Monday. May 1, 1972
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B.A. Degree Questioned
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Editor's Note: This is Part Three of the book. I am very grateful to education. This story deals with degree programs and the position of the university in American history.
by FRANK SLOVER
Kansan Staff Writer
The current upheaval in the grading system and proposed reaction to it were presented in a report presented April 18 to the College Assembly by the Educational Policies and Practices Committee (EPPC)
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The report noted that grading standards varied widely from department to department, that the college did not accept the traditional grading system and that students were not comparative evaluation of students was impossible when grades in different courses could be compared.
The report called for additional information, which could make the grades more understandable, and teach each student's transcript.
This information would be useful to the number of students enrolled in each course, the mean grade in courses offered by the institution, course credits and several sort-adjusted grade-point averages, including the GPA as it is now.
The reevaluation of the educational system in general and grades in particular leads to the issues of the position of the university in America and the importance and value of the B.A. degree.
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THE IDEA of alternative degrees raises the question of the value of any university degree.
To Dale Scannell, Dean of the School of Education, the purpose of the course is not include the same requirements as the traditional B.A. is to allow greater freedom in research and his adviser to plan a program.
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He said he thought the concept had been tried at several good schools and knew it was in connection at the University of Iowa.
He added that he did not think that a B.A. was meant to be preparation for the job market.
"There are different opinions on what it should do," he said.
"Traditionally, it has meant that the degree-holder has been exposed to the greater ideas of western civilization, including exposure to the arts, physical sciences and the humanities.
IT IS THE question of jobtraining that hits close to home with many students.
"A liberally educated person is assumed to have the equipment to continue his own education," he said.
What has been called the Great American Dream, Machine was always education opening the doors to interesting employment and interest in learning.
With the greater numbers of American youth attending college in recent years, the number of jobs for graduates has declined.
Nancy Garland, resource teacher for careers for the Lawrence School District, said recently only 11 to 15 per cent of all jobs in the United States require training, according to one study.
In 1969, The Report of the National Advisory Council on Vaccination reported that 40 percent of Department of Health, Education and Welfare concluded "In the United States there are fewer than 20 per cent of our job opportunities will require a four year period."
THE REPORT said although federal funds to colleges had risen from $1,742 million in 1964 to $3,508 million in 1965, vocational schools had risen only from $41 million to $265 million in the same period, even though the vocational schools had become more valuable and necessary function.
Some of the report's major joints:
—"The failure of our schools to educate to the level of adequate employability nearly 25 per cent of the young men and women who each year is a waste of money as well as of human resources.
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and candidate for lieutenant governor, said the people of this state government. The state government the state GOP must do more than react to the federal tax hike.
State Rep Calvin Strowig, the "issue before this convention is to elect Republicans." Strowig is also a contender for lieutenant governor.
LT. GOV. RYENOLES SHULTZ, a candidate for governor, heard "five and a half years of stale slogans" from the Docking administration. He called for unity to defeat the incumbent.
He said that new industry, new jobs for graduates from Kansas and Missouri, was the revision of the tax structure were top priorities with which he would
John Anderson, former Kansas governor and contender for the governorship, could unify the Republican party in Kansas as he had done when he was elected.
"At the very heart of our problem is a question that says vocational education is for somebody else's children
Referring to his victory over George Docking in the early '60s, Anderson said, "I think I can beat him." Mr. Sanders told governor for the fourth time, "I'm ready."
The resolutions adopted by the convention called for the establishment of a program for progress in Kansas, the open selection of delegates at the county level and the treatment programs in Kansas.
THE CONVENTION was adjourned a few minutes before 6 p.m. after selection of the delegation was completed.
"We have promoted the idea that the only good education is an educator's college. This idea, is nobish, undemocratic and a revelation of our culture."
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THIS ATTITUDE must change. The number of jobs which the unskilled can fill is declining rapidly."
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He asked whether educators should be encouraging more students when 40 per cent (a figure of 50 per cent is often used) already tested.
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Scannell tended to agree with some of the objections to a college education.
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Part of the problem comes from the unique American situation.
In 1900, 240,000 students were pursuing some sort of higher education; by 1850 the number was 360,000 and in 1870, it was over 8 million.
