University Daily Kansan
Thursday, August 23, 1973
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School of Architecture Admits KU Freshmen
Bv DONNA BROWN
by DONNA BROV
Kansas Stall Writer
Architecture as a profession deals with man's conscious effort to modify his environment.
Good architecture is a combination of sensitive architects and enlightened clients, said Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
The school is one of five University of Kansas schools or departments that freshman may choose to attend.
QUALIFIED GRADUATES of Kansas and Missouri high schools are given preference in direct admission to the school. Graduates of accredited Missouri high schools admitted to the school will eligible for admission in their third agreement with the state of Missouri.
Degrees offered by the school are bachelor of environmental design, bachelor of architecture and bachelor of science in architecture. Courses in engineering construction with the School of Engineering.
A CLASS CALLED Teaching, Urban Environment is available to elementary and secondary school teachers to help them prepare courses relating cities and their inhabitants to the environment. Marcia Francisco and Lou Michael will teach this course as a service to the School of Education.
In keeping with the belief that it takes good clients as well as good architects to make good architecture, Curtis Besinger, professor of architecture and urban design, will teach Architectural Fundamentals in addition to mastery majors this semester. The courses offer introductions to townscapes, large scale landscape and architecture.
New other faculty members are Craig Frazier, who will teach first year courses, Christopher Boddington, visiting professor from England who will teach second year courses and Steve Grabow, will teach studio and develop an urban design program.
Elenora Adams, assistant to the dean, became director of the Architects Community Team June 14. The team's development center located in the Coates School in Kansas City is the professional assistance center for inner city minority and poverty clients.
THIS YEAR THE school will be able to accept all qualified applicants to the graduate program for the first time since 1968. The graduate program was discontinued in 1985, in order to emphasize change in the undergraduate and architecture
School of Architecture Dean Charles Kahn
Last year a new graduate program was
created and there are expected to be 15
programmers in the year. The program will
handle 30 persons.
During the summer, the school worked on
developing a cassette tape library in the architecture library. Tapes include speeches on the philosophy of great architecture and classroom lectures.
Dean Says Engineers Needed
By JOHN BENDER
Kansas Staff Writer
There is a shortage of engineers in the United Sates and this shortage will become more acute at least through 1976, says Richard H. Dean, dean of the School of Engineering.
Smith said that the school was getting letters from companies that were interested not only in new graduate but also in finding faculty who could not be satisfied with their present jobs.
There has been a sharp drop in the enrollment in engineering schools both at the University of Kansas and nationally, Smith said.
IN 1957, there were 2,000 undergraduates in the School of Engineering, according to Smith but now there are about 900 undergraduates.
Smith said there were two factors that might account for the drop in enrollment. The first, he said, was that Korean war veterans entered engineering programs, while Vietnam veterans had shown little interest in engineering.
The second factor was the adverse publicity the profession received from 1970 to 1972 about lay-offs of engineers and the lack of job opportunities. The job situation, Smith said, was never as bad as the media portrayed it.
WHILE THE supply of engineers has declined, the need for engineers has increased. Smith said. The problems society requires more technical expertise to solve.
The energy crisis was one of the problems Smith pointed to as requiring engineering skills.
The factors of increased demand for engineers and declining supply have combined to make job and salary prospects excellent for engineering graduates, Smith said.
THE PAY RANGE for 1973 graduates was $750 a month to $1,050 a month with an average of $860 a month. Smith said that he would expect the number of graduates increase in over $1,000 for 1974 graduation
"I don't know of one graduate who is looking for a job who hasn't found one," she said.
An engineering student should have no trouble finding a job.
Even in 1971, when the job market was supposedly at its blackest, the School of Engineering placed about 95 per cent of its graduates, Smith said. This figure includes those who went into the Army and into graduate school.
IF THERE are any dark spots on the engineering school's horizon, they were in the decline of the number of faculty teaching there, new lab equipment available to students.
Smith said that the School of Engineering had been forced to eliminate 13 faculty positions over the last five years. This has not affected the quality of instruction.
