CHANCELLOR’S REPORT

To the Governor and the Kansas Board of Regents:
I have the honor to present the report of the University of Kansas for the
biennium 1942-1944.

THE UNIVERSITY’S WAR SERVICE

During this period the University trained 6,824 soldiers, sailors, and marines
for the United States armed services. The soldiers received basic collegiate,
pre-medic, and medical training, the sailors received training in advanced engi-
neering, pre-medicine, medicine, mechanics and electrical techniques, and flying,
and the marines in flying. In addition, the University trained in this biennium
the greater part of the 50,000 war workers who were given courses in the Ex-
tension Division to fit them for industrial war plants, chiefly in the aviation
industry. This University ranked third in the nation in the number of war
workers given this sort of training. A United States cadet program for the
training of nurses for war service was also inaugurated.

Under the contracts with the federal government, the University has been
paid substantially the cost of instruction, housing, and messing. No profit has
been permitted by the federal government, but the income has helped ma-
terially to offset the reduction in income resulting from the loss of civilian
tuition payments which normally bring in to the University about one-fourth
of its total income. :

ENROLLMENT

Including both civilian and military programs, the enrollment in the Uni-
versity has continued at approximately prewar levels, an attendance record
‘equaled by few universities. (See Table 1 in the Appendix.) In all these pro-
grams the University has been entirely responsible for all the academic instruc-
tion. Work has been continued in all branches of the University, with a cur-
» tailed staff in those departments which warranted reductions.

ACCELERATED PROGRAM

Since July 1, 1943, the University has operated on a year-round basis of
three semesters of sixteen weeks, beginning November first, March first, and
July first. This accelerated program, developed in the interest of the war
effort and synchronizing as nearly as possible the civilian program with the
military, was made possible by the special summer session appropriation spe-_
cifically provided by the legislature for this purpose. While the year-round
program will be discontinued at the end of the 1944-’45 academic year, the de-
mand from returning servicemen and other students already has been estab-
lished for an eight weeks summer session with a much wider range of courses
than ever were offered before the war. To meet the needs of this group and
thus to enable them to accelerate their programs, a special appropriation will
be required.

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