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Wednesday, April 21, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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Dean William Albrecht
intent and thoughtful
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Troop Pullout
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Council Defeats Grade Change
Members of the Academic Affairs Council met last night to discuss a proposal dealing with changes in the grading system.
The program called for groups, of students to study under different conditions, including a credit-no-credit arrangement. That proposal was defeated and the council must answer what action is now in order
Dean Establishes 'Home Rule' System
By BOB NORDYKE
Kansan Staff Writer
Graduate School Authority Decentralized
Hollywood could easily typecast William Albrecht in the role of the scholarly professor
Judging on more than appearance RU in the past 13 years, I have been a faculty member in the English department and now as dean of the Graduate School. His professional image is consistent with his personality.
"When I began, I felt that a certain amount of commitment to the institution required an undergraduate office was called for because the school was so large. It was a real burden."
"I had the departments make decisions that had before come from this office and I think it has worked well."
In conversation Albrecht is stundous, his expression intent to speak. His speech is brief and direct. His humor is easy but his words are carefully considered and their not so camouflaged in rhetoric.
AN ADMINISTRATOR of a
US wide-school school. Already
in command to filter out minor
problems that can be dealt with
without resorting to violence.
His surroundings suggest order and efficiency. His second floor Strong Hall office has digested the room, where he wood walls hung with water colors and lined on two sides with book shelves. He here works to organize the space; it is a dual position of leadership and administration and his philosophy has been to emphasize the first and reduce the
A result of this "home rule when possible" organizational system has allowed each
IN DIRECTING the course of graduate education, Albrecht's guidance has been a combination of philosophy, practicality and progress.
department to decide its own language requirement.
Describing his role as leader of the graduate school, Albrecht said he had worked to raise standards, obtain all possible resources and programs to meet the changing needs of graduate education.
Characteristically undramatic,
he said the Graduate School had
"no very unique problems"
which means the problems can
be handled easily.
Elaborating on the matter of finances, Albrecht said, "Up to a point we were doing well, but in 2014 it became clear that aid has been cut. That not only eliminates entire scholarships, but reduces the size of the ones who receive them."
WHILE MONEY PROBLEMS may not be unique they can have widespread effects on the progress of graduate education.
Standards, Albrecht noted, are raised primarily by improving the quality of the faculty and the quality of the faculty depends on recruiting and retraining professors by offering competitive salaries.
He said that enrollment was effected by finances because we were in a hurry and in order to attract good students. However, Albrecht said, the enrollment rates were high.
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TO COPE with this relatively new situation in graduate study, Albrecht is working for a change in the school which would offer campus centers where there can be given for graduate study.
He said that nationally 71 percent of all graduate students in the U.S. had students and the trend would probably continue if curfurtalism were introduced.
The school, he has, said, has approved guidelines for engineering centers based on the availability of resources, faculty and library facilities. He noted that there are several places in the country now where engineers can earn a graduate degree where they work.
Although there has been no predictable trend in graduate education, it is one trend in graduate education that has become evident nation-wide.
This concept of graduate study
**ECONOMIC FACTORS today can work both ways on education, support few fellowships, and fewer teaching assistants could result in a drop in enrollment or in having trouble get jobs would discourage people from coming to graduate school, but on the other hand, people out of work might come to do it but come to grad school."
have not been entirely predictable.
is consistent with Albrecht's belief in the need for the graduate school to accept change when it is needed.
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This willingness to change has also marked Albrecht's personal career.
"GRADUATE EDUCATION needs to change like all education," he said. "Progress is always a matter of change."
An undergraduate degree in engineering placed him in the Army, and went on to get the U.S. Navy, his love of English governed his course of graduate study at the University of Chicago. He then the University of Chicago.
"Law and Dissent"
April 22
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SUa➔ANS
After teaching English at the
Student Bar Association
University of New Mexico,
the university said that he was impressed by the campus, the faculty, the library and an offer of a considerably
It was a move, he said, that he has never regretted.
WHILE ALBRECHTS GROUND he accepted the position of dean of the graduate school, he said he is "reasonably happy in an ad-
Though he be no longer teaches,
Aureth continues do research.
He is a graduate of books and has nearly completed a
18th which deals with 19th and
20th editions.
"RIGHT NOW, the most important factor is the grade point of predicting success probably need another look, particularly in assessing the potential of people managed cultural backgrounds."
In his six year tenure as dean, he has been an increase in graduate social sciences, an indication of more concern with the problems
Albright said that graduate schools needed to work not only to provide for outside centers of study, but also to improve methods of assessing applicants who are successful in graduate work.
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