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Wednesday, October 24,1973
University Daily Kansan
KU-Tuskegee Exchange Discussed
By JILL WILLIS
Kansas Staff Reporter
University of Kansas students may get credit in the near future for taking such courses as carpentry, masonry and coffin-making.
i. Student Senate Committee on Academic Affairs is designing an exchange program with Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., in which students will be able to learn a craft while following a regular course of study.
Herb Moser, assistant professor of English at Tuskegee, talked to the committee last night about the possibility of a computer program between Tuskegee and KU.
"I have been opposed to the transeducation, or exchange programs, because I have seen five of them fail," said Moser. "They fail because all the program is an exchange. The students do what they could take the back home, with but added novelty."
Moser said the program must be based on a sound educational idea.
He said the committee should concentrate on how the program will shape the students.
"STUDENTS OUIGHT DO more things.
They ought to have a craft." Moser said.
Moser said ruskeuse has competent instructors in this area, but they will be limited to those who have demonstrated competence.
Although the structure of the program can't definite, the committee hopes to work out a system in which a KU student would receive KU credit for courses taken at Tuskegee.
Moser said exchanges should be made on a yearly basis.
A semester would just give the student time to unpack. He would just be beginning his first semester.
Todd Hunter, Oklahoma City, Okla.
junior and committee chairman, said he would be interested in setting up the exchange with Tuskegee as a model program.
If it worked effectively, we could expand it to include other schools," Hunter said.
The best way to learn to teach is through practical experience, according to several juniors participating in an alternative school. It can be the result of Education at the University of Kansas.
Practice Aids Student Teachers
The program is designed to provide teaching experience besides the traditional student teaching in a student's senior year, according to Evelyn Swartz, professor of English.
The students were assigned to schools in the Lawrence, DeSoto and Kansas City. Mo. school districts and Center School District, a suburb of Kansas City, Mo.
'It is helped me decide that education isn't so bad, but not just a place for me.' she said.
Kris Nordling, Hugeton junior, said the courses replaced by the alternative program weren't as useful as actual teaching experience. She said the program had helped to clarify her ideas about teaching.
Nordling was assigned to Broken Arrow Elementary School in Lawrence and said she was surprised by the format of the class. "It's a lot of different classes with several different classes in the same
room Nording said the open classroom was containing at first but it worked out well.
JUANTA GISH, Baldwin junior, said the program enabled her to test educational
"I can see what it is to be a teacher," she said. "I never realized teaching was so hard."
Gish said her first day in the classroom dispelled some ideas she had about math.
"It was a mixture of fear, excitement and trustless fear. I knew that you must haveized you have loved you to deal with them."
Gish was assigned to South Junior High School in Lawrence and said she planned to teach junior high students after graduation from KU.
Cindy Hurst, Kansas City, Kan., junior,
said her experience in the program hadn't
been successful.
"I didn't expect to grade papers," she said.
The alternative program was valuable, although it didn't give her a complete view
"IT DOES HELP indicate to you whether it will be able to take the kids," she said.
Howard Carter, dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Tuskegee, will be invited to KU to discuss the details of the program with members and the administration.
Arts Session Begins Soon
The Kaw Valley School of Performing Arts, a non-profit organization established last spring, will begin registration Sunday for its next six-week session, according to Patricia Fortune, McPherson senior and associate director for the school. The session begins Nov. 5.
The school offers a variety of courses at $10 to $15 a session, depending on the course. Fortune said. Some scholarships would be available.
Classes are taught by volunteers and meet once a week for two hours at 17 W. 14th Street. Fortune said the school planned to hire larger facilities when finances permitted.
New courses offered include silk screening, candle making, photography, clay sculpture, loom weaving, metal arts and international cooking.
The school was started to create a noninstitutional atmosphere for instruction and arouse interest and activity in the arts, Fortune said. It also attempted to provide an opportunity for various ethnic and age groups to work together, she said.
The committee yesterday also discussed giving college credit to those involved in the case.
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PROFESSORS CONTACTED about the idea said that it was a good idea but that students should be assigned additional work to insure involvement in student govern-
Her views were based on experience with a teacher she didn't enjoy working with, she said, and the problems she encountered weren't the fault of the program.
Joann Lill, Plainville junior, said she had enjoyed her experiences in the program. Lill was assigned to Broken Arrow and said she was glad to have been placed in the classroom format. She said her reaction was positive now and the open classroom was more for the student's benefit than for her.
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"You can't let them get away with everything. I found that out," Lill said the
KELLEY SAID she liked teaching in a small town because she was able to know more people. One problem of a small town, with its many students, is enough students to form a band, she said.
"The band is only 40 pieces and none of them are really any good. They can't even read music." Kelley said. "Actually, they only march with 35 pieces, because the members of the brass section are all football players."
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Coping with the limitations of a small high school was a challenge, according to Connie Kelley, Lincoln, Neb. Rebel, Killey was one of three students assist the teachers in the music department.
George Worth, professor of English, said a paper he required to turn in a paper at the end of the year with the important issues in the senate that year and giving the senator's views on the paper.
Kelley said she had set no goals for her career.
"The thing I'm really out for is to have a relationship where the students respect me and I am proud of them."
Skip Katieheuser, Prairie Village senior and committee member, introduced the idea of a four-day week in summer school at the meeting yesterday.
Hunter suggested that credit should be negotiated between the professor and the
"A specific list of demands would be established and if the student didn't meet the demands, he would not receive the credit," he said.
"KU will have to change to the four-day week eventually to cut down on the energy being used to hold classes. Summer school must be made before making such a change," he said.
Kallenbecher said this system would make the summer more flexible for the athletes.
The committee will discuss the plan with the administration before mid-November when all changes in the summer school schedule must be completed.
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National Radio Co-host Aids KANU Rededication
One part of the program will be a feature on Headquarter, the Lawrence help center and the Lawrence library.
Susan Stamberg, co-host of the daily national radio program "All Things Considered," will be at the University of Kansas today through Friday to participate in the rededication ceremony of KANU's new facility.
"All Things Considered") is a 90 minute news magazine-flow show. Segments of the program will originate from the newly remodeled and re-equipped studios as a part of the redeclaration ceremony. This is the first time in two-and-a-half years that students have originated outside of the studies of the National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.
Segmentes of the program that will originate from KANU-FM include a panel discussion with I. J. Stonebuck, farmer and member of the Douglas County Commission; Arden Booth, Republican state senator and principal owner of radio station KENBEE; Dr. Amy Bassett, housewife and wife of dew Edward Basset of the KU School of Journalism.
also interview William Hambleton, director of the Kansas Geological Survey, on "In Kansas Really Flat!" Nancy Hambleton, who led the survey, and Edward Leawed, whose son, Nick was killed in the Lawrence disturbances of 1970. Another segment of the program will feature the All Things Considered" theme music by Michael J. Cohn, a professor at University carlillenr Albert Gerken.
Stamberg expressed curiosity about the Midwest when KANU officials first approached her about originating portions of the program from the KU campus. The team was surprised that she would be answered when she talked to Hambleton about "Is Kansas really Flat!"
Stamberg said recently that she saw herself as an extension of her listening audience, leading people from story to story. "It's like a listening ear," she was as a listener-cum-commentator.
The rededication ceremony will begin at 2 p.m., Sunday in Hoch Auditorium. Will be an open house immediately following the ceremony at KANU in Broadcasting Hall,
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