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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 29, 1967
Crowded classes, teacher shortage plague KU
A fine arts student attends classes four nights a week, some lasting until 10 p.m.
A Spanish II student has no language laboratory.
A girl enrolled in Anthropology goes to class five minutes early so she will be sure of having a seat.
And with the increasing numbers of freshmen, enrollment becomes a larger headache each year. Approximately 300 more freshmen than expected enrolled this year, said Robert P. Cobb, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
These three students' problems are part of a larger problem at KU—overcrowded classes and a strain on instructors in certain departments.
Officials uncertain
University officials said they aren't certain why there are more students on the Hill this year.
"I don't know the reason for this year's increase," James K. Hitt, registrar, said, "KU just seems to have become more attractive."
Hitt said the increase in enrollment wasn't caused only by more Kansas students coming to KU.
"Twenty-five to thirty per cent of our students are from out-of-state," he said. "The number of students graduating from Kansas high schools this year was lower than the previous year."
Hitt discounts evasion
Hitt discounts evasion Hitt also discounted evasion of the draft as a possible explanation.
Pre-enrollment of freshmen, thought to be a partial solution to predicting the number of KU students, apparently only created more foul-ups.
The pre-enrollment of more freshmen than expected caused a large number of underclass courses to close earlier than usual, Dean Cobb said.
The closing prevented many upperclassmen from taking freshman-sophomore courses.
Cobb said the College disapproves of upperclassmen taking lower-division courses.
Overcrowding has hit the French, German, Spanish, fine arts, psychology, anthropology, and English departments.
Labs meeting less
Language labs aren't meeting as often as in the past. Spanish II has dropped the lab class altogether, and many French students are meeting at Blake Anness once a week or less. In the past they met twice a week.
Many fine arts students have been forced to take night classes, some as many as four a week. Some classes were created after enrollment ended.
"Our problem is largely a shortage of space and oversized classes," Dean Thomas Gorton said. We've run out of suitable space and are meeting in Sudler House and Bailey Annex."
The psychology department attributed most of its problems to a machine error. The computer issued too many class cards for some courses, and the mistake wasn't discovered until enrollment had started. Due to this, some last minute changes forced several courses to be cancelled.
Upperclassmen, closed out of lower division courses, filled junior-senior courses in the anthropology department beyond capacity.
Extra chairs were needed in the "races of man" classroom to accommodate 54 students, said William Bass, professor of anthropology.
The biology department had to open more labs because of an unforeseen increase in enrollment. The large lecture courses were not affected.
Instructions mixed up
In a mix-up of instructions to advisors, 67 Philosophy I students did not enroll in discussion sections along with lecture.
Instructors had to be hired at the last minute for many courses, including the French, Spanish, fine arts and English departments.
The English department added
Although problems did arise, many KU officials did not think they were overwhelming.
10 student assistants to teach 17 extra sections of English I.
"I think it's a signal event that this is the first enrollment I can remember when I didn't lose my temper," Dean Cobbs said.
to absorb the increased number of students and experienced no serious problems. These include: sociology, speech, math and political science.
Some troubles continue Difficulties did continue in other departments, however.
Several departments were able
did hire four extra," said Domingo Ricart, acting chairman of the Spanish department.
If any blame is to be placed it should be on the Kansas Legislature for not allowing more flexibility on the part of departments in dealing with last-minute problems such as hiring extra instructors, Ricart added.
"We could use at least eight more instructors even though we
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