University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 15, 1988
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Regents to hear report
By a Kansan reporter
Board of Regents members will hear a status report on the new Regents Center at their September meeting today in Toeka
Chancellor Gene A. Budgi plans to give the report on the center, which will be at 127th and Quivira Road in south Overland Park.
"The Chancellor will be making a "report concerning the planning that's gone into the selection of a site," said Keith Nethi, director of business affairs, and also talk about putting together a funding package for the center."
In other business, the Regents will hear a program review on the departing president's first term and said the Regents would suggest that KU present a comprehensive plan for the university.
The review includes information on the department's graduate teaching assistants, the non-thesis option for college students, and private funds for student recruitment, summer workshops for public school teachers and efforts to recruit faculty.
The Regents also are scheduled to approve the final plans for a warehouse addition to the printing services building on West 15th Street.
More merit scholars remaining in Kansas
TOPEKA The "brain drain"
brightest students to attend of state universities is being reversed, a State Board of Regents official said.
The Associated Press
This year, halft of the state students who were semifeminial for National Merit scholarships will attend state colleges or universities less than a third three years ago, Stanley Koplik, regents executive director, the legislative Education Office, said.
Kopik attributed the increase in the number of National Merit scholarships staying in state to more aggressive recruiting by state universities.
"That's a decent figure," Koplik told the legislators. "That keeps the best here in Kansas."
In 1983, only about 50 of the state's 156 National Merit semifinalists attended universities or colleges. The numbers alarmed regents officials and state lawmakers. The situation became known as the "bustup" because it meant the state was losing its bright minds.
This year, the state has about 150 National Merit seminarians, KopliiAmong those who decided to attend Kansas colleges, 40 are enrolled at the University of Kansas in all of Kansas State University, he said.
In addition, the Regents unveiled their proposal for a new scholarship program for minority students. The plan would finance 100, $1,500 scholarships for minorities and graduate schools in the first year and 400 in its fourth year.
Cristina Messinae, Lawrence sophomore, stands at attention with her cymbals during a drum rehearsal the drum line was warming up in Memorial Stadium yesterday before band practice.
Cymbalizing
Ironing out the differences
Regents, Board of Education discuss raising transfer hours
Bv Laura Woodward
By Laura Woodward Kansan staff writer
In a meeting that soothed strained relations, two Kansas education boards discussed common concerns certain to arise
The Board of Regents and the State Board of Education met yesterday in Topeka.
Discussions of qualified admissions and governance of community colleges last year resulted in changes to the membership members of the two boards.
The Kansas House last February defeated a bill requiring high school students to take college preparatory curriculum before being admitted to a Regents school.
The proposed curriculum included four years of English, three years each of math, science and language, and two years of a foreign language.
Richard Dodderidge, Regents chairman, said, "There's reason to believe that some bill like this will be considered this year."
William Musik, a member of the Board of Education, said the board didn't want that curriculum required for students not planning
to go to college.
"We found when we raised the requirements a few years ago, enrollment in classes such as bus and shop classes drowned." he said.
Musik also expressed concern about the lack of foreign language classes and high-level science and grades in the smaller, rural schools.
Lee Droegemueller, Kansas commissioner of education, said he had been puzzled by adding school problem by adding classroom hookups that bearned in classroom
Doddlerder emphasized that, with or without qualified admissions, the boards should continue working together.
"We certainly respect the Board of Education's effort to improve the quality of education," he said.
Legislators have debated whether to give the Regents control of Washburn, the only municipality in Minnesota, to Mike Hayden's idea.
The two boards also discussed transferring jurisdiction of Washburn University and Kansas compartmentalization. The Board of Education to the Regents.
School district boards control vocational schools, which often offer programs for secondary and post-secondary students. Community colleges also offer degree in connection with the schools.
However, the proposal raises theiricky questions on the government's role in funding schools as who should control the state's 19 community colleges and 14 area high schools.
Dodderidge said, "We do not have a commitment to aggressively pursue Washburn and the community colleges. But we feel it is our best interest to not sit on that thing, to pass about this whole thing."
