University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 27, 1988
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Fewer minorities go for grad school
By Craig Welch
By Craig Welch
Kansan staff writer
Although the minority population in the United States is increasing, fewer blacks are seeking graduate-level education, a panel Conference on Postsecondary Education yesterday in Topeka.
Charles Rankin, assistant to the provost at Kansas State University, said that black earned 820 doctorates in 1986, a 26 percent drop from a decade earlier. With 75 percent of students in college programs, recruitment of minority students will become increasingly difficult.
"It a Catch 22. Without the students, we don't get the deans, who will be the minority faculty of the future?" Rankin
Rankin addressed recruitment in retention of minorities in high schools, encephalitis, which was sponsored by the Legislative Educational Planning
Barb Mawhiney, panelist and assistant dean of faculties for personnel at Wichita State University, agreed that the situation posed a difficult problem. But, she said, "we have ways to combat such problems."
*ansas schools, on an individual level, need to design offices to monitor minority recruitment sheds and schools to monitor their schools determine whether their
policies against discrimination are effective. Financial incentive programs also should be instigated so that minority students will remain
"We need to demonstrate that there is a devotion to attacking this problem," Mawhiney said. "If students are made feel that they are being addressed they will be more willing to stay in school."
Patricia Caruthers, panelist and assistant to the president at Kaneland College, said that community colleges played a major role in minority education because they were more willing to meet students' individual needs.
At KCKCC, the classes are small enough to allow more attention and individual instruction, she said.
"Class size and that little personal touch are very important," Caruthers said.
Rankin agreed.
"Take any student — black, white or whatever — fresh out of high school where the teacher to student ratio is one for every 28," he said. "Then put that student in a class where one teacher serves 600 students. The transition is difficult." The student will overload."
Chris Graves, executive director for Associated Students of Kansas and a speaker on another panel, taught us that the community was important.
Default costs rising
Legislation might make it tougher for
Legislation might make it tougher for KU students to receive student loans
Kansan staff writer
By James Farquhar
Current college students might pay for the sins of their predecessors if some federal legislators have their hand in the wheel. Students of Kansas said yesterday.
Proposals before Congress might entail federal financial aid programs to students attending colleges with high student loan default rates.
Kelly Milligan, Topkea senior and Kelly campus director of ASK, asked the proposal, which the House of Representatives was to debate last night but postponed indefinitely, would change the debt and penalize current students.
"The bill would cut off students who aren't at fault, meanwhile, the government still won't get its money," Milligan said. "Nobody
The government pays $1.6 billion a year to cover covered student loans. And while almost all schools have students who default on loans, some schools consistently run higher than many think is necessary.
Jeff Weinberg, KU associate director of student financial aid, said many students, especially those at some trade and technical schools, are still being forced because the schools sustained poor communication with the debtors.
"Problems occur when a confused student doesn't know that the bank would make special arrangements when payments can't be made," he said. "Many students don't know that you can pay for your bill when you can't make payments."
The University of Kansas has a default rate of 13.5 percent. Though the legislation does not pose an issue
immediate threat to KU, both Milihan and Weinberg agree that the University, and many universities are in danger if the economy worsens.
Wenberg said that the KU financial aid office had taken steps to insure that the University's default ratio did not increase. Improvements include the addition of a computer system which, he said, would help the office answer student questions more easily and would update better details last year.
This year, the Reagan administration proposed a bill that would exclude colleges and trade schools with a 20 percent student loan default rate from federal student aid programs.
The Senate approved a less stringent bill Sept. 15 that would require many schools to develop a plan to improve the quality of education affects schools with default rates of 25 percent or higher, as well as schools in the top 5 percent of those with the most loan money in default. The bill also sent theote to the House.
Although the House was to debate the issue last night, the proposal was not fully implemented. The press spokesman said no new date for consideration of the bill had been set.
"According to the resolution, schools have three years to develop a plan of action and 36 months to create a reasonable level. Weinberg said."
It will no doubt be postponed until after the elections," Miliasan said. "We don't want it to happen." Weinberg said the extra time might allow some schools the opportunity to open.
For many, classes are scarce Liberal Arts majors finding it difficult to complete sequences
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
To get any classes in her field, she had to attend 24 hours of classes the first week of school and then spend another 24 hours attending class.
When Anna Gordon, a junior majoring in communications, walked out of the enrollment center during pre-enrolment last spring, she was fed up with the University.
