University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 23, 1970
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'Ideas with Action' Shelton's Challenge
Editor's Note: This is the last of a series of five articles on the game for the award to be presented by the team at the homecoming game at UCLA.
By CINDI WILLIS
Kansan Staff Writer
Robert Shelton, assistant professor of religion and lecturer for speech and drama, stressed the importance of personal involvement in teaching.
"Students are people and one of my goals is to make it possible for a person to become more of a person, to grow in as many ways as possible." Shelton said during interview in his Smith Hall office.
Shelton is one of five finalists for the Senior Class HOPE (Honor the Outstanding Progressive Educator) Award to prepare students Saturday during homecoming ceremonies in Memorial Stadium.
"I try to be as personally involved as I can. I'm teaching you. I can don't know why anyone else should take it seriously if I don’t." Shelton
He listened other teaching objectives as making learning interesting and accessible, helping people become excited helping people to participate more fully in the process of thinking.
In the classroom, Shelton said it is important to help students learn by example because they can learn from each other as well as from the other group.
"Learning goes on best in peer relationships," Shelton said.
"Persons learn best from persons, not from authorities," she said. "They teach comes, he said, when one tries to the spark of learning being involved in learning get upon what you're learning." Shellen said also the combination with them is necessary everything with them was a necessary
"I really enjoy the people I work with, with the personal relationships and the people who make up the University community, he said.
Watching persons grow and develop and feeling a part of that process is one aspect of teaching, according to Shelton. "Growing is learning and vice versa. It is something people do all of their lives," he said.
People who come to college for the wrong reasons are a major hindrance to the functioning of the University. Shelton said.
The blame for this problem can not necessarily be placed on the student or the teacher; rather the result of the role the teacher has taken in society or parental pressure is responsible.
"We get bogged down taking care of people who aren't interested in being here," Shelton said. "On the one hand, they get in the way, and on the other, it is enough to try to motivate them."
Faculty often come to the University for reasons other than communicating information.
Unfortunately, this means that teaching doesn't get done as well. Shelton remarked. The HOPE Award is important, be said, there are very few forms of recognition for quality teaching.
"The University should be the center of collecting and transmitting knowledge, experience and information in examining, analyzing and thinking about the present." Sheilon explained. In order to keep the University must be as free as possible. Academic freedom, he said, involves being open to new ideas and viewspointes and resisting the tendency to allow viewpoints of others to control what goes on in the University.
Shelton said he thought there should be changes in the prerequisites for teaching qualifications.
"I don't think a thorough knowledge of a particular field is enough in itself. Teachers should have to be able to have a basic respect and interest in the persons with whom they try to communicate," he said.
There is a need also for a resource to help students in a motivational system. Shelton said. Grades are not conducive to learning, he explained, but the teacher should haven't provided some meaningful means of evaluation.
NUC Seeks Social Political Changes
What advice would Shelton give to a prospective college student? Understand that you're going to start from a wide variety of colleges.
The New University Conference (NUC) is not only a national organization, but also has started its roots in Lawrence. The NUC is distributed by its national headquarters, it is "a national organization of radicals who work at the institutions of higher education."
"we realize that the kind of unity we envision could hardly be achieved by society," the pamphlet continues. "So our struggle for these goals must go hand in hand with the fight to establish a new nation's social and political life."
The Lawrence chapter of the NUC has been selling its own pamphlet, called the
"Disorientation." The pamphlet outlines some projects the chapter plans to accomplish this year in Lawrence.
Some of these are: a "detailed investigation of the power Lawrence and the University (especially the legend) of the Lawrence High School, and, on the positive side, the activities of the Black Lawrence."
The NUCA raises its money by year-end each of the members. Faculty, Faculty and student dues are $15 per year. All of the dues are sent to the national NUC office in New York and used for publishing newsletters.
Senior Harold Taylor Named Paul Lawson Award Winner
The Paul B. Lawson award, the highest ranking in the College of the Highest Ranked Liberal Arts and Sciences, was awarded Thursday to Harold McClure.
George R. Waggoner, dean of the college, also announced that he would be B. Lear award. The Lear award and ranking at the freshman college are all recipients of the Lear award All recipients of "A" grades in at least three colleges.
The Lawson award
maternal and/or
professor, Paul B. Lawson,
was dean of the College for more
than 20 years before his death in
1973.
The Lear award is given in memory of Mrs. Veta B. Lear who served as an assistant to the
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