Jordan
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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.
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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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Thomas’s wife, Marly, said his knee
no longer bothers him, although it does
signal some weather changes.
A star fullback, Thomas was offered
a full scholarship to the University of i
Alabama, but turned it down in favor of
Harvard University’s biology program.
“It was quite an adjustment to go
from a small high school to Harvard. It
was very demanding,” Thomas said.
Although he came from a family of
educators, Thomas wanted to follow in
the footsteps of his brother, James, now
a Tuscaloosa physician.
“He had been a hero for me,” Thom
as said.
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.
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