Wednesday, April 21, 1971
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Sciences, Humanities and Library Grow with Haskell Academic Shift
By MARY FROJEN
Kansan Staff Writer
Among the new offerings in general education at Haskell are those in the departments of science and mathematics, humanities and social science. The library also will play an important role in the education of all Haskell students, both vocational and academic.
Miss Kidwell, Downs and Bickerton were involved in establishing a general education (academic) emphasis for some Haskell students.
The persons responsible for these programs talked about them in recent interviews. They are Clara Sue Kidwell, sociologist and Dwight Thomas, science and mathematics. All are heads of their departments. Also interviewed was John Akers, Haskell librarian, whose work is related to Haskell's accreditation.
BEFORE THIS HISI, they said all academic courses were offered strictly as electives to vocational course. They said that in the past, would all academic courses had to be upgraded if Haskell were to obtain its North Central University junior college accreditation.
The social science department, of which Miss Kidwell is chairman includes courses in psychology, anthropology, economic economics, American history and western civilization. This year there is one basic course in each subject except anthropology, which has one course in physical education on the North American Indians.
"Since Haskell has just become a 'junior college, we're not quite ready to do it," it's up to the different departments what they're going to do."
"WHILE WE HAVE this flexibility, we want to develop an interdisciplinary and team teaching approach to these subjects. It's good that ideas are being imposed from outside and faculty members up to deans, who are very responsive."
Miss Kidwell said the entire general education program had gone well, and she hopes these students make up the bulk of enrollment in academic course
However, students in radiation technology, a new vocational program this year, are required to take general education electives and Miss Kidwell said that in the future all vocational programs must have a wider variety of electives, including general education courses.
"Some of the general education students will definitely go on to four year colleges," Miss Kidwall said. "But studies have shown that college colleges of all kinds many students will not go on for further education."
"SINCE THIS is the first year of our transfer program, it is difficult to say what will happen to general education students."
Some of the general education faculty are on special one year contracts from KU for both part-
and full-time teaching, but next year all will be full-time and on civil service as required by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
Miss Kidwell is Haskell's only Indian woman faculty member with a PhD. degree, all three of her degrees—B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in the history of science
MISS KIDWELL grew up in Muskegee. Okla., "which is supposed to be the Indian capital of the world but really isn't."
"I was never on a reservation, except to visit my grandmother in the summer," she said, "and 'I must be one reason that I am teaching her how to live' on a reservation my choices would have been limited. I probably would have gone to BIA boarding schools, some of which are very good, and I might not have a much English until I was 14 or 15."
She said Haskell's general education program was a sign that "for the first time the BIA jas made a real commitment to teaching John Downs, who heads the English department, said his program's responsibility was to 'improve the language skills of every student on campus so that they can express about how toexpress himself.
"Many students don't know the options available to them in English usage." Downs said.
THE HUMANITIES curriculum consists of courses in languages, English, French, languages and Indian languages. This is a big change. Downs said, from the time when the only courses in communication were written texts, to digital media.
"Language courses used to emphasize business English and vocabulary, and there was little of writing or literature," he said.
Now Haskell offers four different composition courses which concentrate on different aspects of the course. Students are placed in these courses on the basis of a personal review at the beginning of the year.
"AN INTERVIEW doesn't always tell us what we need to know about a student's language skills." Downs said, "but he can use that information our first evaluation is wrong. We do know that an interview is better than the current language aptitude tests. For most students it is too loaded with symbols of the test world to be a fair measurement."
He said four new courses were planned for next year. American literature, English literature, the Indian and Puritan speeches and problems in disciplinary problems approach course on the topic of freedom. This will concentrate on a particular issue, such as the My Lai massacre, in its legal, biological and religious aspects.
Downs said the journalism offerings at Haskell this year included two reporting courses, a laboratory course for the newspaper, The Indian Leader; the bookwork, an introduction to cinematography; problems in journalism; and a media seminar.
Spanish are being offered, and Downs said plans called for advanced Spanish courses and elements of elementary German next.
THE INDIAN language courses, offered for general education credit, are Cherryoke, Indian, and more will be offered next year if all goes as planned and Indian studies part of the 'national studies program.'
