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Thursday March 1, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Grants Will Aid KU Projects
By ANN GARDNER
Kansan Staff Writer
Sixteen projects aimed at improving the quality of instruction at the University of Kansas will receive a total of $29,000 from the Pendleton Association during the next year.
The funds were made available to the Office of Instructional Resources, which selected the 16 projects from 40 proposals submitted by faculty members.
According to Phil McKnight, assistant professor of education and director of the school, it was concerned mainly with how much potential impact the projects would have for KU students. Development and practicality of the projects were considered during selection. McKnight said.
Of the total grant, approximately $13,200 will be used to provide research assistants, $7,000 will be for supplies and $8,000 will be for faculty salaries, according to McKnight.
the 16 projects that received funds represent a variety of subjects and interests.
James Church, associate professor of mathematics, sponsored a project that would allow for computer-assisted instruction in certain mathematics classes. The money that he will receive will be used to support his teaching in using Stuff Ball during class sessions.
According to Church, the goal of his project is to provide a laboratory activity for mathematics courses. The addition of a computer terminal will give students convenient access to the computer system in Summerfield Hall.
Development of a relearning model that can be used in Education 54 classes is the subject of a proposal submitted by Douglas Poggio, assistant professors of education.
According to Glasnapp, students who enroll in Education 54, Introduction to Educational Measurements, have a wide variety of backgrounds. Because the students' backgrounds vary, Glasnapp and Poggio plan to provide their alternative materials so they can work at their own rates.
In an effort to improve training for assistant instructors, James Gowen, associate professor of English, plans to use endowment funds to video-tape classroom materials and equipment for the project is already available but has not been used because there is not sufficient money to supply maintenance and tapes for filming. These programs will next year by 15 to 20 assistant instructors and other faculty members, Gowen said.
Funds granted to a project sponsored by William La Shier, associate professor of education, and Glenn Clark, assistant professor of education, will be devoted to
improving the teaching of science in the elementary schools.
Through an arrangement with Lawrence public schools, students in Education 63 classes will work with small groups of elementary school children three times a week.
According to La Shier, teachers will study the effectiveness of different teaching methods on the students. La Shier said that about one-third of the funding for the project would be used for expendable materials and supplies, so would go to support the teaching personnel
Rudolf Radocy, assistant professor of music education, sponsored a proposal entitled "Development and Evaluation of Exemplary Learning Packages in Acoustics of Music." Radocy said that the learning packages, which include music lessons, activities, directed readings, would serve as supplementary material for the students.
Karl Rosen, assistant professor of classics and linguistics, said he hoped to provide flexibility in instruction by making it possible for Latin I students to concentrate on the areas in which they needed additional work. According to Rosen, his grant will be used mainly in program classrooms. For these reasons, most of the funds will use to pay for a computer terminal for Rosen's use in developing the program.
Improved instruction in Art History 40 classes is the goal of the project proposed by Gridley Smith, assistant professor of art history at the University of up two discussion sections made up of approximately 20 students out of each of the two sections of Art History 40, and to provide them with supplementary lectures of art included in the University collection.
Smith said that it was important for the beginning art student to "get in touch with the objects" instead of merely viewing reproductions. According to Smith, the project would also allow students to study art usually included in survey textbooks.
The evaluation of various teaching methods is the goal of Howard Smith, associate professor of aerospace engineering. Smith plans to compare the effectiveness of traditional lecture instruction with a programmed learning approach. Students are prescribed instruction" packets and a new kind of "sound on slide" equipment.
Both of the experimental methods allow the student more freedom to work at his own rate, Smith said. According to Smith, the method he used in the classroom was used for equipment and half for faculty.
Stanley Shumway, associate professor of music theory, has developed tapes and other materials for ear-training. The funds he was given will allow him to print and
According to Shumway, his project combines the use of tape recorders and programmed workbooks to aid student instruction.
purchase the necessary materials to put this project in use in the music library in school.
Other sponsors and the titles of their proposals include: C. D. Batson, assistant professor of psychology, 'Low Cost Individualized Learning in the Context of the Large Lecture Course'; Donald Dellow, assistant professor of speech and drama; "Systematic Observation Strategy and College Teaching"; Paul Friedman, assistant professor of speech and drama.
*Development of a Measure for Assessing
Teaching Competence of Commun-
ities with Special Needs*
Teaching Competence of Graduate Assistants in Two Multi-Section Courses"
Other are: Alfred Lata, lecturer in Mathematics for Large Group Instruction"; George Semb, assistant professor of human development,"Development and Evaluation of Educational Assessment Techniques"; Donald Treffrey, associate professor of education,"Learning for Mastery and Student Choice: Developing a Prototype for a Practical Synthesis"; and Rosalie Wax, professor of Workfield as Learning and Development."
3 Office Hopefuls Deny Partisan Link
By CHUCK POTTER Kansan Staff Writer
Tom Hart, chairman of the Support Your Local Police (SYLP) committee, denied Wednesday that three city commission pieces of the SYLP were a partisan group.
Hart and the SYLF candidates, Gene Miller, Robert Elden and Fred Pence, spoke at a news conference Wednesday morning at the State Bank at ninth and Kentucky streets.
"The SYLP worked long and hard to assemble this group," Hart said. "This campaign is being handled by a separate committee of which are not members of the SYLP."
"That separate committee is the Committee for Responsive City Government. It's an ad hoc committee which is not partisan in any way."
Hart said the three were running as a group because three seats on the commission were open and the committee wanted to elect men for all three seats.
Candidate Miller read a prepared statement concerning the residency requirements for city elections. A routine check by city officials of each candidate last month did not meet the three-year residency requirement for holding city office.
"This section of law applies to those cities having a mayor-council form of government," Miller said. "Lawrence does not have a mayor-council form of government. It has a city-manager form of government. The statute covering the city manager form of government contains no residency requirement."
Miller said that he would serve if elected. During the news conference, the group emphasized that it was not the candidate's job.
of their campaign. Hart distributed a sheet
stating the views of the group on various
The sheet lists the three candidates as supporting only one city manager. Pence said this statement meant that the group did not favor an assistant city manager.
Miller, who last week requested a grand jury investigation into the case of missing city water department funds, said the group was on the floor calling for the grand jury by Thursday.
He said the group would file the petition with the Clerk of the district Court within a week.
A grand jury may be called either by district court judges, or by petitions signed by 100 persons plus two per cent of the total number of votes cast for governor in the election. Such a petition would require a total of 809 signatures in Douglas County.
Pence said that the 1973 city budget showed a $101,015 allocation for the Public Safety Department. "We ant to know where this department is," Pence said.
Elder explained that the group's stated goal of stronger police leadership meant that the three believed dissension, which had been exiled, existed with the police department.
Miller emphasized that the group supported pay parity for firemen and policemen.
He also said that the group opposed public nuisances. These nuisances, Miller said, were certain "beer joints" in Lawrence by crowds that he described as raucous.
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