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Fee payment improves Small changes help make process go smoothly
"Last fall we enforced parking holds," Thompson said. "This fall we did."
Two of those changes began within the past year. The first was the switch to a full-sheet enrollment card with a listing of money owed to student housing or to the libraries. The second was the enforcement of parking holds.
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"I'm required to enforce parking holds once a semester. We have shifted when we enforce the holds. If they had parking holds, they were
By Tracy Wilkinson Karaan staff writer
Thompson said there had been no major changes in the fee payment process from Fall 1988 to Fall 1989, but that some of the smaller changes might have helped to smooth out the fee payment process.
"Things did go pretty well. I'm pleased with that. The biggest problem is usually in the financial aid area. Financial aid did a fantastic job in organizing."
"This time the lines were the shortest I'd ever seen," he said, referring to the notoriously long financial aid lines.
The 103rd annual University of Kansas fee payment fiesta went better than ever, according to Gary Thompson, director of student records.
"I think it took me a shorter time (to pay fees) this time," Roth said.
"The extra time is nice. You can just hang out and have fun before classes actually start."
Thompson said the difference in scheduling between the fall and spring semesters was a matter of practicality. He outlined three reasons behind the difference.
The first reason was the number of new students entering the University. Thompson said.
Jennifer Roth, Salina sophomore, agreed that the process was much quicker. She said she liked having her classmates pay and payment and the start of classes.
enforced in April when they enrolled.
That might have also made things go a little more smoothly this fail."
"In the spring there are not as many new students," he said, "so we only have two days — one for residual and one for new.
Janet Davis, Wichita senior, said she was pleased with the fee payment process but that she preferred the two-day system used during spring enrollment because it left free time at the end of the week before classes started.
"I thought it went really smoothly," Davis said. "It's much better organized than it was, but it seems like the timing was off. It was early in relation to the time classes start. Everyone is sort of in limbo."
"In the fall we have three days of payment, one day for residual payments and two days for new payments."
Thompson said each evening after the day's business closed, the office identified those students from early enrollment who had not completed the fee payment process on their scheduled day and cancelled their enrollments to make room for new students.
Those students who, for emergency reasons, were unable to pay fees on their scheduled day should have immediately notified the Student Assistance Center to save their enrollment.
The third difference between fall and spring enrollments, said Thompson, was the incoming freshmen.
"This serves to add to the confusion," he said. "In the spring there seems to be a higher number of insects with checks ready and waiting."
The second reason was that most financial aid gifts were awarded annually in the fall.
"Roughly one-fourth of the students who pay fees in the fall have not done it before." Thompson said. "It takes longer and is more confusing for them. In the spring less than 5 percent have never done this before. Things go more smoothly."
Minority scholarship program attracts over 500 applications
By Christopher Evans Kansan staff writer
With a ratio of roughly five applicants to one award, Board of Regents Executive Director Stanley Kopik said he sees room for expansion in the state's minority scholarship program.
The Kansas Ethnic Minority Scholarship Program, which is in its first year, offers 100 four-year renewable scholarships of $1,500 to qualifying Kansas minority students. So far, Koplik said, between 500 and 550 applications had been received.
"First signs indicate that there may be more need out there than we are, and this could explain why we could justify asking for an expansion in the future."
McCurdy, financial aid director, Koopik said. Koopic presented the program to a Legislative Educational Planning Committee last September. Koopik said the program was signed into law by Gov. Mike Hayden late last spring.
The idea for the program originated in the Regents office in Topeka with the help of Kopilk and Clantha
"We proposed the program because we wanted to be sure to find a vehicle for minority students to be in," he said, educations in Kansas, "Kopik said.
According to a report by the Legislature, ethnic minorities — American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asian or Pacific Islanders, blacks or Hispanics — who live in Kansas are eligible for the award, to be used at any Kansas college. Each student selected may be awarded a total of $6,000 for four years of college or $7,500 if the student is enrolled in a five-year degree program.
Koplik said applications would be
processed by early fall, and the scholarships would be awarded to students who met two basic criteria.
"You have to submit to us a financial need analysis," he said. "Of equal importance is a promise of academic achievement."
Marshall Jackson, director of minority affairs at the University of Kansas, said he was excited about the program.
"I think it's an excellent program," he said. "This is a very positive move to get more minority students to attend the schools in Kansas. It's going to be very helpful."
"This is a very competitive area, here in the Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka area," he said.
Jackson said that the scholarships could be beneficial for KU, which often competes with schools out of state.
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