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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
81st Year, No. 14
KANSAN
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See Papers 3 & 4
Tuesday, July 27, 1971
Curriculum/Instruction Survey
The curriculum and instruction survey at the University of Kannas was imprinted in the fall of 1998. Since then it has had a variety of courses offered. The course is separate without any more major complications.
Kansan Photo by Hank Young
"It's a lot different now than when we sat down on a floor in the fall of 1989 and brainstormed for eight hours," said Denis Emery, a member of the curriculum and instruction survey committee. "We've had our own team that did it to completely forgive last fall (1970)."
Embry said the first problem faced by the committee was primarily a logistical one—how to categorize and analyze such a large amount of diverse information. He said there are about 8,000 courses offered at KU, but only about 3,000 of these are suitable for a computerized survey. Last spring, according to Embry, about 1,600 courses participated in the project, and about 200 participated teachers want their results published in the student brochure this fall.
Faculty participation in the curriculum and instruction survey is voluntary. Participating members will be offered the opportunity to have the questions answered by the students passed on only to the instructor himself, the department chairman and the dean, or they can also have it published in the university bulletin.
Here's how the survey works: students in participating classes take about twenty minutes of class time near the end of the semester to answer a 99-item questionnaire, filling in the numbers on a small computer answer card with a special pencl.
The results of the cards for that course are then summarized by the computer, and the teacher is rated by an integer interval scoring system. The teacher represents the highest quality, one the lowest.
This brochure, which will be made available to students for the first time this fall, is entitled "Feedback-Guide to KU Courses." The brochure, Embry said, will be distributed in the metallic, mirror-like cover, to emphasize the perceptions and evaluations of students.
In this brochure, each instructor will be rated on four factors (with a score of one to five): quality of interaction; student-teacher interaction; career and practical orientation; and formation such as the number of students who responded to the questionnaire for a particular course, and what per cent of the class that number represents, will be included. Embry said the brochure will have an ap- plication of up-to-date breakdowns of the analysis for any one course.
The total budget for the survey this year is
about $50,000. Embry said about $20,000 is
used for staff.
DENNIS EMBRY, a member of the curriculum and instruction survey committee, shows the student brochure that will be sold during enrollment. Titled "Feedback—Guide to KU Courses," the brochure rates participating instructors on several factors. The computerized survey began in the fall of 1989.
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Vice Chancellor at UMKC Concerned With Growth
BvANN CONNER
The new vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. William O. Rieke, has chosen expanded medical education and effective administration as his main concerns for 1971-72. In a recent interview, Rieke commented on
In a recent interview, Hickey commented on the responsibilities he assumed 1 at the time of his retirement.
"The Medical Center is the single largest employer in Kansas City, Kan., "he said. "We have approximately 3,000 employees, 1,500 students and 300 faculty. A major job will be to redefine and establish modern, efficient administrative systems."
In addition to this organizational task, Rieke will supervise the development of plans for expanded medical education to meet the needs of nursing students and spring, the Kansas Senate, under Bill 396, opened the way for funding of an accelerated three-year curriculum, affiliation programs with other hospitals, a department of family medicine in the salaries of interns and residents at KU.
Rieke pointed out that by upgrading the salaries the Medical Center would be better prepared to attract more inters and residents. He added that physicians tend to practice in the area where they lived during their internship and residency.
"With the help of the Endowment Association we have obtained a building for clinical use where we will start outpatient care this fail," explained Rieke. "This clinic is a separate little module away from the Medical Center which can accurately simulate what a private physician's office is like."
Since spring, the department of family practice has taken shape. Rieke said it now has a chairman, two recently recruited medical staff, and plans for admissions of outpatients in the fall.
Regarding the accelerated curriculum, Rieke said the clinical aspect was already implemented and that work was now focused on training and on planning the basic science aspects.
"We expect that by the fall of 1972, the new class will be on the three-year program," he remarked. "The three-year classes will be bigger provided that we can get the facilities
and the affiliation program worked out. There is just so much room for so many people."
The Medical Center accepted 129 fresh medical students in 1970 and 144 for this fall. The increase was be handled with the use of temporary buildings in one of the parking lots, said Rieke. He estimated that the accelerated curriculum could take a class size of 35 students per space was available but he stressed "that just has to be contingent on additional facilities."
