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Monday, December 11, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Students receive counseling help
Often students arrive at college looking in several professional directions. Later many find themselves in scholastic trouble or in doubt about their future plans. More than 1,000 of these KU students were counseled, free of charge, last year by the University's Guidance Bureau, located in 116 Bailey Hall.
E. Gordon Collister, director, said the Bureau's purposes are to serve as a counseling center for students and instructors and a testing agency within the University. The bureau's staff, which includes eight full-time counseling psychologists, also fills teaching appointments and does research.
Important in counseling students on occupational suitability are interest and personality inventories. Collister does not release names of specific tests administered by the Bureau. He said, often a student, who has heard about the test from a friend or has read about one in a magazine, will come to the Bureau wanting to take a particular test, even though it may not be suited to his problem.
Collister said interest inventories compare the individual's likes and dislikes with those of persons successful in various fields. Personality inventories show how the individual would cope with certain jobs. For example, if he were a door-to-door salesman, would he enjoy meeting people and how would he react to an angry customer. Neither of these tests deal with ability.
KU's Guidance Bureau is the only agency in Kansas accredited by the American Board of Counseling Services. Three staff members are psychological consultants for the Veterans Administration.
Responsible for administering KU placement exams during KU Previews, the Bureau gave exams to 8,000 entering freshmen this past summer. Results were in the hands of counselors the morning following test day.
Administers placement exams
The director explained that the Bureau's staff wants students to come in and discuss their problem. Then the staff will decide what tests need to be given.
"Usually college students know what they can do. They realistically evaluate what they have done and how they function as a person," Collister said. "Aptitude tests are not usually as beneficial to college students as to high school students.
"Most college guidance bureaus were started after World War II." Collister said. "Mostly because of the GI Bill."
KU's Guidance Bureau was initiated in 1944 by Austin Turney, then a professor in education. The Bureau, like many University services, started as "a room in the basement of Strong Hall." When Collister, who has his doctorate from Syracuse University, came in 1950, offices were in old barracks buildings behind Strong.
Collister said the approach to counseling college students about occupations has changed.
Students can go to the Bureau in person or call the office in order to make an appointment for counseling. The Bureau counsels the same proportion of students from each college class. Collister said his office is usually swamped before finals or after exams.
Collister said all records kept by the Bureau are locked in files and not released without the student's permission.
"Surprising enough, our slack period is late September," he said.
"We are confidential. This isn't something to be talked about over a cup of coffee," he said.
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WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Senate liberals are working to enlist President Johnson and dollar-short state governors in a fight to kill a Social Security bill containing a freeze in the nation's largest welfare program.
Unless they win an uphill battle, an adjournment-minded Congress seemed certain to approve a package providing a $3.6 billion a year increase in Social Security payments to 23.8 million Americans late this week.
The House may act Wednesday on a bill that Chairman Wilbur Mills, D-Ark., of the Ways & Means Committee can call his own.
Controversial welfare curbs in the amendment carry both political and racial overtones on the eve of an election year. A band of Senate liberals, led by Finance Committee members, are attempting to eliminate the welfare restrictions.
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Liberals fight SS bill
Under the bill, local Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) would be subject to a cutback in federal funds starting July 1. The provision would prohibit federal aid to recipients going on the rolls in excess of the enrollment level as of Jan. 1, 1968.
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Currently, the federal government pays $2 billion a year to cover its share of the federal-state programs providing aid for five million persons. Most of the checks go to mothers in major cities without fathers to support their children.
AFDC enrollments have made welfare costs one of the largest single state budget items. The freeze would force states either to pay a greater share of welfare costs or make it tougher for persons to get on the AFDC rolls.
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