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Overenrollment cramps students
By Anita Meyer Kansan staff writer
Wendy Davis, Andover junior, has been trying to enroll in Public Administration 330 since her freshman year.
Davis, a political science major, is one of hundreds of students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences having difficulty enrolling in classes where a constant or decreasing number of full-time faculty members is not keeping up with an increasing number of students.
James Muyakens, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said he considered psychology, political science and communications studies over-enrolled.
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"I would use the term overrerolled to mean those majors where there are far more students interested in a major than there are faculty to meet that need." he said.
Will Linkugel, chairman of the department of communication studies, said 560 students were majoring in communications but only 14 fulltime faculty were teaching.
"Last year, I became aware of this when I realized that we had about 10 percent of the graduates in the college and only three percent of the faculty," he said.
Limited staff can't meet need
Linkugel said he also noticed the difference in the size of upper-level courses.
"In 1982, the average class of students in 200 to 600 levels was 26 students," he said. "In 1988, it was 46 students."
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate dean of liberal arts and professor of psychology, said she estimated the number of psychology majors to be 1,000. She said there were approximately 30 full-time faculty members.
"Students have problems when they have trouble getting into a required class," she said. "They're being put into very large classes. They just can't have the personal attention they could in smaller classes. It's frustrating for the faculty because they can't reach the students."
Paul Johnson, professor of political science, said he thought students suffered more than instructors when classes were extremely large.
"It's more of an imposition on the students than on me," he said. "In a class of 300, students lose the chance to speak up or to answer questions or to get to know me."
David Shulenberger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the quality of education might be lowered by the lack of attention.
"We have to ask if we're providing a quality education by having so few faculty." he said.
Ed Martin, chairman of the department of psychology, said the number of students majoring in psychology had been increasing steadily for the last several years, but the number of faculty had been decreasing.
"We have been able to staff fewer junior, and senior-level courses," he said. "This makes it difficult for students to finish. If they can't get into these classes, they may have to take independent studies or even change their major."
Martin said that the overenrolment problem had led to the elimination of all but one class in social psychology.
"Next year, the only social psychology class that will be open to anybody will be the introduction to social psychology." he said.
Muyksens said the administration, as well as an undergraduate course study committee, had been investigating the overenrolment problem. He said several solutions had been suggested.
"We could increase the number of faculty," he said. "Right now that isn't open to us because of funding. We could limit the number of students majoring in the departments. We could also set requirements on getting into a major."
Enrollment permits are in the mail New change helps University ease fee payment delays
By Tracy Wilkinson Kansan staff writer
students will receive their enrollment permits for Spring 1990 in the mail instead of waiting in line for them.
"This year, all the permits for the first time will be mailed to students" Type 1 addresses, which are their current addresses on the data base," said Edith Guffey, assistant director of the office of student records.
Gary Thompson, director of the office of student records, said the change was made as part of a process to move the University toward fee payment by mail.
"We're looking forward to it and to making it a success," he said.
Students should be receiving enrollment permits tomorrow or Friday, Guffey said, but could have received them either as early as yesterday. Some may arrive as late on Monday.
"It is possible that students don't have a current address on the data base," she said. "If students don't have an enrollment permit by Monday they should follow the steps on page 3 of the Spring 1900 Tentable."
Guffey said students who had not received permits by Monday could go to three offices to get permits.
Undergraduates in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences who haven't received permits should go to the office of student records at 102 Strong Hall.
Any other undergraduates who have not received their permits should pick them up from the office of admissions at Window 3 in Strong Hall.
Graduate and Law Students should pick up their enrollment permits at the office of graduate admissions at 124 Strong Hall.
Guffey said students whose addresses were incorrect in the data base should fill out their corrected addresses in the Type 1 box of the enrollment form.
Both Thompson and Guffey said having correct student addresses was important for the switch from the old enrollment process to the new one.
"One of the requirements for fee
payment by mail will be that we have the correct addresses," she said. "Although we're not there yet, this is a step, and students need to see that they have the correct address.
"It takes an incredible amount of staff and student time to go to an office to pick up a permit. It is a better service, a much more convenient way to pick up permits," she said referring to receiving permits by mail.
Thompson said receiving enrollment permits by mail would be a step not only to help students understand the need to keep their addresses current, but to condition them to do so.
Guffy said the change would facilitate an easier enrollment process for everyone.
"Students sometimes wonder why the University every semester seems to be doing something different in enrollment." she said. "We are always looking for ways to improve what we're doing. Mailing permits instead of having students stand in line seems to be an improvement in service."
Knowledge of AIDS limited, survey says
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TOPEKA — State health officials plan to change the messages in their AIDS education programs after a Department of Health and Environment survey released Monday showed gaps in Kansans' knowledge about the deadly disease.
The $30,000 University of Kansas survey of 682 Kansans indicated that the large majority of state residents know how Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is transmitted but that some incorrectly think they can get the disease, which attacks the body's immune system, from casual contact with persons with AIDS or the AIDS virus.
So far this year, the department has received reports of 44 cases of cholera and 13 related deaths. That brings out that since 1891 to 279 cases and 170 deaths.
According to the department, almost all the cases reported involve male adults, 70 percent of them homosexuals or bisexuals. Of those reported to have the disease, 83 percent are white.
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