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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 12, 1963
Professor Cites Major Graduate School Needs
What's the cost of the highest higher education?
Once this rule of thumb applied:
For every dollar required for a freshman or sophomore student, two dollars are needed at the junior-senior level and four dollars at the graduate and professional level.
As a guest columnist, Jack Culvahouse, associate professor of physics at KU, outlined requirements for a major graduate and research center — the kind that would be certain to attract technical-based industry.
"From the point of view of one whose major interest has been the teaching of physics since he left the farm 15 years ago, here are some of the vital needs for the emergence of any university from something rather near a 4-year undergraduate college to a full-fledged university with a major graduate school," Prof. Culvahouse wrote.
THE GRADUATE FACULTY must be composed of persons who are highly competent in their field and in some cases international authorities, he said, capable of directing graduate students in research work that is at the frontiers of the field.
"Graduate students in physics require about five times as much staff time in the laboratory, seminar room and in debate with their professor as they require in formal classroom instruction." Prof. Culvahouse said.
"These hours of contact require as much preparation by the professor as formal classroom lectures."
In a major physics department a 3-hour per week classroom assignment for a professor is not unusual, he wrote.
"Space requirement for graduate education in experimental sciences is overwhelming," Prof. Culvahouse continued.
The undergraduate rarely requires more than 20 square feet and will occupy it for a small number of hours during the week.
"A graduate student doing experimental research will require something like 200 square feet and he will probably occupy it 80 hours a week, and his untouchable squp will be there the other 88."
He noted the great distinction between equipment required for undergraduate instruction and graduate research.
"For the latter only the best is of any use and one can anticipate its early obsolescence."
ANOTHER COST-HIKING factor is the need for a service corps of skilled technicians; machinists, glass blowers, mechanics and electronics technicians.
"The realization of one or more institutions of the type I have been talking about in the state of Kansas is going to cost a staggering amount of money and virtually all of it must come from the taxpayer," the professor concluded.
Law Dean Visits Oregon University
Frederick J. Moreau, dean emeritus of the KU School of Law, will be visiting professor of law at the University of Oregon during 1963-64.
Dean Moreau, member of the faculty from 1929 until his retirement in July, was dean of the School of Law from 1937-57, and was acting-dean from 1960-62.
He will teach courses in creditors rights, a course he started at KU in 1937, and commercial law. Dean Moreau has done extensive research in both areas of the law.
Dean Moreau will share professorial duties with one of his former students, Chapin D. Clark, professor of law at Oregon and son of Prof. Carroll D. Clark of the KU sociology and anthropology department. Clark received his degree from KU in 1954.
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