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to determine how much they pay for a particular visit. According to the CAPS Advisory Board minutes from the most recent meeting on Dec. 9, Bert Nash had lost $70,291 in care provided to University students.
Baker said $1.60 of the total fee increase would go toward compensating. Bert Nash to recoup those losses.
The remaining $9 of the proposed increase will be put toward the salaries of six new therapists. CAPS director Michael Maestas said the current student-to-therapist ratio at CAPS is close to 2200-to-one. Baker said the increase would bring CAPS closer to the nationally recommended ratio of 1,000-1,500 students
"This is literally bringing us to the bare minimum of national care. The national recommended ratio of 1,500 [students] to one [therapist] is the bare minimum. It should actually be closer to 1,000 or 500 to one," Baker said.
per one therapist.
Maestas said the increase will serve mainly to provide CAPS with more staff members to better serve the student population.
Currently, CAPS receives $330,000 from the state of Kansas to fund salaries for licensed staff, which Maestas said accounts for the salaries of two administrative associates, three psychologists and a clinical social worker. All other positions are funded by the Required Campus Fee and the CAPS
fee-for-service revenue.
"The way it will change things is it will allow us to have more staff," he said. "Right now, all of the required campus fee funds go directly to pay exclusively for the salaries and fringes of a few of our staff. Our fee-for-service revenue takes care of any offsets we have, any shortfalls in required campus fee revenue."
Potentially hiring six new staff members would alleviate many of the scheduling issues CAPS is facing. Maestas said. In addition to a large increase in urgent care requests, he said CAPS is currently operating at red-line capacity.
"There aren't anymore nooks and crannies where we can fit students into our schedule. You just reach an operating
increase to any fee, especially this large of an amount, but I think based on the increase in visibility in care for mental illness and also just the general consensus of the [Student] Senate as a whole, I don't think there will be as much push-back as a lot of people may think," he said.
limit because we do have to spend time programming and putting things out there about mental health issues for the campus community. That takes away from
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"The way it will change things is it will allow us to have more staff,"
If the funding increase is approved by the Fee Review Committee, Maestas said it still has to be approved by Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and the Kansas Board of Regents before it could take effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year.
being able to spend time with students. It sort of has a cascading effect," he said.
Baker said while he expects the reaction to a potential increase to be mainly positive, there will be some who don't support it.
MICHAEL MAESTAS CAPS director
"There's always going to be a little bit of push-back to any
Edited by Sarah Kruger
The Y chromosome in the classroom - or lack thereof
▶ MADELINE FARBER
@MaddieFarberUDK
The teacher shortage in the U.S. isn't exactly breaking news.In fact,college seniors across the country with education degrees probably see it as good news,as they are soon to be on the job-hunt.
A more muted problem, however, is the lack of men in public education. Men accounted for only 23.8 percent of all teachers in 2014, according to statistics from the National Education Association. Kansas and Oregon boasted the highest numbers of male teachers at 33 percent and 31 percent, respectively. Virginia had the lowest percentage at 17 percent.
Despite this, only five percent of University elementary education students are male, compared to 30 percent in secondary education, according to data provided by the School of Education.
Rick Ginsberg, dean of the School of Education, said this statistic is not shocking.
Ginsberg's opinion also reflects the 2014 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data that reports 2,218 men were employed in the field of education, training and library occupations compared to 6,371 women.
"Both historically and professionally, women are seen more as the caregivers for younger kids, so the dominance of females at the elementary level is not a new phenomena," Ginsberg said. "However, impacting the shortage are things like relatively low wages and job prestige."
Kezar, a senior from Derby, said the low wages in elementary education, which have changed -3.5 percent in the last decade according to the National Education Association, were a deterrent for him at first. Regardless, he said, teaching is something that, "I just realized I needed to do."
Part of the five percent at the University is Alex Kezar and Travis Kesinger, two male students in elementary education who seek to beat the odds.
"Men are in the mindset that they need to be the caretaker, and on an elementary salary, can't always be," Kezar said. "It's a stereotype. Men can be just as nurturing and caring as women. Perhaps people are scared of change, and don't want a man taking care of their child. But if more men start doing this, this attitude
may change."
Kesinger, a junior from Topeka, said his path to becoming an elementary education major wasn't typical. After changing his major three times, Kesinger said he was inspired to go into education after interacting with children as a lifeguard the past three summers. He was also inspired after working with an organization that raises awareness for the local Children's Miracle Network.
He said he chose elementary education because of what he described as "raw enthusiasm" for learning in elementary-aged children. Kezar also said he chose that age group to teach because he has the ability to continue to mold that enthusiasm.
Kesinger said that, in his opinion, many men have never been in a space where they are a minority with regards to sex and gender, which he said he thinks is an obstacle.
"The innate gender roles within education certainly factor into the current statistics at hand," Kesinger said. "I hope more men join this field. A positive male role model can be so pivotal in the lives of our students."
As from being one of the few, if not the only, males in his classes, Kesinger said he has often felt different, but that this has served as a great learning experience for him.
"I think being male will be an asset to me during my job search," Kesinger said. "In a female dominated space, I want to utilize this difference in the [utmost] positive way possible."
- Edited by Samantha Harms
States with largest percentage of male faculty
Madeline Farber
Source: National Education Association
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