September 24,1984 Page3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Fulbright applications due by Friday afternoon
The deadline to submit applications for graduate study abroad grants under the Fulbright Program is 5 p.m. Friday.
Most of the grants offered provide round-trip transportation, tuition and living expenses for one academic year. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, must have a bachelor's degree or its equivalent before the first date of the grant and, in most cases, should be proficient in the language of the host country.
Candidates for the 1985-86 competition are ineligible for a grant to a country if they do graduate work or research there for six months or more in the 1984-85 academic year.
Application forms and further information are available at the office of study abroad, 203 Lippincott Hall.
Art history prof to give lecture
Edward A. Maser, professor of art history at the University of Chicago, will speak tomorrow on "The Humanist in Old Age: The Late works of Franz Anton Maubertsch."
The lecture, the second in the Humanities Lecture Series, will begin at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Maser was the director of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art from 1953 to 1961.
Maser will comment at an 11 a.m. gallery tour of Spencer Museum about works acquired while he was director and the considerations in building a university collection.
Prof to review program's past
Seaver, a professor of history who was director from 1957 to 1984, will deliver a speech titled "The Western Civilization Program and the Liberal Arts Curriculum at the University of Kansas, 1945 to 1964."
James Seaver, former director of the Western Civilization program, will speak about the 46 year evolution of the program at 8 p.m. Thursday in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
He will discuss the program's future, and the problems the program had during the late 1960s when students were questioning the place of the study of Civilization.
United Fund's goal declared
John O. Tollefson, dean of the School of Business and the KU campaign chairman for the 1844-85 Lawrence United Fund, announced recently that the University's fundraising goal is $72,000.
A reception in the Big Eight Room of the Union will follow the lecture.
Campaign materials will be distributed this week. Tolleson said.
The United Fund provides support for many community service agencies in Lawrence and Douglas County, including the Douglas County Association for Retarded Citizens, Headquarters and the Legal Aid Society.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny, windy and warm. The high will be around 90, and winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy. The low will be in the mid-40s. Tomorrow will be cooler with a chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the low to mid-80s.
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Compiled from staff and United Press International reports
Teaching center recommended for KU
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A Center for Teaching Excellence to promote improvements in teacher education should be established at the University of Kansas, a team of education consultants told the Kansas Board of Regents Friday.
TWO OF THE CONSULTANTS, Daniel Griffiths, former dean of the New York University School of Education, and Sidney Tickton, vice president of the Academy for Educational Development, present 99-page report at Harper's Fair. Enlarson
or Regents Schools. The six Regents schools would operate the center jointly as a focus for educational leadership in Kansas, the consultants said. Faculty and researchers from all the Regents schools would work at the center.
The center for excellence was one of 18 recommendations made by the three-member team commissioned last spring by the Regents to review teacher education programs at Regents schools.
Grittits, Tickton and Harold Emerson-
torer president of Ohio State. He is
also a professor at the Academy
the consultants said that one of the center's objectives would be to accelerate the application of new educational research to public school classrooms.
The Regents should ask the Kansas Legislature for at least $1 million for the next five to 10 years to establish the center, the team said.
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MAJOR OFFICIALS RECEIVED copies of the report Friday morning but declined comment on specific details until they had studied the report further.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said, however, that he was pleased that KU's five-year teacher-education program had been praised in the report and that the School of Education appeared in step with other such schools in the nation.
Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said he wanted to review the report at length.
for Educational Development in Washington, D.C.
report at length. "My overall general comment is one of best informed by the good comments about KU and not being alarmed by anything they said," he said.
The study was part of a five-year cycle of program reviews at all Regions schools. In
the last two years, Regents teams have examined degree programs in nine areas of study.
One of the report's recommendation was that entrance requirements for Kansas schools of education be raised "substantially" by 1990.
saturation. College told the Regents that the American College Test scores of education students at KU and Kansas State University were above the national mean but that the scores of their counterparts at the four other Regents schools were below the national mean.
"We don't understand how these colleges of education can be enrolling lower-achieving students and contending that they will become good teachers." Tickton said. "How much better would they be if the level were increased to begin with?"
THE CONSULTANTS suggested discontinuation or modifying 25 degree programs, 10 of them at KU, in which the enrolments were too small to be cost effective or the degrees
The report also recommended an evaluation of KU's five-year teacher-education program and possibly expanding the program to other campuses and into a master's degree.
degree. Regents should work to establish financial incentives such as forgivable loans to superior students who plan to teach in Kaggaa public schools, the consultants said.
Griffiths said the consultants found university and public school officials in Kansas more satisfied than they had expected with the quality of teacher education.
the quality of teacher education.
"Nationwide reports indicate a lot of people are terribly exercised," he said. "We didn't find very much of that here."
IN OTHER ACTION FRIDAY, the Regents authorized KU, the University of Kansas Medical Center and Kansas State University to pay off residence hall revenue bonds early and at a discount.
