University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 27, 1976
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Recommendation letters unchanged by Buckley rule
By BILL UYEKI Staff Writer
Professors at the University of Kansas say the Buckley Amendment hasn't influenced their responses to letters of recommendations. And two University officials say adjustment to the amendment is going smoothly now.
The amendment, sponsored by Sen.
James Buckley, Conservative—N.Y., gave
students the right to see any reac-
mentations in their files written after Jan.
1975.
However, some KU professors said this week that most students are preferring not to study at KU.
Following passage of the bill, many people said professors would be less willing to write letters of recommendation because students had access to them.
Most professors interviewed who write letters for students applying to graduate
schools said their recommendation letters weren't affected by open student files.
"I haven't had any attention to the Brooke Amendment, Clark Bricker, pricker, or the Board."
Bricker said he wrote at least 100 recommendations each semester.
Most letters aren’t helpful to graduate schools, he said, unless they contain very little.
Charles Hallenbeck, professor of psychology, said students weren't very concerned with access to their records. Most recommendation letters, he said, were "a piece of cake" because they contained an attractive and attractive traits of students.
George Worth, chairman of the English department, said most students waived their rights to their files to get "more and helpful letters" from the faculty.
John McNown, professor of civil
engineering, said more than 90 per cent of the students who waived their right to see recommendations.
Letters would lose their value and become "less forthright," he said, if increasing numbers of students chose to see their recommendations.
Nita Sundaby, professor of education,
said only the wording, and not content, of
her recommendations would be affected by
an open student file.
John Willingham, professor of English, said, "I have simply stopped writing letters for people who wanted to scrutinize their files."
Loda Newcomb, assistant director of the Education Placement Bureau (EPB), which serves more than 2,500 students in the School of Education, said an instructor won't write a letter if he doesn't know the student well or has anything good to say.
"When I write a letter of recommendation, I always write my true perception of the person," she said, "but I might be more cautious about the wording."
Actually, letters of recommendation aren't required by all graduate schools, Arnold Weiss, assistant dean of the Graduate School, said. There is no requirement on recommendations, he said, and it is up each department to decide its own policy.
The percentage of students who elect to see their files is very small, said Willingham, who writes about 40 recommendations a year.
"The students can't get a letter from one
pessimist, they'll go to someone else," she said.
Dwight Mulford, dean for admissions at the Medical Center, and Evelyn Senecal, a psychologist for the School of Law, both said recommendations weren't required for application.
He said some of the past problems were caused by "interim" regulations from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). The University is now operating under those regulations, Davis said.
Davis said that he didn't know if or when the final regulations would become law but that he hoped the regulations would be more explicit than the previous ones.
that it had taken some time for University schools and departments to adopt the amendment's regulations, but that there wasn't much trouble now.
Mike Davis, University attorney, said
Recommendation letters in graduate school files can be seen by the student only if he is accepted and enrolled in the graduate schools, he said.
According to a higher education agency's newsletter, HEW Sec. F. David Matthes has received an 138-paper draft of final documents. The department will be reviewed by the secretary's staff.
Some problems have been caused at the University by another provision of the amendment. The student must sign a notice of information in his files can be released.
So much confusion in police and parking resulted from the University's attempt to interpret the amendment's regulations, that the University fired a protest with HEW.
Some of the problems with the Buckley Amendment still exist in police and parking. If a KU student and a non-student have the same license, his student's name can be withdrawn from the news media, whereas the non-student's name is released. Also, if a student's stare were stolen, his name can't be released to insurance company until he signs a release.
Mike Thomas, director of police and parking, said his department hadn't received any formal complaints about problems caused by the amendment.
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