COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

NOTICE OF FACULTY MEETING

The faculty of the College will meet at
4:30 on Tuesday, October 19, in Fraser
Theatere All of us should be present to
welcome the new members. of the staff who
will be introduced at this meetings

ATTENDING FACULTY MEETINGS

The faculty of the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences makes up the heart

and soul of the College, which in turn
4s at the very center of the work of the
University of Kansase Consequently, the
faculty not only determines both the
policies of the Colleges but, to a very
large degree, affects the policies, the
standards, the trends, and the ideals of
the whole Universitye Membership in this
faculty, therefore, is not a thing to be
taken lightlye

We would like to suggest that the faculty
member who wishes to count himself an
effective member should attend its meet-
ings regularly and participate activelye
In these critical days, regular attendance
is more important than evere May we count
on your coming, not only to the first
meeting, but to every meeting throughout
the year? We will promise to have no

more meetings than are necessary and to
make each meeting as short and as snappy
as possiblee

CLASS CARDS

All class cards which have not yet been
returned should be sent to the office of
the dean concerned immediately, as we
wish to make up the grade sheets from
theme

NO MIDSEMESTER REPORTS

Since this term is so short, we are not
asking for any midsemester reportse How—
ever, it would be well for instructors to
report at once any student who is in
serious difficulty in his worke These
reports should be made on the deficiency
cards, a supply of which have been sent
to each departmental offices

FINAL EXAMINATIONS AND GRADES

Final examinations for the five-weeks'
term will be held at the last regular
class meeting of the classe Instructors

October 18, 1943

will please not make any exceptions as to
the time of the final,» Final grades
should be in the Registrar's office not
later than 24 hours after the examination,
and red cards for all failures are due at
the same time in the dean's offices

FALL ENROLLMENT

The enrollment in the College for this
term is 10lle This is larger than we
had expectede Most of these students
will undoubtedly continue in the winter
term, at which time we should have a few
more freshmen entering the College along
with a larger number of upper classmene
Consi@éring all the uncertainties in-
volved, our enrollment, both in the
College and in the University as a whole,
is very gratifyinge

WE KNOW IT*S HARD WORK

In the "good old days", during the en-
tire summer we had an eight-weeks*' term,
one enrollment, one group of students to
be instructed, one final set of grades to
be made out and recordéde By contrast,
during the past summer we have enrolled
for the following terms:

In May, for a five-weeks' term

and for a sixteen-weeks' term
In June, for an eight-weeks' term
In July, for a sixteen-weeks'’ term
In August, for a twelve-weeks' term
In September, for a five-weeks' term

These make a total of six programs, six
enrollments, six groups of students to
teach, six sets of grades to be recordcde
This has meant a great deal of hard work
for everybodye May we congratulate the
faculty and the office staffs, not cnly
for their willingness to do this extra
work, but for the uniformly fine spirit
of cooperation they have showne

Since we have now completely converted
our resources to the war effort, the
chances are that no new programs will
now be initiateds And with the "bugs"
pretty well worked out in the estab-
lished programs, we have a right to be-=
lieve we are over the "hump" and that
while much hard work lies ahead, yet the
tensions and difficulties caused by the
newness of things will be materially
easede Thanks, and good luck’