University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1983
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Grads sav M.B.A vital in business world
By JUDITH HINDMAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
In 1976, Thomas Shoemake, a production supervisor for Hallmark Cards Inc., requested a transfer to the night shift. The reason? He wanted to attend daytime graduate classes at the University of Texas at Austin, his degree in business administration.
Since receiving that degree in 1978, Shoemaker has been transferred to Hallmark's main office in Kansas City, Mo., and has received several promotions. He is now a scheduling and inventory manager.
BRYCE PRINGLE thinks he would never have been hired without the M.B.A. degree he earned from KU in spring 1973. His employer, a public university, Kansas City, Mo., normally hires only applicants with graduate degrees.
Larry Burchell, a 1980 KU master's graduate who is employed by Armco Steel, thinks his graduate degree gave him the business background necessary to round out his undergraduate degree in engineering.
These KU graduates were part of a national stumpede to earn an M.B.A.
In the past decade, the number of M.B.A. degrees granted nationally doubled to more than 55,000 a year, and the number KU granted during that same time period also nearly doubled, from 89 to 169.
This rush for an M.B.A. was sparked partially by reports of high starting salaries, especially for graduates from prestigious schools such as Harvard, Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley.
NATIONALLY, nearly 20 percent of all masters degrees awarded last year were in business administration. Ten percent only 10 percent of the national total.
Frederick Madaus, placement director at the KU School of Business, said recently that large salary increases began about three years ago.
"The energy companies were the big culprits — they had the money. Some of
the big, consulting firms, especially in New York, went after, and got into dog fights over, the high飞iders in the big prestige schools," he said.
1981, the national average starting salary for an M.B.A. graduate with no experience and a nontechnical undergraduate degree was about $24,000. The average starting salary for a comparable Harvard graduate was $35,000; for a Chicago graduate, $28,500; and for a Berkeley graduate, $27,000.
According to KU's business school placement figures, a comparable KU graduate started that year at about 10 perc. m below the national average.
That same year, M.B.A. graduates across the nation who had technical undergraduate degrees typically started at $26,400. Comparable KU graduates, however, started at salaries averaging $29,900 - 25 percent higher than their classmates without technical training.
To explain those differences, Maduaa said that part of the national figure for
nonthechnical undergraduate salaries was inflated by figures from the more prestigious schools.
HE ALSO SAID that KU did not have as many graduate students with experience and that many of the prestigious schools had high experience requirements for enrollment in their M.B.A. programs.
"Also, some of our people may go to national firms, but a lot of them go into local firms which don't pay the fancy salaries that they do in New York." Madaus said. "The big consulting firms won't come to Kansas to recruit. They'll go to Chicago and they think they've hit the Midwest.
"We think our people can compare with graduates from Harvard and other schools. I think that our program here at KU is a viable one and that it is a popular degree — maybe a misunderstood one."
Shoemake said that the degree had given him upward mobility in his career.
Summer enrollment to be lengthened to 3 days
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
This year's summer school enrollment will differ from that of previous years because students will enrol, start class and pay fees on three successive days, a KU official said yesterday.
Before KU switched to a computerized enrollment system, students could register, enroll and pay fees in one day.
Gary Thompson, the director of KU student records and registration, said he hoped that next year fall and summer enrollment could be combined.
"IT WOULD BE an advantage because students would pick up two enrollment cards, see their adviser once and make one trip to the enrollment center." he said.
But the new summer enrollment schedule will still shorten the time it takes students to enroll and register in summer school, he said.
The new procedures are outlined in the summer timetables, which will be available in mid-May.
He said students would meet with academic advisers and enroll on Monday, June 6, in 111 Strong Hall.
Advising will start at 8 a.m. and enrollment will begin at 8:30 a.m. Students will enroll according to a letter schedule, and because of the
large number of people who need to enroll in one day, the schedule will be strictly enforced, Thompson said.
"WE WILL HAVE a lot of people to run through in one day and we don't want a big line," he said.
To help enroll more students quickly, three additional computer terminals will be added to the 15 used in fall enrollment.
If students cannot enroll during their designated times, they can enroll during two make-up times, he said.
"But very few classes close in the summer," he said. "And students don't have to fit classes into a schedule because most only take one or two classes."
June 8, students will register and pay fees anytime from 8:30 to 3:30 on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union.
THE FIRST DAY of late enrollment will be June 9, he said. The late enrollment fee is $10. Students may start adding or dropping classes then.
Students may enroll as late as the first day of short courses, which begin at different times during the summer, without paying late fees, he said.
