University Dally Kansan
Wednesday, August 20.1975
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KU's 'small colleges'a credible idea, but a failure
By MAKCY CAMPBELL
Kansan Staff Reporter
New freshman will never know the agony of the lost folder, hopefully, because the Colleges-Winth-in-the-College program (CWC) has been dropped.
The experimental program, which was started in the fall of 1966, was designed to study the effects of small college atmosphere within the University. CWC divided the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences into five colleges: Emmenage North, Pearson, Oliver and McKinley.
IN APRIL 1875, the CWC colleges were
con consolidated into one unit—the Nunemaker Center, 1506 Engel Road. Nunemaker Center now contains all the records for the school of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
To the new freshman, this may not seem very important, but consider the plight of our students.
You have been at KU two full days and know vaguely where the Kansas Union and Strong Hall are located. Beyond that, you are lost. The freshman packet informs you of your classes, campus address and to your college, pick up your folder and register at Hoch Auditorium.
Auditorium is, you don't even know what
college you are in. Where do you call to find
Not only do you not know where Hoch
Your temper is wearing a little thin, so you call every college to locate that stupid folder. You find that for some strange, funny reason the folder is at North College which is in GSP.
THE NEXT DAY you visit with your adviser. Well, that is, you go to Nunakerem College and stand in line for a couple of hours only to discover that your adviser is going to be majoring in chemical engineering. She makes several calls to the School of
Engineering for entrance requirements and you realize why you waited for two hours. As you leave, you wish the next guy luck and be graduated or graduate if she is to advise you last year.
Those days are gone.
Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was the creator of the CWC program. He said the problems of the program were almost beyond the capacity of those in charge of the program.
Lewis originally planned to have liberal arts students living in the same dorms and taking the same classes to give them a break from the typical college experience, provide them with places to go for individual counseling from persons they knew. Students housed off campus didn't fit this plan, and students who enrolled late would have housed with the liberal arts students.
ADVISING BECAME very complicated. One college had 10 psychology advisors, another college had none, he said. Students wanted advisers in their field of interest, and the colleges were without advisers from the professional schools and the medical schools. He was assistant at the Institute of the Sciences he said, were required to be advisers, he said.
IN 1967 WHEN Centennial College was created, Lewis said, the program worked well. The objectives of the program—developing an attachment to the college by the students, providing advisers and reducing anonymity—were being met.
New museum to display more art
By STEVE McMURRY Kansan Staff Reporter
The colleges became five small administrative units, mainly providing a location for student records. Late enrollees were instructed to start looking for their records, he said.
When the Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art on campus opens, perhaps early in 1978, works by many famous names in the history of art will finally have a home.
A collection of nearly 25,000 art objects, including works by Monet, Rossetti, Manet, Winslow Homer, Reimenschneider and Rembrandt will be brought out of storage, moved, cleaned and displayed. Some of the works on view are not been displayed in Spooner Museum.
Charles Eldridge, director of Spooner Museum, has said Spooner had never been a safe enough place to display the University's masterpieces.
After the completion of the new Watson Library, Spooner was designated to house the Thayer art treasures. Since that time five museum directors, each with his own piece, have been influential in acquiring several notable pieces for the museum.
Spooner is the University of Kansas' oldest building. It was designed and built in 1894 by Henry Van Brunt of Kansas City. Van Brunt was a practitioner of the Romanesque architectural style, which he brought to this part of the country from Boston.
"This building wasn't intended to be a museum," Eldridge said, "it was built to be a library, but when Watson was finished it was going to put the University museum in Spoorer."
a new dimension in quality and historical scope.
In 1970 the museum received its largest single gift, a magnificent collection of 83 old master prints from the Max Kade Foundation of New York.
In 1918 a wealthy Kansas City collector, Sallie Casey Thayer, was ready to donate her entire collection of more than 8,000 art objects to the University. She withdrew the offer when no adequate space could be found in the campus, but later reconsidered.
In 1969 a landmark event in the museum's development occurred when the University of Cambridge acquired Samuel H. Kess collection. This addition of works by Italian masters gave the museum
summer orientation sessions started and 2,000 new students and 700 parents participated in orientation this summer without any problems, Lewis said. Each student talked with his adviser for 30 minutes to an hour.
Eldredge said the most important single source for new art acquisitions was private donors both for the actual art objects and for the money to purchase objects.
The donors and patrons of the museum have helped to make the University collection one of the country's most outstanding, Eldredge Hall is made of tile and stone. It has been collected in the 17th century, exceed KU in importance among university museums, he said.
The construction of the Spencer building will provide four times as much space as the present museum, Eldridge said. Most of the art pieces will be available for public viewing every day, and loan books from other galleries will be easier to acquire since the building will have all the necessary safety provisions that Sponer doesn't have, he said.
damaged during long periods of inadequate care, he said. Several pieces need to be cleaned and many more will need to be washed, and which is a very expensive process.
The museum staff has applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to finance the conservation and restoration of the building, and must be matched by the University.
the new museum is the result of the largest single donation ever made to the University. The Spencer Foundation is financing the bulk of the building and Mrs. Spencer will be instrumental in many of the decisions made.
More than 50 per cent of the liberal arts and sciences faculty will be advisers to students in the medical system. This will require the faculty to become more active in advising, Lewis said. For the first time, professional schools in the medical center will make advisers available.
The process of moving and storing the 25,000 objects will be a gigantic task. Eldridge told the museum staff hoped to have it moved into the building during the summer of 1977.
"The consolidation is a much more efficient method," Lewis said. "And students have experienced a lot of satisfaction from it." Office space in the residence halls previously taken up by the colleges has been renovated for student government use.
With all the interest centered on the new building, little thought has been given to the fate of Spooner. Two years ago, the building was destroyed. The National Register of Historical Buildings.
"We hope she'll keep involved. She's very knowledgeable and an enlightened patron," Eldredge said. "We are happy that we can count on her continued participation."
"The program was too complex, didn't work efficiently and was very costly," Lewis said. He estimated the consolidation of CWC will save $30,000 a year.
The Kress Foundation has already to assist in the restoration and moving process.
Lewis said the program was not nearly as successful when the four other colleges were added because the advising process became too complex. Students wanted advisers from their areas of interest and students who lived in-off-campus housing into the program. Over 6,000 students were involved in the CWC program.
"It will move roughly four to six months to move and house the collection. The problem of what goes where hasn't been worked out yet. It's rather like planning the Battle of Normandy, it's too complex," Eldredge said.
A chancellor's committee will probably decide to decide what the building will be used.
Although more faculty members will be required as advisers, the consolidation has decreased the number of personnel required to run these colleges. Two fewer classified personnel and three fewer classified personnel were required, Lewis said.
"We never achieved a sense of community." Lewis said.
Many of the art works have been
"I don't think they'd ever tear it down," Edridge said. "It's become more than just a joke."
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