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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 28, 1992
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Students to voice KU computer science concerns
By Ranjit Arab
The dean of liberal arts and sciences said yesterday that he would hold a meeting for all undergraduate students majoring in computer science.
Kansan staff writer
The meeting will be Monday at 5 p.m. in 120 Snow Hall.
James Muyskens, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the meeting was a result of concerns stemming from a confidential report that suggested eliminating the computer science department.
Muyskens said he held a meeting with computer science graduate students two weeks ago in which the options the department faces were discussed
classic aspects Aside from dispelling many of the rumors that have circulated within the department, the meeting will give students a chance to voice their concerns and questions. Muvksen said.
However, he said the confidential report had not been made available to either graduate or undergraduate students. It will not be made available at the meeting, he said.
Muyksens said he had not yet talked directly with any undergraduate in the department but had spoken to one concerned parent about the future of the computer science undergraduate degree.
The president of the computer science graduate student organization, Mary Frohock, said she was one of about 40 graduate students present at the meeting that was held two weeks ago.
Frohock said the graduate students asked to see the confidential report at the meeting but were not allowed to see it.
"The point of the meeting was to show all students in the department are going to be taken care of first and foremost." Frohock said.
She said she thought the dean was trying to salvage the department.
One of the significant issues raised in the graduate student meeting was Ph.D. requirements. Graduate students wanted an established criteria for qualifying examinations and course selection, Frohock said.
She said the issue of low productivity, which was mentioned in the confidential report, also was discussed.
"As Ph.D. students, we need viable research," she said. "I believe our professors are very capable of doing this research, but some of them they have not received the proper recognition and have stopped researching."
Frohock said the meeting with undergraduate students also probably
would clear some concerns.
"The dean will be reassuring the undergraduates that everything is being done to save the department," she said. "And if the department has to get split, they will still receive a computer science degree and not a math or computer engineering degree."
Martha Novak, computer science graduate student, said she also was present at the meeting.
Novak said Muyskens assured the graduate students that elimination of the computer science department was only one option he was facing. However, she said the meeting with the undergraduate students could contain different information.
"Our meeting was quite a while ago and a lot of things have happened since then." Novak said. "I do not know where he is coming from now."
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