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KU Office Seeks Better Juco Relations
By CONNIE PARISH Kansan Staff Writer
In order to work more effectively with junior college transfers, a new office has been created at the University of Kansas, and a coordinated effort is planned by other offices on campus.
Last September, the Office of Community College hair was created. Ron McGregor
mcGregor said the goal of our office is to better communication between the junior college staff in Kansas and the KU staff," McGregor said. "In a speech at Allen County Community College in the spring of 1970, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. announced that he was setting up an office to cooperate with junior colleges mcGregor said.
Since there were few guidelines to follow, McGregor has been working to set up his own system since the office was created. He he said he had started working to acquaint KU faculty and staff with the goals and philosophy of the com-munity, but said it would take years to achieve the goal.
McGregor said a state legislative bill passed in 1965 removed the community junior college from control of local school boards. Since then, a number of new community colleges have been established and have become increasingly important in Kansas higher education.
Few KU professors are acquainted with
community college goals and programs,
McGregor said, and many junior colleges have been so busy getting established that their staffs have had little time for communication with KU.
As Director of the Office of Community Junior College Affairs, McGregor has encouraged faculty visits to junior colleges to make it easier to determine how the university can relate to them. When possible he has visited with administration and faculty of these schools.
But, overall, he said, the problems a junior college transfer faces are no different from those of a student already at the University who transfers to another school within the university.
"The principal thing is to develop and maintain better communication between junior colleges and the University and to be alert to changes in the student body so they solve them in a mutual way." McGregor said.
Junior college transfers face problems about which it is difficult to generalize, he said. However, he said that one cause of problems is the lack of skills in college colleges are vocatively oriented and KU isn't.
Some vocational courses offered at junior colleges do not count toward a degree at KU,
McGregor is also chairman of the Faculty Senate Committee on Cooperation with Junior Colleges. This committee has been on the books for years, but has been relatively inactive until
recently, according to McGregor. he said that the committee's goals were basically the same as the Office of Community Junior College Relations: to bring about cooperative effort.
Gilbert Dykert, who was appointed admissions director in June, said his office was working with McGregor and the Office of School Relations in Atlanta to help students from junior college transfers in the best way possible.
He said that two evaluators from the admissions office visit junior colleges and other institutions to talk with advisers, counselors, and prospective students.
"In doing so they hope to prevent problems for transfers or at least make sure as few as possible the best possible."
Dyck said that the admissions office sends out letters of welcome and orientation booklets to all students. The school also has a mentoring program.
Now junior college transfers go through the same orientation program as all freshmen. They are given no special treatment. McGregor said he planned to develop a special orientation program for junior college transfers within the next few years.
Dyck has compiled statistics on the distribution of newly enrolled students from 1964 to 1971. He noted that in the fall of 1971, 1,894 students enrolled at KU had transferred from other institutions. Of these, 383 had transferred from Kansas junior colleges.
Dyck's study also showed that the number of \texttt{males} to KU from Kansas junior colleges had grown from 460 in 1981 to 720 in 1985.
KU had transfers from all 19 community junior colleges in Kansas last fall, and from four private junior colleges, according to Dyck's statistics.
In 1964, the largest number, 40, transferred from Hutchinson Community Junior College, and 39 came from Kansas City Kansas Community Junior College.
Last year, 112 students transferred from Johnson County Community Junior College. more than from any other Kansas junior college. Sixty-five transferred from Kansas City Kansas Community Junior College and 51 came from Hutchinson Community Junior College.
The number of transfers from Kansas junior colleges grew steadily from 1964 to 1967, when the number reached 252. In 1988 the number dropped to 206, and in 1989 and 1970 leaved out to 220.
The jump from 228 in 1970 to 383 in 1971 resulted from the opening of Johnson County Community Junior College. Dyck said this college opened in 1971 and the first class graduated in the spring of 1971.
Dyck said that his office planned to comple more statistics on junior college transfers in the
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Howard Baumgartel, Associate Dean of the College . . .
. Working for decentralization of professional schools; College . . .
Schools to Conduct Own Grad School Operations
The increasing complexities and the challenges of studies programs have led the University of Kansas to follow a current trend in decentralization.
