VEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1941.
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By DON PIERCE
By DON PIERCE Generally agreeing that University enrollment would drop ext fall, heads of the nine schools of the University expressed various opinions when queried concerning the effect of the present world situation upon their individual departments.
Three of them, Dean Paul B. Lawon of the College, D. M. Swarthoff of the School of Fine Arts, and Dean B. B. Stouffer of the Graduate School, predicted drops of varying degrees or their schools; two others, F. A. Russell, engineering professor, and Dean J. Allen Reese, Pharmacy school head, predicted increases for their divisions; while four others, O. O. Stoland, secretary of the Medicine school; Dean R. A. Schwegler of the school of Education; and Frank T. Toccon, Business school head, L. Maran of the School of Law
school of Education; and Frank T.
Towdon, Business school head,
J. Moreau, of the School of Law,
ere undecided.
Reese Predicts Pharmacy Increase
Reese gave two reasons:
"There is always a demand for well-trained pharmacists during a war," Reese said. "Their need in the medical field and other lines is invaluable in time of war."
second reason forwarded by Reese that the American Pharmacy Association is pushing strongly for the exemption of prospective pharmacists from the draft in order that they may supply the growing demand.
Reason for the steady increase in Pharmacy school enrollment over the last 10 years, Reese pointed out, is mainly due to a Kansas law passed in 1929 that one must be a graduate
from a recognized pharmacy school in addition to having a certain amount of practical experience, before he may become a registered pharmacist. A similar law exists in 17 states. Reese added.
In Kansas the would-be pharmacist must take four years of college work in the pharmacy school (three years or a Ph.D.) then serve one year with a druggist, hospital, or some similar establishment before he may become registered.
Reese disclosed that one student who will graduate from the University pharmacy school this June actually has had choice of 15 jobs, so great is the demand.
"Attempting to supply the demand is our biggest worry at present," the young pharmacy head explained. "In order to do this we should have a yearly enrollment of 150 to 200. Our enrollment this year is only 90. Similar conditions in other states have caused the federal government to list pharmacy as the No. 1 opportunity profession of the nation."
Stability In Medicine School
"We could get many more than his each semester," said Stoland, but with our limited facilities we
The Medical school, only department in which enrollment has remained steady throughout the past 10 years, maintains its enrollment from year to year because of the limit of 120 persons a semester. There is also a limit of 80 to 85 students allowed to enroll in the Kansas City branch of the school each semester.
feel that it is better to instruct everyone well than to turn out a fe who will be incompetent. We could handle more persons in summer school than we do now, however," he concluded.
As to the percentage getting jobs upon graduation, Stoland commented that he had never heard of a University Medical school graduate who had not become quite successful.
Stoland believes that the present world situation will create a greater demand for doctors; but until such time when Kansas' facilities are extended and its staff increased, the medical school will continue its policy of a limited enrollment.
Lawson Expects College Slump
Lawson flatly predicted a 20 per cent enrollment drop for the College next year.
"The drop will not only be because of the draft," Lawson explained, "but also a by-product of any such great movement as our national defense plan. For one thing the demand for men in many fields will be terrific by summer."
"For instance," Lawson continued "according to Aubrey Williams, national administrator of the NYA, there will be a need next summer for 500,000 more shipbuilders and 700-000 more men in airplane manufacturing than we have now."
Reason for the definite downward trend of College enrollment during the last few years, Lawson said, was that at present most students are searching specialization in specific fields.
The war is partially to blame for this, he declared, but the movement is typically a cycle. When jobs are all taken and the field becomes crowded, there will be a de-emphasis of specialization and College enrollment will begin to increase again.
War and Taxes Will Pinch Arts
"Because higher taxes are a result of any war, music and other fine arts subjects will be first to be cut out of public life," said Dean Swarthout.
3. Because of the widespread recognition that Kansas is one of the state universities which has recognized the place of fine arts in relation to universal education. Kansas has been a pioneer in this field.
"Such a situation, which will arise after a war rather than during it, decreases the demand for music and other cultural subjects, thus decreasing the number of jobs and consequently the enrollment. During a war there is a definite use for music as an outlet for nervous energy," Swarthout said.
Swarthout said that he anticipated an enrollment drop in his department in the coming few years, although it should not be severe.
