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University Daily Kansan, February 23, 1983
Liberal Arts enrollment exceeds 10,000
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Enrollment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences increased more than any other school this spring, according to figures released yesterday. There are 10,102 students in the college, compared to 9,876 last spring.
The college was one of seven schools in which enrollment increased from last spring. Nine schools showed a strong school's enrollment remained the same.
On-campus enrollment is 21,327 this spring, compared to 20,962 last spring. Off-campus enrollment dropped from 2,073 to 1,750.
Officials of schools with enrollment increases said they were pleased, but those showing decreases said the figures might be misleading.
largest decrease, with 736 students,
down from 833 last spring.
ROBERT LINEBERRY, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he was pleased with the enrollment increase.
The School of Business showed the
"Certainly in a university whose funding is based on the aggregate enrollment, it is quite important to ensure stabilization of enrollment," he said.
The University receives some of its money from the state based on full-time equivalent enrollment, which is figured by dividing the total number of hours taken by undergraduate students by 15.
Patricia Ewalt, dean of the School of Social Welfare, whose enrollment rose from 432 students last spring to 482, said she was not surprised by the increase.
goal of reaching out to those interested in working with people.
Despite a national trend toward science and training training in areas such as engineering and computers, the vast still want careers working with people.
She said the job opportunities in social welfare were not as bad as some might expect.
HE SAID THAT the enrollment figures did not include students who were taking business classes but had not yet been admitted to the school.
the deans of the schools of Engineering and Business, which fell in enrollment, said they did not think the figures were significant.
John Tolleson, dean of the School of Business, said the drop in enrollment was due to a change in school entrance requirements, not to a decrease in teaching activity.
The full-time equivalent enrollment
actually rose from last spring, Tollefon said.
David Kraft, dean of the School of Engineering, said the drop in his school's enrollment, from 1,847 last spring to 1,795, was not significant.
New enrollment figures for other KU professional schools, with last spring's
Enrollment in engineering always varies slightly from year to year, he
Design, oil, and
School of Education 1,050, 1,033;
School of Fine Arts, 196, 1,016; Graduate
School, 5,045, 5,189.
Department of occupational therapy,
355 students this semester, 355 last spring.
Applied English Center, 97, 92;
Design and Urban Design, 632, 629.
School of Journalism, 656, 601; School of Law, 324, 540; School of Pharmacy,
Special students, 631, 682; nursing,
13, 14; Allied health, five, two; and
medicine, none, two.
Graduate contract dismissal clause still unsettled
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
A meeting between the Graduate Student Executive Council and KU administrators yesterday failed to produce a decision on terms for next year's graduate teaching assistant contracts.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said she would consider suggestions made at yesterday's meeting, compose a report and send it with Thomas Berger, executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council.
all Regents university graduate assistants.
The administration proposed a yearlong contract that would include a provision for two dismissal notice periods, one before the beginning of each semester, in case of budget reductions ordered by the state.
BUT MOST OF THE 11 students at the meeting yesterday said they would rather have only one dismissal notice period during the year, preferably before the spring semester.
A notice period before the fall semester, they said, would be unfair to students who had settled in Lawrence for the summer, planning to return to teaching job locations found at the last semester their positions for the fall semester had been cut.
Bebecca Pyles, teaching assistant in the department of biological sciences, suggested a 60-day notice period for the spring semester only. Such notice
should be given before Nov. 15, she said.
Tacha said she would consider that suggestion, but added she still wanted a separate dismissal notice for summer session graduate assistants.
SHE ALSO AGREED to consider a letter of explanation in each teaching appointment notice that would clearly describe the dismissal notice clause.
But some of the students said they wanted to keep the option of using the current contracts, which have no notice provision at all.
Rob John, Western Civilization Rob John, Western Civilization assistant, said he thought more people would want to sign the open-ended contract because they would then at least be able to sue the University if their positions were cut.
Under a contract with a dismissal clause, he said, students do not have much legal recourse to protest their dismissals in case of budget reductions.
But Tacha defended the dismissal clause, saying it would protect not only the University but also graduate students.
She also told the students that she hoped the dismissal clause would never be used.
Philip Huskey, research assistant in the department of chemistry, said any type of notice provision in graduate assistant contracts would make the less desirable to graduate students trying to decide which school to attend.
MOST POTENTIAL CHEMISTRY graduate students get five to eight offers from competitive schools, he said, and those students will interpret a dismissal clause in KU contracts as a sign that the University might not support them.
"Regardless of the intent of the clause, it would look bad and give KUA a big blow."
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night approved guidelines for a plan that could eventually lead to construction-income housing in East Lawrence.
The commission authorized the staff to obtain options on seven lots in the 800 block of New Jersey Street and four lots in the 600 block of Third Avenue that would be the sites of the housing.
The city would buy the lots with money from the sale of nine lots in the county. The city could buy
Commissioner Don Binn said he did not think the city should obtain options for the lots on New Jersey and New York, but the Pennsylvania Street lots were sold.
"It seems to me we've got the cart before the horse." Birsn said.
Each lot must be sold for at least
68.435, the county's anpraised value.
THE GUIDELINES SET the conditions the city should use in the sale and development of the lots on Pennsylvania Street.
A solid wood fence, six feet high,
must be constructed along the western
margin of the property.
The guidelines say the commission would prefer that the lots be used for additional off-street parking for businesses in the area; that access to the properties be from either side of the street; and that the properties be put to immediate use.
The former owners of the property will be given first chance to buy the lots, followed by owners of established businesses adjacent to the lots and owners of property in the area of the proposed downtown redevelopment.
THE CITY BOUGH the nine lots on Pennsylvania Street in 1975 for the proposed Haskell Loop highway project, plan met opposition and unhappy.
The commission told the staff to initiate zoning of the lots for light industrial use.
In other action, the City Commission approved a request by Cottonwood Incorporated, a local agency that serves the mentally handicapped, for a use permit to build a group care home for inspection of 25th Court and Oudahl Road.
Cottonwood had originally asked for use permits to build four group homes.
Howard Hasler, director of Cottonwood, said that two of the requests were withdrawn because of technical problems with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is financing the homes.
The home would provide housing for six clients, who would work at jobs in Lawrence or in the workshop at Cottonwood.
HE SAID THE other request was withdrawn because of opposition from the party.
Hasler said that Cottontwood would search for three new sites for the homes. The agency will not allow him to select sites because of their choice of new sites, he said.
He said that residents' concerns about the houses were unfounded.
The commission also approved an ordinance that would allow cars in a parking lot to be parked for up to seven days on city streets without being subject to towing.
The rest of the city will remain under the 48-hour parking limit, which allows cars to be ticketed and then towed if they are not within more than 48 hours without being moved.
RESIDENTS OF THE area bounded by Nithn, 14th, Oread and Kentucky streets have complained in the past that the 48-hour limit placed a burden on them because of the lack of adequate off-street parking.
The commission also set March 2 for the presentation of modified plans for new buildings.
The city's developer of record, Sizeer Realty Co. Inc., will show a modified version of a proposal approved by the commission and the Downtown Improvement Committee earlier this month.
Youth's rape hearing delayed
The hearing in Douglas County District Court for a 16-year-old Lawrence youth accused of rape has been delayed until March 15. The delay was granted to give district court jurisdiction as a Douglas County district attorney's motion that the youth be shown as an adult, district court records show.
If Judge Malone rules that he should be tried as an adult, the youth will face charges of raped, aggravated sodomy and armed robbery.
THE YOUTH IS accused of the Jan. 30 rape of a KU student behind Spooner Hall. He is also accused of an armed assault that occurred earlier this month.
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