Page 8 University Daily Kansan Friday, April 18. 1959
18,000 Expected At KU By 1970
KU is expected to have an enrollment of 15.000 to 18.000 by 1970, according to a study made by George B. Smith, dean of the University.
The enrollment boom will have varying effects on schools in the University.
While all schools are anticipating increases and planning expansion to meet the demand, perhaps the greatest expansion is planned in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
John S. McNown, dean of the school said he expected an enrollment increase of about 100 students a year, which would place engineering enrollment near 4,000, starting with this year's 2,300 students.
Dean McNown listed a 3-step building program for the school which will be carried out over an 8 to 10-year period:
1. The first unit will be constructed in 1959-61. Money for planning this building has been allotted by the Legislature. The building, which is to cost about $1,600,000, will be in the area north of 15th Street and west of Naismith Road. This will eventually be part of a much larger building complex, and will house facilities for the departments of applied mechanics and civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering.
for mechanical, petroleum and metallurgy engineering, and for the geology department and the Geological Survey.
3. In three or four more years, another unit will be added to the area north of 15th Street, to house the department of architecture and graphic arts courses.
Dean McNown said a "very rough estimate" of the total cost would be 4 million dollars. He emphasized that the new facilities would be used by departments outside the engineering school, including the geology department and some fine arts courses.
The most noticeable expansion on the campus now is the new building for the School of Business. Dean James Surface said the building, scheduled for occupancy in the fall of 1959, will permit larger sections for some courses and give more classroom space. The building will cost $1,132,792.
Dean Surface said he expects business school enrollment to be two to four times as great by 1970. The present enrollment is 450.
graduate enrollment has risen from 450 to 700 in the last five years, he said, and may rise to 900-1000 by 1970.
Education Program Expanded
The graduate program in the school has "expanded terrifically" over the last five years, with as many graduate degrees awarded in the past six years as the total in the previous history of the school, he said. Dean Anderson said about 15 students receive doctorate degrees from the school each year.
The school is expanding into several fields, the dean said, including special education and an increase in the number of teachers in science, mathematics, and foreign languages.
M. C. Slough, dean of the School of Law, said the enrollment boom would affect the law school later than the rest of the University, but the school might reach 300 students. Present enrollment is 180, with a peak enrollment of 250 after World War II.
Dean Slough said in five or 10 years Green Hall will have to be expanded, and suggested adding wings to Green Hall would be better than a new building. Additions to the present building would cost about a third as much as a new building, the said.
School of Fine Arts, said no further expansion was planned for the music department.
The most urgent need, Dean Gorton said, is for an art building. With the present enrollment of 525 undergraduates, the school can handle a 50-75 per cent increase in music and dramatic arts, but is already overcrowded in art.
This year, the dean said, the school is offering a combined major in theater and voice.
The School of Pharmacy moved into new quarters in Malott Hall in 1954. Dean J. Allen Reese said most of the facilities are adequate to handle doubled enrollment in the school, but more facilities for experimental animals are needed.
He expects enrollment in the school, to go up more sharply than that of the University, after a lag caused by the 5-year requirement. Present enrollment is about 140 undergraduates and 15 to 20 graduate students. Most of the graduates are working for doctorates.
More Women In Pharmacy
He said he also expected a rise in the proportion of women in the
school during the next 10 years, per haus to 25 per cent. National chemical firms and associations are sponsoring a campaign to increase interest in pharmacy as a career.
John H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate School, listed five points concerning KU's graduate program:
1. Graduate enrollment is expected to keep growing. It has grown steadily since 1945, and prospects are it will continue.
2. The largest gains in enrollment are expected to be in physics, chemistry, mathematics, the biological sciences, and geology.
3. More support for scholarly projects in the social sciences is becoming available, and this will favorably affect graduate enrollments.
4. The outlook is very bright for more scholarships and fellowships from outside the University, especially from agencies of the federal government. These awards will apparently be available not only to science students, but also to those in other fields, including foreign languages.
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