Classes start Tuesday, June 7. On
Hourly fees for Lawrence campus students who are Kansas residents are $35.40 an hour for one to five hours and $23 for each additional hour. Non-compliant fees are $18.40 an hour for one to five hours and $7.60 for each additional hour.
Lawyer opposes new law speeding executions
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A lawyer for death row prisoners urged the Supreme Court yesterday to ban a new legal shortcut that sent one Texas inmate to his death and could accelerate the pace of executions nationwide.
Condemned prisoners "cannot have their cases fairly heard if they must operate under a crash schedule." Jack Greenberg of the NAACP Legal De
fense and Educational Fund told the justices.
"It does not help the federal courts, does not help criminal justice and is certainly to the detriment of criminal justice if a face immediate execution, he argued.
But Texas Assistant Attorney General Douglas Becker urged speeding the processing of death penalty appeals, at least in cases where a prisoner failed to raise solid challenges in the final stages of the process.
"WE WANT PEOPLE off death row," Becker said, either by executing them or having their sentences quickly set aside if they are unconstitutional.
Greenerbeng criticized a policy used by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of quickly dismissing a death row inmate who challenged without final review time.
At issue is how federal appeals courts, generally the next-to-last hope for condemned prisoners, should handle requests for stays of executions
THE QUESTION is vitally important as more and more death row inmates exhaust their last appeals. The high court is expected to rule by July.
from inmates who have almost run out of ways to avoid death.
Greenberg told the justice's first time a state death row prisoner turns to the federal court for help, he should be given at least the ordinary "four to six months, instead of the four to six-week crash basis" to make his challenges.
Missouri Valley win ends debaters' year
KU debaters finished their tour-ment season with a victory last weekend at the 50th annual Missouri Boys' High School football game, of Emporia State University.
Donn Parson, KU director of forensics, said yesterday that the victory was important to the team because it had already had the national tournament.
"This was not a token tournament," Parson said. "It was a time for Big Eight schools to get together. The Missouri Valley has some prestige. It's 13 years older than the national tournament."
KANSAS STATE University placed second at the tournament.
This year KU teams participated in 680 rounds of debate, winning 438. KU teams also won 10 tournaments this year and placed second at four.
KU's top two debaters, Mark Gidley, Houston senator, and Rodger Payne, Sand Springs, Olaa, senior, participate in the league tournament.
"Winning the national championship is a good way to end your debate career," Parson said. "We used some other debaters instead."
He said that the Missouri Valley was broadly defined to include Big Ten and Texas schools. Twenty colleges participated in the tournament, he said.
THE TOPIC argued at the tournament was, "Resolved: that U.S. involvement in Vietnam War was, on balance, justified."
The University of Kansas won the tournament because its two teams had the best combined record, Parson said.
Jerry Gaines, Houston junior, and David Rhaeaes, Salina junior, were the first place team arguing the affirmative side of the topic. Paul Leader, Derby junior, and Greg Reilly, second-best student, were the second-best team arguing the negative side of the topic.
Individual honors went to Ribasa, the first place affirmative speaker, and Gaines, the second place affirmative speaker.
In the negative speaking competition, Leader placed second and Turner placed third.
LEADER ALSO placed second in extemporaneous speaking. Turner placed third in prose interpretation, Burton placed third in the oratory competition.
The first place Sweetpatts Trophy, called the Buehler Award, was given to KU because of its storied careers in debate and speaking events.
The Buehler Award is named after E. C. Buehler, KU professor emeritus, who formed the league in 1933. Buehler is 89 and lives in Lawrence.
Five business graduates recognized for project
The Small Business Administration's Kansas City office recently selected a consulting project done by five KU business school graduates as the best consulting job conducted in its district last year.
The Small Business Administration gives the University of Kansas grants that allow students to do consulting and training at the Small Business Institute for 30 business a year.
THE PROJECT was chosen from 175 small business consulting cases sub-
scribed to the firm.
Business Institute, said yesterday
"The University of Kansas School of Business, in conjunction with the Small Business Administration, furnishes management counseling free of charge to a limited number of small business owners upon request." Steve Heeney, Marysville graduate student and student coordinator of the KU Small
The KU Small Business Institute program has served more than 125 clients in Lawrence, Kansas City, Kan., and surrounding areas since it started in 1970.
The students who worked on the project were: Brian Bethek, West Covina, Calif; Chris Little, Lawrence; Rosalyn McGee, Kansas City, Kan; Tadd Black, Hugoton; and Robert Golden, Colby.
THE TEAM OF students consulted Wyco Manufacturing Company of Tonganoxie, a steel fabrication company.
Heeney said the consulting team helped set up an accounting system for the company. The company was also planning to purchase a micro computer and the students recommended certain functions to give the computer.
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