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de L'Academie Francaise
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avec CLAUDE BEAUCLAIR
CATHERINE VAILLANT mise en scene
FRANÇOISE MOJERET CLAUDE BEAUCLAIR
Thursday, November 9,1989 8:00 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Ha
Tickets (General Seating):
Students: $3.50
General Public: $5.00
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Sponsored by The International Performing Arts Committee Department of French and Italian International Theatre Studies Center
Work ethics put U.S. students to test
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
The work ethics of undergraduates at the University of Kansas may not be perfect, but they also may not be as atrophied as a newly released report would suggest, KU administrators, faculty and counselors said yesterday.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of teaching issued a report yesterday criticizing the nation's undergraduates for doing just enough to get by, for being more interested in credentials than in learning and for cheating to get good grades rather than in working for them.
John Garland, associate professor of business, said that undergraduate and graduate business students at KU demonstrated their concern for ethics last year by drafting a School of Business honor code under their own initiative. He said that they did so not because of an ethical malaise in the school but because of unethical conduct in the working world, such as business scandals and insider trading.
I would say at the most they cut corners rather than do anything unethical. The more specific a career the student has in mind, the more tempted he is to cut corners.'
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John Garland
Garland said that fewer than 1 percent of business students were involved in academic misconduct.
Associate professor of business
Larry Schilling, Dodge City senior, said that some of his professors in the school read the honor code to students early in the semester.
He said he thought that the code reminded students that cheating would not be tolerated in the highly competitive environment of the
"I think it's a good idea," Schilling said. "I think it's going to help."
He said that although he thought
some cheating did occur in the school, he did not think it was prevalent.
Garland said that today's students were not unethical but that they sometimes focused so closely on future careers that they missed out on a well-rounded education.
"I would say at the most they cut corners rather than do anything unethical," Garland said. "The more specific a career the student has in mind, the more tempted he is to cut corners."
He said that faculty in the School of Business at KU fought this tendency by stressing a broad education for their students.
Nearly 45 percent of any given freshman class at KU will fail to earn a degree, he said.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that he was concerned about students' readiness to enter the University, another national criticism in the foundation's report.
"Students are not at all prepared enough for mathematics. I can state that unenervically," he said.
Shulenburger said he thought that lack of preparation and academic misconduct were not related but that unpreparedness for college could
diminish a student's desire to work hard to complete a degree.
Robert Turvey, associate director of the student assistance center, said he thought high schools were beginning to do a better job of preparing students to enter college. He said that an increasing percentage of students he had spoken with had taken a "how to study" course in high school.
In addition, Turvey said, more students were buying self-help tapes to teach them study tips.
These efforts to learn how to study could be good or bad, depending on the student's attitude, he said.
"If the student looks at it like, 'I'm going to get the quick fix' . . . then it's a mistake on their part," Turvey said. "We see a lot of the quick fix, but I think that's normal."
Garland said it was important to recognize that most students did not cheat or seek to cut corners.
"We should not forget those many, many students for whom this is not a question," he said.
238 GTAs come from foreign countries
By Holly Lawton and Stacy Smith Kansan staff writers
More than 23 percent of the graduate teaching assistants at the University of Kansas are from foreign countries, according to a report finished this week by the office of academic affairs.
Janet Riley, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that about 238 of the more than 1,000 GTAs at KU were foreign. However, she said she did not know if this was an increase or decrease, because, before this year, the number of foreign GTAs had never been recorded.
"The University has always had a large number of foreign graduate students." Riley said. "I think we are probably seeing more Asian students, so there are probably more who are GTAs."
The requirements for foreign graduate students to become GTAs have increased in the past five years.
Standards have toughened in past 5 years
Foreign students must pass a spoken English proficiency test, SPEAK, administered by the Applied English Center, said Connie Roguski, assistant director of the center.
The 20-minute oral exam, which was introduced in 1984, tests seven language skills including reading aloud, answering questions and correctly completing sentences.
Roguski said the test was scored for pronunciation, grammar, fluency and overall comprehension.
"KU's standards for English in general are quite high," she said.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the English proficiency test was a
Between 150 and 180 foreign students take the SPEAK test each year. Roguski said 60 percent of the students tested usually passed the test the first time.
requirement set by the Board of Regents. The minimum score accepted by the University of Kansas is 240 on a scale of 300.
"We can't discriminate on the basis of their national origin, but we want to make sure that they speak English at an understandable level," he said.
sautenburger said his of he had received some complaints i concerning communication with foreign GTAs.
with foreign GPA.
"The number of complaints received seems to be down, though, since using the SPEAK test," he said.
Fernando Rodriguez, Spanish teaching assistant, said he did not mind taking the proficiency test. He said he began learning English in preschool in Madrid, Spain.
"The test was not difficult," he said. "I think I can teach English
better than Spanish."
Student reaction to foreign teaching assistants varies. Shawn Steward, Merriam junior, said he had a positive experience with a foreign GTA in an economics class.
"In fact, he helped the class," Steward said. "He didn't have a problem with the language and was more devoted than other professors. He wanted everyone to succeed and would give any amount of time to help them."
Kevin Kauzlarich, Lawrence said he had foreign GTAs in授课 and physics classes.
"Overall I've had a pretty good experience with them," he said. "One teacher definitely kept my enthusiasm down in one class, though, which in turn probably affected my grade. But it's hard to know which comes first."
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