970, anybody who had been in office two years in the top 50 institutions of the country was half- way up the seniority list," Kerr said. Both Day and Kerr said the time in office of college executives fell off sharply starting in the 1960s. "First of all, there was the student revolt," Kerr said. "Then institu-

lions began rwming into financial difficulties. After that, enrollment started dropping off. With each new crisis, some more people bit the dust. Each crisis gets blamed on whoever's in office at the time." Although college presidents and chancellors are not elected to their posts in California, both Day and Kerr likened the roles to that of a politician subject to the ballot. "You have constituencies - stu- dents, faculty, the Legislature, ath- letics, the general public in some areas," Day said. ' It does not take very many people to generate an enormous amount of pressure. Afew hate letters can blow you out of office." "This isn't good for higher educa- tion," Kerr said. "You're getting short-term presidents applying short-term, expedient solutions to long-term problems."

By GREG GROSS

Stoff Wr,ter, Tllf Son 0,190 Uni..

If William D. MCEiroy serves until the deadlme for his rcsignallon next July, he will have been chancellor of UCSD for mne years That 1s more than twice the time of anv of his predecessors and almost twice as long as the average tenure of his colleagues nationwide. What once was a cozy position of virtually lifelong authority is now a politicized hot seat, routinely vacat- ed - sometimes willingly, some- times not - every five years, say present and former university lead- ers. ''There is no SP.curlty in the job, as such," said San Diego State Univer- sity President Thomas B. Day, who took charge of that campus last year after leaving the University of Mary- land. "I'm the sixth president that San Diego State has had in 80 years, but my predecessor, Brage Golding, was here only five years." UCSD is only 18 years old, but it has had four chancellors - Herbert F. York, from 1961 to 1964; John S. Galbraith, 1964-1968; William J. McGill, 1968-1970, and York again as interim chancellor until cEJroy was appointed in 1971 "My recollection is that the a~er- age lifetime of a college pre. ident m office is under five years," Day said.

BYLANIE IONFS 1'1-Slaff-

LA JOLLA - Two months after vowing he would not quit in the face of a faculty no-confidence vote, UC San Diego's embattled Chancellor William D. McElroy announced Mon- day he will resign. McElroy. 62, met with UC President David Saxon Friday to tender his resignation - effective as soon as a successor is found but no later than July_ 1, 1980 - then notified top administrators and the news media Monday morning. He has been chan- cellor for seven years. McElroy told reporters he was leaving "because I wanted to, because I'd had enough of it - everything - administration, fund-raising, scram- bling for budgets up north, you name it. It's not the easiest job in the world. trying to keep up with students and staff and faculty." The chancellor said he will give up his $58,000-a-year job to return to full-time work at UCSD as a professor and researcher of · e biology at a salary of $40,600. Both McElroy and Saxon denied that top administrators had pressured McElroy into resigning. "Did I put the screws to him?" Saxon asked rhetorically in a tele- phone interview. "No."

ATTENTIVE LISTENER-Eric McBroy, 10, listens while his father announces his resignation as UC San Diego chancellor at o press conference. Tlma phate"7111111Md>oaach M'ELROY RESIGNATION Continued from First Page ton in 1943 and had served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.

running a major university with a lame- duck chancellor, with some decisions possi- bly delayed. But the chancellor said with a smile, "As long as you hold onto a certain amount of (budget) money, you always have a certain amount of power, and I always keep a reserve." McElroy said his decision to resign and return to teaching was one he had been planning for some time. The faculty vote of censure, he said, ''probably moved my time scale up maybe a year and a half but I was about ready to get out anyway. Eight years of this office (by last July) is enough." "I'm very happy I'm stepping down," he said. He stoutly maintained he is in good health. McElroy's wife Marlene and 10-year-old son Eric sat quietly to one side as McElroy made his public announcemenl "I don't really mind, "Eric said of his father's resig- nation. "I think he needs a resL" McElroy joined UCSD as chancellor in February, 1972, after serving the previous 2½ years as head of the National Science Foundation. A 1939 graduate of Stanford University, he received a ,Ph.D. in biology from Prince-

During his tenure, the student population of UCSD grew from 6,800 to 10,8000 and outside grants jumped from $G2 million to $100 million. ThoughMcElroy has enjoyed strong sup- port from business and community leaders in San Diego, he angered his faculty this spring when he sought to strlf his vice chancellor for academic affairs o responsi- bility for university research. McElroy was forced to back down from that decision as a result offaculty pressure. He had failed to consult the faculty in that and a host of other decisions in recent years, faculty leaders said in voting to censureMcE!roy. In deciding to step down, McElroy ac- knowledged the recent bitterness and said he hoped it would not carry over to his successor. "Obviously some people will be concerned about that," he said. "But a new person will do a lot to calm that down." As the press conference ended, McElroy's wife Marlene gave her husband a thumbs-up sign and arm-in-arm with their son they headed for lunch.