"last year, I had a really bad enrollment time, and I got no communications classes at all. None."
despite the promise of funds through the Marging of Excellence, upper-level students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences still face closed classes in their fields of study.
The problem is greatest in the psychology, political science and communication studies departments, said James Carothers, associate dean of the college.
Carothers said the college Undergraduate Studies Committee was investigating possible solutions to this problem. The committee decided whether to staff the college on the demand of enrolment and implement restrictive admissions.
Restrictive admissions would require students to apply for acceptance to their chosen major.
"In the college, we are reluctant to restrict major enrollment." Carothers, said.
He said that if students were denied admission.
the college would have to help them select a more appropriate major.
"The professional schools have the advantage to restrict admissions, and they do that," he said. "If students don't get in, they remain in the college without giving any coherent thought to selecting a candidate."
Gordon said persistence was the reason she got the communications classes she needed. Although they were free, she had to be careful.
"The classes are just huge," she said. "They are so big it is ridiculous."
Gordon said many of her classes were discussion
classes, but the size discouraged her to speak in
them.
Wil Linkugel, chairman of the communication studies department, said he was aware of the overcrowding and was trying to accommodate students.
"I'm not a quiet person at all, but when the class gets to the point of 150 people, there is no way I'm going to talk," she said. "I get intimidated. It completely defeats the purpose."
"I spent the first three weeks of the semester just talking to students to work out enrollment requirements."
To solve the problem, Linkukel said he let existing classes get larger and used two graduate teaching assistants to teach classes usually taught by professors.
"Usually, you don't expect to find GTAs teaching 300 and 500 level courses," he said. "More than half of the courses majors took in the Spring of 1967 by GTAs. We just didn't have enough faculty."
Burdon Loots, chairman of political science,
said his department is also feeling the crunch
"We try not to rely on GTAs more than we have to," Loumis said.
Small classroom size is also a problem of crowded departments, he said.
crowded departments, he said.
"We don't want the classes to get any larger."
Ross Nigro, a political science major, agreed with Loamis.
"In one of my classes, there are too many people for the chair. In another one, every seat is taken," said Nigro, Kansas City, Mo. "The chairs in all desks, one person has to sit in a regular chair."
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, chairman of psychology, said that although overcrossing was a problem in the department, the Margin of Excellence was showing some positive results.
"One of the reasons faculty let students into closed classes is because the oracle is up from raises from the Margin of Excellence." McCluskey-Favcott said.
Graphic artist and designer Bradbury Thompson, center, talks with a at Indiana University. Thompson spoke last night at the Spencer former student, Thomas Coleman, head of the graphic design program Museum of Art.
Designer's art graces walls, envelopes
Kansan staff write
By Debbie McMahon
Designers of postage stamps don't get any credit.
Bradbury Thompson, designer of more than 90 stamps, has never had his name on one. But his name is known among graphic designer.
Thompson, who also has designed 36 magazines, spoke at the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium last night as part of the Hallmark Symposium Series of lectures. He presented a presentation that included work from throughout his career, which took off in the 1940s.
"Graphic design is the interfusion of words and imagery com
pletely," Thompson said. "It's finding a combination of things that interest the reader."
Thompson, originally from Topela and a graduate of Washburn University, co-founded the magazine, Harvard Business Review and Mademiose, and has been design manager for Art News and Art News Annual.
He also designed the Washburn College Bible. Thompson said he wanted to make the Bible more accessible, so he would line by line as they would be spoken, rather than justifying and hyphenating all the verses into a single block.
Bruce McIntosh, associate pro
fessor of design, said Thompson was important to the graphic design field.
"He is to the design world what Picasso was to the world of art," Melntosh said.
And when people speak about Thompson's work, timeless is an adjective that is used often.
Tom Allen, professor of design,
said, "The work you see from the
1940s still stands up today. His
work looks as fresh as if he had
done it today. Truly he is one of the
pioneers of graphics."
KU design student, Nenita Gumangan, Overland Park senior, said Thompson set a style that was still used today.
"It doesn't look dated," Guman-
gan said. "Some of the style types are some 200 years old, which is a rather rare thing on the page it is a forerunner in the field. Forty years from now it will be very common."
Some of Thompson's work is on display at the Art and Design gallery until Oct. 7. The retrospective exhibit is sponsored by Waco Vacor公司, an international paper company where Thompson got his start.
Allen helped start the Hallmark Symposium Series seven years ago. He said that seven speakers lecture each semester, including art directors of magazine advertising and photography.
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