Dwight Thomas, chairman of the science and math department and associate dept. faculty next year the department would be able to maintain its
So far two sections of beginning
**"next year science and math"
**"go from five to ten full-time**
**teachers, and now we'll be able to limit our class**
**size to 15 by adjusting the number**
**of students."**
He said some math and science courses would continue to be geared to vocational programs, but the department was also currently teaching college level trigonometry and calculus.
The present science offerings in general education are one semester of biology, two semesters of physics, two semesters of biology and in-depth study of the sciences.
Thomas said current enrolments showed biology to be the most popular science offering.
"WE ARE TRYING some radical changes in our classroom approaches," he said. "We're trying to move from lab-oriented courses. We are also using our texts as reference books and trying to develop our new teaching models."
"It will be easier to teach when we get some new equipment—all our microscopes are borrowed. We're learning to make do with what we have and hire for more equipment next year."
John Akes, librarian, came to Isakke two months ago when the library was closed. Dunn, left to become head librarian in the United States, has opened it.
"MRS. DUNN did an excellent job on the funds that she had,"阿姨 said. "The collection was small, she did a good job of selection and selection."
He said the library was greatly enlarging its collection to meet needs of students in our education curriculum. There are 12,000 books in our collection and we have 2,900 on order. We are also expanding our collection in all areas, we're emphasizing readable areas now because we can store more books.
All books on order, he said,
were chosen on recommendation
from faculty members and from
American Library.
Association's (ALA) list of
recommended books for junior
college.
Also on order are microfilms of journals recommended by the ALA and Haskell's current collection of over 200 magazines is being bound to meet its in- need use by students in all areas.
creditation a junior college library had to have at least 10 students and at least one student the current acquisition bring Haskell library's collection to almost 15,000 Enrollment is 15,000 and is expected to increase.
AKERS SAID__that for ac-
"Right now we have an agreement with the KU library," he said. "We send a bus two week so that students can check books for specific projects if Haskell doesn't have what they need.
"KU students also come to Haskell to use our excellent collection of books on the American Indian. It includes over 1,300 volumes in an art history, history and other areas."
Akers said construction would begin this summer on a new building that will be increased number of books and periodicals. The new building will also have facilities for materials orders, and ideate equipment.
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Teaching by Lecture Not Ideal, Prof Says
By PAM KUDA
Kansan Staff Writer
The School of Education doesn't advocate one main teaching philosophy when teaching students to be teachers, but rather a professor of education, in a recent interview. Every professor has his own ideas about teaching; and each idea differs slightly from the others.
Teachers realize that many times the lecture system is not the best way to teach, but the present system allows students changing their methods, Hillemshe said. He explained that it would take a long time to change the present system and many problems to be overcome.
The main problem is that students who have been taught by the lecture method teach by that method, and the student teachers are taught to teach but its how they are taught that is important, Hillesheim
The School of Education tries to encourage conversation in classes to inspire educational growth It also stres for innovation, experimentation, active participation on the part of students and an awareness of non-verbal kinds of learning. Hillsideism was
The School of Education, therefore, has difficulty teaching new methods because the students are taught by the lecture method since first grade. Some teachers attempt to introduce new methods, but everyone in the classroom is trying to create an effective system.
A local teacher said many teachers thought an informal classroom with discussion and free movement would be a more effective way to teach. This has been the case of this type are now being made
Nancy Hook, St. Louis, Mo.
senior and student teacher at Shawnee Mission North High School. I say there is only one method to teach. The theory courses don't teach, it teaches the experience that does.
Although every education student takes the same basic rules that each student is told to insure same things, Hillsheim said. Therefore no teacher has the information and ideas about teaching.
The teachers are nominated by their supervisors, who, with two consultants evaluate their performance and professional achievements.
BERLIN (UPI)—Mayer Klus Schutz was reelected Tuesday in voting by the West Berlin House of Representatives. The House defeated Christian Democrat leader Peter Lorenze 72-31.
Thomas Beiecker, assistant professor of speech and drama, has been named outstanding speaker at the Central States. The award was presented in the general session of the meeting, and in association in Cleveland, Ohio.
The award is presented annually to seven outstanding young speech teachers who have been teaching no more than five years. The seven are selected out of thirty-five from 13 midwestern states.
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