Rieke explained that from five to eight beds were required to train one medical student and that the Medical Center has only 257 beds. The affiliate program with other hospitals, which Rieke said was now in the intense planning stages, would relieve some of the burden on the Center by sending students to these community hospitals for part of their training.
"It will not only take some of the pressure off of us in clinical training," he said, "but it will also help you get to know the patient."
However, Ricke remarked that his main concern was how to determine the effect of these educational innovations. He pointed out that the way we flow to measure a good medical education.
Kansas Photo by Hank Young
"We're a state institution and not many of our students will be practicing in a state institution. There is an (educational) difference of quality not of kind. The students could bake advantage of the academic setting here to meet the community setting (of the affiliates)."
different from the Medical Center and is perhaps closer to what the student will see in school.
"What is a good doctor?" he asked. "How do you determine if you're doing a good job? I think it most important that we be able to assess the impact of these changes."
...new administrator
Dr. William O. Rieke
...new administrator
Ricke suggested two steps to evaluate the educational innovations. First, a goal should be established, and second, there should be some method of testing the results. He said a committee at the Medical Center was formed to solve the problem of a definition for a "good doctor."
For evaluation, he mentioned the use of the National Board Exams which test on a nationwide standard all medical students seeking a license to practice. However, Rieke, who has been a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners which administers the national exam, emphasizes the importance of finding a workable definition on which to base the results.
"If we can't decide what is a good policeman," he said, "all we have are numbers."
He added that another possibility for evaluation would be to request medical school graduates to give their opinion retrospective on the information they received. However, he stressed that a national standard would have to be established for effective medical education in order to interpret this information. The state department, should then try to maintain this standard.
12 Day Venture
"Any public institution is not only a state resource," he commented, "it is also a national resource."
Apollo Lifts Off, Exploration Set
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)—America launched three astronauts today on mankind's longest, riskiest, costliest and most difficult mission of the moon and the mysteries of its crew.
A few seconds less than 12 minutes later, at 9:46 a.m., the spaceship entered a three-hour orbit of the Earth, a flawless start to a 12-day venture.
@ 9:34 a.m. EDT, a 6-million-pound Saturn
a rocket landed reluctantly from Earth with a
frictionless rocket engine.
"Looks good up here," they reported
"Everything's looking perfect," came the reply on the ground.
Aboard with Scott were two other Air Force officers, space rookies M. Alfred M. Worden, M. and LL Col. James B. Irwin, 41. They are the first men to venture into space since three Russian cosmonauts died upon return June 30 to a 24-day tour of space.
"Very smooth ride all the way," said Col. David R. Scott, commander of the Marine Corps.
A million space fans, some clad in bathing suits, thronged a 26-mile stretch of beach south of the launch pad. They kept tabs with binoculars and transistor radios.
President Nixon, who wished the astronauts godsend Sunday night in a telephone call to Cape Kennedy, watched the launch on Mountaintop from his mountain retreat at Camp David, MD.
For the science of geology, this was the start of the payoff mission of the $25 billion project.
On Saturday they will be the seventh and eighth men—all American—to walk the surface of the moon, bring two years and a week after Apollo 11 put Neil A. Armstrong and Edward E. Aldrin there in "one giant lean for mankind."
Friday evening, the Falcon lunar vehicle carrying Scott and Irwin is scheduled to set down on the moon's surface at a risky site in the rocky deep canyon and Apennine Mountains, north of Earth.
Scott and Irwin will explore the mountain base in the valley in an electric-powered,
Worden, orbiting in the mother ship, the Endeavour, will employ new high-powered cameras and radiation sensors to map one-eighth of the entire lunar surface, picking out detail as small as a picnic table from an altitude of 69 miles.
The bungy rule could be hazardous in the weak gravitational pull of the moon. The machine-assembled a dune bungy—will enable Scott and Irenn to cover more of the planet's surface than all previous visitors during their 20 hours of exploration.
In all, their ship will rest on the moon's surface for 67 hours.
