University Dally Kansan, February 12, 1881
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Groups want AEC investigated
By PENNICRABTREE Staff Reporter
Several foreign student organizations will ask Student Senate next week to investigate grievances against the Applied English Center, a spokesman for one of the organizations said yesterday.
"Many foreign students do not feel that they are learning English from the courses offered at AEC," Krupa Billa, president of the International Club, said. "Many more feel that they are wasting their time at the center, that they don't need to reach the level of proficiency that the AEC requires."
The AEC is responsible for screening all foreign students' English proficiency before they can enroll in regular KU courses.
FOREIGN STUDENTS entering the
University must take an AEC standardized English test. Students who score 500 or above may bypass the exam. Students who score 600 must enroll in AEC course work.
"We question the tests and the teaching methods used by the AEC." Billa said. "Sometimes, students who take the AEC test again after their course work score no better than they did the first time. I think that this reflects on the quality of teaching at AEC."
"The AEC should be a tool for helping us, not for making us masters of the English language," Smit Vajaranan, president of the Thai Student Association, said. "Most of us come to the United States to get a technical degree, like engineering. We're not here as English majors.
Other students have complained about English proficiency standards, saying it was not necessary to have a
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Elizabeth Soppele, director for the AEC, said that she was not aware of the complaints by foreign student students and had heard similar complaints before.
"I've often found that the students making the complaints are not the
students taking the AEC courses," Soppael said. "Lots of students come to us and we thank 'Thank God you were here.' Unfortunately, it is usually the few unhappy ones that make the most noise."
Soppela said that KU's English proficiency requirements were not as strict as many other universities' requirements.
Journalism School receives Gannett grant
"Our test is something that any U.S. born 5-year-old can pass, and many 3-year-olds," Soppela said. "The University has the right to expect that foreign students be competent at English."
The Gannett Foundation awarded $5,500 to KU's William Allen White School of Journalism Tuesday to assure continuation of the school's newspaper professional-in-residence program during 1981-82.
Allen White Foundation trustees were confirmed at the annual trustees meeting at KU.
Del Brinkman, dean of the Journalism School, said a search to find a successor to Robert Samsot of Newday, who is this year's Gannett professional in-residence, would begin immediately.
Also on Tuesday, six new William
The new trustees are Tom Buchanan of the Washington County News, J. V. Connell of Vance Publishing Co., Tom Eblen of the Fort Scott Tribune, John Morton of John Muir & Co., Ned Valentine of The Clay Center Dispatch and Ralph Weir of Junction City.
In addition, 20 trustees were re-elected to five-year terms.
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