A new survey showed that Kansas University was still lagging on the hiring of minority faculty members. Officials said the school was working in the right direction but had encountered difficulty in finding qualified people to fill available openings. KU said it would continue to recruit in the minority field and felt its rate of progress was equal to that of most other schools in similar circumstances.

“President Reagan’s economic program is going to work” and will straighten out the sagging national economy, Reagan’s secretary of commerce said in a talk at KU. “I don’t think there is any doubt that the Reagan policies will make things work, in fact, they already are working,” said Malcolm Baldrige, the secretary. He added that the United States was prepared to do what was needed to stop what he described as repression of Eastern European nations – particularly Poland – by the Soviet Union. However, he stressed that the domestic situation had to be turned around first, and he felt there was good progress in that direction, with more to come soon. He addressed a group of about 200 at a KU Conference on U.S. Business and Economic Relations With Eastern Europe.