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Tuesday, April 2, 1974
University Daily Kansan
12 Week Drop-Add Retention Will Be Recommended
Hy DEBBIE GUMP
Kaman Staff Reporter
Although there has been criticism of the University's drop-add policy, its formal adoption will be recommended today by an ad-hoc subcommittee, according to Ronald Olsen, professor of economics and chairman of the subcommittee.
The ad-boc subcommittee on College Withdrawal Policy will make its recommendation to the Undergraduate Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (UCP), which in turn will vote to recommend the policy to the College Assembly.
The subcommittee recommendation
would retain the present drop-add policy, which allows a student to withdraw with a passage grade from a course through the 12th week of classes, Olsen said recently.
The proposal was presented to the EPPC at its last meeting two weeks ago but was tabled for further consideration of the probation policy.
Disinterest Cancels Advisory Unit
Lack of response caused the cancellation of an affirmative action advisory unit meeting for undergraduate students, and the dismissal of assistant in the affirmative action office.
Robinson said yesterday she had expected to organize the first meeting of the affirmative action advisory unit for undergraduate women last night. However, no undergraduate women showed up for the meeting.
Robinson and she had widely publicized the meeting and all sororities, residents of the community, and students.
Robinson said that a number of people had called the affirmative action office
showing interest in the meeting but saying they wouldn't be able to attend.
The lack of interest in this meeting may be a sign that things are going well for undergraduate women, according to Robinson.
Robinson said the affirmative action office had planned to establish advisory units for women and minorities to "discuss concerns and interests which should be reflected in the affirmative action program."
ting the interests of women and minority groups in the University.
Robinson said some advisory units, such as the classified clerical women advisory unit, have been created.
IF APPROVED by the EPPC, the proposal will be presented to the College Assembly at its next meeting for acceptance. A summary of the arguments both for and against the policy's adoption will be included with the proposal, Olsen
She said there could be two reasons for the failure of last night's meeting.
He said a few complaints from faculty members and administrators had been made.
However, the subcommittee decided the adverse effects of the liberal policy didn't outweigh the benefits.
program:
The KU affirmative action office is concerned both with equal employment opportunity and with generally represen-
"Either they don't want to be here or they have other things to do," she said.
spring semester caused by higher enrollment.
The policy has been criticized, Olsen said, for causing poor class attendance, procrastination of students in making course changes and the growth of "course shopping," a term used by some EPPC members to refer to the dropping and adding of classes to achieve a higher grade point average (GPA).
EPPC MEMBER ELENN GOLD, assistant deam of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and acting director of Oliver College, criticized the policy because she said it caused an increased financial burden on the taxpayer.
In response to a charge that the drop-add policy allows a student to manipulate his GPA, the subcommittee researched the GPA's of 10 per cent of the juniors and seniors and five per cent of the freshman and sophomores in the College.
State funds are granted to the University on the basis of credit-hour enrollment on the 20th day of classes in the fall semester, she said. If a student enrolls in 25 hours and then drops to 10, she said, the taxpayer will be spending more money than necessary.
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THE REPORT FOUND that while 78 percent of the students who dropped classes improved their GPA's, the highest GPA's earned by students who made no change in class did addition, the majority of students didn't make any changes in their enrollment.
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