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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 12, 1993
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Survey says 1992 grads would choose KU again
By Terrilyn McCormick Kansan staff writer
If they had to do it all over again, 85 percent of the 1992 graduating seniors would choose to attend the University of Kansas again, a recent survey shows.
The Office of Institutional Research and Planning released the results of a student survey conducted last spring. The survey asked 134 questions about experiences at KU to about 2,400 seniors. The result is an extensive document that tells administrators and faculty about everything from the helpfulness of advising to the quality of food in the residence halls.
Positive responses declined from previous years in a few categories:
This year's results, consistent with the last three surveys, rated the overall educational experience at KU as "satisfactory" to "very satisfactory" by 79 percent of the respondents. The typical reasons for choosing KU were reasonable costs, academic reputation, proximity to home and atmosphere.
obtaining courses to meet general requirements, satisfaction with University residence halls, satisfaction with the quality of advising and the helpfulness of financial aid.
"The senior survey is a very useful tool. The results allow us to examine our strengths and weaknesses. Over time, the survey assists us in focusing our efforts to meet students needs."
Since 1977, the office has surveyed seniors every five years to measure the level of satisfaction with KU. The 1992 survey provided the fourth set of responses available to gauge KU's success at providing educational and cultural opportunities, said Deb Teeter, director of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said, "It is important for KU faculty and the administration to understand the concerns and perspectives of students.
The survey results will be distributed throughout the University. Individual departments may make changes based on survey results but are not required to, Teeter said.
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Every five years, the Office of Institutional Research and Planning surveys students about their academic experience at KU. Seniors in 1992 attended a training course and overall education lower than seniors in 1987.
(Figures reflect percentage of respondents who rated category "Satisfactory" or "Very Satisfactory.")
Category Average survey Average survey
Overall education 82% 79%
Ease of obtaining courses to meet general education requirements 63% 42%
Ease of obtaining courses in major 65% 48%
Overall quality of instruction in major 69% 71%
Ease of meeting with instructors outside class 73% 71%
Helpfulness of advisers 52% 48%
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Task force recommends guidelines for KU student, faculty relationships
By Dan England
Kansan staff writer
Romantic and sexual relationships between students and faculty should be discouraged but not prohibited, a task force on sexual harassment said in a report released Friday.
The University of Kansas has never had a formal policy on those relationships, and the report would provide this, said Sandra Wick, who heads the task force.
The task force had recommended that the University forbid student-faculty relationships in its original report in Spring 1992, but the University Senate Executive Committee objected to that decision.
"With the relationships of graduate students and professors, or other cases where the students may be older, they found it hard to forbid dating as long as there was consent,"
Common sense should dictate whether or not a relationship should occur, she said.
Wick said.
"If the professor has a student in his class or is grading that student's effort it probably isn't a good idea," she said.
The task force overhauled other policies after reviewing them for the first time in more than 10 years. Twelve sanctions were proposed ranging from a verbal warning to firing if anyone was found guilty of sexual harassment.
Wick said the listing of sanctions was intended to provide a guideline in determining what punishment that person might receive and to provide suggestions for possible penalties.
The report also lists definitions of sexual harassment, which are intended to help speed up the hearing process by better identifying incidents of harassment, she said.
The task force recommended an extension of the time limit from 180 days to one year in which charges could be heard.
"We hope that this will encourage more reporting of harassment." Wick said, "and we wanted it to be known that it will not be tolerated at the University."
A strong statement should be included about those who bring false charges in order to protect the falsely accused from a bad reputation, the report also said.
Above all, the report was intended to provide information for those who think they may have been sexually harassed, she said.
"We wanted to give someone somewhere to go with their complaint," Wick said.
The administration is in the process of reviewing the report and comparing it with existing policy, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
Meyen said counsel would be sought from University governances before a final policy was implemented.
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