Monday. Jan. 18. 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Kansas College Enrollment to Soar-
New Buildings, Equipment Needed by 1970
Bv Priscilla Burton
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles on education in American colleges and universities. Will there come a time when KU must eliminate one of its faculty? Who would be eliminated? How would they be eliminated?)
This — the need for more facilities — is probably the most challenging problem concerning education today.
Local newspapers, radio and TV stations throughout the state are trying to inform the public about the necessity of "doing something" about the ever-increasing problems of finances and facilities.
By 1975, at the present rate of increase in college enrollment, the Kansas college enrollment will be 102,267 and KU will have 20,453 students, according to a study made by James E. Gunn, assistant administrator of University relations.
This is more than double the 1958 state enrollment of 48.194, and almost twice as much as 1960's predicted 51.375.
"Here is the basic description of the 'enrollment bomb' and the chain reaction that will set it off—a rapidly rising birthrate, an increasing percentage of high school attendance, and a zooming percentage of college attendance." Mr. Gunn states in his article in the October, 1950, "University of Kansas Alumni Magazine."
Birthrate Increase
The annual birthrate of Kansas from 1940 to 1956 almost doubled—an increase of 23,000 children a year in the 16-year period. There are not only more children, but an increasing percentage of them are going through high school and are prepared to enter college, Mr. Gunn states.
Kansas ranks sixth in the nation in percentage of college attendance. In 1951 only 25.9 per cent of the college age population attended college, but by 1958 this had climbed to 48.7 per cent, an increase of 23 per cent in seven years or an average increase of more than 3 per cent a year, Mr. Gunn says.
The University of Kansas has sustained at least 20 per cent of the total Kansas college enrollment in past years, he said.
KU's drastic need for facilities is being proven all the time. Thirteen per cent of the total academic space is still in 15-18-year-old temporary war surplus buildings, Mr. Gunn reports. No classroom or laboratory facilities were added on the Lawrence campus between 1923 and 1943.
Several Buildings Added
Since 1954, construction of Malott Hall for physical sciences was completed. Bailey Hall was remodeled for the School of Education, the Music and Dramatic Arts building was opened in 1957, and last fall Summerfield Hall, the business and economics building, was completed. Workmen are now in the process of remodeling classrooms and offices in Strong Hall.
Mr. Gunn says the University needs replacements for the temporary and obsolete buildings now in use. Before 1970, the following additions are needed: a library addition, social sciences classroom building, engineering building, architecture and art building, Lindley Hall ad-
Wednesday Evening Concert Features Beethoven's Sonatas
A three-concert program which will feature all 10 of Beethoven's violin and piano sonatas will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The musicians will be Raymond Cerf, professor of violin and chairman of the string instrument department, and Roy Hamlin Johnson, assistant professor of piano.
The program will include "Sonata in D Major, Opus 12, No. 1"; "Sonata in A Major, Opus 12, No. 2"; "Sonata in E flat Major, Opus 12, No. 3"; and "Sonata in G Major, Opus 96."
The remaining two programs are scheduled Feb. 8 and 22 in Swarthout Recital Hall. All three concerts are open to the public free of charge.
Prof. Cerf is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium. While in Brussels he was a member of the Ysaye Orchestra, the Concert Populaire, the Defauw Orchestra and the Pro Art group. He
was assistant concert-master of the Kursaal Orchestra in Ostend.
He came to the United States as concert-master of the touring orchestra for the Anna Pavlova Ballet Co. Later he taught violin at Oberlin College for 16 years. He was employed in Hollywood studio orchestras for six years before joining the KU faculty in 1949.
Prof. Johnson is a graduate of the Eastman School of music and has studied in Paris under a Fulbright grant. He has appeared as soloist with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Rochester Civic Orchestra, the Eastman-Rochester Symphony, and the Oklahoma City Symphony.
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The Educational Building Fund brings the University about one million dollars a year for academic buildings. At this rate it would take nearly 20 years to meet building needs, Mr. Gunn estimates.
An appropriation by the 1950 Legislature and a matching grant from the Federal Government have made it possible to build an addition to Wahl Hall at the Medical Center in Kansas City. This will allow four years of medical training to be given on that campus.
Additional funds must somehow be acquired or methods of limiting enrollment may have to be installed, he concludes.
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