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Wednesday, August 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Steve Leben
that the question they keep getting from incoming freshmen is "How do I tell whether the professor is any good?" or "How do I tell whether this course or that course is worth taking?" To answer those types of questions, Feedback is a real desirable instrument."
Leben assesses Senate program.
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Despite the estimated cost of up to $60,000 to reinstate the survey, plus what he saw as possible problems with trying to get faculty members to support and use Feedback in their classes, Leben is convinced the program is worth doing.
IF THE STUDENT Senate decides to proceed with Feedback, Leben said, the program won't return to KU before the fall semester of 1978.
Leben has another idea that he could help the Senate in analyzing feedback as well as other ideas involving research—a student center for educational research.
Leben said the University of Massachusetts, which he visited for three days in June, has such a facility. The center employees two full-time directors, an office manager and 15 to 20 workstaff, personnel at $40,000 and $90,000 a year to run.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Massachusetts research center has already conducted a survey about a Feedbackacket system. A team of researchers in the department included specific recommendations on how the system could be adopted, the history of the system was at the campus and the object is to improve feedback.
Leben said such a research center could be useful at KU to assess student opinion at KU to give the Senate guidance on many issues.
"A research element of student government would be very important," he said. "We don't have the background that administrators have been having here year after year. We don't have the background that other schools around the country are doing."
"ANY TIME A QUESTION comes up, we have to write 50 letters to try to get information and maybe we'll get ten replies. If you have an on-going research wing of student government which keeps it going, that aren't indexed anywhere, even, you'll have enough information to base decisions on and argue effectively for student needs."
LEBEN SAID A schedule was being made up to make sure that all living groups were contacted this fall to determine whether they needed addressing issues of importance to them.
Determining student needs is important to Leben and he said he would try to honor a campaign promise to maintain better contact with KU living groups.
Outreach drawing more Kansans
THE OBJECTIVE OF Outreach is to provide, to the best extent possible, information to students
Many Kansans are interested in continuing their education through college coursework, he said, but they are unable to commute to the University.
The Outreach program at the University of Kansas is experiencing a steady growth and increased awareness by the citizens of the state. The program of the program said recently. Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that in the three years since the Outreach program began, the programs in Kansas City, Kan., Leavenworth and Topkea had an enrollment increase of 15 to 20 per cent each.
Because the Kansas City, Kan., metropolitan area is the only area in the country that is not served by a baccalaureate institution within the community, Hutchinson said, the Outreach program is currently focused on that area.
Other aspects of communication between student government and the student body are also being looked into, Leben said. He said the Communications Committee held a workshop of making surveys and that two surveys would possibly be conducted this fall.
Two other concerns, Leben said, that the Senate wanted to concentrate on were spending unallocated funds and improving student recreational facilities.
were raised $1.50 to the current rate, $11.50 a semester.
The program at Leavenworth is different. It encompasses separate programs for the city of Leavenworth, the penitentiary and Fort Leavenworth.
wherever they might be in the state of Kanaas," Hutchison said.
University Relations' job is information
By JOYCE HADLEY
"People should begin to see some benefits from that this fall in terms of having lights on all the tennis courts by Robinson and other players," he says. The watering system is going to be put in at the athletic fields at 23rd and Iowa. Those fields are going to be graded so they're all level. We'll do other projects as we find out here, but those are and see what we have left over.
Staff Writer
To most students at the University of Kansas, the Office of University Relations might sound like just another part of the
"People get the impression that we're just an administrative office serving the administration," Jim Collier, director of University Relations, said. "Most of our products are seen and used by students."
THE TWO PROJECTS really go together, he said, because about $60,000 in excess funds were channeled into recreational services. Leben said the recreational facilities used by students would also be helped because the student activity fees
"We are more or less a public relations agency," Collier said. "Our principal charge here is providing information to various sources."
Within its three divisions, University Relations handles everything from student identification cards, departmental and school course catalogs, and press releases to the planning of convocation and commencement exercises.
"HOMETOWN" IS A system the Division of Information uses to disperse information about KU students to their homeunit
Within the University, the Division of Information often acts as a referral service, be said.
"It somebody calls us with a communication problem within the environment," he said, "we can tell them who to get in touch with information."
we release thousands of students' names to newspapers every year telling about awards, scholarships and activities." Burdick said. "It goes with the philosophy of many small town newspaper editors that 'names are news.'"
"We attempt to write news stories about all the positive aspects of the University that we believe are valuable, justifiable news sources."
"We have the capacity to provide large amounts of information to the press," Hurdick said. "We try to get all the news about the case."
The Division of Information produces homeowner news releases and photos, radio and T.V. news and documentaries, slide shows and videos.
DEVELOPING GREATER public understanding of the University and improving internal communications among faculty and staff are goals of the Division of Information, according to Bob Burdick, director.
INFORMATION ABOUT KU events that students, faculty or community residents may be interested in is also readily available
ALTHOUGH THE FALL semester offers many challenges to Leben, he said what he learned in his spring term in office, in addition to the fact that the university's operation will be valuable.
1 get calendars, department bulletins, schedules of events and
HUTCHISON SAID THAT about 15 courses a year were taught both in the city and at the penitentiary. There are also 13 master's level courses taught at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.
community calendars, and I sit down with it all to decipher it," Burdick said.
Burduck said.
He records the program himself every Monday morning at 8.
Although the Division of Information also publishes "The Oread," the official internal publication of the University, with news geared to the faculty, staff, and administration, the Division of Publications is primarily responsible for putting on the majority of University
"I can see and understand the perspectives of people in the central administration," he said. "I can understand a lot better how our university and our administration relates with the Board of Trustees governor and with the state legislature."
THE DIVISION PROVIDES central resources for an effective university publications program, according to Robin Evereide dictionaries.
Besides the 16 school catalogs, general information catalog,
University telephone directory and various brochures, newsletters
and calendars, the division also produces posters for anything from
football to English, campus maps, schedules, programs, tickets.
The University is as much program and ceremony as catalog and news release.
r. e. Jutan, director of the Division of Special Events, said he is active in the planning and implementation of special programs that cater to children.
"The things I try to develop are really pointing toward the University's academic excellence and tremendous capability."
"I WORK ON conceptual ideas, bringing into focus activities that would be of interest to the entire University," Julian said.
Two of the most well-known examples of the division's special programs involving students are Convocation and Commencement. Julian also works to set up committees and to fill in details on such events as Homecoming, Band Day, Parents' Day, as well as outside programs such as Jayhawk Day at the Zoo and KU Day at Worlds of Fun.
The Division of Special Events is also planning dedications for the new Museum of Art, School of Law and visual arts buildings.
JULIAN ALSO convectes and plans independent events, such as slide shows, app-speak-enquiries.
"I have a file I just simply call "ideas," things that I hear and see," Julian said. "News releases are my clue to things that are current."
A slide show, originally designed by the division for Commencement, is being shown at Convocation, summer orientation, the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, and as part of an on-the-road presentation about KU.
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Hutchison estimated that half the students involved in the Outreach programs were enrolled.
Requirements for enrolling in the Outreach programs are the same as those faced by a student preparing to enroll at the Lawrence campus, Hutchison said.
OTHER STUDENTS attend Outreach classes, he said, because they wish to move up in their job, or gain professional upgrading. For instance, Outreach offers programs directed toward recertification in social welfare and pharmacy.
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