The federal government bought the bonds in the early 1960s at a low interest rate and is now paying about 13 percent interest to keep the bonds financed, said Keith Nitcher, KU director of business affairs.
doubled the University owes $7.7 million in
principal and interest.
Kerry Richardson comforts his fiancee, Debbie Ryder, as firefighters examine the couple's charred mobile home. The fire yesterday did $2,000 worth of damage to the uninsured home. 1045 East 23rd St., Lot A-2. Three fire trucks respond.
led to the alarm, which was reported at 3.59 p.m. and under control to 4.05 p.m. A fire department inspector said that the fire had started when an electrical short set the insulation under the mobile home on fire.
AAUP leader says group supports profs
By HOLLIE MARKLAND
Staff Reporter
Crises in tenure and academic freedom preside the future of higher education, and the American Association of University Professors will continue to support the rights of professors, the national president of the AACP said Saturday.
AAPU said Sahil Kumar, "Tenure is under increasing attack from administrators and faculty." Paul H.L. Walter, the president and a KU graduate, said "In Kansas City, Mo., four community colleges were censured by the AAPU because they fired tenured professors in order to hire part-time replacements."
part of the institution.
The AAUP is a national organization of about 60,000 members dedicated to preserving the rights and privileges of faculty.
sors to advocate the adoption of policies that conflict with the school administration's position on issues without fear of losing their jobs.
Using the rights and privileges to learn
Academic freedom is the right of profes
Walter wearing a red-and-blue tie embroidered with a Jayahawk, spoke to an audience of about 25 people at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. His speech preceded the fall 1984 meeting of the Kansas Conference of the AAUP.
Walter, chairman of the chemistry department at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., said the AAUP recently had been divided on the question of faculty unions.
Walter said he was trying to conciliate the factions since his election last spring after a heated contest against Peter Fairley, the presidential candidate from a unionized campus.
Sidney Shapiro, president of the KU chapter of AAPU and a professor of law, said that although Walter was not considered an advocate of faculty unions, he supported collective bargaining on campuses where the faculty thought it was appropriate.
"The election of Walter was a decision made by the members of AAUP that he was the best person to accommodate the two groups." Shapiro said.
Walter said, "The divisions within the AAUP are family squabbles, but even with these squabbles, we will effectively represent the professional interests of the members and advance ac:deme."
The AAPU, which fights for a role for faculty in the decision-making processes of universities and intervenes for professors in disputes with the administration, continues to fight for equal pay and equal retirement payments for women. Walter said.
Nancy Anderson, the coordinator of the board, said the chairman, Rob Hunter, had already missed two meetings this semester because of the conflict.
A scheduling conflict may force the chairman of the Student Senate Transportation Board to resign his position, the coordinator of the board said yesterday.
Hunter is enrolled in a class that meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings, she said. The board meets every other Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m., when Hunter is in class.
Chairman might quit his office
Hunter said the class was a prerequisite for three other courses and that he could not take it at any other time.
Scheduling conflict may force student to give up his post
By the Kansan Staff
if at any other take Anderson said the board would not change its meeting time to accommodate the Hunter's schedule.
meetings or conduct receptions.
"He hasn't really put any effort into helping the board in any way so far," she said.
Hunter's Schedule
At Thursday's board meeting, Anderson advised Hunter to begin attending the meetings or consider resigning.
Hunter said that if he resigned, he would do so this week. He would be required to submit his resignation to Carla Vogel, student body president.
If Hunter resigns, Anderson said, the board would select a new chairman at next week's meeting. The chairman would be picked from present members of the seven-member board.
The appointment is subject to approval by the student body president and the Student Senate.
so.
Anderson said, "I think he resign. I guess the class is more important."
the class is more important.
Hunter was appointed chairman by Vogel in April. Earlier in that semester, Hunter was a regular member of the board
The all-student board's major duty is to oversee operation and management of the KU on Wheels bus service. The Lawrence Bus Co provides the service.
KT on 'Wheels' estimated operating costs for fiscal 1955 are $399,000. Anderson said.
runter was the third chairman of the Transportation Board since it was reactivated in 1982
The Islamic Center of Lawrence presents its first colloquy in an introductory seminar series about Islam.
Introducing Islam To Non-Muslims
Place: Regionalist Room, Kansas Union
“INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM”
Time: 7:45 p.m., Tues. Sept., 25, 1984
Come Visit With Us Let Us Get Acquainted
REFRESHMENTS ARE PROVIDED
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SUA Fine Arts invites you to the lecture by Margaret Tuckson
"The Traditional Pottery of Papua New Guinea" Monday. September 24
4 p.m.
211 Spencer
and
"Travels in New Guinea"
Tuesday, September 25
4 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium
Sponsored by Dept. of Anthropology, Fine Arts, History of Art, & SUA