Jordan Continued from Page 1 to maximize them,” said Steve Garban, senior vice president for finance and operations and treasurer. “He knew that strategic planning was a concept that was new to Penn State. He didn’t wait for the concept to be absorbed by everyone,” said William W. Asbury, vice president for student services. The planning procedure starts with each academic, research and adminis trative unit determining its goals for a five-year period and the resources nec essary to those goals. Using this list, the president, working with the Budget Task Force and the Budget and Planning Committee, implements guidelines to follow in plan ning the budget. Besides giving colleges an outlet to request funding, the planning process also allows presidents to make their own initiatives, as Jordan did in the cre ation of the School of Communications in 1985. A Jordan brainchild, the School of Communications was based on the old School of Journalism in the College of Liberal Arts, and has since been rated among the top seven such schools in the nation. William Dulaney, associate dean of the college, said the strategic plan pro vided office space and equipment for the college and also funded hiring more faculty. The College of Health and Human Development was created in 1987 as a result of a reorganization of the old Col lege of Human Development and the College of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. University administra tors found that several programs within both colleges were putting an emphasis on health studies, and decided to com bine the colleges. “At the time that all this happened, we were deep into strategic planning, and the strategic planning revealed that the two colleges were arriving at a lot of the same things,” said Herberta M. Lundergen, associate dean for the College of Health and Human Devel opment. Campus construction, such as the Biotechnology Institute and the in-pro gress Agricultural Science and Industry Building, resulted from the first five year plan. Jordan said a prime example of the importance of strategic planning is the University’s science and engineering research, as well as undergraduate edu cation in the College of Engineering. Execution Continued from Page 1 view early in the morning on the sched uled day of execution. The prisoners stay with their minister in a cell on death row, Anderson said, until about 9 that night. Twelve witnesses, the executioner and the minister wait in the execution chamber for the prisoner, said Jack Allar, Rockview’s deputy superinten dent. Six witnesses are members of the media, chosen by the governor’s office, and the remaining six are chosen by the University President Bryce Jordan applaudes as the Penn State varsity cheerleaders lead a class of 1990 pep rally in Rec Hall. When Jordan arrived in 1983. he found the college in disarray research pro posals were dwindling. And the college was in danger of failing guidelines set by the Accreditation Board for Engi neering and Technology, which rates teaching programs at science colleges every six years. At the time, the ratio of students to faculty in the college resulted in crowded classrooms and a poor learn ing environment, said Carl H. Wolge muth, associate dean for undergraduate studies in the College of Engineering. The college also lacked sufficient up-to date laboratory equipment for those stu dents, he said. Under the plan, the college placed controls on admissions and the Univer sity implemented tuition surcharges for engineering students to cover the cost of new laboratory equipment. The college kept its accreditation ranking in 1984. Losing the accredita tion, which measures minimum stan dards, would have have shattered the college’s image, Wolgemuth said. University President-select Joab L. Thomas said last week he would con- prison superintendent. The prisoner is placed in the oak chair. Guards strap down his arms, feet and chest. Officials place electrodes on the prisoner’s scalp and leg and a leath er mask is draped over his head, Ander son said. During the actual process of electro cution, about 2,300 volts of electricity are sent through the prisoner’s body, according to a 1986 Pittsburgh Post Gazette article. The body's temperature increases, in tinue the five-year plans. Although the second five-year strategic plan is already in progress, the process allows for periodic reassessment of priorities so the new president will not be bound by current guidelines, Jordan said. ■ ■ ■ The second leg of Jordan’s master plan was the Campaign for Penn State the University’s first major private fund raiser. Originally slated to raise $2OO million over five years, it was extended by a year and $lOO million. The campaign raised $352 million. Launching a major campaign in a Uni versity without a strong tradition of fund raising required some manage ment changes, including the hiring of G. David Gearhart as senior vice pres ident for development and University relations. The Campaign for Penn State is among the top five private fund-raising campaigns initiated by public universi ties. Endowed positions, which provide faculty members with extra funds for research, rose from 19 to 140 during the campaign. some instances rising to 150 degrees. As the current is started and stopped, Anderson said, the prisoner’s flesh burns slightly. If Greenleaf’s legislation is adopted, most of the pre-execution activity, such as transfering the prisoner to Rockview, will remain the same. But for the actual execution, the pris oner would be strapped to a table and intravenous needles inserted into his arm. Tubes would connect the needles to a bottle of saline solution containing Gearhart said the University will con tinue its private fund-raising efforts with smaller campaigns which will focus on specific parts of the University, such as the Hershey Medical Center and the library system. ■ ■ ■ Although deans and administrators have said strategic planning and the Campaign for Penn State were success ful, Jordan’s stool tilts badly on what he admits is its short leg state funding. But securing appropriations has been difficult in Pennsylvania, which was ranked 47th among the 50 for per-capita funding of higher education in 1986, the last year for which figures are avail able. When Jordan entered office, state funds accounted for about 25 percent of the University’s budget. About 20 per cent