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University Daily Kansan
Aim of no-need awards debated
ByLYNDASMITH
Staff Writer
In recent years, the issue of no-need scholarships has been a volatile one in financial aid. Funds in national financial aid programs are waning, but more universities and colleges across the country are making no-need awards.
The term "no-need" has been used to describe a grant or scholarship for which financial need isn't a consideration when the grant or scholarship is given.
This burden on aid resources was partly lifted in 1972 when Higher Education Amendments of 1972 created a publicly funded program (the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant) to help low-income students.
SINCE 1985, the first year of full federal student aid programs, national student aid resources have fallen short of student need because of increased living and tuition
The results of a recent survey in the College Board Review shows that, of 265 public universities pollled, 148 are making Nine are considering offering the awards.
IS FINANCIAL AID intended to remove restraints from a student's choice of college, or is it a recruiting tool? In a no-need scholarship, is money squandered on students who fail to complete it, or is it against the counter declining academic standards and enrollments?
The existence of these types of scholarships has raised fundamental questions about the purpose of financial aid in the education of school administrators and financial aid directors.
income students, who are squeezed out of most financial aid programs.
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Because the awards are directed at a small number of students, the CSS questioned their effectiveness in increasing and maintaining enrollments and high graduation rates.
Rogers said he favored offering no-need grants to high academic achievers, but KU
ONE REASON no-need scholarships aren't given at the University is that they would divert funds from the financial aid now used for needy students, Rogers said.
The College Scholarship Service (CSS), a department of the College Entrance Examination Board which determines the eligibility for admission to a recent policy statement that the purpose of a financial aid program is to provide monetary assistance to students who can't attend college without it. The concept of financial aid, as mentioned said, is "of utmost importance."
Rogers said he favored a "small honorarium to freshmen with outstanding grades."
THE CSS QUESTIONED the effectiveness of no-need scholarships in changing students' choices of institutions. Also, it said no-need grants might take funds from those students who did need them, and from faculty and staff salaries.
At the University of Kansas, a no-need scholarship program is being considered by University administrators and Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, but it is not
"A STUDENT MIGHT knock himself out to get good grades in high school," he said, "but because his dad's a banker, he's knocked out of a scholarship."
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for
Committee questions Regents' procedures
Staff Writer
The committee failed to get to specific University of Kansas requests.
By SHERI BALDWIN
TOPEKA- The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday questioned Board of Regents' methods of supporting capital improvements for Regents' schools.
"We are still trying to catch up with what we didn't build in the 56th and 60th," he said.
Kansas hasn't overbuilt its colleges, Corman said.
John Carlin, D-Smolan, attacked the
legits' responsabilities to their institutions
Warren Corman, Regents' facilities planning director, made the capital improvement presentation. The committee was invited to ask specific questions, but never got more specific than leaky roofs and building remodeling.
Corman said the amount of space needed at the six Regents' schools was justified by measurements such as the number of weekly student contact hours, which measures the number of students in each seat each day.
"We're predicting space for students who will actually be there, not some pipe dream for students that will never materialize," he said.
"It seems to me we have more contact with the presidents and chancellors of the schools than the schools have with the nine-member Board of Resents." Carlin said.
Prudence Hutton, chairman of the Regents, explained the Regents' practice of having a "executive session after the Regents meetings. Hutton said the Regents also met on the campuses throughout the year and on campus functions when time permitted.
Corman said that the schools had emphasized energy conservation and that KU's proposed trash-burning steam plant was a promising possibility.
Walter W. Graber, D-Pretty Prairie, said that during campus visits the committee had to confirm the identity of
The schools are caught between building too expensively and building too cheaply.
Corman said that major projects' priority had been ranked for the committee, and that a list would be furnished within a few days.
buildings. Graber said the faulty construction made him leery of future construction.
KU has ranked a request of $287,000 in final planning funds for a Robinson Gymnastics addition near the top of its priority list. Also on the list are fundraising funds.
Construction funds of $1,603,200 for the Visual Arts building, $1,785,960 for the Law Center building and $2,700,000 for the Administration Hall are also among KU requests.
Calgaard said the word "scholarship" meant an award for excellence in academics. Scholarships aren't historically linked to financial need, he said.
academic affairs, said he favored "without equi-
gence a no-need scholarship at KU"
He said it was no secret that universities wanted to attract the best academic
"IN FOOTBALL, the best athletes are recruited, so why wouldn't a university win? It doesn't matter."
Calgaard said a no-need scholarship program shouldn't diminish the University.
"We would want to have an attractive, ample financial aid program for minority students."
Rogers said he doubted no-need scholarships would draw the better students
NO-NEED scholarships aren't needed to bolster KU's academic standing, Rogers said, in view of how well KU students are doing academically.
"A small stipend of $100 or $200 wouldn't swain to that many students," he
Last year the average GPA universitywide was 2.91.
Scholarships now given to students at KU that resemble no-need scholarships are National Merit, Watkins-Berger and Summerfield scholarships, he said.
In 1965, 72 finalists chose KU first, and this year, 46 chose KU first. This decrease is an indication that a yearly stipend of $100 is better than not attracting them to KU. Rogers said.
The cons outweigh the pros in a university no-need scholarship program, Roger says.
THE NATIONAL Merit scholarships are given to those students who are national merit finalists and who select KU as their first choice in schools.
The National Merit Scholarship given at KU is the James C. Davis Scholarship, which awards from $100 to $1,500 a year to merit scholars.
Rogers said funds for Watkins-Berger and Summerfield scholarships were designated specifically for those scholarships and don't come from KU's $1.7 million in financial aid
WATKINS-BERGER and Summerfield scholars are chosen almost exclusively because of academic achievement. Financial need isn't a consideration when these scholarships are awarded. After the scholars are named, however, those deemed in financial need are financially supported.
Students studying Russian at the University of Kansas are waiting with open Russian-English dictionaries for a group of students who had been included to arrive in Lawrence tomorrow.
The group, made up of 30 to 35 tourists, will make Lawrence its first stop on a three-week tour of the United States, Joseph T. Brown and the Languages and Literature, said vested day.
Soviet tourists to visit KU
Conrad said KU had been sending students to the Soviet Union to study since 1966, when students went to the U.S.S.R. on a Summer Language Institute program. In 2014, the KU administration allowed KU students to spend a semester studying at the University of Leningrad.
The tour is sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) and KU's department of Slavic Languages and Literature.
But until two years ago, Conrad said, CIEE had been unsuccessful in its attempt to let Soviets attend State University. State officials braveluck was made when the Soviets decided to send at least
One group of 25 Soviets visited KU in October 1974. The group was supposed to be made up of farmers, but there were only 10 students. They were the rest. The rest were students or professionals.
three groups of up to 30 persons each to tour the United States.
Although the group, due to arrive tomorrow, has been called students, it will also include a seamstress, some workers, and 10 students from technicians. They range in age from 20 to 50.
Their stay in Lawrence should give the villan an idea of what life at a Midwestern community would be like.
"Although it will be a tourist trip for them," he said, "for us it is a nice stimulus for our Russian studies. It will give students a chance to converse with native speakers."
The group will attend a women's basketball game at 5 p.m. tomorrow and a get-together with KU Russian students to tomorrow night. Monday morning, they will attend classes related to their various interests, Lawrence that afternoon, Conrad said.
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