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Junior Colleges Have Role As Supplemental Educators
(Editor's Note: In this second of a three-part series on junior colleges in Kansas, the author deals with what a junior college is, and why it is.)
By Steve Clark What are junior colleges?
Junior colleges are two-year intermediary steps between high school and college, or high school and work. Their areas of service, according to Dean Charles Barnes of Dodge City Junior College, are:
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- General education for post high school youths and adults.
- A college transfer program.
THE BEST KNOWN role of junior college is that of the college transfer program, says Dean Andrew H. Eland of Hutchinson Junior College.
- Technical vocational training.
* Adult education.
"The college parallel, however, is only one part of the junior college program," Elland says. "For example we have students who are not college timber, but who can benefit from two years of additional schooling and come out with a skill that will be saleable in a community."
Adult education is also an important role of junior colleges, "With automation, more people are going to be needing courses to keep them up with their trades," Elland continues. "We have an electrician taking algebra right now, for example."
WHY DO STUDENTS attend junior colleges? The reasons are varied, but the most important single factor is that in most cases, it is less expensive in Kansas to attend a junior college than a university.
Tuition is lower. For example the University of Kansas' tuition is $104 per semester compared to Coffeyville College's $50 and Dodge City Junior College's $28.50.
Another reason is that the majority of students who attend the state's junior colleges live within commuting distance. Current figures show that 48 per cent live within the city limits of the junior college they
attend, while another 31 per cent live in the same or adjacent county. Only 14 per cent come from out of state.
CURRENTLY one out of every four Kansas students who begins a course in higher education starts at a junior college. Because of this, Kansas junior colleges are feeling the ennush of a new student generation.
The state's 14 junior colleges have a combined enrollment of over 6,000—more than any state college or university with the exception of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. The figure represents an increase of 16 per cent over last year.
Nationally, Kansas is tied with Oklahoma for eighth in the number of junior colleges. California has the most with 67 followed by Texas 32. Florida 24, New York 18, Mississippi 17, Illinois and Iowa 16 and Michigan 13.
Kansas' junior colleges are located at Arkansas City, Chanute, Coffeyville, Dodge City, El Dorado, Fort Scott, Garden City, Highland Hutchinson, Independence, Iola, Parsons, Pratt and Kansas City. Hutchinson has the largest enrollment with 979 full-time students and 275 night students.
WITH THE EXPECTED onrush of students more junior colleges are being contemplated by the cities of Concordia, Derby, Great Bend, Norton, Shawnee Mission, Colby and Liberal. According to junior college deans, these colleges will be necessary in order to handle the larger enrollments.
Dean Karl Wilson of Coffeville College calls the state's public junior college system "the greatest potential for higher education in the state."
"The fact that we're growing as rapidly as we are is a point of public acclaim, and the trend is just starting. This is a trend that will grow as the years go by, and the end result will be that the young people in the state of Kansas will be better as
a result of the training they get in a junior college," he says.
(Tomorrow's article will deal with the state's junior colleges in relation to KU.)
Over 40 films, including some of the earliest ever made, will be shown in class. Beck said they were selected for their historical importance, artistic excellence or significance as a film type.
A two-hour course in appreciation and criticism of motion pictures will be offered at KU for the first time next semester.
Taught by Gordon Beck, instructor of speech and drama, the course "History and Significance of the Motion Pictures," will trace moving pictures from their beginning early in the century to the present time.
"We will not be directly concerned with the development of Hollywood and the commercial aspect of motion pictures," Beck said. "Primarily, the course will be interested in movies as an art form."
The course will be open to students who have taken Speech 3, 5 or 37.
New Course Traces Films
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