Scott and Irwin are scheduled to blast off the lunar surface Monday afternoon and return to the mother ship. On Wednesday, the astronauts will launch a satellite which is to circle the moon for a year, transmitting data by radio.
The new lunar explorers are scheduled for splashdown in the Pacific north of Hawaii on Aug. 7, bringing back more samples, more data and more information to the total produced in all previous moons tilt.
Apollo 15, carries a $443 million价割ag its owl swolled by its duration - two weeks longer than the space shuttle.
million worth of scientific equipment it carried.
they breakfasted on steaks and eggs, were given a final, physical and pronounced in
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The sound of Apollo 15's mighty rocket rammed down the beaches like the bark of a tree.
COCOA BEACH, Fla. (UP1) - A pillar of orange flame on burns at a bristle of smoke pushed through a wisp of a cloud today and the fire turned into "beneath" 'beneath'' range down the Florida coastline.
The astronauts, relaxed and ready, boarded their spaceship early in the morning as the sun rose over the Atlantic, coloring a partly cloudy sky with orange and pink.
"That thing's hotter than a Bessmer trencher," said James Griffin, a former member of the team.
The space agency said a million space enthusiasts sarged onto the beaches and islands.
The final seconds of the countdown cracked over thousands of transistor radios
Then, from 25 miles away, ignition appeared as a cloud of brownish smoke. A hush fell over the crowd. The cheers came as the spaceship struggled free of the inferno.
The extra weight, 2.5 tons more than Apollo 14, the rugged terrain of the landing site and the unfureseeable hazards of driving the dark-brown Rover increased the risks of this trip.
"Go, mother."
"Look at that!"
Bil Hirsch, a Miami real estate man, was among those seeing an Apollo launch for the first time. "Incredible," he said. "Just great."
Dawn came to the spaceport in a brilliant burst of orange sky over the Atlantic as the three Apollo 15 astronauts left their quarters to climb aboard the monster rocket.
Command Module Pilot Alfred M. Worden blew a kiss to his two sisters and three brothers and then stopped to shake hands with his father, Merrill Worden of Jackson, Mich.
Mission Commander David H. Scott smiled and waved to the small crowd as he trudged to
"Naturally I'm excited," and the elder
worden. "We've been excited for three
months."
Cars streamed bumper to bumper into the strip between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bamanna River from all directions through the strip. The distance estimated by the crowd at a half million or more.
"For a space shot it's just about normal."
and MaJ. A, E. Reddick, heading a traffic task force from the Florida Highway Patrol
task force from the Florida Highway Patrol. A 28-mile stretch of beach south of the launch pad was thronged with bathing nutl-locket rock watchers with transistor radios, and a few pet dogs. One young couple pulled a fuzzy Pekin dog in a red wagon to keep him out of the sand.
Cars were lined up along streets and highways long before launchtime. Many persons arrived in the parking lot.
"We're pretty well packed as far as the roadside and the campuses," said a spokesman for the Tibuville Police Department. "It was heavier than the last shot."
Ann Lurton Scott and Mary Ellen Irwin, wives of two of the astronauts, watched the launch from a special site northeast of the vertical assembly building, along with their six children and other members of their families.
In the VIP viewing area were celebrities from government, show business and foreign countries, including stage star Ethel Melman, Italian designer Amelio Pucci, who created Pucci pants and the Apollo 15 emblem, and singer Charlie Pride, a black man who rose to the top in the almost all-white field of country and Western music.
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The primary recovery ship for the Apollo 15 mission circled a mid-Pacific emergency pickup point today—in event of an aborted spaceflight.
The USS Okinawa, a helicopter carrier, was to remain at the pickup point, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, until the spaceship was out of Earth orbit and on the way to the moon.
His skipper, Capt. Andrew F. Huff of Coramdo, Calif., pronounced his ship and the crew's name.
The Okinawa will move every day during the 12-day Apollo flight to new possible emergency target areas until Aug. 7, when the spaceship is to splash down at the predetermined point, some 300 rules north of Oahu, Hawaii.
Turtle?
Konsan Photo
What looks like a stranded turtle is actually two kU students in spontaneous wrestling
match. Well, we will believe a four-legged,
three-armed crab, with bell-bottoms.