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KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, September 11, 1980
Vol. 91, No. 14 USPS 650-640
Council considers enrollment system
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
Enrollment hassles facing KU students at the beginning of each semester may be a thing of the past.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said recently that he expected the question of pre-employment education to be a priority.
Proposals for pre-enrollment at the University have been batted back and forth among committees, administration and student groups for almost a decade.
THE MOST RECENT action by the Recruitment and Retention committee, which deals with pre-enrollment, was a proposal to vice chair the Board of the Municipal Council to consider the issue of pre-enrollment.
Deanell Tacha, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and committee chairman, said yesterday that the committee had recommended pre-enrollment to improve student advising.
Tacha said that the Council and vice chairmen should approve the principle and then make specific proposals.
Two years ago an extensive proposal for installing a pre-enrollment system at KU was submitted to the administration with the approval of the University Council, a representative body of the University composed of students and faculty.
Since then, action concerning the proposal has been sporadic.
Tacha said the proposal submitted two years a probt would provide a basis for diagnosis.
That proposal was based on a system in use at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Students at Iowa enroll before finals for the following reasons: at one of 24 computer terminals on campus.
OFFICIALS AT IOWA it said the cost
university close to $80,000 to install the system.
It says it could pay for a full year.
The difference in cost depends on the type of system installed. William E. Hogan, associate manager, IBM Corporation, seeks
between $61,000 and $110,000 to install a similar system.
Both an on-line terminal system and a batch system were considered in the report, Richard Mann, University director for institutional research, said.
The on-line system, which is used at Iowa,
would allow a student to bring a completed
schedule to a computer terminal and to work on his schedule with an operator.
Mann said he thought the on-line system was best for students.
"I believed that that was the most responsive approach to take," he said.
"Once you put a request in (the terminal) you have a chance to sit down at the screen and work with the system."
Mann said a student could revise the schedule if the classes and times he wanted were filled.
Students could receive a partial schedule, he said, and during regular enrollment add and change the schedule.
He said students who pre-enrolled would get first chance at classes and times. Those who did not bother to pre-enroll would have to settle for the remaining available classes, he said.
THE BATCH COMPUTER system would take all of the schedules submitted by students and process them.
He said that a student could receive a schedule that was totally different than the one submitted because the computer would place a student in a room where he could face, even though it was not at the requested time.
With both systems, students could rearrange their schedules and add drop classes in the summer.
Hogan said he thought the on-line terminal system was preferred by those considering the
He said that before a decision was made
He said that before a decision was made
SEE PRE-ENROLLMENT page 5
See PRE-ENROLLMENT page 5
Lowman to return to teaching; leaves KU School of Medicine
James T. Lowman has resigned as dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas College of Health Sciences. His resignation is effective Nov. 1.
Lowman, 49, has been dean since 1977.
"For a number of professional and personal reasons, I am anxious to return to my work in pediatrics—the teaching, research and patient care opportunities," he said.
Lownan said that, when his tenure as dean is over, he would return to his clinical research in the program.
"In the beginning," he said, "when I go back, I'll try to sharpen my clinical skills and try to help develop some new programs in the department."
of leukemic cells. He also will resume his teaching duties.
He would not say what any new programs might entail, but he said he would not be assuming any administrative duties.
"I chose to make this move," Lowman said,
"and I'm very happy to be going back to
See RESIGNS page 5
CHRISTODD/Kansan staff
A one-car accident on U.S. S9, 58 about $51/2 miles south of Lawrence, killed. According to the state Highway Patrol, the accident happened when I one woman and injured another yesterday. Clara Davey, 69, of Baldwin, tried to avoid another accident when a truck attempted to pass an automobile was pronounced at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The driver of the vehicle. Hill's车 crossed the southbound lane, landed in a ditch and the car, Francis Hill, 62, also of Baldwin, is listed in satisfactory condition. flipped onto its top. Davee was thrown from the car into the ditch.
College works for improved advising
A new advising program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will try to give students a sense of continuity by providing permanent advisers, Stephen Goldman, associate professor of English and coordinator of the program, said yesterday.
The program will match each new student with a faculty member who will advise the student.
In past years, some of the 10,000 students in the College complained that they had to adjust to new advisers every semester. Goldman said, "some students didn't know they had advisers."
Last year, while preparing the new advising program, Goldman asked members of an English composition class who their advisers were.
"Ninety percent of them didn't think they had advisers," he said. "And half of the students who knew they had them didn't know their advisers' names."
ONE STUDENT SAID The college's advising person made her feel like just another student number.
juniors. 'They didn't even think to ask me whether I could handle it.'
