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Dean of pharmacy school to step down after 2004
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
By Maggie Newcomer
nwnewcomer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Jack Fincham, dean of the School of Pharmacy, will step down from hfs position at the end of the 2005-04 academic year.
But he won't be going far.
Fincham has been dean of the school for nine years and plans to stay at the University of Kansas as a teacher and researcher. He came to the University from Creighton University in 1994, where he was associate dean of pharmacy for three years. Fincham said he made a 10-year commitment to be dean of the pharmacy school and now wanted to concentrate on teaching and research.
Kenneth Audus, chairman of the department of pharmaceutical chemis
try, said Fincham had been supportive of the graduate programs and research grants in the school. During Fincham's nine years at the University, research funding tripled to $13.4 million. Last spring the school ranked third among all 85 pharmacy schools nationwide in research funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Fincham
The third-place ranking was the highest the school had ever received. The school was repeatedly ranked in the top 10 for the previous five years.
for the previous five years Audus credited the increase in funding to Fincham's hard work, but Fincham
received the praise.
"It's the excellence of our faculty and
the research they do," Fincham said.
deferred the praise.
Fincham also initiated the transition from a five-year to a six-year entry-level professional doctor of pharmacy degree program.
the research they do. Fitchman, while Fincham was dean, the school also expanded to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City Kan.
In the new program, Pharm.D., graduates are prepared for the new technologies in pharmacy practice. Practicing pharmacists also can update their degree to Pharm.D. through non-traditional online classes.
Audus said this was a result of Fincham's commitment to collaboration among the departments in the school.
Provost David Shulenburger will begin the search for a new dean this fall and would like to have a new dean appointed by July 1,2004,Todd Cohen assistant director of University Relations,said.
pharmacy dean, but was ready to let go of all the extra responsibilities. He said he was looking forward to spending more time researching and writing about patient compliance, drug use in elderly patients and smoking cessation therapies.
Cohen said it was too soon to know who the candidates would be, but the University was lucky that Fincham chose to stay at the University.
Fincham said he enjoyed his time as
"He's been a star dean," Cohen said. "He's done very well."
Spreading the news: I'm in!
Caroline Paul, Overland Park freshman, screamed in jubilation after she received her bid into a sorority. About six hundred women gathered last night at Budig Hall to learn of their sorority placement. For more information on this, see the story on 3A.
—Edited by Michael Owell.
System promotes feedback
Transmitters in classes make quizzing easier and interaction better
Amber Byartlar
abyartlar@kansan.com
Kansan stuff writer
Daily quizzes may seem like a student's nightmare, but atmospheric science instructor Curtis Hall thinks they help his students learn.
"It keeps the material in their mind," Hall said. "I think we learn best when we go back to the material again."
the most urgent.
Until this semester, Hall had to work with more than 100 paper quizzes for each class session when he wanted to quiz his students. Hall said was very cumbersome.
a system Hall said was very thick. Now Hall is able to bypass the paperwork and get instant feedback on his students' work. Hall uses the Hyper-Interactive Teaching Technology transmitters in his "Introduction to Meteorology" course that has about 160 students. He is not the first University of
a system Hall said was very cumbersome.
Erin Slack, Colorado Springs,Colo., sophomore, used her transmitter to reply to Steve Shawl, professor of physics and astronomy. Shawl demonstrated the use of the new transmitters yesterday morning.
Kansas instructor to use the transmitters for his "Contemporary Astronomy" class in in-class work. Physics and astronomy professor Steve Shawl began using the transmitters
Regulation could limit students' aid grants
By Maggie Newcomer
mnewcomer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A new government regulation will deprive some financially strapped students of federally funded Pell Grants.
ents of federally funded Pens. Grants The regulation cuts the state and local tax deduction college students or their parents get when the U.S. Department of Education decides they are eligible for financial aid.
Financial aid. As a result, families will pay more in college expenses and receive less federal financial aid.
Covington said it was unlikely that the regulation would have much impact at the University of Kansas. She said students with larger grants would not be affected.
by the regulation.
Pell Grants are need-based and range anywhere from $400 to $4,050.
Income and the school's cost affect how much a student will receive.
Because they are grants and not loans, students do not have to pay them back.
To be eligible for the maximum amount, a family must not be able to provide students with any money.
"It's complicated," Covington said.
"But if they can provide $3,851, they don't get any money."
However students with smaller grants, less than $500, may lose them.
Covington said no one would lose any money until the Department of Education could determine the effects of the tax change.
will give him money. Will Schlegel, Hays freshman, has a small Pell Grant. He said if he lost his grant, it would be an inconvenience, but he didn't make college impossible.
Stephanie Covington, associate director of the Office of Financial Aid, said more than 2,700 KU students were eligible for Pell Grants and could be affected by the regulation.
She said Sen. Edward Kennedy (D- Massachusetts) had called for changes to the regulation so students would not be adversely affected.
"I'd just have to get a lot more loans," Schlegel said.
Covington explained that families that could provide students with $3,850 for college were eligible for a $400 grant. She said the change in taxes could move them out of Pell Grant range.
inversely affected. Pell Grants are an important aid to students because the government can give an unlimited number of grants.
an unlimited number of grants Besides Pell Grants, Covington said the University had several need-based grants which were awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis because the money was limited.
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