CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 12, 1984
Page 10
Dean favors writing-skills program
By the Kansan Staff
KU students often lose the writing skills they gain in their freshman and sophomore English courses before they graduate, the associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said yesterday.
Michael Young, the dean, said, "It's a constant complaint. University faculty complain that high school graduates can't write. Employers complain that university graduates can't write."
Because of that problem, Young said, the University of Kansas needs a program to ensure that students
continue to improve their writing skills after their first two years at KU.
"We think it's time to turn that around. We think it's the single most important thing the University can do to ensure we undergraduate curriculum."
THE TASK FORCE on General Education has recommended establishing a committee to develop a "writing across the curriculum" program, which would make sure students developed their writing skills, regardless of which school they were in. Young said.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that such a committee would be established within the next month.
Young said, "There are some majors in the University where students don't do any writing. Their skills wither unless they're challenged all the way through the curriculum.
"Our view is that it does not do much good to teach people English composition unless they are challenged continually after that.
continually use it. "I think there is very wide support for this. The sentiment in favor of this is very strong."
HASKELL SPRINGER, an English professor, said, "There's a need for it. Not because our students are crummy but because people lose their skills in writing just as they lose other skills if they don't keep them up.
'Studies show that seniors write more poorly than freshman.
Springer said writing across the curriculum programs at other universities usually took the form of either courses offered by the English department for specific majors, or courses within schools or departments that emphasized writing skills.
Robert Zervwekh, associate dean of the school of engineering and a member of the University Core Curriculum Committee, said most faculty in the engineering school agreed that KU needed a program to help students develop better writing skills.
Group to look into governance for KUAC
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
In a closed session yesterday, the University Senate Executive Committee vote to appoint a seven-member committee to decide whether a formal relationship should be established between University governance and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
James Carothers, chairman of SenEn, said that the KUAC board and University governance now had only a casual relationship.
"There are no governance regulations concerning the KUAC board," Carothers said. "The question is,
should governance define the role and scope of the athletic board?"
SenEx chose seven prospective members and several alternates for the board during the meeting, he said. Students, faculty and the members of the KUAC board will be represented among the seven.
The committee did not set a specific number of representatives for each group, he said.
SENEX MEMBERS FIRST discussed the relationship between the KUAC board and University governance at an unannounced, closed meet with U.S. Representatives Johnson and Lanny Rose, assistant athletic director, were at that meeting.
Yesterday Rose said he thought that the relationship between the KUAC
govern a group."
But," Rose said, "I think that anything that promotes communication is a good step."
board and governance now was good because several of the faculty members on the board were also members of governance groups.
CHARLES KAIN, a SenEx member and professor of architecture and urban design, said the committee would determine what kind of relationship could be developed between the board and governance.
"This committee is supposed to look into what can be done to involve University governance in the board," Kahn said.
"In a way, the athletic corporation is a private corporation. So some relationship between the two has to be
defined. We're just trying to find out if we can get a closer organization between the two. The intention is to try and misunderstandings in the future."
He said the decision to form a committee was not the result of any specific incident.
One issue SenEx had been interested in was how the board determined which coaches would have free use of automobiles while coaching at KU, Kahn said.
"There are just some things the athletic board has been involved in that governance was interested in," he said. "This is only an attempt to try and bring the action of the athletic board more closely in contact with governance."
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