"When I was a freshman, the advisers seemed really impersonal and set in their ways," Sue Carroll, Anchorage, Alaska, sophonore, said. "They told me, 'you can't take that class,' it's for
Under a program begun this summer, onl$^2$
faculty members who volunteer and are interested in helping in the process advise
students. During the year, they will be required
to set aside at least three hours a week for the students they advice, Goldman said.
"As we gradually phase in the new advising program, students should sense that they are talking to people who know what they are talking about and who want to help." Goldman said.
LAST SPRING, Goldman recruited 56 faculty members to advise freshmen and sophomores during summer orientation. The advisers were each assigned about 60 students, whom they will continue to advise for two years. After that, the advisors would be in their academic departments, Goldman said.
The College will recruit about 120 more faculty advisers during the next two years, Goldman said. As a result, he said, each faculty member eventually will have fewer students to advise and each student in the College will have at least one person to turn to.
"I believe that every faculty member ought to advise; it's part of education." Goldman said. "But I also believe faculty members should be able to choose at what level they wish to advise."
SOME FACULTY members resented the
previous program because it required every summer faculty member to advise freshmen and sophomores, Goldman said. New students were funneled into departments and assigned to the faculty adviser on duty at the time. Then, for the next two years, the students theoretically stayed with the same adviser, Goldman said, but only 50 percent of them actually returned.
"The old program was due for a change,
G. Caron." There was a lot of unhappiness
withadjustment.
The College has steadily revised its advising system for the past five years, he said. In 1977, a College Assembly task force studied the system and recommended changes. Two years later, Goldman outlined the present policy from the committee's findings.
After a six-month search, Goldman was appointed coordinator of the program but he still teaches two English classes and advises 30 students. he said.
"I decided I had to live under my own system," he said.
Goldman said that although the new program was an improvement, it was not perfect. The new guidelines do not provide permanent advisers for students in the Bachelor of General Studies program, he said.
"But we're working on them," Goldman said. "I'm trying to tackle one problem at a time."
Lisa Eklund, Kansas City, Kans. senior, dodges streams of water spewing from sprinklers near the chancellor's residence on Lilac Lane.
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
Symposium to help minorities set goals for college careers
Staff Reporte.
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
Helping black students make the most of their college careers is the idea behind the Black Awareness Seminar/Symposium, to be held this Friday and Saturday in the Kansas Union.
The theme of the two-day seminar, sponsored by KU's Black Student Union, is "Now's the Time, Let's Get Serious." Featured speakers include Bernard Franklin, chairman of the Board of Regents, and Gilbert Parks, a psychiatrist from Topeka.
ACCORDING TO Rita Holmes, vice president of Black Student Union, the program is geared toward freshmen and incoming students because she's been a strong supporter on setting meaningful goals for a college career.
Other topics, such as self-evaluation and job planning, should be helpful to all students, she said.
The seminar is not intended solely for black students and faculty, Holmes said, but for anyone who is interested in the problems of race and racism in society. It is free and open to the public.
The seminar will begin at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room.
Franklin will give the main address from 7 to 9 p.m. He said yesterday that his speech would encourage students to develop a sense of purpose while they were still in school.
"My part of the program deals with helping
students, especially minority students, gain some perspective on what they are doing in college." Franklin said. "Many students go through college without asking themselves important questions like 'why am I here?' and where am I going?" They wind up in culls and tails. "They're not asking advice." The need to know how to make an expensive education worthwhile."
At 9 p.m., Leon Brady, a 1890 KU graduate, will speak about the upcoming Student Senate elections. Leslie Saunders-Turner, a 1874 KU graduate, will present plans for the Black Career Conference and Job Opportunity Front before the session adjourns at 9:30 p.m.
THE PROGRAM WILL resume at 1 p.m. on Saturday with the address by Parks. The topic of his speech is "The Problems and Issues Facing Students of Predominately White Campus."
The groups will rejoin at 3:30 p.m. for a final discussion session and a "wrap-up" address by Faye
The audience will break into discussion groups at 2 p.m. to talk about solutions to the problems presented in the discussions will be moderated by black face instructors, members, black alumni, speakers and students.
A reception will begin at 5 p.m. for everyone who participated in the seminar. University administrators and faculty members also have been invited, Holmes said.
Today should be partly to mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be southerly from 10 to 20 mph. The high for today will be near 83. Tonight should be partly cloudy with a low of 65. Tomorrow should be partly sunny and mild with high in the upper 80 and little chance of precipitation. It should be a mild, clear weekend, with a high Saturday of 80. Sunday should be cooler, with a bigh of 79.