Friday, February 1, 1974
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University Daily Kansan
Students Doubt Purpose of CWC
Editor's Note: This is the last in a series
examining the Colleges-Within-the College
School System.
By S. J. WOHLRABE
Kansan Staff Reporter
Although the Colleges-Within-the College (CWC) were designed to help students, a survey of 50 students has shown that most students have been used to ease University, paper work.
Karen Hemphil, Wichita sophomore in Pearson College, said recently that the CWC program was cut through administrative red tape. The only help she received from the CWC program was in determining the basis for her freshman-sophomore requirements, she
Of the 50 students interviewed, 44 said the CWCs were no more than an administrative device. Many said they had been unaware of the various services offered by the CWCs because the services had been poorly publicized.
THIRTY-NINE OF THOSE interviewed said they thought the CVS were, indeed, a bad idea.
"The CWC is probably a very good thing administratively," said Christie McRae, Topeka sophomore, "because as big this University is, a person could get lost running all around campus for help with different problems."
Debby Westlake, Wichita junior, said, however, that she came to KU because she wanted the competitive environment of a large university. She said she disliked being placed in a small group such as the CWC program.
GEORGE WAGGONER, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the CWC program offered students unanticipated personal and academic services.
Services offered by each CWC office include change in enrollments, establishment of credit-no credit options, access to a library for research information on curriculum and administration.
The CWC directors also said the CWCs had been more than administrative fast.
"When the CWC system was still in an experimental stage, it seemed very personal to students," said Jerry Lewis, director of Centennial College. "But not the students as students as administrative facilities because students take them for granted."
DENNIS B. QUINN, director of Pearson College, said the CWCs had almost no impact on the average student except as administrative units. He said the only effective way to decentralize the University would be to return to a living-learning arrangement.
Mounting criticism of the CWC program persuaded the college assembly last fall to revamp the CWC system into "advising work on a new experimental college."
Centennial College will again be used as the experimental college, as it was in 1966.
Centennial College win again be use its the experimental college, as it was in 1966. The evaluator of Centennial College in a previous period of sociology, said, "The experimental college must fully implement the original living-learning plan. Students should be combined in a single setting so living groups become educational situations also."
QUINN SAID THE experimental college should have the most qualified faculty so that the educational program could be seen by students as a serious intellectual challenge. That must have definite goals and ideas so that departments and students would be interested.
The CWCs are now being transformed from curricular units into advising units. Each advising unit will retain the same staff and the same division of students.
Lewis said he wanted to see a variety of teaching methods in the experimental college so that it could really become a model school. He said professional advisers should be hired.
"It's not that innovation can't be done without this system," said Robert Cobb, director of Nunemaker College. "It's that given the nature of our own economy and
THE CWC DIRECTORS SAID they were concerned about a lack of curricular innovation while the experimental college was being established.
educational system, they are less likely to be done if no alternative model is present." Several students expressed ideas for the experimental college, too.
Rose Szathmary, Yardville, N.J., sophomore, said the experimental college should be subject to annual evaluation of its educational programs.
experimental college should have upperclassmen adviser so that freshmen get the best education.
Council program
Camille ilegole, Topeka senior, said the
Christie McRae said the college should help the University move toward a pre-enrollment plan. Through the experimental college, she said, the University could obtain a preconsensus of course demand and then plan course offerings accordingly.
Credit for Student Office To Be Proposed to LA&S
A course that would give credit for participation in student government is still in the planning stages even though it was suggested last spring.
the suggestion was made to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Student Senate by Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president.
Attempts to start the course this semester by working with the political science department didn't work out, according to Todd Hunter, Oklahoma City junior and chairman of the Academic Affairs Committee.
r Richard Paxson, Baxter Springs senior and a member of SenEx, said yesterday SenEx had decided after discussion that the best method of setting up the course would be to make it a Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAAS) 292 or 492 course.
The proposal would give three hours credit to members of the Student Executive Committee, which consists of senate officers, committee chairmen and SenEx members, for their work in student government. The only other requirements would be a weekly hour of discussion and possibly a paper at the end, Paxson said.
Paxson said he planned to submit a proposal to the governering board that would require officers offered in the job.
If the course is approved by the governing body, have to be approved by the Educational Department.
Committee of the College Assembly and by the College Assembly...
Fools Afloat
Varied opinions on the proposed course were expressed by students and faculty members.
Earl A. Nethring, professor of political science, said his support would depend on what kind of credit the students wanted and for what kind of work.
A greater reduction of positions will be needed than can be accomplished through an increase in the number of users.
Mason said that transferring a faculty position from an unpopular department to a popular department when a tacuity position was available is the problem of reducing faculty positions.
Enrollment Dips;
SenEx Tackles
KU Staff Policy
The problem of how to reduce the number of faculty positions at the University of Kansas when student enrollment inevitably falls is one of today's open meeting on financial exigency.
Grant Goodman, professor of East Asian studies and history, said that there was already competition between departments for students.
The ad hoc committee on financial exigency of the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) has been having open meetings to obtain suggestions on future KU policies regarding staff before the final deliberations as its formal deliberations on the topic.
"When you eliminate programs, you may "implement students," he said.
Sandy Mason, assistant director for special collections at the KU libraries and member of the committee, asked if KU should reduce faculty positions in several programs or abolish certain programs entirely.
Arthur Breipohl, professor of electrical engineering and a member of the committee, said that many universities that had been forced to reduce faculty positions had reduced them in several programs rather than just one.
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Buckley said, "if it’s a solid course, if it’s not a nud, then we should do it."
Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and director of Centennial College, Teach "As chairman of the College of Portland, Mr. Paxson's proposal wholeheartedly."
But he said he didn't think anyone elected to Student Senate should take three hours
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