William Smith
THE SCHOOL is suffering from a lack of adequate equipment, Smith said, because the school has not had enough money available to purchase equipment.
he said, because student enrolment has decreased. The student-teacher ratio in the school is 16:1.
Smith said that the school would like to be able to use about five per cent of its $1.3 million budget (about $65,000) for purchasing equipment. For the last two years, Smith said, the amount of money made from purchasing equipment has been about $40,000.
Since the average life of a piece of laboratory equipment is seven years, the
SMITH INJECTED an optimistic note into the lab equipment situation. The school is in the process of establishing an energy conversion laboratory, he said. This lab, for which the equipment has already been obtained, is being financed by an endowment from the Kansas Power and Light Company.
school is becoming increasingly behind in replacing worm equipment.
The School of Engineering began at KU in 1870 as the department of engineering. In 1891, it became the School of Engineering. Since then it has continued to expand, adding such buildings as the Center for Research in Engineering Sciences (1960), the Nuclear Reactor Center (1961) and Learned Hall (1963).
The school offers eight areas of specialization: aerospace engineering, architectural engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, engineering physics, engineering and petroleum engineering.
A sound financial aid program is offered, according to Smith. In addition to the aid available through the University's Office of Student Financial Aid, there is about $30,000 a year in endowments available to undergraduates. For graduate students, there are a number of teaching and research fellowships available.
FRESHMEN MAY be admitted directly to the School of Engineering. The school will also accept students transferring from institutions in the University or other institutions.
Liberal Arts Underclassmen Divided to Form 5 Subcolleges
By CAROL GWINN
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences split into the five Colleges Within the University.
Kansan Staff Writer
The CWC program was designed "to obtain for freshmen and sophomores in the large public university the advantages of the small academic community, and yet preserve access to the resources of the multiversity," according to a report written by Robert Cobb, director of Nunemaker College.
"A goal of the project is to reduce the dangers of student anonymity," Cobb said. Each college is responsible for its own orientation program, registration, counseling, mid-seminer advising, scholarship and probation.
ALTHOUGH AN “integration of the academic and non-academic resources of the University by the creation of effective suburbs within the University” has been a goal of the CWC program, only Oliver College is currently offering such a program.
Students in other colleges will be able to enroll in the course only if Oliver students
Eilen Gold, director of Oliver College, said Oliver would be offering a combination English I-Listory y course for the first time this fall. The course will be held at
"The COURSE WILL extend the
hall-unit University integration,"
gold said.
Oliver advises students primarily from Ole Miss and Naismith Hall and some fraternities.
NUNEMAKER STUDENTS come from Huntington, Lewis, Templin and most of the U.S.
Nunemaker College offers a special language course for its students, Intensive French, German and Spanish are offered in the new building and fulfills the LA&S language requirement.
North College is made up of residents of
Delbert Shankel
Gertrude Sellars Pearson, the scholarship halls, fraternities and fraternity
"North College has always been known to good advisers. Betty Hanson, head of tech services, said:
SHE SAID that this year for the first time students would be assigned a faculty ad- dition.
The college tries to advise students on an individual basis, Hanson said, instead of
using group advising as is done in other colleges.
PEARSON COLLEGE has achieved national recognition for the Pearson Humanities Program. The program is accredited by the program was rejected by the College Assembly, however, the program will still be available to Pearson College students for six hours of coursework.
CENTENNIAL COLLEGE was the first college established. It was begun in 1966 as an experiment funded by the Carnegie Institution and named after fraternity students make up Centennial.
Hawson said that North College had a lot of the honors students since the scholarship program was established.
"the proportion of faculty advisers is higher for this fall," Lewis said. He said that faculty members had let advising drop out and had pursued their research or teaching.
GEORGE WAGGONER, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is on leave in Caracas, Venezuela. He has been appointed by developing South American education systems.
Waggoner, who left last January, is expected back Jan. 1, 1974.
Delbert Shankel, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, is acting dean until
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