Page 8
University Daily Kansan, February 18, 1981
Classes bolster executives' skills
The School of Business has 21 new students this week, some of whom graduated from college 20 years ago.
The students are executives from the Cities Service Co. attending classes to study new management ideas. Cities Service is a large information gas corporation and is in its fifth year of the program at KU.
"They get new knowledge, new information and exposure to areas they never studied before," Frank
Pinet, associate dean of the school and program director, said yesterday.
The executives will take classes that deal with problems in organizational behavior and administration, management accounting, financial management, economics, the legal enterprise, the legal environment of business, decision analysis, marketing and cardiovascular fitness.
Cardiovascular fitness is offered because studies show that
aggressive, hard-working businessmen have a much higher risk of developing heart problems than the average man on the street, Wayne Ossane, exercise physiologist and class instructor, said.
Pinet said businessmen go back to school all the time and KU offered them programs every month except August.
Other companies that have programs at KU this spring are Dillon Foods Inc., and Hallmark Cards Inc.
The dean search by the School of Architecture and Urban Design is nearing an end, but the School of Business is still reviewing its candidates. Both schools lost their deans last year.
Chris Theis, chairman of the architecture dean search committee, said yesterday that the committee had chosen three finalists and had sent their names on to the office of academic affairs, which chooses all deans.
Architecture dean search nears end
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said
the office was notifying the finalists and the new dean would be announced in writing.
Thesis that despite the School of Architecture's renovation and space problem, no prospective candidates were lost.
"Everyone was well aware and enthusiastic about the school," he said.
Meanwhile, the School of Business' 10-month search for a new dean continues.
Arno F. Knapper, chairman of the school F. dean search committee,
refused to comment on how many candidates were being considered by the committee or when the committee would select its finalists.
But Deanell Tacha, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs and committee member, said she hoped for a decision in about a week.
The former dean of the School of Business, Joseph A. Picheler, is now executive vice president of Dillon Incorporated by a Hutchinson-based supermarket firm.
Charles Kahn, professor of architecture and urban design, resigned as the school's dean last July to return to teaching.
- THE PEOPLE'S NETWORK *
* AND A SUPPORTER FOR
ANDOTHOR, PUBLIC LIBRARY
* "DO WE NEED ON WANT A
CORRESPONDENT"
* WATERMARK WRITTEN
BUY OR SELL
SILVER, GOLD & COINS
Class Rings
Antiques-Furniture
Boysd Coin
& Antiques
Monday Saturday
New Hampshire
brilliant concentrated watercolors available in over 75 colors for brush, pen, and airbrush
pen&,inc. art supplies
623 vermont lawrence,ks.
66044
(043) 841-1777
9-5:30 M-Sat.