University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 25,1974
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Master Plan doctors KU...
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"Generally, we think of universities as performing three major functions: Teaching, research and service," Dykes said. "We must be aware of institution's history, the importance of teaching and scholarship were central to the institution and service and involvement in affairs outside the academic world were important than they are at the present time."
NICHOLS SAID most of the land grant colleges were shifting away from strict concentration in the physical sciences to more less interest in these areas by students.
Despite this overlapping, KU and K-State have maintained their scholastic traditions. This is reflected in the breakdown of degrees granted from KU and K-State from 1966 through 1971, as reported in the COCAO report.
Over twice as many degrees in the humanities were granted at KU than were granted at K-State. On the other hand, about one-fourth of K-State's degrees from that period were in the biological science field, compared to only six per cent for KU.
"The University of Kansas is our state's major comprehensive university," Dykes said. "It provides a wide range of programs at the undergraduate level and has a very large number of courses and specializations in the program in the various professions and in the college of arts and sciences."
KU'S MAJOR CONCERNS, Dykes said, were with maintaining a superior quality of education on the campus, being deeply committed to research and scholarship and being involved in the outside world through service to Kansas and the nation.
The University of Kansas "master plan" echoes these concerns by listing as "general goals" the philosophies that will shape goals' the philosophies that will shape goals' are trends that have been supported in educational institutions, such as to "pursue excellence in providing educational opportunities." Others reflect a marked break with traditional educational philosophies. It encourages new groups of persons to utilize these educational opportunities.
Nichols characterized the KU outreach program as typifying this effort.
"Outreach is perhaps a new term for adult education," Nichols said, "but it's reaching out and carrying the campus to more people."
Dykes said that education was no longer something thought of as taking a predetermined length of time, rather than it was a process that should continue throughout one's life. This process includes the integration of education of University graduates such as interns, investigators and journalists to teach new innovations in their professions, he said.
The changing student constituency has been instrumental in the interest in the new student, Dykes said. Although attending college had been thought of as a privilege that many students could not afford, older students, minorities and underprivileged will be attending KU, he said.
Goal: To prepare students for a wide range of professional roles in our society.
Although the master plan also states that "a broad range of baccalareau and post-baccalareau programs in the liberal arts" were important to KU, a greater emphasis on the professional degrees such as law, medicine, engineering, journalism, education, social welfare and business was stressed.
Nichols took the major emphasis in enrollment at KU was in the professional schools. He said all professional schools had more applicants than could be admitted.
Goal: To utilize the teaching and research process to create knowledge and to provide training.
"One of the things that make the University of Kansas the great institution that it is, is that you find such diversity," Dykes say. "You find a wide range of teaching styles and you find a wide range of students in the part of the faculty. Because of this wide diversity, there is a very stimulating and rich intellectual atmosphere."
Nichols said the KU Endowment Association had made grants available for the last two summers to teachers to develop new teaching methods. KU also is planning to expand the Office on Improvement of Work with faculty on these ideas. Nichols said, but there is no fixed philosophy of teaching recommended to faculty.
Goal: To maintain a lead in analyzing the economic market and determining KU's growth prospects.
"We will inevitably become more involved in service to the state and to the nation where the competence and expertise of our people are brought to bear on state and national public health."
Flexibility is the key to keeping up with national trends, Dykes and Nichols agreed, because the function of KU must change to meet the new needs of the student as well as to deal with new techniques and innovations.
"For example," Nichols said, "who would have thought in 1940 that we would have nuclear power, or a rocket powerful enough to lift the moon? It was unthinkable then."
Dykes said that as the nation faced crises, national leaders turned to the college and university system.
"When the nation undertook the space program, many institutions played a very large role. Consequently, expenditures for search grew by leaps and bounds," he said.
One "crisis" that the University is now involved with is the energy crisis, Dykes has conducted research connected with the U.S. Geological Survey and the School of Engineering.
Goal: To accommodate unpredicted change and growth.
This need for flexibility is perhaps the most important of all if universities are going to meet the new challenges of the "new education."
"Academic institutions are in a constant process of change and evolution because the world in which they exist require that of them," Dykes said. "As circumstances in our society change, then institutions themselves change."
"They reflect, in many ways, developments in the larger society. But in many ways they're the change agents themselves. For example, the Social Security bill had its foundations in institutions of higher education, and some of the tremendous changes in technology and science have had their seeds in colleges and universities."
ONE OF THE most important recent changes here that came unexpectedly was the big jump in enrollment. This year there were more than 20,000 students at campus, a figure that wasn't predicted until
According to Nichols, about 36,000 students will graduate from Kansas high schools next spring, but this figure is oxymoron. About 40% of approximately 60 per cent of all high schools
One of the things that make the University of Kansas the great institution it is, is that you find such diversity. You find . . . a wide range of values.
the mid-1970s. Although this increase has caused some overcrowding of classrooms, it doesn't bring the concern to many state universities where drop off in enrollment by 1980 brings.
students go to college, this will mean about 7,200 fewer students per year in Kansas.
However, neither Dykes nor Nichols said he thought that KU would be affected adversely because the University had such diversified interests as research and because it had professional schools, which it be affected by enrollment decreases.
NO CUTBACKS in faculty or administration are foreseen, Nichols said. Because of staff flexibility caused by retirement, resignations and deaths, the KU faculty can be reduced during times of depressed enrollment without dismissing anyone with tenure or anyone working toward tenure, he said.
Dykes said although it was important to protect tended staff, it was equally important to ensure the proper period of stability. This will be done through short-term appointments for visiting
professors, faculty exchange programs and faculty rotation, he said.
Building space and University expansion will also be a recurring problem in the next decade. Robbins said the primary concern won't with replacing obese ones but rather with replacing obese ones. AMONG THE NEW campus buildings that are being financed are the new School of Law building, a new visual arts building of proposed addition to Robinson Gymnasium to assist to Allen Wiercht, assistant to facilities and planning director Keith Lawton.
"Planning has to be an ongoing process, Weichert said. "The only 'given' in planning is change. All we do is react to what the University wants to have happen."
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