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Dr. McElroy Resigns As UCSD Chancellor

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(Continued from A-1) Science Foundation with McElroy, "said some time ago that he would step down if I did, but I don't know if he will do that at this time " Sisco twice )·efused to make him- ,elf avai,able for comment. His staff members dcmed a rrport that he had announced his resignation to them. Dr. Paul Saltman, the \1Ce chan- cellor acactPmic affairs ...,hose eonfhct O\er a change ~1eElroy or- dered m his responsibilities led to the faculty senate votes of no confi- dence also said he would not step down Althoi.gh Saltman repeatedly has said he is not interested in !)('coming chancellor here, he said yesterday that ' 1f the faculty, regents and !'resident Saxon want me as chan- cellor I will serve them in that position, but I will not seek il.' Saltman resignrd as a result of :\kElroy's Junr action but returnrd

to his Job a few days later. He said yesterday that he returned at the request of the faculty, not MrElroy, and therefore felt no pressure to resign because MCEiroy had quit. Vice Chancellors Richard H. Ar- nutage and H.P Johnson, responsi- ble for student affairs and business and finance management, respec- tively, said they would also stay at their posts until asked to step down by the new administration. Vice Chancellor William A. Nierenberg said that because he also is princi- pally the director of the Scripps Institution or Oceanography, a resig- 11at10n does not apply to him. The sixth vice chancellor, Dr. John H 'vloxley of the School of , ledicine, is in Europe and could not bP reached yesterday Another top adviser, Assistant Chancellor David E. Ryer, who also came with 1cElroy from the '.'lation- al Science Foundation, aid he will (Continued on A-7, Col. I)

mined effoH to bridge the awful gulf of the past seven years, but the damage could not be repa1red," said one faculty leader who asked not to be identified. Professor William R. Frazer, pres- ident of the statewide Academic Sen- ate and a physics professor at UCSD, said, "Like everyone else, I was completely surprised by the chancellor's action. However, it will allow a graceful transition to a new admmistration. I don't know if it was the best possible solution, but I think it is a good one." Saxon said yesterday that the UC regents will immediately appoint a committee of five regents to start a nationwide search for McElroy's successor. That committee, which will be an advisory body to Saxon, will expand to include faculty mem- bers recommended by the UCSD senate and members nominated by the campus student body and alum- ni. :\-lcElroy told Saxon he will serve as chancellor until his successor is appointed, or until July l, 1980, whichever comes first. McElroy will then have completed nine years as chancellor at liCSD.

Earlier, he was chairman of the department of biology at Johns Hop- kins University in Baltimore and head of the National Science Foun- dation. Yesterday, McElroy said he had already received several offers, but he would not move "because my wife would kill me." His wife said later that if there is a change in the national administra- tion as a result of the 1980 election, she believes he will receive "offers from Washington and New York which will be very hard for him to reiect." But, McElroy said, "Yes, I will."

be moving to a similar position at the UCSD Medical Center within a month. "That had been planned before Chancellor McE!rov announced his resignation," he safo. Faculty members generally agreed that McElroy's action was in the best interests of reuniting a campus that had been divided over the bitter no confidence vote. In the June conflict, the academic senate accused McElroy of repeat- edly failing to include them in gov- ernmental decisions on campus. Yesterday, :'v1cElroy said he had made several appointments since then that assured faculty participa- tion in all decisions, and he believed he had gone a long way toward solving his difficulties with the facul- ty. However, some faculty leaders said McElrov's efforts had failed because he had appointed only peo- ple who were loyal to him and, although there was an appearance of better communications, relations with the senate were still poor. "The chancellor made a deter-

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STEPPING DOWN - UCSD Chancellor William D. McElroy appears to be jovial during press conference announcing his resignation. Tima polo l,y ,o1111 McDoatqh