The boards also discussed a proposal that would increase the number of general education hours and reduce the number of community college to a Regents university. The proposal would change the number of hours from 104 to 65.
Sallie Mae probed for discrimination
A discrimination complaint filed against the Student Loan Marketing Association Kansas by an employee is under investigation by the Lawrence Human Relations/Human Resources Department.
By a Kansan reporter
Ross Kleiman, corporate communications director at the company's Washington headquarters, yesterday criticized the company against the company and of the investigation by the Lawrence department. The company. 2000 Bluffs Drive, also known as Salille services guaranteed student loans.
The complaint regarded a promotion, Kleinman said. He would not elaborate.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
"The situation is currently under consideration by the commission and is considered confidential," he said.
Kleiman also declined to answer questions about recent promotions in the company's Lawrence branch.
"We consider information on personnel actions to be confidential," he said.
Sallie Mae's Lawrence office, established in 1984, is a regional service center and employs 375 people.
Joyce Day, administrative assistant at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said Sallie Mae was one of the top 10 employers in the city.
A Sallie Mae spokesman in Lawrence declined to answer questions.
Paul D. Winn, human relations specialist for the Lawrence human rights firm and/or firm or deny reports of the investigation in accordance with a city ordinance.
Humanities at KU gain more students
Professors disagree with national study
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
Mark Hassen switched his major and school to broaden his mind. He decided he wanted a liberal arts education.
Humanities are subjects such as philosophy, literature and the fine arts.
"I don't think the degrees themselves have any value in getting a degree," she said. "I'm a junior, who switched his major from broadcast journalism to English and film studies." "I'm using my time in the job to see if before I go into the marketplace."
Students like Hansen demonstrate why professors at the University of Kansas disagree with a government study released Sunday. The national survey found that most enrollments have dropped about one-third in the last two years.
Albert Cook, coordinator of undergrad studies in the department of English, said the report misrepresents the findings of humanities on the university level.
"I don't know where the figures came from," Cook said. "They are at least three to five years out of date."
Cook said that at KU as well as nationally, colleges and universities offer degrees in the field. Specifically, the number of students majoring in English at KU has been growing.
"In one year's time, we had an increase of 40 percent in our maiors," Cook said.
In spring 1887, 297 students were English majors. The number increased to 415 in spring 1888.
Cook said these figures were low estimates because some students had not officially declared their majors.
Becky Alexander, Plate City, Mo., graduate student who majored in English, said she appreciated her liberal arts background.
"I feel like I've gotten a well-
served job," she said, gliding for the other classes outside of my major that I had to take, even though it seemed like a hassle for her.
Alexander said that she eventually would like to go to law school and that her English degree would help her.
"It taught me to think critically and to process information and come up with a valid conclusion," she said.
Norman Saul, chairman of the history department, said he attributed the growth in humanities to his efforts by the professional schools.
"The professional schools, such as business and journalism, stress the humanities," he said. "They encourage students to take humanities."
Saul said enrollment in history classes had increased 42 percent since the fall of 1984.
Tony Genova, chairman of the philosophy department, said that changes in the college curriculum are possible for the increased interest.
"The humanities have a much more critical place in the requirements for graduation," Genova said.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that changes in the college core curriculum were implemented in fall 1987.
These changes included reducing the number of courses that satisfy certain requirements, adding a non-western civilization course. Only principal courses designated as social sciences, natural sciences and humanities fulfill the requirement.
Genova said that since fall 1983, enrollment in philips credit hours increased 53 percent. The number of students enrolled increased 30 percent since fall 1983.
For students interested in the humanities, many career opportunities are available. Genova said.
"Two-thirds of all university faculty in the United States will be enlisted in 2014." "There will be an enormous demand for college teachers in 1993 to 1994."
Also, Genova said that many large, sophisticated companies such as IBM and Exxon were recruiting liberal arts majors.
David Shulenburger, associate dean of the business school, said the business school also emphasized the humanities.
"Clearly, we want our students to be more broad-based." Shulenburger said. "We don't want narrowly, technically trained students."
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