of the 1990-91 budget comes from state funds. For the past 23 years, the state has been unable to fund the University’s full appropriation request. To make up the balance the University has raised tuition. Although Jordan said before he began his term that tuition was increas ing at an alarming rate, he still con tends that a Penn State education is a relative bargain. Tuition for in-state undergraduate students was $2,118 per year when Jor dan took office. It is now $3,978. Individual colleges also feel the sting of insufficient state funding, and must often seek government and corporate grants to make ends meet. “It certainly has been a concern and a problem in our college,” said John A. Brighton, dean of the College of Engineering. “I think Dr. Jordan has made tre mendous efforts to put that information in front of the legislators,” Brighton said. State Rep. Roger Madigan, R-Brad ford, also a University trustee, said Jor dan established a good rapport with the state legislature by being forthright about the University’s funding needs. ■ ■ ■ Jordan took the helm of the University at a critical time when opportunities opened up for research institutions, said William C. Richardson, Jordan’s for mer executive vice president and pro vost. “President Jordan set the University on a very ambitious course in 1983 that would have been very difficult other wise,” said Richardson, now president of Johns Hopkins University. two drugs: one a fast-acting barbiturate that renders the prisoner unconscious, usually within 30 seconds ; the other a muscle paralyzing agent that will either stop the lungs or the heart. Death usually occurs within three minutes. Bill Andrign, council to the House Judiciary Committee, said Greenleaf’s bill to change the state’s means of exe cution to lethal injection will probably be considered in the fall. 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But Thomas, impressed by the high er-level biology courses, caught the tea ching bug his senior year and finished his master’s and doctoral degrees in biology at Harvard. With some financial support from his parents, Thomas put himself through school through scholarships and odd jobs, including a stint as a porter and several on campus paint crews. “I was rather frugal,” Thomas said. “I didn’t spend much money while I was there, and I didn’t dress too well." But his shabby clothes made no dif ference to Marly Dukes, a Radcliffe Col lege sophomore from Idaho, when the two met at a youth group open house in Cambridge, Mass. “I was attracted to him from the very beginning,” she said. They married on Dec. 22, 1954 in Boise, Idaho and returned to Cambridge to finish college. Thomas said his Harvard education gave him valuable experience in under standing the North. But after two years as a Harvard teaching fellow, he decid ed to move South again. “I considered very seriously staying at Harvard,” Thomas said. “But I just decided it would be to my advantage to add some diversity to my life.” In 1961, a decade after turning down the Crimson Tide football scholarship, Thomas returned to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and worked his way up the ranks of assistant, associate and full professor of biology. He was appointed dean for student development in 1969, and in that position perfected a knack for relating to stu dents a talent that remained after his 1976 appointment as chancellor of the North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Nash Winstead, N.C. State’s vice chancellor and provost, said on at least one occassion, Thomas went to a bar with a group of students. “That was, of course, in the time when the law said you only had to be 18 to drink,” said Winstead, who was Thomas’ partner in a Raleigh wine-tast ing group. And as a caveat to Penn State students, he added; “Don’t get into a constest with him he can turn a beer upside-down faster than anyone here." Thomas established a good rapport with students and he was equally able to communicate with the North Caroli na state legislature, Winstead said. “It was really something to see him go up and outline the system’s needs before the legislators,” Winstead said. In 1981, Thomas returned to Alabama as president, and served for seven years The Daily Collegian Tuesday, July 31,1990 as the university’s minority recruitment increased. Thomas said he wants to improve this area at Penn State. Thomas has a keen understanding of issues facing African-American stu dents, said Cordell Wynn, a member of the University of Alabama Board of Trustees and president of Stillman Col lege a traditionally-black college in Tuscaloosa. “He’s had exposure," Wynn said. “Upbringing is part of exposure. He’s had the opportunity to associate, to be around black people. He cared enough to learn. I've had some pretty tough experiences with northerners. I have found a lot of northern whites to be patronizing on-the-surface.” Thomas initiated a partnership between the two institutions through which Stillman students could complete two degrees at both institutions in five years, Wynn said. Thomas resigned from the Alabama presidency in 1988, following some fans disapproval of his choice of Bill Curry as Alabama’s football coach. Curry had a losing record at Georgia Tech, but also displayed a committment to aca demics. The media attention over reported death threats was overblown, Thomas said. He resigned to return to teaching biology at Alabama, not because of the controversy over Curry, he said. “There was one such telephone call, and that’s all there was,” Marly Thom as said. “I did not feel threatened per sonally." Following his resignation, Thomas took a semester's sabbatical at N.C. State to study plant pathology. As an outdoorsman, Thomas enjoys his studies nearly as much as fishing, hunting and hiking. “One of the delighful things of being a botanist as a professional is that you get to spend a good deal of time in the outdoors professional time, which doesn’t feel like work,” he said. “I wouldn’t rule out the possibility, but by the time I finish a full career at Penn State, I will be pretty close to retirement age, and I don’t know if 1 d be able to teach,” Thomas said. vox Collegian File Photo Joab Thomas YAMAHA Power Amp 18 Watt x 4 with Noise Reduction , 149 00 D6OII J? $179“ Watt x 2 RMS Bridgeable S/N Ration 110 dB
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