KU Gifted Student Program Praised
Nation-wide attention has focused on KU's gifted student program.
Life magazine and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently carried feature articles on the program. Other publications highlighting KU's gifted student program include the Carnegie Corporation of New York Quarterly, a national magazine, and The Kansas Teacher.
Other Universities Copy KU
Five years ago KU officials began inviting high school graduates into its gifted student program before they entered college. Universities in Michigan and Iowa have copied KU's pattern, but most other universities with gifted student programs invite students only after they have attended college.
Ninety-four KU freshmen have entered the program this fall to join about 88 sophomores already in it. This marks an almost 200 per cent increase over the 31 freshmen who entered five years ago. The program usually includes just freshmen and sophomores in the College since most students specialize after two years.
Those freshmen invited include Summerfield, Watkins and Nation Merit scholarship contest finalists. Others may be invited if their scholastic record and aptitude test scores suggest great promise or if the students are strongly recommended by their high school principals to Francis Heller, associate dean of the College, who selects the students.
Administrators are Advisers
Administrative officials of the College are advisers to those in the gifted students program. These advisers allow many in the program to enroll in courses without fulfilling the ordinary prerequisites.
Most freshmen in the program take Western Civilization their first year with one of the gifted students program advisers as the instructor.
Students in the program are allowed to carry more hours than are normally permitted.
One student will graduate in June after carrying 22 hours each of her six semesters here. This student will also enroll in a graduate course next semester.
Dean Heller said:
"Advisers and instructors supervising the students in the program try to accomplish in the better students what all instructors want to do in every student. They challenge each to show evidence that he is working to the limit of his capacity.
"By national standards those in the KU gifted students program belong in the top ten per cent scholastically. Still, within the program, there are wide ranges of differences of capacity and differences in preparation and experience acquired before the students come to the University."
KU Museum To Exhibit Art
Richard S. Trump, the new curator of the Museum of Art, will be introduced Sunday at the museum's open house.
Mr. Trump comes to KU from Ohio State University where he was completing graduate work in art history. He will be in charge of the American art collection.
This collection, which has been newly installed in a gallery to be permanently dedicated to American art, will be exhibited as part of the open house program.
An exhibition of Latin American drawings also will be shown. It consists of original drawings by artists from 11 Central and South American countries.
Gifts and acquisitions received by the museum during the summer months will be on display.
A series of art films will be shown to illustrate the type of films which have been selected for the museum's monthly film programs.
The open house will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Hostesses will be the Jay Janes, women's pep organization.
Youths Held in Robberies
KANSAS CITY, Mo —(UPI) Three youths were held here today in connection with four robberies in a period of about two hours last night.
Losses in the holdups, here and in Kansas City, Kan., totaled more than $1,000, police said.
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