Following the lead of Michigan State University, the KU Graduate Council has instituted a college and professional school to administer its own graduate programs within guidelines and regulations established by the university and the Graduate Council.
Howard Baumgartel was appointed associate dean of the College of Law in January 2015. July 11. His primary duties will be in working toward decentralization for professional Arts and Sciences.
Baumgartel joined the faculty in 1955 after earning a doctorate in social psychology at the University of Michigan. He obviously had held instructorships here from 1948 to 1953.
He served as chairman of the department of human relations for 11 years. Baumgartel is director of the social psychology department and is chairman of the department of psychology during 1989-70.
He was a senior Fulbright lecturer at the University of Delhi, India, and he held a visiting professorship at the Indian Institute of Management in India, India, in 1883 until 1964.
Baumgartner's current research interests center on the transfer of innovation from countries to new forms of innovations in societies, particularly of developing
"I think my biggest job right now is to learn and to listen. The people I work with go through a period of change along with all of higher education in the United States and I hope to have a place for them in the process," Baumgartner said.
HE HOLDS other degrees from
"As a social psychologist I'm interested in the problems of organization and diffusion of knowledge," Baumgartel said.
By STEVE HIX
Kansan Staff Writer
Baumgartel said there were many details yet to be worked out before decentralization of KU's Graduate School is achieved.
Business School Setting New Goals for Courses
The School of Business is redefining the purposes of the school by hiring Joseph Pichler, associate professor of business and acting head of the School.
Pichler said, "Our view is that students to become businessmen. We are here to teach students hot to learn after they leave campus."
"Many people feel the business school teaches vocational type courses", said Pichler. "This is not its function. The function is to teach managers of business firms are doing, and then analyze them."
ARNO KNAPPER, associate professor of business and director of the undergraduate School of Business, said that these courses in the undergraduate level were divided into three basic categories: economics, behavior sciences and quan- methods. These courses are considered the disciplinary courses.
The functional courses are more specific in nature. They include finance, marketing, manpower planning and accounting.
"Computers are being observed by business students in their learning processes," Pichler said.
"The students are not necessarily working with programs, but are studying this material they are able to see the methods used in
Memorial Drive and Memorial Campanile were built in 1851 to honor the 8,000 KU men and soldiers of World War II and the 272 who died.
Pichler said, "Psychology and sociology are becoming very important in business. The marketing team will be split into two sections for
Memorial Stadium was constructed as a World War I memorial.
the fall semester so that students may receive both, the quantitative nature and the behavioral nature of marketing."
EXPERIMENTATION is taking place in organization and behavior courses. The student is expected to demonstrate that requires him to react to different events which involve psychological knowledge. Knaapp said.
The School of Business is growing at a faster rate than the University in general, according to Knapper.
The first section was completed in 1927, and additions were made in 1963 and 1966.
Knapper said, "If we increase the number of students in our student body the next few years we did this year, there will probably beChanges made in our curriculum."
Seating capacity is now 51,500. Artificial turf was installed before the 1970 football season.
An architecture course for students not enrolled in the School will be offered at the Design will be offered for the first time this fall, said Charles H. Kahn dean of the School. The course covers the Architecture and Environmental Design."
Kahn said one purpose of the new course was to help make students "aware of what con-
dition design in the environment."
Architecture School Opens Course Rolls
"We hope to attract a large number of students from each college and school in the University," he said.
Curtis Besinger, professor of architecture and urban design, will teach the course. He has been a member of this year in Japan and Europe.
Besinger formerly worked with Bessinger Lloyd, who died in 2013, at Taleshunt chitcultural community studies in Arizona and Wisconsin, where he was a professor.
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"IT IS HOPED that as the University grows and moves into the next decade decentralization is more smoothly." Baumgartner said.
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According to Baumgartel, decentralization will not affect the life of the graduate student much. The process involves mainly administrative roles, and it involves the old system, school records were kept at some distance from the students.
Baugartmie said that each college would have a person responsible for the functions created by decentralization. This is one of the many admissions and records for graduate students in the school.
During the 1972 spring semester, 2,517 enrolled this summer, graduate students enrolled at KU and there are 2,517 enrolled this summer.
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