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Wednesday, August 20, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Feedback changes course
Copies of the Curriculum and Instruction Survey (Feedback) were distributed to organized living groups this week to assist students in planning their schedules for the semester. However, only about 50 per cent of the classes offered at the University are evaluated in this "guide to KU courses" each semester.
Feedback is a collection of class responses to questions concerning the value of classes and the performance of teachers. Last fall there were 3,577 courses offered at KU. Only 1,680 of these courses participated in the survey.
Even though only half of the courses offered at KU are evaluated in the survey, Phil McKnight, director of the Office of Instructional Resources, said Monday that he thought the program was still useful to students.
"I think that the more information we can
KUOK now KJHK-FM
The station has changed its call letters to JHRK-M (standing for Kansas Jayhawk) and OKR-A (standing for Oklahoma.
KUOK is converting to a 10-watt, non-commercial, FM operation which will soon be available.
If you're returning to a residence hall on Daisy Hall this fall, don't be surprised when you set your radio dial on 630 for good old KUOK and get nothing but a dull buzz.
The station received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission June 27 to use the new call letters. The letters KUOK had to be scrapped because they were also being used by a U.S. naval vessel.
KJHK will operate in Sudler House Anxex, the same building KUOK occupied. It will continue to be the University's library directly by students enrolled in radio classes.
KUOK wasn't licensed, but KJHK will be an official station subject to all broadband license requirements.
KJHK will be free of KUOK's largest expense, the monthly telephone charges for telephone lines and transmitters necessary in each of the Daisy Hill residence halls, according to Bruce Linton, chairman of the Johnson sequence in the School of Journalism.
The Student Senate and the state will continue to fund the station. Linton said he was hopeful that the station would also receive public grants for special programs.
Linton said the station would carry extensive campus news coverage and would be competitive with the University Daily Kansas.
Ernie Martin, faculty adviser for KJHK,
saw programming would emphasize music
and dance.
"The music will be progressive," Martin said. "Also, we'll have talk shows and telephone call-in programs with people who are being interviewed."
Other KHJ programs will be "Town-Gown Dialogue," an interview and call-in show with conversations between community leaders and members of the campus; "The College Student Cooks," offering cookings for students from a male college; "The College Tutor," a program designed to help students prepare for the Western Civ compprehensive exam.
If station equipment arrives on time and preparation continues on schedule, KJHKFM will make its first broadcast in early September.
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obtain about teaching through Feedback, the better we encourage departments to gather all the information they can about their teachers." he said.
McKnight said that he hoped students could devise a more useful system of evaluation in the future, but that he was skeptical about underground guides which are used to assess information. The information in these publications often borders on gossip. McKnight said.
Use Kansan Classifieds
Feedback has frequently been criticized for the type of questions it uses. Critics also claim that teachers who use the survey on their popularity than on their teaching.
McKnight said that the shortcomings of the program were understood and that feedback could therefore be put to better use.
Because of dissatisfaction with Feedback, the program has undergone several changes since it was started in 1970. The survey was initially administered by the Student Senate, but last year it was put on hold and the Office of Instructional Resources.
The format of the survey is also undergrowing changes. The guide which was originally based on the 1985 survey was revised in
survey taken last fall. The program wasn't run in the spring because it was being tested.
Many schools throughout the University use their own evaluation forms, instead of using Feedback. McKnight said that some of the revisions being made in Feedback would allow the various departments to use the Feedback forms to their own needs.
"We're working with departments to adapt diagno-
sies to our needs (feedback) for purposes," he said.
In a preface to this fall's Feedback Ronald K. Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he thought the program was useful to students. He said the work was not designed as a sociology class last spring said they thought Feedback should be continued.
McKnight said the use of Feedback in all University schools was a practical form of evaluation because of the economic benefits of its centralized supervision. He said possible savings included costs of printing, administration and processing.
Although 86 per cent of those students said they wanted Feedback continued, the number of students who use the service remains unknown.
After hours of personal interviews between a University of Kansas search committee and candidates for dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, acting dean of the College since September 1974, was appointed to the position.
By ALISON GWINN Kansan Staff Reporter
Turnovers cause hiring spree
Cobb replaced Waggoner, who suffered a sub-arachnoid hemorrhage last fall. Waggner resigned in April to return to teaching in the English department and to become associate vice chancellor for affairs in charge of international programs.
non Calgaird, who was the associate vice chancellor for Outreach, became vice chancellor for academic affairs on July 1. He replaced Ambrose Saricks, who will return to full-time teaching in the department of history.
The appointment of Cobb was one of more
10. gym, administrative hurrowers.
Frances Horowitz, chairman of the department of human development and family life, was named an associate dean of the College. She will continue to teach and advise students like over duales trained last year by Cobb and five other associate deans of the College.
professor of painting and sculpture, as the associate dean of the School of Fine Arts. Thompson, who began his appointment on October 1, 2005, will be in June to return to full-time teaching.
Michael M. T. Henderson, a linguist at the University of Wisconsin, became director of the Intensive English Center on Aug. 1. He replaced Edward Erasmus. Henderson was assistant editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, a dictionary of American speech which is being compiled at the University of Wisconsin.
James A. Sherman, professor of human development, was appointed acting chairman of the department of human development and family life.
Judith LaLance, associate professor of human development, was appointed acting director of the program.
names Collier, director of university relations at the University of Maryland at College Park, took over as director of university relations on Aug. 1. He replaced David Dawson, acting director, who will teach in the School of Journalism this fall.
James B. Appleberry, head of the department of administration and higher education at Oklahoma State University, became the director of institutional planning, a new position which will deal with future problems at the University.
Theodore Ernest, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Nebraska, became dean of the School of Social Welfare on July 1. He replaced Arthur Katz, who retired a year ago, and David Hardcastle, who was acting dean.
James Moeser, professor of organ, became dean of the School of Fine Arts on July 1. He replaced Thomas Gorton, who will return to teaching.
Moeser named Peter Thompson.
Richard Lee, director of minority educational services at Mankato State University in Minnesota, was appointed director of Supported Services. He replaces Gary Flanigan.
Other appointments made were Richard Marks as director of intramurals; William Hambleton, professor of geology, as the acting director of the Kansas Energy office; and David B. Toller, professor for health affairs, as special projects assistant to Chancellor Archie Dykes.
Mills will also retain his present responsibilities and position. His new duties include the coordination of outreach programs for the medical Center's College of Health Sciences.
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