University Daily Kansan, December 8, 1980
Page 9
Class teaches career planning
By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
KU students who are beginning to suspect that they are majoring in indecision can find help in a career-planning course next semester, said James O'Nell, an assistant professor of business and crested the course three years ago.
The course, Career Planning and Decision Making, which is offered by the University Counseling Center and the department of counseling, teaches students to make decisions that affect their careers and their lives. he said.
In the course, students learn to use KU's Career Resource Center, 116 Bailey, and to examine their feelings before making career decisions.
"The class is a place for students to process their feelings about career planning and about themselves," he said.
FOUR TIMES A semester, each
week, with a group leader to
discuss your notebook
During the semester, each student maintains a weekly logbook or diary. In the book you write about what they did and where they went in those situations where they tried to make decisions.
O'Neil trains counseling graduate students to lead one-hour discussions in
To earn the two credits that the research four careers that interest them.
"They try to find what kind of work they would like to do, where to get training, what the job's outlook for the '80s is," O'Nell said. "And they have to ask themselves, 'Would I fit into this career?'"
Peggy Craig, Leavenworth graduate student and discussion leader, said the following.
"I think a lot of people just grab a major in their junior and sophomore years because they think time is running out," she said.
THE COURSE IS designed for freshmen and sophomores, O'Neil said, but students from 17- to 28-year-olds, are enrolled in the class this semester.
When she was a KU undergraduate, Craig said, she made hapazhurd career and taught at the university.
"My career was planned by chance," she said.
Some students who are now enrolled in planning courses working against the course burden was helped.
"I personally feel its a fantastic course," said Mary Ward, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., freshman. "It's important that students realize that
they all feel the same way. No one knows exactly what they want to do."
Kerry Cahill, Overind Park
borrowed the course. course had helped
him do his possessions.
"It doesn't give you a major, but it shows you how to decide," she said.
THE CAREER planning course was first offered in spring 1980, O'Neill said. At the time, only one E2-student section was available, and it would be to be placed on a waiting list, he said.
This semester, O'Neil teaches one section of the course and Ann Orzek,
Springfield Mo., graduate student, teaches two.
'O'Nell said there still were KU students, and planing—planning schools, but couldn't find it
"I'm pleased with the cooperation we have had from the counseling department and the office of academic affairs," O'Neil, said.
Three sections of the course will be offered in spring 1981.
According to the American College Testing Service, career counseling was one of the top five services that high seminaries said they would need in college.
The job market has become more competitive, O'Nell said, so students must learn to choose their careers carefully.
"Careers no longer just happen," he said. "They have to be planned."
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New vice chancellor sought
The 15-member search committee looking for a replacement for Ralph Christoffersen, vice chancellor for the university, has completed the first step in its search.
From the list of applicants the committee will submit three to five names to Cobb for the final decision, according to John Brushwood, committee chairman and Roberts professor of Latin American literature.
Also included in the description is the need for a commitment to excellence in teaching, research and service, an earned doctorate or the equivalent, administrative experience in budgeting and other university functions and
A formal job description, which will be sent to faculty members and a shortened version to be placed in advertisements was completed Friday, according to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
The deadline for nominations and applications for the position is Jan. 23.
"The committee expects to offer the ice chancellor a selected list," Brushwhee
Christoffersen will leave the University of Kansas March 1 to become president of Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
The description states the responsibilities of the vice chancellor to the University, the committee members to the various schools at KU.
The committee will be advertising in the Chronicle of Education and the Cuneo Journal.
"personal qualities that assure ef-
ficiency in relationships with a variety of con-
ceptualities.
Brushwood said the committee wanted to find a replacement for Christoffersen as soon as possible, but the committee would make a decision.
The committee consists of three students, six professors, one classified employee, one member of the library staff and four administrators.
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