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Wednesday, April 21. 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Assembly rejects proposed withdrawal policy
The College Assembly yesterday rejected a recommendation by the Educational Press and Procedures Committee (EPPC) for more restrictive class withdrawal policy.
The policy, which would have limited course withdrawal to the first four weeks of the semester, was said to be too vague and was sent back to EPPC for re-assessment.
The major complaint was that the method
of policy implementation needed to be more clearly delided.
James Carothers, assistant professor of English and chairman of EPPC, said the policy recommendation, if accepted, could help prevent University's trend of unusually high grades.
"We can't prove that the present with- orway system adds to grade inflation," he said.
restricted withdrawal system will cause a grade deflation."
KU agency to control police training center
Carothers said that since implementation of the present system in 1973, annual course withdrawal after the fourth week of school was introduced. In addition to the Liberal Arts and Sciences programs.
A bill to give the University's Division of Continuing Education control over the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center will be approved yesterday by Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
That cut probably won't affect KU.
The governor also exercised a line-item veto to cut $404,000 in computer program funds from a general appropriations bill for the Department of Education; control of the Kansas Board of Regents.
The training center has been controlled by State Institute of Social and Envyprogression.
Robert Senecal, associate dean of the Division of Continuing Education, said that the change was made to give responsibility for ensuring student experience in advanced training programs.
Senecal said he didn't yet know whether there would be major changes in the center of the city.
Senecal said the bill also expanded the police training program to who now would have authority to certify and approve separate police training programs operated by individual communities or organizations.
Attempts made in the legislature to increase the mandatory number of hours for basic police training from the current 160 to 240 hours were unsuccessful, Senecal said.
Bennett's line-item veto, a method of vetoting individual items in general appropriations measures without vetoring the entire bills, will cut computer facility funding for the five other state colleges and universities.
The veto, the governor's first cut in the Regents' fiscal 1977 funding, should not affect UK, according to Richard Von Ende, executive secretary.
Bennett blamed in his announcement of vetoes made yesterday the legislature for overspending. Among his other vetoes was a bill that would allow research center at Kansas State University.
Those cuts left open the possibility that Bennett might make further line-levet cuts.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said last night that he hadn't expected
Bernett's veto and that he hoped there
were vetoes in KU's budget appropriations.
"I'm just glad we got our computer funds last year," he said.
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Bell will present a slide show which includes a wide range of works from past and present.
He has worked in New York City since 1940 and has an extensive record of painting exhibitions throughout the United States. As a faculty member of the New York Studio School, he also is known as a teacher and a lecturer.
Bell is a Hallmark Visiting Artist Lestor for the painting and sculpture department.
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Two other recommendations by EPPC—a set of guidelines designed to “bring back credibility to the Special Majors program” and deletion of the ampersand policy from beginning foreign language courses—were unanimously approved by the assembly.
He said that students enrolled in these courses worked just as hard as any other student and therefore deserved actual course credit for their effort.
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Carothers said the ampersand policy—a policy in which credit hours for certain courses aren't counted toward the student's grade point average to the student and needed to be abolished.
In other assembly business, J. Michael Young, associate professor of philosophy and chairman of the Committee for the Advancement of Instruction and Advising (CAIA), submitted a four-part report detailing the workings of the present Freshman-Sophomore Advising system within Nunemaker Center.
Carothers said that the Special Majors program had recently become an attractive academic loophole for many students who undercut the workload of traditional majors.
He said that the new guidelines would help to return the program to the innovative and creative aspects for which it was intended.
There is general satisfaction among advisers with the present system, he said, but the most persistent complaint from them was that too few students show up to be advised.
Other common complaints, Young said, which were lodged by both advisers and students were lack of preparation and clear course in course and degree requirements.
Assembly opinion was heard regarding the right for student voting privileges on the Faculty. Appointments, Promotions and Resumes. No formal decision was reached.
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