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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Black Engineer Enrollment Grows
By CATHY O'BRIEN
Kansan Staff Writer
Enrollment of black engineers at the University of Kansas has risen from 6 to 35 since the creation of SCofKEE, Student Engagement and Educating Black Engineers.
SCOMEBE was started in 1970 by Willem
Niemeyer, who is now at the University of
Groningen. He was a professor of maths.
Charles Lockhart, president of SCORMEB, listed three goals of the program. These are to assure that more minority engineers graduate from KU, that there is more financial aid and assistance available for minority Students find suitable in placements.
THE ASSISTANCE given these students includes personal and educational counseling and tutoring. Lockhart said the job opportunities presented to the student death were provided by the engineering discipline and were provided by the industries that helped support the program.
SCORMEBE does not begin its program with the college student. They recruit high school students of high ability and with a strong interest in engineering. The summer program in engineering at KU.
Students were recruited mainly from metropolitan areas through a cooperative effort with high school administrators and teachers.
ANDREW DARTON, director of the program, suggested that a lack of training on the job could be a problem.
No one has been or will be kept out of the program because of race, color or creed.
counselors may have contributed to student confusion about what an engineer really is and really does. For this reason, the summer programs are set up as identification programs as well as motivating forces.
"We try to motivate and interest students to go into the School of Engineering," said Darton. "We have to get right down to earth and remove that invisible screen."
This summer the funding for the engineering program was through the National Science Foundation (NSF), which created the need for the development of new courses. Last year this part of the program was funded by the KU Endowment Association.
THE ENDOWMENT Association has made it a habit not to support the same program for two consecutive years, Darton and Baird. We have also ground for a different means of support.
The NSF has a Student Science Training Program that gives assistance to students with limited educational opportunities. Darton said the correlation between the NSF program and SCORMBE led to a proposal for funds from the NSF.
In the past the program had been for high school seniors, but NSF rules only allow use of their funds for juniors. This, therefore, requires use of the development of the new courses.
ALTHOUGH THE high school senior was not provided for through NSF funds, SCORMEBE funds have worked to provide the needed assistance, said Darton. This summer there are eight seniors among the 37 in the engineering program.
NSF does not allow the use of funds where there is discrimination, so no one has been or will be kept out of the program because of race, color or creed, said Lockhart.
"The University should feel proud. Out of the new NSF proposals they accepted but not the one they proposed," he said.
DURING THE winter the emphasis is on the college student, except for a recruitment period in the fall when SCOFMEe members speak to potential engineers, who will then that during this time the financial aid was almost entirely contributed by industry.
"SCoMREBE is unique because the students have a great deal of input into the program. Most are controlled by the University. In our case, the students are the ones who make the decisions," said Lockhart.
SCORMEB has been busy. Lockhart said they had been working on progress reports, their constitution, and in the past year have started a newsletter that is put together by someone who was part of the process of putting together a brochure that would explain SCORMEB fully.
JUST BEFORE the end of the spring semester, Lockhart said, his committee went to the dean of men's office and suggested that a wing in a residence hall be designated for engineering students only, on an experimental basis.
Lockhart said this environment would be ideal because the engineering student had to spend more time on his studies than the average student, and this would rid the student of the chance to be influenced by the people who didn't need to study.
This is planned for men and not the women because there is only one woman in the program now. They are accepting four in the fall, but they did not know the reason few women was that they did not apply. He said they thought there was no place in engineering for them.
BECAUSE OF THE lack of women, Lockhart said that an experimental program wouldn't be practical or accurate. It wouldn't be practical because many women live off-campus or are married. It would be better for them for an experimental wing, he said.
They are also making an effort to set up
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who would provide a job or contribute money until they were ready. He said they had to spend half of the time going to various companies asking for contributions which took away from the time they had to work on improvements in the program.
Lockhart said they had no way of knowing
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