University Daily Kansan
Page 8
Tuesday, May 3, 1955
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IBM to Simplify Enrollment
By ELIZABETH WOHLGEMUTH
Editor's note—This is the third in a series of articles explaining IBM equipment and its relation to the campus.
The registrar's office will employ the machines of the Bureau of Statistical Services as a tool to perform certain clerical tasks now done by hand, in connection with registration and enrollment of students and statistical analysis of enrolment. It is expected that the employment of IBM will eliminate a large amount of clerical work now done by the student, the faculty, chairmen of academic departments, and the deans' offices, thereby freeing these persons so as to be capable to devote more energy to the primary job of providing a more significant educational experience for the student.
The transition to IBM will be noticed by the student only at a few particular points. The first evidence will be noticed in the reduction of the size of the registration card. Now consisting of nine separate coupons, the new registration form will involve only two coupons, upon which the student will write only such information that requires verification at the beginning of each term and such information as is not already known about the student.
James K. Hitt, registrar, said, "This reduction of the clerical work now performed by the student will make it possible for us to process a great many more students in the time and space presently used for registration."
IBM will speed the progress of the student through the Pen, thereby reducing congestion. Prepunched IBM cards will be used to replace the present class cards that have to be handwritten by departmental scribes.
Reports of semester grades will be available to students soon after the close of each semester, and semesterly grade reports can now be sent to parents in place of the annual photographic report.
Mr. Hitt said, "One of the primary advantages to the student is that the reduction of clerical work involved in registration makes it possible for a more leisurely conference between the student and adviser, resulting, we hope, in selection of courses more educationally suitable to the student."
The individual faculty member will first be aware of the transition if he happens to be one of the departmental representatives assigned to "scribing" duties in the Pen at enrollment time. Instead of having to write out the class cards by hand, he will be provided with a pack of prepared class cards and the scribing operation becomes simply one of selecting a card from the proper pack and handing it to the student as he files by.
Printed rosters showing the students enrolled in each class will be supplied to departmental offices at the beginning of each semester, replacing the packs of cards now employed. These rosters will be supplemented by corrected rosters issued at mid-semester, and again at the end of the semester, upon which final grades will be recorded.
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enrollment card, will be furnished to the academic deans' offices. These printed schedules will be more legible than at present. The offices of the dean of men and dean of women not now provided with copies of the student's enrollments, will be given a printed copy of the schedule of each student.
Printed mid-semester reports will be provided the deans' offices at the middle of the term for mailing to students and parents, and will eliminate the clerical work now involved in each dean's office in collecting mid-semester grades, and typing mid-semester grade reports.
At the end of the semester, printed grade reports will be available a short time after the close of final exams for distribution to deans' offices, to students, and to parents of students.
"The registrar's office will be able to better utilize its clerical staff and available space in dealing with students and their problems and with the general public," said Mr. Hitt.
"In the future it will make it possible to handle ever-increasing
numbers of students without increasing the amount of time required for preliminary processing at the beginning of each semester, or increasing the space and staff currently allocated for clerical work," he said.
"IBM equipment is simply a clerical tool which is capable of performing certain operations more rapidly and accurately than they can be done by hand." Mr. Hitt said. "There are many things IBM will not do. It will not reduce the number of closed classes and it will not make it possible for every student to have his classes at 9, 10, and 11 in the morning. Nor will it eliminate the necessity for Saturday classes. IBM will not prepare an instructor's lesson or give an examination or cause students to cease cutting classes."
Since 1947, the number of families with incomes of $10,000 or more has doubled, according to the Department of Commerce. The number of families with incomes of more than $4,000 a year has increased 70 per cent since 1947.
Congressional Leaders Sold On Foreign Aid Program
Washington—(U.P.)President Eisenhower apparently sold to congressional leaders today on the need for continuing foreign aid he got no promises as to the amount.
The President briefed Democratic and Republican congressional leaders for 90 minutes on the 3 billion, 530 million foreign aid program for the coming year. He had called them to a bipartisan White House conference to express his "deep personal concern" about the necessity for the program.
Some of the leaders left the White House predicting that the administration will get a foreign aid program in this session of Congress. But they would not forecast whether it will be as big as he would like.
er it will be as asg as he would.
The leaders said foreign aid was the principal topic. But he said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles them a run-down on latest developments not only in the Far East – the area emphasized most strongly in the aid bill – but also on Europe. They would not go into details of Secretary Dulles' remarks.
Concerning foreign aid House Republican leader Joseph W. Martin (Mass.) said he thinks "they'll get what they need because they've
demonstrated that until we get peace and stability in the world we've got to spend for a while."
we've got to Chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.) of the Senate Foreign Relations committee agreed that Congress will continue foreign aid. But he said he doesn't know exactly when the program's final form may be.
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