UNIVERSITIES are European institutions, which grew out of the Middle Ages, for the education of an intellectual elite.
In all of Western Europe, the number rose from 472,000 in 1850 to 1.4 million in 1968, (which is more than the American figure for 1940).
"It has led many people to go on to college who might have better spent their time doing other things."
A 1969 Wall Street Journal editorial addressed itself to the questions of academic standards in college and the latter to the fact that “there are simply too many people in college with no aptitude for nor interest in academics.”
In the United States they have been used to educate the masses.
"The great Western tradition of higher education," it went on, "was designed for the education of boys and girls and economically elite class."
THE TREND toward mass education has accelerated in recent years with university presidents, underprivileged. Open admissions policies, such as the one pioneered by City University (NYC), have expanded with students have expanded enrollments with students who lack skills previously considered necessary to equate college performance.
Bearse said the course could prove beneficial and instructive to both the students and the teachers. The level of participation was achieved.
KU's department of physics teaches students the semester. The course, designed primarily for fine arts students, is entitled "Physics, Applications
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"Physics professors are not qualified artists," Bearse said. "We want students to give back to the physics of the physics we give them."
The course was conceived by Robert C. Bearse, associate professor of physics, and Douglas H. assistant professor of physics.
Bearse said as far as he could tell there were both pieces he could like, one this anywhere. He said the idea for the beginning of this semester.
"Present physics courses are very theoretically oriented. We will try to present things in a much more practically oriented way." The color is rather dark, color, rather than light as waves. We'll try to show how the
McKay said the course would help provide an understanding of lighting, balance and the use of color in the visual arts to students.
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McKay said they had sent out circulars to several professors in the school of Fine Arts asking for suggestions on running the course and want to disseminate it to the students in fine arts.
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Bearse, who will teach the class, said if the enrollment reached between 100 and 150 students would probably use team teaching.
The course, which will be listed as PHSA 4 in the fall 1972 course schedule, will have three hours credit.
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Bearsse said the course would be open to anyone who wanted to take it. He said that although he expected an enrollment figure of 10,000, he would be no limit to enrollment other than the limit of the space available in the classroom. He said that could allow as many as 250 students.
Bearse said anyone desiring more information about the course should contact either him or in their offices in Malott Hall.
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Bearse said the course would depend to a great degree on the use of displays to make the information more readily understandable to the student by title or no background in physics.
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Jerome Svore, regional administrator of the U.S. environmental protection agency (EPA), said Saturday that if Americans wanted control they would have made him lose some old, cherished habits. Svore spoke at the annual chemistry honors luncheon at the Kansas
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According to Svore, in 1975 the average American will spend $140 for pollution control.
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Black Teenage Beauty Pageant To Be May 13
The first annual Miss Black Teenage Lawrence pageant will feature the Kansas University Ballroom, according to Joyce Jeltz, administrative assistant in the event department and sponsor of the pageant.
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Entrants will be judged on appearance, personality and an ability to work in a team session. Jeltz said she was now screen talent for the com
Jeltz said there were now 20 contestants for the Lawrence pageant.
Jeitz said the pageant would be a joint University and community event. Students were selected from the University of Kansas staff and faculty and the pageant committee.
She said the winner and the first and second runners-up would go to the state competition in Emuora.
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Jelzit said the girl crowned Miss Black Tenmae Lawrence would receive a crown and a dozen roses. She said all three winners were allowed to round trip fare to the state competition and room and board.
Sore said that the 18-year-old student was being about control because the younger generation would be more affected by pollution than older students.
Svore said that the most effective tactics Americans could use were pressure on legislators and courts, attending corporate board meetings, mobilizing the public and generating public concern.
In a seminar after the lecture, Svore discussed some of the specific problems the EPA had to deal with one and a half years' existence.
Svore said the main areas of concern of the agency were air, water, pesticides, radiation, solid waste and noise.
Svore said that the responsibility for pollution control rested with the individual states. The federal government would only intercede when a state or city accepts that responsibility.
One of the problems the agency faces is the public's general distrust of public institutions, which is a serious instance, the federal government wanted to create a dumping ground for nuclear waste, but the citizens of that area felt that the government had reported
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