University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1985
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MANHATTAN — Introductory courses at Board of Regents schools should be taught by the best professors at the schools, officials from three Regents schools said yesterday.
ula at Wichita State, K-State and Fort Havs State.
The officials made their remarks during the Regents' monthly meeting yesterday. The meeting continues today.
B John Breazeale, vice president for academic affairs at Wichita State University, and William Carpenter, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kansas State University, said more introductory classes should be taught by the best professors rather than less-qualified faculty or graduate teaching assistants.
CARPENTER SAID THE Kansas Legislature didn't allow enough money to the schools to allow them to hire more professors with high qualifications to teach introductory courses.
The remarks by Breacealea, Carpenter and James Murphy, vice president for academic affairs at Fort Hays State University, were in response to the findings of national reports on the undergraduate curric-
Students no longer are an elite group, he said, and instructors cannot effectively teach classes of students whose academic abilities are so diverse.
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Breezeale also said the quality of education at Regents schools was suffering because more students were attending college.
During the 1950s, about 15 percent of the population attended college. Now, about 50 percent of the population attends or has attended college, Breazeale said, and that figure could go as high as 75 percent.
A CHAIN SAW valued at $550 was stolen sometime between April 12 and Monday from the display rack of 826 Massachusetts ST., police said.
Carpenter said that faculty research also had been hurt in recent years. Because of budget constraints, faculty have had to teach more classes, and this has cut into their time to do research.
have about 200 majors. That number has increased to about 700 and not enough new faculty have been hired to handle the increase. Instructors now have less time to do other things, such as research.
Carpenter said the computer science department at K-State used to
"We are not unaware of these concerns and administrators are more concerned than some of the faculty." Carpenter said. "We are making changes, but there are restraints."
The Regents sets policy for the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
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