Tuesday, November 19, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Juco study funds granted
KU's School of Education has received a federal grant of $8,520 to conduct a study on the characteristics and opinions of Kansas community junior college students.
Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the School of Education and director of the study, received confirmation of the grant last week from the Kansas City, Mo., regional office of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
In his report requesting the grant, Anderson said the research is primarily for informational purposes. The completed results will be published in "Kansas Studies in Education," a research information booklet distributed throughout the United States.
Research questionnaires will be sent to about 13,000 students in Kansas' 19 junior colleges. The questionnaire asks the student to evaluate himself as an individual and on the basis of his activities in school.
Anderson's request said the "inquiry" will attempt to analyze students on the basis of socioeconomic background, finances, interests, value of guidance and counseling, educational and occupational aspirations and reasons for attending college.
Robert D. Michal, professor of education and psychometrist for the KU Guidance Bureau, is assistant director of the program.
The study, which officially be gan Nov. 5, will continue through August 15, 1969.
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Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and theologian, will make three appearances in this area this week.
Psychiatrist to talk locally
Frankl will speak at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Rice Auditorium at Baker University, Baldwin. His address, entitled, "Youth's Search for Meaning," is sponsored by the Paul Dana Bartlett Memorial Lectureship. The address is open to the public.
At 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Frankl will speak at Unity Village, Lee's Summit, Mo. Admission to each of these lectures is $2 and seating capacity is limited to 500.
Frankl is the originator of an existential approach to psychotherapy he calls logotherapy, or therapy of the Word. He is head of neurology at Poliklinik Hospital, Vienna, Austria, and professor of psychology and neurology at the University of Vienna.
Frankl has written 14 books, among them "Man's Search for Meaning" and "The Doctor and the Soul."