UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. September 11, 1992
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Deposit-option resolution passed
By KC Trauer
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
University Council yesterday adopted a resolution urging the University to retain the deposit option for mail-in fee payment.
The council, which is composed of students and faculty, voted 43-2 to preserve the option. The deposit option allowed students to save their enrollments by paying $100 by Aug. 3 instead of paying full tuition and fees.
The deposit option originally had been a temporary plan to ease students into the new mail-in fee payment system, said Richard Morrell,
University registrar and member of the University committee that organizes fee payment.
That committee is now considering whether to keep the option, Morrell said, and it hopes to reach a decision by early October.
The deposit option extends the time it takes to process fee payments and forces the University to hire more temporary workers, Morrell said.
"We used to be able to do this in four days," he said. "We've now stretched that to five weeks."
The resolution stated that the option should be kept because many students whose financial aid had yet
Morrell told the council that 12 percent of the 4,040 students who used the deposit option were financial aid recipients.
to be released could not pay their entire bill in early August. These students should have a chance to keep their enrollments, the resolution said.
"that really surprised us," Morrell said. "We figured it would be that 80 to 90 percent would be students receiving financial aid."
Morrell said the committee was conducting random telephone surveys of students and focus group discussions to try to understand why students chose the deposit option.
Donald Marquis, professor of philosophy, wanted to delay voting on the resolution until the fee payment committee could learn why students used the option.
John Shoemaker, Topeka junior, urged the council to go ahead and vote.
"Speaking as a student who used this option," Shoenaker said, "the bottom line is I needed the extra time to earn the money to pay for tuition.
"This has got to stay a permanent fixture in fee payment because students like me need this."
KU students to meet top administrators
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
Fourteen students involved in one of the KU's best kept secrets, the master of public administration program, will travel to Reno, Nev., this weekend to meet some of the world's top city and county administrators.
The students, participants in the intern-track program of KU's master of public administration program, will attend the annual conference of the International City and County Management Association.
The students also will meet KU's City Management Trainees, a network of KU's MPA graduates. Almost all are leading officials in their respective cities, said Barbara Romzek, chair of the Department of Public Administration.
Romzek said the alumni network was one of the program's strong points because it helped students establish contacts in the field.
Marion Sheppard, admissions director, said that the MPA admitted only 14 students from a possible 40 to this year's intern-track program. Sheppard said that during her eight years with the program, 100 percent of the students had been placed in jobs.
KU's MPA program has a unique
Then the students begin a ninemonth internship where they apply what they have learned. Included within the two-year program are three one-week seminars, including the ICMA conference, which students must attend.
two-year schedule that gives its students an edge on others. Roszek said. The program puts them through a rigorous program, which begins in the summer.
"This program is for students who want to practice city government, not just study it." Romzek said.
While attending the conference, the first-year students the hosts of a
social gathering for their second-year counterparts who are serving as interns, said Ricardo Perez, San Antonio, Tex., graduate student.
Perez, a former planning assistant and a first-year member of the program, said the gathering was the time when all the students met and established contacts with each other and that of KU's City Management Trainees.
Ed Zuercher, Hesston graduate student, heard about the program from his city manager.
"I'm from Kansas and I didn't know what a powerhouse program this was," Zuhersaid.
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