Thursday, March 6, 1971
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Study center offers broad range of high school, college courses
By JIMMCNICKLE Kansan Staff Reporter
Virtually anyone who can lick a postage stamp can take courses from the University
The Independent Study Center at the University offers a broad range of courses for college and high school credit through the Online Master's or Doctoral director of instruction for the center.
The study center, part of the Continuing Education Division of the University, is located northwest of the Kansas Union. The center develops and distributes courses based on classes offered at KU and its own resources.
Tutton cost for a college course taken by correspondence is $16 & credit hour. High school courses cost $20 a semester credit. College courses cost $45 per textbooks and postage are also charged.
About 50 different areas of study are offered by the center. Enrollment includes not only persons from Kansas, but also from other states and countries.
Courses offered by the center are written by professors and teachers in colleges Colleges, College Colleges.
ALTHOUGH NEITHER a high school diploma nor a college degree can be obtained through an independent study program, many advantages over classroom study.
A student can work at his own pace, study wherever and whenever he wants and often receive better instruction than he would get in a classroom, she said.
"When a professor has to synthesize and focus his subject matter in writing, he will usually write more accurately and specifically." Colver said.
Several authors of KU's independent study courses have won awards for excellence in writing these courses, Colyer said.
Cynthia Whitenight, Lawrence High School English teacher, was the 1974 recipient of the National University Extension Outstanding Course Award for "The Science Fiction Novel: Prophecy or Possibility."
"Chinese Civilization," a course written by Robert W. Dermitt, Lawrence graduate student, was recommended by the National States-China Belations, Colver said.
Both courses are part of the Independent
Study Center's modular curriculum. Modules are designed as a series of independent studies treating subjects not normally normal high school curriculums, she said.
Colyer said the modules were widely used by educators in their presentations of particular subject.
Gerhard Zuther, professor of English, said one of his courses, "The Tragic Spirit," a survey of the major Greek tragedies, has actually been used more by teachers as resource material than by students. He said the planning and structure of correspondence courses make them very useful to instructors.
Independent study, Zuther said, requires a student to do a good deal of work on his
"Some people enroll in a course, then don't spend the time necessary to complete it."
Students who enroll in correspondence courses, he said, often aren't accustomed to typing.
Zucker said there were many advantages of his solution, but the thought of a multidomain server was certainly not part of his plan.
Colyer said college courses listed in the program catalog range from one to three hours credit. High school independent study courses are offered for one-quarter and one half credits, or one-half and one semester credits.
Although a student can't earn a degree or a high school diploma exclusively through independent study courses, Colyer said, the wide range of courses in the catalog often allows a student to graduate early by taking these courses along with a normal load.
The Independent Study Center also offers a "College for High School Students" program in which a high school student can enroll in up to 15 hours of college credit courses. The student pays college fees and receives college credit, Colyer said.
Ralph W. Krome, professor of physics and astronomy, teaches a college level course in introductory physics which is available to high school students.
Krone said only two high school students had enrolled in this course in the past two years and they had realized after completion that they needed more personalized instruction.
only about half of them completed the courses they enrolled in.
In the past two years, Krone said, he has had 28 other correspondence students and
One girl went through course in four
don't think she learned very much,
he said.
Krone and Zather both said that the pay for teaching an independent study course was poor, but that they enjoyed evaluating the assignments.
The professors receive $1 per high school assignment they grade and $2 per college assignment.
Colyer said that about 1,000 students had enrolled in independent study courses last year. Word of mouth, she said, is the most effective kind of advertising for this type of program. The courses are also advertised in other schools and colleges and high schools in the state.
The center isn't allowed to advertise commercially because of its state affiliation. Colyer said, but someone who is in the center conducts study usually finds out about the center.
backing from their respective departments and schools.
Genova said the guidelines were established after several faculty members' requests for promotion or tenure had been denied by the UCPT after they had received
Frances Ingemann, president of the American Association of University Professors (AUP), said there were several cases in which a faculty member had been accused of using the UCPT because documentation wasn't clear, not because of a lack of qualification.
The state would pay all tuition and laboratory fees for students selected under the plan. No other students would be accepted to the entering class until all students appointed by legislators were admitted.
In return, the student would agree to
to practice for five years in the area
within ten months.
If a faculty member's request for promotion or tenure is denied, there is a check-back system by which his request can receive more study. However, the chairman of the committee that decides those cases has to be notified back rule was awkward, and unclarified.
The check-back rule ensures that documentation and communication are clear before a final decision is reached, Ingemann said. The check-back rule allows revision of the check-back rule only if no unfair advantages were given to anyone, she said.
This is the first year that the check-back system has been in operation. According to Anthony Genova, chairman of the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee, the check-back guidelines were developed by FRPR during the summer of 1973. Six months passed before the guidelines went through the University governance system, he said, too late to be introduced in the university tenure and promotion requests last year.
Promotion, tenure check called awkward, confusing
A faculty member's request first comes before his department, he said. Either favorable or unfavorable recommendations are made here, he said.
State Rep. Rex Crowell, R-Lington, sponsor of the bill, testified at the committee's hearings that the bill would enlist doctors to practice in rural areas of the state.
Crowell said there would be no change in the way the Medical Center's admissions committee decided which applicants were eligible for admission. Legislators would chose their appointees from a list of acceptable students provided by the school.
The next step is consideration of the request, with recommendations, by his college's or school's committee on promotion and tenure, Genova said. These committees make recommendations and pass the request to the UCPT, he said.
Ambrose Saricks, vice chancellor for academic affairs and chairman of the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure (UCPT), said the present checkback rule had created a heavy workload on them. The university has also created confusion and uncertainty in relation to individual requests for either promotion or tenure, he said.
'My own reaction would be that the faculty of the Medical Center is best qualified to determine which students are able to succeed in medical school,' he said.
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against the women involved in the incident.
Caryl Smith, associate dean of women, said that the dean's office had decided on action to be taken against the participants, but couldn't reveal what action was being taken.
"It's to protect the student's right of privacy," she said, "and is in keeping with the code of student conduct and responsibilities."
The two black women who didn't want to be identified said the incident hadn't been racial in the beginning, but was being turned into a racial problem.
The incident seemed to have been an isolated occurrence, Smith said, but she admitted that there were differing opinions about it.
"That's one of the reasons we're still meeting," she said. "It's really hard to tell
The Lewis staff was still meeting with the dean's office about the possibility of any change in the operation of Lewis as a result of the incident. Smith said.
They said the incident had started when one of the Wastells had insulted a woman who was asking Denise Wastell about a communication the women had received from the Lewis judiciary board. Denise Wastell also insulted the women's board. The communication concerned a possible 25 fine fine against the woman for a rules violation, the women said.
whether this was just an isolated incident." Action by the dean's office against the participants in the incident won't be affected. "He asked Smith said. She said the dean's office considered the action separately from any court action. It would violate the code of student conduct if any changes in the action were made as the result of a court action,".
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