He gave four reasons for the upward trend of enrollment in fine arts over the past few years:
1. Because the staff of the Fine Arts School has been built up by instructors who could hold their own in any company in their particular field. The staff now has such men as Carl Preyer, and Otto Meissner, and until his recent death C. S. Skilton, nationally recognized instructors in the field of music.
2. Because cf the trend of public school music over the past 20 years, art is beginning to grow in the same way.
4. Because the school has realized that it is important that students hear and see great artists of the world in order to take a high interest in fine arts.
Draft Confronts Grad Students
Main reasons for the anticipated drop in the Graduate School next fall, Stouffer said, are that most graduate students are of draft age and that the increasing number of jobs will lure many away who would otherwise continue their schooling.
Reason for the gradual increase in graduate enrollment over the four years preceding this one merely reflects a trend toward greater specialization by the student through necessity, Stouffer pointed out, Graduate School enrollment hit an all-time peak of 473 last year. Lowest was 322 in 1934-1935.
Education School Trend Uncertain
"I don't know whether the enrollment of the School of Education will go up or down," declared Schwegler.
"Our enrollment flourishes or fails with the prevailing economic conditions of the times," Schwegler explained.
"Some of the forces acting upon us now may change considerably by next fall," Schwegler continued. "I don't know who can predict such a thing."
"In 1926 and 1927 we had a boom in the education field as there was in every other field. In 1933 and 1934 we suffered with the rest. Right now we're in the middle of a gradual increase."
Schwegler pointed out that the main reason for the increase in Education school enrollment was because physical education majors were taken from the College to be added to the School of Education a few years ago.
The average job-placement among graduates, Schwegler disclosed, was about 80 per cent yearly.
"In some fields," he said, "we don't have enough teachers to meet the demand, while in others the supply exceeds the demand. Right now home economics, women's physical education, and music do not have enough teachers; while English and the social sciences have been overloaded for the past 10 years."
"The present outlook for jobs in
the education field is better than it has been for many years," Schwegler concluded. "This is mostly due to the draft."
Demand Increases For Engineers
Concerning engineering, Russell qualified his statement with the explanation that he looked for the main increase in the Engineering school to be in the freshman-sophomore division.
"The reason I look for an increase," he said, "is because engineering like everything else follows the law of supply and demand.
"Modern warfare is mechanical," continued Russell, "and we are now in a program of national defense, hence there is naturally a great demand for engineers. At present the engineering school graduate has six chances to land a job and by summer this number probably will be increased."
"I look for enrollment among the upper classmen to drop off," Russell said, "because many of them will take jobs while they can get them rather than continue their schooling."
Russell explained that after any war the engineering profession is always hard hit because of the enormous layoffs that occur in mechanical industries and projects.
"I hope that this time industrialists will use more sense and not lay off all of their surplus employees at once." Russell concluded.
Today job placement among graduates of the Engineering school are 100 per cent. Even in the darkest depression days of 1932-1933,placement ran as high as 75 per cent of the graduation total, Russell declared.
Moreau Slaps Out-State Fees
Moreau also was undecided on law enrollment prospects.
"Frankly I don't know what effect the present situation will have upon our enrollment," he declared.
"All I know right now is that there are plenty of jobs for lawyers because of the draft."
Moreau pointed out two reasons for the drop in law enrollment over the last five years:
1. -Because the tuition for non-resident students is abnormally high. The tuition was raised three years ago by the Board of Regents because the non-resident student pays no taxes in the state.
2. Because the requirements for admission to the Law school were raised by the Kansas Supreme
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"I don't believe in legislating against out-of-state students because it makes us provincial. I think we should have ideas from Missouri, Oklahoma, or Maine just as well as our own."
court three years ago, and this year they were hiked again. To gain admittance to the Law school today a student must have an A.B. degree. In 1929 the only requirement was that the student have 60 hours of college work to his credit, three-fourths of which must be "C." Now the student must show a "C" average for all college work.
Moreau commented only on the high admission fee:
Dean Stockton said he didn't know how the School of Business would be affected by the war, but he admitted that the situation had opened the way for many more jobs in the business world.
"In fact," he said, "we will be un- able to meet the demand this year. In a normal year it takes six months to place all of our graduates."
Stockton also said that Business school enrollment in general followed the trend of business cycles, tending to be lower following depression periods and higher following periods of comparative prosperity.
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