Dropouts often simply 'stop-outs'
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Friday, October 24, 1975
Bv MARSHA WILLIAMS
There are currently more students who "stop out" of school than there are who actually drop out, according to Karen Jeltz, in the Office of Student Financial Aid.
"There are lots of students who quit school for only a semester or a year and they have every intention of coming back." Jelts said when she stepped up topping out, they were stopping out for a while.
Juanta Wehle-Einhorn, assistant the Dean of Men, agreed that most students who quit school planned on finishing their degree at one time or another.
"Amost everyone I've talked to has said that right now they can't stay in school, but they see leaving school as only a temporary stage," Wehrle-Einhorn said.
When a student comes to the office of the Dean of Men to withdraw from school, he is asked whether he has studied the options he has made he has any future pl. as, she said.
"We also ask them if they want to discuss why they're withdrawing." Wehrle-Einhorn
"This year we've been tallying the reasons people have been giving us for with-
Of the 99 persons who have withdrawn through the office of the Dean of Men, 33 listed financially related reasons for quitting school, she said.
Eighteen of those people said they were
quitting so they could work to get enough money to come back to school later.
Jerry Rogers, director of the office of Student Financial Aid, said the University's short-term loan program helped many students stay in school.
"We would hope that anybody who feels as if they are going to drop out for financial reasons would come and talk to this office before they take drastic steps." Rogers says.
The number of students applying for financial aid increased 16 per cent between 2015 and 2016.
The greatest increase was among requests from upperclassmen. A total of 2,318 sophomores, juniors and seniors appended to the class, year compared to 1,857 last year, he said.
Rogers said that there was no way to provide financial aid to all applicants, but it was a priority. "I don't mind," she added.
The work-study program is getting to be "big business," he said, and there are more than 3,000 students employed on the University payroll. Eighty per cent of work-study funds come from the financial aid office. Rogers said.
Webble-Einbahn said financial reasons weren't the only reasons why students quit.
A student will often just say he is quitting for personal reasons, she said. Other reasons that can give are being taught with school or from studies and conflicts with teachers.
She said that students in professional schools were probably less likely to quit school because they were likely to be more committed to their studies.
Jim Crone, Connervis, Ind., graduate student who is doing a thesis on the concept of commitment, said that this could be true.
"There seems to be evidence," Crone said, "that whenever a person feels psychologically dissatisfied in his or her situation's ready to consider other alternatives."
Lindsay Layman, Colorado Springs senior, quit school the second semester of her junior year to live and work for eight months in Norway and Germany.
"I was sick of school and wasn't getting anything out of it anyway," Layman said. "When I got back, I knew more what I wanted.
"The same things bug me as before, but I can handle them better now. It's a good way."
Layman said she didn't have any trouble getting re-admitted to the University.
Linda Robinson, assistant dean of women, said some students indicated that one-half of the students who started school never completed their college careers.
She said the office of the Dean of Women was concerned about these statistics and was collecting data on why students quit what they did once they were out of school.
Robinson is trying to develop a follow-up system to keep track of the women who
Docents educate museum visitors
Volunteer guides at the Museum of Art are providing area grade school students, as well as adults, with a new perspective on art.
The guides are called docents, which is the Latin word for teacher. The Docent Art manual is by Dale Brooking five years ago, and $^{158}$ the improvisational and inquiry technique.
There are 22 docents working for the museum, all of them women. There are no University of Kansas students working as docents.
This technique involves asking open ended questions and uses a game-playing method with children or adults, which gets involved in the art, Brooking said yesterday.
Scheduling and lack of time, Brooking said, are the major factors why students in
the past haven't been able to continue as docents.
"To share my love of art with others"
was the reason given by Vivian Johnson, 1919
West 27th Street Terrace, for becoming a
docent four years ago.
"Most people don't go to museums for fun, they want to know facts, dates and names concerning the art." Johnson said to get them interested in the art itself.
"I am very enthusiastic about the
paint as are most of the other docente",
she said.
Leni Salikand, 1235 Tennessee, said. "I was
taught that I did not and yet didn't
teach it formally."
Salkind said she received a masters degree in art education from the University of Chicago.
they must attend seven two-and-one-half
new game-playing ideas for future toys.
The docents are trained by Brooking,
curator of Museum Education, who said
"The program has given the people a chance to become involved with art," Artist Amy Sternberg said.
Most of the local schools and a large number of area schools, especially from Topkena and Kansas City participate in museum activities and museum guided tours, she said.
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The classroom presentations are given two days before the children tour the museum. This presents the children with shapes, letters, colors, lighting, shapes and lines, Brooking said.
An example of the doctent program is called "Space, Inside-Outside." Brooking said this program was designed for seventh graders. She said she hoped that art would help them understand their environment today, so they would want to improve it in the future.
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She said that any conclusions about wn2 students drop out would only be speculation at this point because the data haven't been compiled.
William L. Kelly, associate dean of the office of admissions and records, said that statistics showed there had been a normal number of withdrawals this semester. A total of 738 students were enrolled as of Sept. 20 and there have been 161 withdrawals.
Kelly said he didn't think as many students were concerned with graduating in the fall.
"The most important thing is that they graduate, no matter how long it takes," he said.
Kelly didn't have any statistics on the number of students who "stopped out". He said he didn't think students quit school for the same reasons as they once did.
"When Raymond Nichols was chancellor a lot of students came in and said they were going off to spend time working in an inner city project or helping low income families.
"Now students take time off to replein funds so they can stay in school."
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