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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1949
4,000 Students Helped By KU Guidance Bureau
Do you have troubles?
The University's guidance bureau has helped over 4,000 students meet their personal problems in the last four and a half years.
The majority of the students who go to the bureau are concerned with what courses they should study and in what occupation they are most likely to succeed. However, the bureau is interested in helping with any problem the student may have, such as conflicts in family life or making adjustment to college life.
To meet the many problems that arise the bureau is divided into five sections. These are:
1. Personal counseling.
2. Vocational counseling.
2. Educational counseling.
4. Occupational information
5. Testing service.
Dr. A. H. Turney, director of the bureau, said that a typical example of the bureau's service can be illustrated by the following case:
Joe Dakes is a sophomore in engineering. He has no special desire to take engineering, but his dad is a civil engineer and Joe knows his dad would like for him to follow that occupation. However, Joe has a rough time with higher mathematics and is getting pretty discouraged. Joe decides he'll give the guidance bureau a try and makes an appointment for an interview. At the interview Joe finds a sympathetic listener and after telling his problem asks for advice. The counselor explains that it will be necessary to take some tests. The tests Joe will take include an interest inventory, personality inventory, special aptitude tests such as mechanical, and survey tests in mathematics, social studies, and natural science. Joe works out a schedule for taking the tests which in his case will require eight hours, and he is able to space them over several weeks at such hours as he has free.
After the tests are completed the counselor, with the data obtained, is ready to offer some advice to Joe. In this case he has found that the vocational interest pattern is especially high in business detail, including accounting; while the interest is markedly low in physics-engineering group. There is a noticeable interest in the legal-linguistic group, but it is not nearly as strong as the business group. Furthermore, the personality evaluation indicates that Joe would adjust suitably to an office type of work.
At the next interview Joe is given the information. The counselor does not try and persuade him to take business or any particular course. He is only presented with the test results and the counselor's interpretation of them, and he is free to make his own decision as to what he should do. The chances are that Joe will realize that he has a better chance of succeeding in a business course, and that he will be able to explain that to his dad.
The guidance bureau is a division of the School of Education and was started on August 1st, 1944. Its first offices were rather makeshift affairs in the basement of Fraser. At that time the bureau had one full time counselor besides Dr. Turney, who was also teaching and one clerk.
The bureau next moved to Frank Strong hall and a full time psychometrist and additional student help were employed.
The bureau moved to its present quarters in annex B at the rear of Frank Strong hall, in August of last year, and now employs five full time counselors, three psychometrists, three clerks, and seven student assistants.
"The majority of students who come to the bureau are of above average mental status as indicated by tests results." Dr. Turney said. And he believes that there is probably a correlation between that and the fact that these students do seek advice on their problems. However, it is likely that the individuals were not aware of any superiority when they came to the bureau. However, Dr. Turney says the bureau can be of just as much help to below average persons.
Dr. Turney stresses the fact that only advice is given by the bureau. No attempt to high-pressure or persuade a person to follow something contrary to his wishes are made.
Official Bulletin
Jan. 10, 1949
Mathematical colloquium of department of mathematics, 5 today. 203 Frank Strong. Dr. I. N. Herstein, "Introduction to the Theory of Rings."
Kansan Board, 4 today, 107 Journalism.
Veterans' requisition books for the present semester will not be honored after tomorrow. E. R. Elbel director, Veterans' bureau.
ISA council, AWS senate and Mortar board will not meet this week.
Inter-Co-op council, 7:30 tonight,
Jayhawk.
The following are notified to appear before student court, 7:30 p.m Wednesday. Green hall courtroom Ross E. Howell, Owen C. Peck, Harold H. Ziesch.
A. I. Ch. E., 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Lindley auditorium. Election of
vice-president and treasurer. Films.
Sigma Delta Chi, 5 p.m. Wednesday.
107 Journalism.
Independent Men's Political party, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, ballroom, Union.
UNESCO, 7 p.m. Thursday, 106 Frank Strong.
American Society of Tool Engineers, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Pine room, Union. Pictures will be taken for Jav Hawker.
Snow Zoology club. 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, 202 Snow. Prof. Charles
Leone from Rutgers university will
speak on serological systematics.
New Birds Found In Kaw Valley
Seven new species of bird life have been added to the list of birds which frequent the Kaw valley, M. Dale Arvey and Henry W. Seitzer, assistant instructors in zoology, announced recently.
The birds were saved and brought to the zoology department for classification by Ralph L. Montell, 1138 Pennsylvania street. Mr. Montell is a duck hunter and each new species that he finds is brought to the University, Mr. Arvey said.
The new species are the horned grebe, Western grebe, old - squaw duck, mottled duck, king eider, an arctic species called Chuck Will's Widow, and the Florida fallinle. These birds had not been known previously to frequent the Kaw valley area.
A complete scientific report of the new finds will be made in the next publication from the University Museum of Natural History.
Frank T. Stockton, dean of University Extension, and D. Gagliardio, professor of economics, will attend a United Steelworkers' conference in Chicago, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 25 and 26.
Professors To Attend Labor Conference
The steelworkers' union will examine what has been done in previous campus institutes and will determine how much more training at universities is needed for steel-workers.
Dean Stockton will be a luncheon speaker and will speak on "Uttizing to the Greatest Possible Advantage the Full Resources of the University."
Prof. Gagliardo will take part in a panel discussion the subject of which is not yet known.
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