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University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1984
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--didn't know what courses would attract students." he said.
But the English department had been able to determine enrollment trends every three hours during enrollment at the field house, Carothers said. During the first two semesters of computer enrollment, the department received up-to-date class listings only twice each week, he said.
Thompson said that the program refinement would solve the problem of departments not having up-to-date information on which to base their decisions.
*Starting this January, you can look up course enrollment every 30 seconds.*
Another enrollment change that came with the switch to computers, Thompson said, was the method for determining the order of enrollment.
During enrollment at the field house, the alphabet was divided into six equal parts and students enrolled according to the first letter of their last names. The problem with that system, Thompson said, was that students who enrolled last one semester would enroll next-to-last the semester after that and would go three semesters in a row without enrolling in the first half of the enrollment period.
Now, students enroll in groups determined by the last three digits of their student numbers. These number groups are rotated so that students enroll last one semester will enroll first the next.
Add-drop centralized
Computerization also brought changes in the add-drop process. The changes made the add-drop process easier for students and departments, but many students complained that the changes were for the worse.
The new process is easier and more efficient for departments, because adds and drops are now done at
computer terminals in the enrollment center.
Before computerized enrollment, departments did adds and drops by hand. Each department had a roster for each course section offered, and the roster included names for students who added and crowded off a name for students who dropped.
"At the beginning of the semester, offices were wall-to-wall students."
Jane Garrett, a clerk in the freshman-sophomore English office, said she was glad add-drop was no more than one by individual departments.
"I can show you the callus on my finger from filling out those forms."
she said. "For two or three weeks, that's all we did."
Thompson said that the most common faculty complaint about the new add-drop process was the delay in providing courses. Faculty had added or dropped a course.
The first semester of the new enrollment system, students merely showed their new schedules to professors as proof of adding courses. Professors had no way of verifying which students had completed the course, and an updated copy of the roster at the end of the fifth week of classes.
Starting in fall 1883, professors received updated enrollment lists twice a week during the first week of add-drop and once week after that.
For students, the add-drop process also has had weaknesses. During the first semester of computerized enrollment, the enrollment center handled add-drop requests on a basis that was based on skills this process created long-term. Starch Hall and students often missed class to stand in line, Thompson said.
Adjusting to problems
To solve that problem, in fall 1883 appointment cards for add-drop sessions were distributed starting at 7:30 in the morning. Thompson said.
"The result was totally unexpected." he said.
"People had been camping out since midnight." he said.
He said that when he arrived at Strong Hall at 7 a.m. on the first day of add-drop, the line stretched from room 113 all the way through the building, out the west door, then down the sidewalk east to the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road.
People complained about the appointment-card strategy, calling the system a failure, and administrators finally decided to pre-assign appointment times according to the last two digits of student numbers.
Computerized add-drop has one definite advantage over the manual preparation.
That process allowed some students to wait until late in the semester to give their professors their add or drop marks. They knew if they were passing the course.
"We had people going around all semester with add-drop slips in their pockets," Thompson said. "For some person, it was a pretty good system."
Thompson said KU students made about 45,000 adds and drops each day.
"Out of about 20,000 students, 8,000 students make no changes, and the rest make some changes. Some make a lot," he said.
"I think students and faculty are better off now," he said.
Summer jobs to be few, Lawrence official says
By JAN SHARON Staff Reporter
Summer jobs will be scarce in Lawrence this year, although employment has improved somewhat from last year, the manager of the Lawrence Job Service Center said recently.
Ed Mills, the manager, said that the number of jobs that would be available this summer depended on what the economy did between now and May.
Mills said he did not forsee much activity in the summer job market in Lawrence because many students from college and elsewhere became available for work during the summer.
If the spring unemployment rate is low, then the number of jobs available during the summer will probably be greater because the spring unemployment rate usually dictates what unemployment will be like, Mills said.
"We have too many people for too few jobs." HE SAID.
He said doing volunteer work was a good idea for people who could not find jobs because volunteer work gave them work experience.
Most jobs that will be available will be outside work such as construction work, agricultural jobs and service jobs, and jobs as clerks and attendants, Mills said.
Pam Houston, the director of KU's College Work Study Program, said, "This school year has been much better than that as continuing into the summer."
A VARIETY of summer jobs are available for KU students who plan to remain in Kansas and those who would like to work in local locations across the nation, she said.
Houston said that federal and state work study jobs were available for KU students.
Students also may get information
Salaries vary and are set by the employers, depending on the job and the earnings limit the student has, Houston said.
The state finances 50 percent of students' salaries under the state college work study program, Houston said. Employers pay the other half.
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about jobs with private employers in Lawrence and across the nation from the financial aid office, she said.
The federal government pays 80 percent of students' salaries for jobs on campus, Houston said. The other 20 percent are paid by the departments that hire the students.
About $135,000 is usually available for federal work study jobs, but the office rarely uses all the money, she said. The office uses between $50,000 and $75,000 each year for student summer employment.
Clerical jobs, jobs with facilities and operations, and research assistant positions are a few examples of jobs under the federal work study program.
Students may set up their own jobs under the state work study program, then work with the office to get state financing.
All federal work study jobs pay minimum wage.
She said that students could get jobs anywhere in the state under the state work program, but they still would need to go through the office of financial aid to arrange salary payments.
Students with jobs under federal and state work study programs have earnings limits set from information taken from the results of the financial and pro-fessional students send to the beginning College Teaching program, beginning of the year. Houston said.
Jobs that are offered under both programs are posted outside the job location.
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