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Thursday, March 9, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Center offers KU courses to Kansas City
By BILL POLLARD
Staff Writer
Some college students from the Kansas City area might be better off staying there.
It is not that the University of Kansas wants to keep them away. It is just that the KU Regents Center in Overland Park may be better suited to their needs.
The Regents Center offers about 130 courses for college credit to more than 1,300 students who are taught by about 120 KU professors.
The goal of the center, Marilyn Doerter, Regents Center director, said yesterday, is to offer courses to people who could not come to the Lawrence campus.
PEOPLE WHO ENROLL in the center's courses generally are older than the ones at the Lawrence campus-between 30 and 35 years—and most have full-time jobs,
She also said that with more funding the center's offerings could be expanded to include a great many programs for which there was a great demand in the Kansas
Ward Zimmerman, director of the budget,
said that the budget for fiscal
months on June 1 would be $250.
City area.
"I think we've met our goal as well as we could with the funding we've had," Doerter said.
JERRY HUTCHISON, associate chancellor for academic affairs, said, however, the official budget did not include some expenses for the center's library.
tered in the evening or on weekends.
Doerter said that most students were taking only one course, although some were taking two or more.
Diederer said the library had about 3,000 books, most of which were checked out to students.
A few students, she said, attended the center as full-time students. Those students include veterans who have jobs and take 12 hours of classes to qualify for veterans' benefits and social services are working work experience and degrees and getting work experience credit for their jobs.
DOERTER SAID the center's students came from various backgrounds. Some are housewives or retired people taking courses for pleasure and/or work in their career advancement.
Some students, Doerter said, graduated from junior colleges and are working on degrees, while others have had jobs or earned a bachelor's degree to the center to take enough courses to complete degrees.
**ABOUT 10 of the 120 courses are offered at**
the center in the daytime and the rest are offered
in the evening.**
surely.
Some professors put their own books on reserve for use in the library, but most of the books come from Watson Library, Doeetet said.
Doerter said that all instructors at the center also taught on the Lawrence campus but received no extra pay for teaching at the center. Instead, teaching a class at the center is substituted for teaching one class on campus.
Instructors volunteer to teach at the center.
the center because course offerings were scant in most academic areas.
THE CENTER'S courses were consolidated to the present location in fall 1976. About 60 courses, including art history, foreign language, writing and philosophy are offered at the center.
Sandra Herd, Lawrence senior, said she took two courses at the center last summer because she was then living near the center
"THE STUDENTS are more interesting than the ones on campus," Robert Welch, professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University came up with a variety of interesting ideas and opinions.
Instructors also like teaching at the center. Some said they liked teaching older students.
She said, however, that it was impossible to obtain degrees in most fields by attending
Teaching at the center also had ad- antages, Welch said. He said the team had 15 games a week.
for three hours, instead of three times a week as most were taught on the Lawrence
Kenneth Miner, assistant professor of linguistics, said he liked teaching at the center because students taking courses there were more motivated than those at Lawrence. The center's students work in the day and have to drive to the center in the
MINER SAID his students at the center seemed to be more interested in the course material than younger students.
Doerter, though, said that the location was good because there would be much population growth south and west of the neighborhood. The crime rate in neighborhood was a nice, crime-free place.
"I like the van quite a bit," said Thomas Averill, instructor of English. "I can read an article and write a letter."
Dianysio Kounas, associate professor of history, said he was teaching at the center for the second time and probably would teach there again.
A special service is offered to faculty members who teach at the center Monday through Thursday evenings. Those evenings a van leaves the Lawrence campus for the center and returns after classes. The van, however, does not run on Friday nights or Saturday. Instructors must drive then but are reimbursed for their expenses.
Although most professors seem happy with teaching at the center, a few said they would have liked it to be located closer to Kansas City, Mo.
DOERTER SAID that 44 persons could ride the van during a week but that only 1 person did.
Some teachers at the center said they had taught there for several semesters.
Julian Edwards, assistant professor of political science, said the center should be in Wyndotte County, to the north, because for
people living there its present location was about as far as driving to Lawrence.
Elizabeth Banks, assistant professor of classical and art history, said that although she knew of no big problems at the center, she washed the center's coffee bottle would be better.
"they have the worst instant coffee I've ever drunk," she said.
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SWITCHING HOW: JOHN KAAN, Harvard, presents an urban planning lecture, "Urban Housing and Transportation" in 168 Marvin Hall. The lecture will be held on Thursday, May 4, in p.m. in the library of Marvin Hall.
GAY SERVICES will have a dance and golf event in Announcements: There are two errors in ballots for faculty representatives of the Athletic Board and University Council, Barb Baume, University Senate Executive Committee secretary, said yesterday.
Baume said that because only three faculty members would be elected to the Athletic Board, the Athletic Board ballot should read, "balls containing more than three votes will be discarded." She said faculty members could vote for three or fewer representatives.
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