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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 2, 1960
KU's Honors Program Is the First of Its Kind
"Americans know how to handle their talents in two fields and in two fields alone—sports and music."
This observation by Professor Sidney Pressey of Ohio State may have been accurate seven or eight years ago but not today. All over the country, attention is being given to academic talent. KU has blazed a trail in this field. Its College Honors program was the first of its kind and has been widely imitated.
The Kansas program, conceived and initiated by Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is built on the premise that the freshman year is the most important period of a college student's life and that the most important contact he can have at that time is with a truly able and interested teacher as well as with students who will be challenging competitors in the classroom.
STUDENTS ARE invited into the Honors Program before their first enrollment, usually by letter from Francis H. Heller, Associate Dean of the College, who has the administrative responsibility for the program. Four to six of the students so chosen will be given a special adviser. The core of the special advisory group is the academic deans of the College and the current and past members of the College Administrative Committee, the elected faculty body invested with the power to grant individual variances from College rules.
Honors students normally develop close and friendly relationships with their advisers which last beyond the first two years and sometimes beyond graduation. The adviser becomes the key to the student's program while he is at KU. Because of his standing, he is able to open doors to the student that might otherwise be closed. Honors students have been known to skip prerequisites, enroll in junior or senior classes while they were still freshmen, etc.
EVERY STUDENT IN the program receives library privileges on the same level as graduate students indeed, many of their honors classes will be conducted in the manner of graduate seminars. Research opportunities play an important role in the Honors Program. Students are encouraged to take part in faculty research activities. Small stipends from grants by the National Science Foundation, the Kansas Heart Association, and the Carnegie Corporation are available for this purpose.
What does it all amount to?
What does it all amount to?
One way to assess a college's performance is to see how well its graduates do. In the national competition for Woodrow Wilson graduate school fellowships, KU students last year earned more awards than any other institution in the country that has no selection of applicants for college admission. Regardless of admissions criteria, there were only two public universities in the country whose total exceeded KU's: California and Michigan—pretty good company.
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