Friday, Nov. 22, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Director helps athletes mix books, field
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Promently displayed on an easel outside Richard Lee's office in Allen Field House is a chart he calls the "achievement board."
The chart lists all of the student athletes in KU's competitive sports programs who achieved a 2.5 or higher grade point average last semester. There are 166 students listed on the chart, including five who earned 4.0 GPAs and 77 whose GPAs were between 3.0 and 3.99.
Lee, assistant athletic director for support services, said yesterday that the chart exemplified his basic philosophy and approach to his job.
"My job isn't to keep student athletes eligible," he said. "My job is to see that they have every oppor-
unity to progress through the University and hopefully attain their degrees."
Lee, who also is director of supportive educational services in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was appointed to his part-time position in the Athletic Department in November 1984.
Lee has been involved in SES since he came to KU in 1975. During that time, he said, the program has been expanded greatly.
"During my first year, there were 75 or 76 students enrolled." he said. "As of last Friday, there were over 800 students participating in the SES program this semester."
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said Lee was hired to provide the same sort of educational support services for student athletes that was
being provided to other students participating in the SES program. The program was designed to provide academic support to students with disadvantaged backgrounds.
Johnson said Lee had made real progress in setting up the type of program that best would help student athletes achieve academic success
"In this business, you seem to have challenges every day," Johnson said.
"Richard has had to deal with problems constantly. Whatever expectations other people may have had of him, I think he's done an exceptional job."
Norman Yetman, chairman of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board's academic committee, said he thought it was important for someone in Lee's position to establish legitimacy and credibility
"I believe Richard has done that," Yetman said.
with the academic faculty.
William Hanna, Newton junior and member of the KUAC board, said he thought Lee was realistic about what he could accomplish.
Lee said someone who was talented in the books and on the field was an exceptional person.
"He realizes that he's not going to have a lot of student athletes to work with who are exceptionally gifted academically," Hanna said. "He's not expecting them to go above and beyond the call of duty as far as academics. He'd be looking through rose-colored glasses if he was."
"If a student athlete has a GPA of 3.0 or better, he or she is a super-exceptional individual," he said.
athletes fared well when compared academically with the rest of the student population.
Lee said the average GPA of student athletes in fall 1984 was 2.51. The average GPA for all students for the same period was 2.68. Only 3.5 percent of the student athletes who come to KU are unprepared to meet the University's academic challenges.
Lee said his goal was to help such students as freshmen and sophomores so that by the time they were juniors they would be able to succeed academically with little or no assistance.
However, Lee said KIL's student
He said his immediate goal for the Athletic Department support program was to establish a monitoring system that would help him keep track of whether student athletes
were maintaining satisfactory progress.
"We want to ensure that the courses they are taking will lead to a degree in their respective schools," he said. "We also want to plug the hole that allows them to add or drop classes at will without an adviser's approval."
Lee said he also wanted to strengthen the study skills and career guidance services offered to the student athletes.
Rather than being overwhelmed with the task facing him when he joined the Athletic Department, Lee said, he enjoyed the challenge.
"I'd be disappointed if a job wasn't 'challenging.' he said.
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